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Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series: |
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| Fall Semester 2009 | 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, September 11 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Daniel Forger , Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan | |||
| Co-ordinating Biological Timekeeping in Mammals: Noise and Silence Prevall | |||
| Friday, September 18 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| James Chou , Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard University | |||
| How Do Influenza H+ Channels Work? | |||
| Friday, September 25 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Eleonora Zakharian , Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey | |||
| TRP Channels in Supermolecular Complexes with Inorganic Polyphosphate and Polyhydroxybutyrate | |||
| Friday, October 02 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Joan-Emma Shea , Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara | |||
| Simulations of Protein Aggregation into Amyloid Fibrils | |||
| Friday, October 09 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Liming Dai , Department of Materials Science, University of Dayton | |||
| Optoelectronic Conjugated Macromolecules and Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: From Materials Syntheses to Device Applications | |||
| Friday, October 16 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
| Jean Bellissard , Department of Mathematics & Physics, Georgia Tech | |||
| Functional Topological Aspects in the Theory of Aperiodic Solids and Tiling Spaces | |||
| Friday, October 23 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| Mark Tuszynski , Department of Neurosciences, University of California - San Diego | |||
| Bioengineered Guidance Channels in the Injured Spinal Cord | |||
| Friday, November 06 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| David Umulis , Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University | |||
| Organism-scale Modeling of early Drosophila Patterning Via Bone Morphogenetic Proteins | |||
| Friday, November 13 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Christopher D, Lima , Structural Biology, Sloan-Kettering Institute | |||
| Structural Insights to Post-Translation Modification by SUMO, a Ubiquitin-llke Protein | |||
| Friday, November 20 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Greg Gibson , The School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland | |||
| Geographical Genomics of Human Gene Expression Variation | |||
| Friday, December 04 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
| Curtis Callan , Department of Physics, Princeton University | |||
| Is There a Theoretical Physics of Life? Case Studies in the Search for Mathematical Principles in the Data of Modern Biology | |||
| Friday, December 11 | Engineering Seminar | ||
| S. Patrick Walton , Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Michigan State University | |||
| Biomolecular Engineering of siRNA Therapeutics | |||
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Seminar Organizers: |
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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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Engineering Seminars: | |||
| Christina Chan, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | krischan@egr.msu.edu | ||
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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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Prior semesters:
Spring 2009;
Fall 2008;
Spring 2008;
Fall 2007;
Spring 2007;
Fall 2006; |
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