Events

Upcoming Events in the Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Department

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
10/23/2017	Melike Lakadamyali, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	TBA	HSRF 400
10/30/2017	Benjamin Prosser, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	TBA	HSRF 400
11/27/2017	Jonathan Kirk, Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago	TBA	TBA
11/30/2017	Sanford Bernstein, Ph.D. San Diego State University	TBA	Trapp Family Lodge
12/1/2017	Matthew Tyska, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	TBA	Trapp Family Lodge
12/18/2017	Sakthivel Sadayappan, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati	TBA	HSRF 400

Past Events in the Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Department

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
5/22/2017	Sam Walcott University of California, Davis	Mathematical Modeling and Molecular-Scale Experiments Provide a Consistent Description of Skeletal Muscle Activation.	HSRF 400
5/8/2017	Magdalena Bezanilla University of Massachusetts Amherst	THE UNDERLYING CYTOSKELETAL MACHINERY DURING POLARIZED CELL EXPANSION.	HSRF 400
5/1/2017	Adam Hendricks McGill University	Microtubule Associated Proteins and Bundling Direct Intracellular Trafficking	HSRF 400
4/24/2017	Scott Stagg Florida State University	Using High-Throughput High-Resolution Cryo-EM to Address Challenging Questions in Structural Biology	HSRF 400
4/10/2017	Aaron Straight Stanford University	Epigenetic Control of Chromatin States	HSRF 400
4/3/2017	Elizabeth Smith Dartmouth College	The Role of Calmodulin Interacting Proteins in Ciliary Motility and Assembly	HSRF 400
3/27/2017	Chris Newhard Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Structural Mechanisms of the Myosin Converter that Set Load-Dependent Muscle Shortening Velocity	Given C443
2/6/2017	Brenda Russell University of Illinois at Chicago	Mechanobiology: Cardiac Muscle, Fibroblasts and Stem Cells	HSRF 400
12/14/2016	Luther Pollard UVM	Thesis Defense: Myo2 Motor Function in the Contractile Ring and the Regulation of Fission Yeast Cytokinesis	Davis Auditorium
12/2/2016		Research Forum: Structural and Functional Dynamics of Tau	HSRF 200
11/30/2016	Thomas Sladewski UVM	Molecular Mechanisms of MRNA Transport by a Class V Myosin and Cytoplasmic Dynein.	HSRF 400
11/21/2016	Michael Toth, UVM	Muscle disuse as the facilitator of age- and disease-related muscle atrophy and weakness in humans	HSRF 400
10/24/2016	Vikas Anathy UVM	Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) in Allergic Asthma	HSRF 400
10/17/2016	Sadie Ingle MyoKardia, Inc.	From White Board to Clinical Trials: The Drug Discovery Story of MYK-461	HSRF 400
10/10/2016	Christopher Yengo Penn State	Modulating Cardiac Myosin Performance with Small Molecule Allosteric Regulators	HSRF 400
10/3/2016	Alasdair Steven NIH	Protein-bound compartments: Variations on the theme	HSRF 400
9/26/2016	Yan Yu Indiana University	Embracing Asymmetry: Designing Janus Interfaces to Image and Control Cellular Dynamics	HSRF 400
6/27/2016	Cristobal dos Remedios University of Sydney	‘Super Relaxed’ Cardiac Muscle: Myosin-Binding Protein C has got to be involved	HSRF 400
6/10/2016	Joe Clayton UVM	Thesis Defense: Barcoding the actin track: Differential regulation of myosin motors by tropomyosin	Terrill 108
5/25/2016	Christine Seidman Harvard Medical School	Cardiomyopathies: Mutations, Mechanisms, and Therapeutics	Carpenter Auditorium
5/16/2016	Gerardo Morfini University of Illinois at Chicago	Clues from the squid revealed novel mechanisms underlying axonal pathology in Huntington’s disease	HSRF 400
5/9/2016	Ke Hu Indiana University Bloomington	The cytoskeleton and motility of an invasion machine, Toxoplasma gondii	HSRF 400
5/2/2016	Filip Braet University of Sydney	Dissecting the cellular behavior of colorectal cancer via correlative light and electron microscopy	HSRF 400
4/25/2016	Ali J. Marian University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	‘Ariadne Auf Naxos’ and the Riddle of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy	Med Ed Ctr 200
4/11/2016	Thomas Maresca University of Massachusetts Amherst	Mechano-molecular regulation of kinetochore function	HSRF 400
4/1/2016		Research Forum: Investigating how one motor’s unique talents stabilize connections between chromosomes and microtubules	HSRF 200
3/28/2016	Iwona Buskiewicz UVM	Mechanism for coxsackievirus B3 persistence in the heart	HSRF 400