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Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series: |
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| Fall Semester 2008 | Michigan State University | ||
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Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Fridays, with refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
Seminars are in |
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| Friday, August 29 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Dongping Zhong , Depts. of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University | |||
| Ultrafast Enzymatic Catalysis: DNA Repair by Photolyase | |||
| Friday, September 5 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Cheng Li , Harvard School of Public Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | |||
| Genomic Alteration Analysis Using SNP Microarrays | |||
| Friday, September 12 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Klaus Schulten , Depts. of Physics and Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |||
| Molecular Dynamics Simulations Beyond Microsecond, Beyond Million Atoms, Beyond Present Force Fields | |||
| Friday, September 19 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Sidney Redner , Dept. of Physics, Boston University | |||
| The Best, the Hottest, and the Luckiest: A Statistical Tale of Extremes | |||
| Friday, October 3 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Audrey Gasch , Laboratory of Genetics and Genome Center of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
| Functional Genomics of Yeast Stress Defense | |||
| Friday, October 10 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Gary Drobny , Depts. of Chemistry and Physics, University of Washington | |||
| Solid State NMR Studies of Proteins at Biomaterial Interfaces | |||
| Friday, October 17 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Kevin Plaxco , Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Santa Barbara | |||
| Better Living through Biosensors | |||
| Friday, October 31 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Yan Cui , Dept. of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee-Memphis | |||
| Gene Expression Trait: A Glimpse into the Black Box of Genotype-Phenotype Mapping | |||
| Friday, November 7 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Kenneth McLaughlin , Dept. of Mathematics, University of Arizona | |||
| Crazy Limits: Random Matrices, Random Tilings, the Asymptotic Analysis that Relates Them | |||
| Friday, November 14 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Lonnie Shea , Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University | |||
| Gene Delivery for Regenerative Medicine | |||
| Friday, November 21 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Yannis Kevrekidis , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University | |||
| Equation-Free Modeling and Computation for Complex Systems | |||
| Friday, December 5 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Stanislav Shvartsman , Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University | |||
| Paint by Numbers: Quantitative Biology of Pattern Formation in Embryos | |||
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Seminar Organizers: |
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Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminars: | |||
| David Arnosti, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | arnosti@msu.edu | ||
| David Weliky, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | weliky@chemistry.msu.edu | ||
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Engineering Seminars: | |||
| Christina Chan, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | krischan@egr.msu.edu | ||
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Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars: | |||
| Lisa Lapidus, Physics & Astronomy | lapidus@pa.msu.edu | ||
| Jeffrey Schenker, Mathematics | jeffrey@math.msu.edu | ||
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Prior semesters:
Spring 2008;
Fall 2007;
Spring 2007;
Fall 2006;
Spring 2006; |
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