Biology Department Events
Past Events
2023
- AUG16Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
TBD
Jochen Zimmer, University of Washington
Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- JUL20Thursday
Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) Activity
Creating Mutual Accountability From Leaders and Teams
Payal Beri, RFEmpathy
Thursday, July 20, 2023, 3:30 p.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
- JUL19Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Soft X-ray Tomography: Quantitative Structural Cell Biology at the Mesoscale
Carolyn Larabell, LBL
Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- JUN28Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Structural Photophysics of Fluorescent Proteins Used in Super Resolution Microscopy
Dominique Bourgeois, IBS, France
Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- MAY17Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Responsive Protein Engineered Biomaterials
Jin Kim Montclare, NYU
Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- APR19Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Evolution of Energy Landscapes and its Exploitation for Drug and Enzyme Design
Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- MAR22Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Beyond cryocrystallography: new technologies for serial and time-resolved experiments
Diana Monteiro, HWI
Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- JAN31Tuesday
CBMS Workbenches - Structural Biology
Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 9 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
2022
- DEC14Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
CBMS Lecture Series
Andres Finzi, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada
Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 3:45 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- DEC8Thursday
Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) Activity
STEM Pathway Towards Protein Biomaterials and Innovation—and the Lessons Learned
Jin Kim Montclare, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 4 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- SEP21Wednesday
CBMS Lecture Series
Building tools to enable novice practitioners to use to cryoEM technologies at the National Center for CryoEM Access and Training
Christina Zimanyi, NYSBC
Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- AUG10Wednesday
Brookhaven Lecture
Structural Biology of Metal Homeostasis and Usage
Qun Liu, Biology Department
Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 4 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- JUL27Wednesday
Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) Activity
How Inclusion Impacts an Organization's Sustainability
Toni L Carter, INL
Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 4 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- JUN15Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Uncovering Protein Structural Dynamics with Terahertz Light
Andrea Markelz, SUNY Buffalo
Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- JUN6Monday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
CBMS Workbench - Structural Biology
Multiple speakers
Monday, June 6, 2022, 9 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- MAY18Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Two Stories of Degradation – Investigating the Initiation of Selective Autophagy in Yeast
Michael Ragusa, Dartmouth College
Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- APR20Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
N SILICO and STRUCTURE-GUIDED OF NOVRL ANTIVIRAL COMPOUNDS FOR HIV AND SARS COV-2 INFECTION
Karen Anderson, Yale University
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- MAR17Thursday
Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) Activity
The Secret History of Women's Speech
Dana Rubin, Speech Studio
Thursday, March 17, 2022, 4 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- JAN19Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
CBMS Lecture Series - Ivan Anishchenko
Ivan Anishchenko, University of Washington
Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
2021
- DEC1Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
From structure to dynamics: Bridging the gap between theory and experiment in structural biology
Nozomi Ando, Cornell University
Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- NOV17Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Seeing The "Invisible" Virus Assembly Instruction Manual In Action
Professor Peter Stockley, Leeds University Faculty of Biological Sciences, United Kingdom
Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- OCT20Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Professor Lee Makowski, Northeastern University
Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- OCT11Monday
CBMS Workshop
Center for BioMolecular Structure Workbenches - October 11 to 13
Monday, October 11, 2021, 9 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- AUG24Tuesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Using protein footprinting to make structural biology easier: Case studies from academia and industry
Mark Chance, Vice Dean for Research, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Tuesday, August 24, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- JUN16Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
CBMS Lecture Series
Yang Yang, Brookhaven National Laboratory - NSLS II
Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- MAY26Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
CBMS Lecture Series
Michael Airola, Stony Brook University
Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- APR21Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Lanthanide-Binding Tags for 3D X-Ray Imaging of Proteins in Cells at Nanoscale Resolution
Lisa Miller, Brookhaven National Laboratory - NSLS II
Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
- MAR24Wednesday
Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series
Exploring Self-Assembling DNA Crystal Scaffolds for the Precise Arrangement of Biomaterials
Tara MacCulloch, Biodesign Researcher at Arizona State University
Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event
2020
2019
- DEC4Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Dr. Hailing Jin, University of California, Riverside
Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT8Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Integrating genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and post-GWAS functional studies to decipher phenylpropanoid biosynthesis in poplar
Dr. Meng Xie, Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, China
Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP24Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Mining natural variation in plants and microbes for heavy metal tolerance genes
Dr. Timothy Paape, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich
Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2018
- AUG20Monday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Biodesign Under Pressure: 10 Molecules. 90 Days. Go.
Dr. Benjamin Gordon, Director, MIT-Broad Foundry
Monday, August 20, 2018, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- JUL16Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Integrating Experiments and Models to Understand Plant Nutrient Fluxes
Teresa Clark, Michigan State University
Monday, July 16, 2018, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN25Thursday
Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) Activity
BWIS Lecture: Where Electrical Engineering Meets Biology
Bingxin Shen, Temple University
Thursday, January 25, 2018, 4:30 p.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
- JAN8Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Understanding the Genomic Basis of Stress Adaptation in Picochlorum Green Algae
Dr. Fatima Foflonker, Rutgers University
Monday, January 8, 2018, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2017
- NOV8Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Modeling Complex Sequence-Function
David M. McCandlish, Assistant Professor
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT31Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Modeling Complex Sequence-Function
David M. McCandlish, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tuesday, October 31, 2017, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG8Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Genomic Study for Enhancing Maize Genetic Improvement
Dr. Jianbing Yan, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhuan, China, China
Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN30Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Structural and Functional Studies of Enhanced Intracellular Survival Proteins From Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Mycobacetrium Smegmatis
Kyoung Hoon Kim, Yale University, Korea, Republic of (South)
Friday, June 30, 2017, 3 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY5Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Plant Cell Death Regulators
Eric Lam, Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Friday, May 5, 2017, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR7Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Structure-Function Studies of Lipid Metabolizing Enzymes Involved in Cancer Development and Therapy
Michael V. Airola, Ph.D., Stony Brook University, Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Friday, April 7, 2017, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR30Thursday
Brookhaven Women In Science Lecture
Using Graphene to Understand Biology
Sarah Perry, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thursday, March 30, 2017, 4:30 p.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
- MAR10Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Systematic Multi-scale Modeling and Analysis for Gene Regulation
Dr. Daifeng Wang, Stony Brook University, China
Friday, March 10, 2017, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2016
- NOV18Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Blueprints for Photosynthesis: The genetics and biochemistry of photosystem II assembly
Robert Calderon, University of California, Berkley
Friday, November 18, 2016, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV17Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
: Investigating the Molecular Mechanism of a Slowly Relaxing form of Photo protection in plants
Alizee Malnoe, University of California, Berkley, France
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 3 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV14Monday
Biology Department Seminar
The Regulation and Patterns of Salicylic Acid Hydroxylation in Arabidopsis and Rice
Kewei Zhang, Department of Biology, College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, China
Monday, November 14, 2016, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP27Tuesday
Physics Colloquium
Synthetic gene circuits: New research tools for quantitative biology
Gabor Balazsi, Stony Brook U
Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 3:30 p.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
- JUL14Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
"COPING WITH THE STRESS: BRCA/FA pathway and DNA replication stress response"
Dr. Dong Zhang, NYIT
Thursday, July 14, 2016, 3 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN29Wednesday
Brookhaven Lecture
515th Brookhaven Lecture: 'Structural Biology: Studying Living Things as They Jiggle and Wiggle'
Sean McSweeney, National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven Lab
Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAY23Monday
Biology Department Seminar
An Integrative Approach to Understanding HIV-1 Capsid Assembly and Host Cell Interactions
Peijun Zhang, Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Monday, May 23, 2016, 3 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY13Friday
Biology Department Seminar
INFLUENCE OF ABIOTIC DRIVERS (LIGHT AND NUTRIENTS) ON PHOTOBIOLOGY AND DIVERSITY OF ANTARCTIC LAKE PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES
Amber Teufel, Miami University
Friday, May 13, 2016, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2015
There are no events scheduled at this time.
2014
- NOV7Friday
Biological, Environmental, & Climate Sciences (BECS) Department Seminar
Plant Systems Biology: From Predictive Network Modeling to Trait Evolution
Gloria M. Coruzzi, Department of Biology, Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, New York University, New York, NY
Friday, November 7, 2014, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN20Friday
Biosciences Department Seminar
Synthetic Approaches to Gene Expression Control: From Yeast to Cancer
Gabor Balazsi, Laufer Center for Physical & Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University
Friday, June 20, 2014, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR30Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology
Professor James Collins, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston University, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
2013
- MAR1Friday
Biosciences Department Seminar
Plant Defense Signaling: Here and Now
Pradeep Kachroo, University of Kentucky
Friday, March 1, 2013, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- FEB28Thursday
Biosciences Department Seminar
Chitin Recognition in Plants: Evolution, Mechanism and Application
Gary Stacey, Assoc. Dir. National Center for Soybe, Div. of Plant Sciences & Biochemisry, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
Thursday, February 28, 2013, 3 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2012
- JUL10Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Small-Molecule Inhibitor Design and Development for Therapies against Malaria and Botulinum Neurotoxins
Yuan-Ping Pang, Computer-Aided Molecular Design Lab., Mayo Foundation for Medical Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN22Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Autoregulation of Nitric Oxide Synthesis: A Tale of CATs
R. Daniel Peluffo, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
Friday, June 22, 2012, 2:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN8Friday
Biology Department Seminar
The Conserved EKC/KEOPS Complex, Involved in Telomere Length Regulation, is Required for a Universal tRNA Modification, t6A
Rolf Sternglanz, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Friday, June 8, 2012, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY11Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Redesigning Viral Genomes
Steven Skiena, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Friday, May 11, 2012, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR30Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Oligomerization of Helical Membrane Proteins
Yinan Wei, Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Monday, April 30, 2012, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR27Tuesday
NSLS-II Seminar
X6A Workbench: Hands-on Synchrotron Structural Biology
Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 9 a.m., Conference Room C, Bldg. 725
- FEB10Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Population Epigenomics: Understanding Mechanisms and Functions of Epigenetic Inheritance
Robert Schmitz, Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Friday, February 10, 2012, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- FEB3Friday
Biology Department Seminar
A Mechanism-Based Approach to Predict Relative Biological Effectiveness and the Effects of Tumor Hypoxia in Charged Particle Radiotherapy
David Carlson, Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Friday, February 3, 2012, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN13Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Synthetic Biology: Putting Synthesis into Biology
Huimin Zhao, Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Institute for Genomic Biology, and Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Friday, January 13, 2012, 10:30 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN12Thursday
RIKEN/BNL Lunch Time Talk
Ions in biology: Water and Proteins
Purushottam Dixit, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Thursday, January 12, 2012, 12:30 p.m., Building 510 / Room 2-160
- JAN9Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Complex Negative Regulation of an R Gene SNC1 Revealed by Auto-Immune Mutants in Arabidopsis
Mingyue Gou, Department of Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Monday, January 9, 2012, 10:30 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN6Friday
Biology Department Seminar
EMF1-Mediated Epigenetic Regulation
Sang Yeol Kim, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, January 6, 2012, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2011
- NOV30Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Precision Measurement in Biology
Stephen Quake, Stanford Univeristy
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT31Monday
Biology Department Seminar
In Crystallo Synthesis of the Tryptophan Tryptophylquinone Cofactor of Methylamine Dehydrogenase
Carrie Wilmot, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Monday, October 31, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT20Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Exploring the Protein Interactions Involved in RNA-directed DNA Methylation Provides Key Insights into Epigenetic Regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Julie Law, Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP23Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Manipulation of Plant Architecture in Grasses: Lessons from Developmental Genetics, Domestication and Evolution
Erik Vollbrecht, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Friday, September 23, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG19Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Strategies for Lignin Modification: Metabolic Versus Transcriptional Controls
Richard Dixon, Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK
Friday, August 19, 2011, 10 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL12Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Trapping the Active Site Loops of Naphthoate Synthase and Enoylreductase
Huei-Jiun Li, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL11Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Two Case Studies of Protein Fold Evolution: Bacteriophage Cro Proteins and Insect Salivary Lipocalins
Christian Roessler, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson
Monday, July 11, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Discovery of Novel Inhibitors Targeting HIF-1alpha Towards Anticancer Drug Development: Selective/Multiple Target Inhibitors?
Sanjay Kumar, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Piramal Life Sciences Ltd., Mumbai, India
Friday, June 17, 2011, 2:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY6Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Algae Biofuels: Overcoming Biological Challenges Through Strain Development
Jurgen Polle, Department of Biology and Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center (AREAC), Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
Friday, May 6, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR29Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Following Adenovirus Uncoating and Proteolytic Processing In Vitro
Ana Perez-Berna, National Center for Biotechnology, Spanish National Research Council, University of Madrid, Spain
Friday, April 29, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR28Thursday
Photon Sciences Beamline Development Workshop-Trends in Structural Biology
Beamline Development Workshop - All Day Event
Various Speakers, Various Institutions see below
Thursday, April 28, 2011, 8 a.m., Seminar Room, Bldg. 725
- APR15Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Post-Initiation Events in Poxvirus Late Gene Transcription
Richard Condit, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Friday, April 15, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR31Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
From Small Molecules to Integrins: My Journey and Their Interactions
Vijay Thiruvenkatam, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR29Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Structure and Function of a AAA+ Protein-Unfolding Machine
Steven Glynn, Department of Biology, Masschusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR25Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Key Regulators of Rice Male Reproductive Development
Dabing Zhang, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China
Friday, March 25, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR9Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Structural and Mechanistic Insights into N-Glycan Processing
Michael Suits, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Canada
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR8Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Iron(III)-Hydroperoxo Intermediates, a Central Player during Dioxygen Activation
Feifei Li, Department of Chemistry and Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR7Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases: Possible Origins and Molecular Mechanisms Leading to the Evolution of Enhanced Catalytic Activity, Specificity, and Allostery
Charles Carter, Jr., Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Monday, March 7, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN7Friday
Biology Department Seminar
RNAi-mediated Reprogramming of Plant Epigenomes
Milos Tanurdzic, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Friday, January 7, 2011, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2010
- DEC17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Utilization of Endophytic Microbes to Facilitate Low-Input Agriculture
Kelly Craven, Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK
Friday, December 17, 2010, 11 a.m., Medical - Bldg. 490 Small Conference Room
- DEC10Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Copying and Reprogramming of Heterochromatin with RNA Interference
Rob Martienssen, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Friday, December 10, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV19Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Systems Approaches to Unravel Metabolic and Regulatory Networks
Erich Grotewold, Plant Biotechnology Center, Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Friday, November 19, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV9Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Combining Biophysics and Bioinformatics in the Study of Biological Complexes
Jiang Zhu, Structural Bioinformatics Core Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH, Bethesda, MD
Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV5Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Plant-Pathogen Arms Race: How Agrobacterium Subverts Host Defense
Vitaly Citovsky, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Friday, November 5, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT20Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Integrated Climate Change Science: From Earth System Modeling to Molecular Biology
Martin Keller, Biological and Environmental Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 2 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT15Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Dynamic and Diverse Maize Genome
Doreen Ware, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Friday, October 15, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT12Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Genomic Architecture of Two Repeat Polymorphisms in the Human SLC6A3 Gene
Elena Shumay, BNL Medical Department
Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT8Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Comparative Genomics of Biomass-Degrading and Biofuels-Producing Clostridia
Christopher Hemme, Stephenson Research and Technology Center, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Friday, October 8, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT5Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Overview of the BioEnergy Science Center at ORNL
Paul Gilna, Director, BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP15Wednesday
Pegram Lecture
Biology Past and Biology Future: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going
Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine
Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 11 a.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- AUG20Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Paradigm Shift in Radiation Biology: Challenges and Promises
Kanokporn (Noy) Richidech, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Friday, August 20, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL30Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Using Charged Particle Radiation to Probe Cancer Development Processes: Insights From Physics and Biology
Amy Kronenberg, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Friday, July 30, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL23Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Ionizing Radiation Exposure During the Mammalian Cell Division Cycle: New Insights Using Human and Rodent Cells
Paul Wilson, Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Friday, July 23, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL16Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Polysaccharide Nanocomposites: An Exercise in Biomimicry
William Winter, Chemistry Department and Director of Cellulose Research Institute, SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), Syracuse, NY
Friday, July 16, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL8Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Structural Dynamics of Acetylcholinesterase as Revealed by X-ray Crystallography and Spectroscopy
Benoit Sanson, Institute of Structural Biology, Grenoble, France
Thursday, July 8, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN25Friday
Biology Department Seminar
The In Situ Characterization of Select Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides Through NMR Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction
DeAnn Barnhart, SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), Syracuse, NY
Friday, June 25, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN18Friday
CANCELED -- Biology Department Seminar
Ionizing Radiation Exposure During the Mammalian Cell Division Cycle: New Insights Using Human and Rodent Cells
Paul Wilson, Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Friday, June 18, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN11Friday
POSTPONED - New Date TBD: Biology Department Seminar
Discovery of Novel Inhibitors Targeting HIF-1alpha Towards Anticancer Drug Development: Selective/Multiple Target Inhibitors?
Sanjay Kumar, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Piramal Life Sciences Ltd., Mumbai, India
Friday, June 11, 2010, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY21Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Phytotechnologies as Primary Public Health Prevention
William Suk, Director, Superfund Research Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC
Friday, May 21, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY18Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Insights into the Complete Genomic Diversity of the Lyme Agent Through Comparative Genomic Analysis of Borrelia sp. Isolates
Emmanuel Mongodin, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland BioPark, Baltimore, MD
Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY17Monday
Medical Department Seminar
Single Cell Environmental Microbiology with Nano Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Monday, May 17, 2010, 1:30 p.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
- MAY11Tuesday
Joint Biology Seminar
Breaking Lignocellulosic Recalcitrance: What Can Be Done?
Laigeng Li, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY11Tuesday
Joint Biology Seminar
Protein Phosphorylation and Signaling Cross-talk in Hormone Effects
Hongwei Xue, Director, National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics; Director of Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY7Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Charge Delocalization and Transport in Conjugated Molecules: Molecular Wires for Charges and Exited States
John Miller, BNL Chemistry Department
Friday, May 7, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY3Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Cracking the Nut -- Integration of Enzyme and Microbial Systems in the Depolymerization and Utilization of Lignocellulose for Sustainable Production of Ethanol and Co-products
Sharon Shoemaker, California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research
Monday, May 3, 2010, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR30Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Toxicity and Biotransformation of Nickel Nanoparticles
Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Dudley Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science & Engineering, Chair, Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso
Friday, April 30, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR14Wednesday
Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) Activity
Applications of Structural Biology in Drug Design
Vivian Cody, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. Inc.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 4 p.m., Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555
- APR5Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Building Artificial Cell Membranes
Ting Zhu, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Monday, April 5, 2010, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR5Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Sustainable Phytoremediation with the Production of Biofortified and Biofuel Products
Gary Banuelos, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Parlier, CA
Friday, March 5, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- FEB19Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Jim Hensin, A New Puppeteer in Epithelial Morphogenesis
Soundarapandian (Vijay) Vijayakumar, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Friday, February 19, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN29Friday
National Synchrotron Light Source Lunch Time Seminar
Structural Biology of Rap-mediated Competence Development in Bacillus Subtilis
Melinda Baker, PhD., Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
Friday, January 29, 2010, 12 p.m., Seminar Room, Bldg. 725
- JAN8Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Rational Design of Microbial Chemical Factories
Kristala Jones Prather, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Friday, January 8, 2010, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2009
- DEC11Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Molecular Basis of the Plant Responses to the Environment
Ramesh Raina, Biology Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Friday, December 11, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- DEC7Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Aggregation of COST 859 Phytoremediation Knowledge from Genes to Field Trials at the BIOGECO Phytoremediation Platform
Michel Mench, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), University of Bordeaux, Talence, France
Monday, December 7, 2009, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- DEC4Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Spirodela polyrhiza: A Tiny Plant with a Potentially Huge Impact as a Bioenergy Crop
Randall Kerstetter, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
Friday, December 4, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV20Friday
Joint Biology-CFN Seminar
DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
Ned Seeman, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY
Friday, November 20, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT21Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Novel Applications of Nanometrology in Biology and Medicine
Jason Reed, California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT16Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Spectroscopic analysis of protein-ligand interactions: Fluorescent proteins and excited state proton transfer
Deborah Stoner-Ma, Stony Brook University
Friday, October 16, 2009, 1 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT16Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Bacterial Biofilm Formation: From Infectious Diseases to Biofuel Production
Dacheng Ren, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Friday, October 16, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP22Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Decision Points in the Cellular Response to DNA Damage
Philip Hanawalt, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG28Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Loading of the Replicative Helicase on Origin DNA
Christian Speck, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Friday, August 28, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG3Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Mechanism of the Nucleosome Structural Change
Toshiya Senda, Biomedicinal Information Res. Ctr., Natl. Inst. Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Monday, August 3, 2009, 4 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL7Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Coping with the Stress of Solar Energy, a Conserved Bacterial Response to the Reactive Oxygen Species Singlet Oxygen (1O2)
Timothy Donohue, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Bacteriology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL6Monday
Biology Department Seminar
How to Make Cheaper Ethanol: Using Computer Modeling and Simulation to Reveal Mechanism and Thermodynamics of Biomass-Degrading Enzymes
Michael Crowley, Biomolecular Sciences Division, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
Monday, July 6, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN26Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Waste Not....
Sally Brown, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle
Friday, June 26, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN17Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Seeing is not Always Believing: Using Single Crystal UV-Visible Spectroscopy to Monitor Radiation Damage
Arwen Pearson, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, The University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 4 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN1Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Induced Fit: A Common Strategy Used by the Ribosome in Decoding, Peptidyl Transfer and Termination
Venki Ramakrishnan, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Structural Studies Division, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Monday, June 1, 2009, 4 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY29Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Flavonoids and Auxin-Related MicroRNAs Play Critical Roles in Nodule and Lateral Root Development
Xiaodan (Oliver) Yu, Plant Sciences, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO
Friday, May 29, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY22Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Microbial Genomics to Omics-Based Systems and Synthetic Microbiology
Jihyun Kim, KRIBB, Korea University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Friday, May 22, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY18Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Radiation, Epigenetics, and Disease Susceptibility
Randy Jirtle, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Monday, May 18, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
- MAY15Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Microfluidics and Optical Tweezers Enable Generalized Single Cell Genomics
Paul Blainey, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Friday, May 15, 2009, 4 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY4Monday
Joint NSLS-Biology Seminar
Adaptive High-Throughput Peptide Screening and Analysis via Active Learning
Burr Settles, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Monday, May 4, 2009, 10 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR21Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Diversity & Specificity in Protein Ubiquitination: The BRCA1/BARD1 Paradigm
Rachel Klevit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
- APR17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Do Metal Ions Matter in the Self Cleavage of Hepatitis Delta Virus Genome?
Jui-Hui Chen, Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Friday, April 17, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR10Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Targeted Disruption of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms Using Gold Nanorods
Tara Sabo-Attwood, Department of Environmental Sciences, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Friday, April 10, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR3Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Prep1 Homeodomain Transcription Factor: A New Developmentally Essential, Tumor Suppressor that Controls DNA Damage
Francesco Blasi, Faculty of Medicine, Universita Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
Friday, April 3, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR19Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Novel Metallochemistry in Zinc Transporters: Integration of Structural, Functional and Computational Analyses
Dax Fu, BNL Biology Department
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR18Wednesday
Pegram Lecture
The Great Ideas of Biology
Paul Nurse, The Rockefeller University
Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAR18Wednesday
Medical Department Seminar
Rhizbial infection of soybean root hairs: a model for single cell, plant systems biology
Professor Gary Stacey, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
- MAR16Monday
Biology Department Seminar -- Rescheduled
Extractive Butanol Production from Lignicellulosic Biomass
Byoung-In Sang, Energy and Environmental Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, Republic of Korea
Monday, March 16, 2009, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR5Thursday
Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar
Selective Transport Through Nano-channels: Biology, Physics and Nanotechnology
Anton Zilman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 11 a.m., Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm B
- FEB20Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Microspectroscopic Investigation of Nickel and Cobalt in a Hyperaccumulator Plant Used for Phytoremediation and Phytomining
Ryan Tappero, BNL National Synchrotron Light Source
Friday, February 20, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN30Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Underground Communication Between Roots and Soil Organisms
Jorge Vivanco, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Friday, January 30, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN16Friday
Biology Department Seminar
The Role of the Diffusible Signal Factor DSF in Intra- and Inter-species Signaling by the Highly Adaptable Bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
J. Max Dow, BIOMERIT Research Centre, Department of Microbiology, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
Friday, January 16, 2009, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2008
- DEC19Friday
POSTPONED to Jan. 30th - Biology Department Seminar
Underground Communication Between Roots and Soil Organisms
Jorge Vivanco, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Friday, December 19, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- DEC16Tuesday
National Synchrotron Light Source Seminar
Unstructural Biology: Characterizing Disorder in Synaptic Signaling Proteins
Mark Bowen, Stony Brook University, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 10:30 a.m., Seminar Room, Bldg. 725
- DEC12Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Heavy-Ion Irradiation and in silico RLGS - New Technologies to Induce and Detect Bacterial Mutations
Hiroyuki Ichida, Radiation Biology Team, Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, RIKEN, Wako, Japan
Friday, December 12, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- DEC5Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Influence of Tumor Microenvironment on Organ-Specific Breast Cancer Metastasis
Emily Chen, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Friday, December 5, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Orthogonalization of Functional Modules in Bacteria Destined for the Environment
Victor de Lorenzo, Molecular Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbial Biotechnology, National Center for Biotechnology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Friday, October 17, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT15Wednesday
Brookhaven Lecture
441st Brookhaven Lecture: 'Molecular Sleds and More: Novel Antiviral Agents via Single-Molecule Biology'
Wally Mangel, Ph.D., Biology Department
Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- SEP26Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Uncovering Biochemical Sensing Mechanisms in Plant Thiol Metabolism
Joseph Jez, Department of Biology, Washington University and Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO
Friday, September 26, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP19Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Lipid Trafficking Between the Endoplasmic Reticulum and the Plastid
Changcheng Xu, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Friday, September 19, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP12Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Directed Mutation of the Chloroplast ATP Synthase in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Eric Johnson, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Friday, September 12, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG12Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
SMASH: Single Molecule Approach to Sequencing by Hybridization
Bhubaneswar (Bud) Mishra, Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, Human Genetics, and Cell Biology, Courant Institute, NYU School of Medicine and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG12Tuesday
CANCELED -- Biology Department Seminar
CpNifS-dependent Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis in Chloroplasts
Manjunatha Narayana Murthy Uligere, Biology Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG6Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Different Transcriptional and Metabolic Reprogramming in Medicago truncatula Cell Suspension Cultures Induced by Yeast Elicitor or Methyl Jasmonate
Marina Naoumkina, Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK
Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG5Tuesday
Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar
DNA Beyond Biology
Dmytro Nykypanchuk, CFN - BNL
Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 10 a.m., CFN - Bldg. 735 - Conf. Rm. B
- AUG1Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Plants and Environmental Challenges
Lee Newman, Environmental Health Sciences, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Friday, August 1, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL25Friday
Biology Department Seminar
X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of Cytochrome c Oxidase, the Energy Generator of Cells
Ling Qin, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Friday, July 25, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL11Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Validating Computational Models Using Global Regression Analysis
Mikhail Levin, Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
Friday, July 11, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL9Wednesday
Biology Department Informal Seminar
Stony Brook Proteomics
Antonius (Toni) Koller, Stony Brook University Proteomics Center, Stony Brook, NY
Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 11 a.m., Biology New Conference Room 160
- JUN20Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Harnessing Photosynthetic Bacteria for the Heterologous Expression of Membrane Proteins
Deborah Hanson, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
Friday, June 20, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN13Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopies at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at BNL
Mircea Cotlet, BNL Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Friday, June 13, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY9Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Developing Plants with Enhanced Biomass Potential: Proteomics Prospecting in the Plant Cell Wall
Jocelyn Rose, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Friday, May 9, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR25Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Quantitative Imaging of Storage Metabolism in Crop Seeds
Hardy Rolletschek, Department of Molecular Genetics (Gene Expression), Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany
Friday, April 25, 2008, 2 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR25Friday
Biology Department Seminar
The Expanding p53 Universe
Michael Resnick, Head of the Chromosome Stability Group, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC
Friday, April 25, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR24Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
DNA Repair and Photoaging
Daniel Yarosh, AGI Dermatics, Freeport, NY
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 3 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR10Thursday
Biology Department Seminar -- CANCELED
Impact of Structural Proteomics on Drug Design
Yuan-Ping Pang, Computer-Aided Molecular Design Laboratory, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR4Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Proline-Rich Cell Wall Proteins: Building Blocks for a Growing Cell Wall
Mary Tierney, Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont
Friday, April 4, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR2Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Structure and Dynamics of Proteins Studied by X-ray and Neutron Solution Scattering
Lee Makowski, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- FEB25Monday
BES Distinguished Lecture
Micellar Networks, Effects on Rheology and Biology
Eric Kaler, Stony Brook University
Monday, February 25, 2008, 1 p.m., Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555
- FEB22Friday
Biology Department Seminar
DNA Repair and Photoaging
Daniel Yarosh, AGI Dermatics, Freeport, NY
Friday, February 22, 2008, 3 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN25Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Guiding Improvements of Photosynthesis Using an Integrated Dynamic Model of Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism
Xinguang Zhu, Department of Plant Biology, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, January 25, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN25Friday
Joint Computational Science Center Seminar / Biology Department Seminar
Modeling Enzymes to Make Ethanol from Cellulose
Ross C. Walker, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego
Friday, January 25, 2008, 9:30 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN24Thursday
Structural Biology Seminar
Family X Polymerases in Double-Strand Break Repair
Miguel Garcia-Diaz, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University
Thursday, January 24, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN18Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Artificial Photosynthesis
James Muckerman, BNL Chemistry Department
Friday, January 18, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN17Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Regulatory Phosphorylation of Novel Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Isoforms from Developing Castor Oil Seeds
William Plaxton, Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Thursday, January 17, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2007
- DEC7Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Man-Made Nanosystems with Nature Developed Components
Oleg Gang, BNL Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Friday, December 7, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV9Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Lemna and the Circadian Clock: Revisiting the Visionary Work of W. S. Hillman
Todd Michael, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
Friday, November 9, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT26Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Exploring the Microbial Ecology of Cellulose Degradation
Javier Izquierdo, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Friday, October 26, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP28Friday
Mini-Symposium
Computational Biology/Bioenergy Mini-Symposium
Friday, September 28, 2007, 12:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP28Friday
Workshop
Computational Biology/Bioenergy Workshop
Friday, September 28, 2007, 9:30 a.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
- SEP10Monday
Joint Biology Department Seminar
Pumping Iron: New Transporters for Old Iron
Gregor Grass, Institute for Biology/Microbiology, Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Germany
Monday, September 10, 2007, 10 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP10Monday
Joint Biology Department Seminar
New Insights into Copper Resistance
Sylvia Franke, Department of Biology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Monday, September 10, 2007, 10 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG27Monday
Biology Department Seminar
LUMA (LUminometric Methylation Assay) -- A High Throughput Method to the Analysis of Genomic DNA Methylation
Sofia Johansson, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Monday, August 27, 2007, 10 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG24Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Probing Catalysis in Cholesterol Oxidase Using Atomic Resolution Crystallography
Alice Vrielink, Professor of Structural Biology, School of Biomedical Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
Friday, August 24, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN21Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Substrate Specificity of Phosphodiesterases, Structural Insight into Viagra Function, and Structure-Based Drug Design for Inflammatory Diseases
Hengming Ke, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Thursday, June 21, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN15Friday
Biology Department Seminar
ChrR, an Enzyme for all Seasons -- From Improved Chromate and Uranyl Remediation to Improved Cancer Chemotherapy
A. C. Matin, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Friday, June 15, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN8Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Silent Running: RNA Interference and Heterochromatic Silencing in Plants and Fission Yeast
Robert Martienssen, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Friday, June 8, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY25Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Molecular Insights into the Phytochrome Superfamily from Structural and Functional Analysis of Microbial Relatives
Richard Vierstra, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Friday, May 25, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY24Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Hepatocyte-Specific Endocytic Activity Exhibited by the Coxsackie and Adenovirus Receptor (CAR)
Paul Lawrence, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 3 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY18Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Pilus Biogenesis by the Twin-Pore Usher Complex
David Thanassi, Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University
Friday, May 18, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY18Friday
Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar
Soft Nanomaterials Templated Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles: Applications of Self-assembled Systems in Biology and Materials
Praveen Vemula, City College of New York
Friday, May 18, 2007, 1 a.m., Chemistry - Bldg. 555, Rm. 300
- MAY11Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Protein Folding in Extremis: Nanomodules for Protein Stabilization and Folding in Hyperthermophiles
Frank Robb, Center for Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD
Friday, May 11, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY4Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Evolution of Grasses by Comparative Genomics
Joachim Messing, Plant Genome Initiative at Rutgers, Waksman Institute, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
Friday, May 4, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR20Friday
Biology Department Seminar
The Clostridium thermocellum Cellulosome: A Molecular Machine for Cellulose Degradation
J.H. David Wu, Chemical Engineering Department and Graduate Faculty Member in Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Friday, April 20, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR16Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Assessing Predictions of Protein-Protein Interaction: The CAPRI Experiment
Joel Janin, Yeast Structural Genomics, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Monday, April 16, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR13Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Chemical Ecology of Parasitic Plant Associations and What Do We Know About Parasite Cellulases?
Kristin Lewis, Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 13, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR6Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Roles of Tree Genomics in Advancing Basic Knowledge for Plant Bioenergy Feedstocks
Vincent Chiang, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University
Friday, April 6, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR23Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Insights into Desaturase Mechanism: Origins and Future Possibilities
John Shanklin, BNL Biology Department
Friday, March 23, 2007, 10:30 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- FEB15Thursday
Structural Biology Seminar
Computational Solvent Mapping of Proteins for Binding-Site Identification and Characterization
Michael Silberstein, Department of Bioinformatics, Boston University
Thursday, February 15, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- FEB9Friday
Biology Department Seminar
The Adenovirus Fiber Knob: A Model for Oligomeric Protein Assembly and Receptor Targeting In Vivo
Paul Freimuth, BNL Biology Department
Friday, February 9, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN26Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Biomolecular Recognition Dynamics
Jin Wang, Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University
Friday, January 26, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN22Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Progress Towards Automatic MX Beamlines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Gordon Leonard, Macromolecular Crystallography Group, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
Monday, January 22, 2007, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2006
- DEC15Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Nonspecific DNA-Protein Interactions: Single Molecule Measurements Illuminate the Kinetics of Target Search
Paul Clark Blainey, Chemistry Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Friday, December 15, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Rational Design of Metal Binding Proteins and Proteinase Sensors for Molecular Imaging
Jenny Yang, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University
Friday, November 17, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV14Tuesday
BIOLOGY SEMINAR -- CANCELED
Physiological Relevance of the Alternative Nucleotide Incision Repair Pathway in Handling Oxidative Damage in DNA
Murat Saparbaev, Institut Gustave Roussy, Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 4 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV2Thursday
Biology - Computational Science Center Seminar
Molecular Dynamics Simulations and QM/MM Calculations to Probe Proton and Hydride Transfer Pathways in Enzymes
Yolanda Small, Department of Chemistry, Penn State University
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV1Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Laboratory Sequencing Program - Opportunities for Whole-Genome, EST and PCR-Based Sequencing
Jerry Tuskan, Head of Laboratory Sequencing Program and Member of Plant Molecular Ecology Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 2 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT26Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Mechanisms of Programmed Cell Death through Biophysics and Structural Biology
Yigong Shi, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT12Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
The Soft Underbelly of the Crystallization Lab: The Dirty World of Precipitates
George DeTitta, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo, NY
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP28Thursday
Biology Department Seminar - DATE & TIME CHANGE
Technologies for Comprehensive Protein Production
Frank Collart, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Thursday, September 28, 2006, 4 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP22Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Control of Membrane Lipid Fluidity in Bacteria
Diego de Mendoza, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Rosario, CONICET - University of Rosario, Argentina
Friday, September 22, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP15Friday
Biology Department Seminar
"Snapshots" of Enzyme Action: Mechanism of Action of a Xenobiotic Enzyme, a Flavin-Containing Monooxygenase from Yeast
Subramanian Eswaramoorthy, BNL Biology Department
Friday, September 15, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP8Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Rhizosphere Microbial Communities and Their Role in Heavy Metal Uptake by Plants
Klaus Nusslein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Friday, September 8, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP6Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Overlapping Roles of NER and MMR Components in Homologous Recombination in Mammalian Cells
Rodney Nairn, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Wednesday, September 6, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL21Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Genetic Engineering of Bacteriophage and its Applications for Biomimetric Materials
Soo-Kwan Lee, Biological Engineering Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, July 21, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL20Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Grenoble - Macromolecular Crystallography Beamlines
Sandor Brockhauser, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Thursday, July 20, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL14Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Functional Architectures of Plant Cell Walls
Maureen McCann and Nicholas Carpita, Department of Biological Sciences, and Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
Friday, July 14, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN23Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Thermobifida fusca Plant Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes
David Wilson, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University
Friday, June 23, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN13Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Comprehensive Proteomics to Investigate the Integrity of Signal Transduction and Cellular Regulation
Xian Chen, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tuesday, June 13, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN2Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Information Theory Analysis of T7-Like Phages
Zehua Chen, Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute, NIH
Friday, June 2, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY19Friday
Biology Department Seminar
I. Gossypol: Biosynthesis Pathway and Role in Plant-Insect Interations. II. MicroRNA, Auxin and Root Development
Xiao-Ya Chen, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Friday, May 19, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY12Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Sequencing of Difficult DNA Templates
Jan Kieleczawa, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
Friday, May 12, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY10Wednesday
International Symposium in Memory of Eugene P. Cronkite, M.D.
Pathophysiology & Molecular Biology of Hematopoiesis, Malignancy & Radiation Response
Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 8:30 a.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAY5Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Proteasome Activation: Opening the Gate to Nature's Molecule of Mass Destruction
Christopher Hill, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah
Friday, May 5, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR7Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Oxidative Stress as a Modulator in Metal Toxicity: A Study at Different Levels
Jaco Vangronsveld and Ann Cuypers, Hasselt University, Belgium
Friday, April 7, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR28Tuesday
National Synchrotron Light Source Symposium
An Introduction to X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Enviro-, Geo-, and Biosciences
Paul Northrup, Environmental Science, BNL
Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 10:30 a.m., Seminar Room, Bldg. 725
- MAR17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Understanding the Molecular Genetics of the Global Arsenic Cycle
Christopher Rensing, University of Arizona
Friday, March 17, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR9Thursday
Joint Biology Department - Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar
Unraveling the Architecture and Structure-Function Relationships of Pathogens by In Vitro Atomic Force Microscopy
Alex Malkin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Thursday, March 9, 2006, 10 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- FEB17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Scaling of Sediment Bioremediation Processes and Applications
Peter Adriaens, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Friday, February 17, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN20Friday
Employee Lunchtime Tour of Biology Greenhouse
Friday, January 20, 2006, 12 p.m., Meet in upper Lobby of Berkner Hall
- JAN12Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
A personal (and very analytical) approach to getting the most out of ones time and effort in synchrotron macromolecular crystallography
James Holton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Thursday, January 12, 2006, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2005
- DEC22Thursday
Joint Computational Science Center/Structural Biology Seminar
Atomic-detail Simulations of Biomolecular Systems: From Peptide Models to Protein Dynamics and Pharmaceutical Design
Carlos Simmerling, Center for Structural Biology, Stony Brook University
Thursday, December 22, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- DEC16Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Malaria Parasite Surface Protein AMA1: Structure and Implications for Vaccine Development
Adrian Batchelor, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Friday, December 16, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- DEC2Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Basic and Applied Studies on the Biosynthesis, Structure and Function of [FeFe]-Hydrogenase
Paul King, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Friday, December 2, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV18Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Site-Specific Selenium Derivatization of DNAs and RNAs for Nucleic Acid X-Ray Crystallography
Zhen Huang, Georgia State University
Friday, November 18, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV14Monday
Biology Department Seminar
ATM, ATR and DNA-PK: BIG Players in the DNA Damage Response
Susan Lees-Miller, University of Calgary, Canada
Monday, November 14, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV4Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Live Cell Imaging of DNA-PK Activation and Localization at DSB Sites Induced by Microbeam-Laser Irradiation
David J. Chen, Univ Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Friday, November 4, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT26Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
Amyloid Fibril Formation of Cystatins: Domain Swap then Loop Swap
Dusan Turk, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP16Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Evolution of Enzyme Specificity: Getting from A to B
John Shanklin, BNL Biology Department
Friday, September 16, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP12Monday
Workshop on Multi-Teraflop Computing in Biology, Materials & Energy Science
Monday, September 12, 2005, 8 a.m., Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University
- SEP9Friday
Biology Department Seminar
The Rice Genome
Benjamin Burr, Biology Department
Friday, September 9, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG2Tuesday
National Synchrotron Light Source Symposium
Applying Synchrotron Radiation to Biology and Medicine: Photon Activation Therapy
Dr. Brenda Laster, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,, Israel
Tuesday, August 2, 2005, 10:30 a.m., Seminar Room, Bldg. 725
- JUL22Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Manipulating Phospholipids for Crystallization of Membrane Transport Proteins
Lan Guan, University of California, Los Angeles
Friday, July 22, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN10Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Gene expression in Ralstonia metallidurans: response to heavy metals and to spaceflight conditions.
Max Mergeay, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, BELGIUM
Friday, June 10, 2005, 1 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN3Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Tissue Specific and Inducible High Level Expression of Foreign Genes in Plants Through T7 RNA Polymerase Directed Transcription
Vanga Siva Reddy, International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, India
Friday, June 3, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY31Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Molecular Effects of Gamma Rays and Heavy Ions on Cellular DNA
. Jean Cadet, Laboratoire "Lésions des Acides Nucléiques" Grenoble, France
Tuesday, May 31, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY27Friday
Biology Department Seminar
The Pathophysiology of Depression: From Molecules to Man
Fritz Henn, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, GERMANY
Friday, May 27, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY13Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Structural Studies of Transcriptional Silencing
Rui-Ming Xu, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Friday, May 13, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY6Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Structural studies of prokaryotic transcription: RNA polymerase inhibitors
Seth Darst, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, New York City
Friday, May 6, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR28Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Crystal structure of a catalytically active self-splicing intron
Scott A. Strobel, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Thursday, April 28, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR22Friday
Biology Department Seminar
DNA damage checkpoints and cancer
Thanos Halazonetis, UPENN
Friday, April 22, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR13Wednesday
Joint Computational Science Center/Biology Department Seminar
Computational Analysis of Integrated Cellular Networks
Jeremy Edwards, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR8Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Building Biological Systems
Drew Endy, MIT Biological Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Friday, April 8, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR18Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Partners-in-Infection: Host Proteins Involved in Genetic Transformation of Plant Cells By Agrobacterium
Vitaly Citovsky, Dept of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, SUNY, Stony Brook
Friday, March 18, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR11Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Apoptotic Signaling Pathways of the P53 Family
Carol Prives, Columbia University, NYC
Friday, March 11, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR3Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Chemical Methods to Study Protein-DNA Interactions
Chuan He, The University of Chicago
Thursday, March 3, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- FEB4Friday
Joint Computational Science Center/Biology Department Seminar
Computational Analysis and Design of Biomolecular Complexes
David F. Green, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, February 4, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN28Friday
Joint Computational Science Center/Biology Department Seminar
Insertion, Folding, and Assembly of Membrane Peptides/Proteins Studied by Molecular Simulation
Wonpil Im, Scripps Research Institute
Friday, January 28, 2005, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN28Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Structure and mechanism at the glutamate synapse
Eric Gouaux, Medical Center Columbia University, New York
Friday, January 28, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN20Thursday
Joint Computational Science Center/Biology Department Seminar
Dissecting the Binding Change Mechanism of F1-ATPase
Wei Yang, Harvard University
Thursday, January 20, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN14Friday
Biology Department Seminar
High Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy of Peptide, Protein and DNA Interactions in Solution
Steven Smith, Center for Structural Biology, SUNY-Stony Brook
Friday, January 14, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
2004
- DEC17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Why is a third-generation synchrotron source useful for non-crystalline biological structure studies?
Tom Irving, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, ILL
Friday, December 17, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV18Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Switching functions and structures in yeast prionogenesis
Alasdair Steven, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH
Thursday, November 18, 2004, 4 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV16Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
High-throughput Protein Crystallography Beamlines at Photon Factory and Structural Biology of Protein Transport and Posttranslational Modification
Soichi Wakatsuki, Structural Biology Research Ctr, KEK- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, JAPAN, Japan
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 4 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV9Tuesday
Biology Department Seminar
Gene Identification Signature (GIS) Analysis for Transcriptome Characterization
Yijun Ruan, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV5Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Going for the Gold -- uses of gold nanoparticles
James Hainfeld, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Friday, November 5, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT29Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Biosynthesis and Metabolic Engineering of Isoflavonoid Natural Products
Chang-Jun Liu, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, CA
Friday, October 29, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT15Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Matrix Metalloptroteinases in Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
Hussein Foda, Pulmonary/Critical Division, SUNY Stony Brook
Friday, October 15, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT8Friday
Biology Department Seminar
RNA Interference: How Small RNAs Control Gene Expression and Development in Plants
Guiliang Tang, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Friday, October 8, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP30Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Dissection and Discovery of Plant Metabolic Networks by Metabolic Flux Analysis
Joerg Schwender, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
Thursday, September 30, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Microbial Functional Genomics, Genomic Technologies and Environmental Applications
Jizhong Zhou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN
Friday, September 17, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP16Thursday
Life Sciences Seminar
Paradigm Shifts in Radiation Biology: Their Impact on Intervention for Radiation Induced Disease and Radiation Protection
Antone L. Brooks, Washington State University, Richland, WA
Thursday, September 16, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG12Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Biosynthesis and function of chloroplast lipids and vitamins in Arabidopsis thaliana
Peter Doermann, Max-Planck Institute Of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany, GERMANY
Thursday, August 12, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL30Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Computational Architecture and Evolution of Genetic Regulatory Networks
Sergei Maslov, BNL Physics Dept.
Friday, July 30, 2004, 11:15 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUL16Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Using Neural Nets to Distinguish Normal Prostate from CA Prostate using Peptide Data
Gyan Bhanot, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ
Friday, July 16, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN28Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Probing bacterial metal homeostasis at the molecular level
Christopher Rensing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Monday, June 28, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN18Friday
CANCELED: Biology Department Seminar
Design Metal Ion Biosensors and A Chemical Cross-Linking Method to Probe Protein/DNA Interactions
Chuan He, Assist. Professor of Chemistry, The University of Chicago
Friday, June 18, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JUN4Friday
Biology Department Seminar
T7 RNA polymerase as a molecular machine
William T. McAllister, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn
Friday, June 4, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY21Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Understanding the Science of Phytoremediation of Organic Contaminants for Better Application of the Technology
Lee Newman, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Friday, May 21, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAY10Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Vein pattern formation in Arabidopsis leaves: genetics and genomics
Timothy Nelson, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Monday, May 10, 2004, 4 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR23Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Free Mounting System, a novel tool to improve handling and quality of protein crystals
Reiner Kiefersauer, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany
Friday, April 23, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- APR9Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Regulated Trafficking of the Insulin-Responsive Glucose Transporter Protein GLUT4
Jeffrey E. Pessin, Stony Brook University
Friday, April 9, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR25Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
DNA damage checkpoints and cancer
Thanos Halazonetis Halazonetis, UPENN
Thursday, March 25, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- MAR5Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Microbial Arsenic Metabolism: from Genes and Enzymes to Geocycles
Simon Silver, Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois, Chicago
Friday, March 5, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN30Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Crystal Structure and Mechanism of the Glycerol-3-Phosphate Transporter From E. Coli Inner Membrane
Da-Neng Wang, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center
Friday, January 30, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN27Tuesday
Joint Seminar: Biology, Materials Science and Nano Center
Present Status and Prospects for Aberration-Corrected High-Resolution, Energy-Filtering Electron Microscopes
Harald Rose, University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
Tuesday, January 27, 2004, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- JAN14Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
High Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy of Peptide, Protein and DNA Interactions in Solution
Steven O. Smith, SUNY, Stony Brook
Wednesday, January 14, 2004, 11 a.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
2003
- DEC18Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Designer Affinity Reagents
Brian K. Kay, Senior Biochemist , Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
Thursday, December 18, 2003, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- DEC11Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
The Hydrogen-Based Membrane Biofilm Reactor for Reducing Oxidized Contaminants in Water
Bruce Edward Rittmann, Northwestern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Evanston, IL
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- DEC5Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Novel Approaches to the Design and Synthesis of Organic Molecules for Controlling Nucleic Acid Binding
Daniel Appella, Northwestern University, Chemistry Department, Evanston, IL
Friday, December 5, 2003, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV21Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Infection of phagocytes by Legionella: Strategies for survival, growth
Howard Shuman, Professor, Microbiology Department, Columbia University , New York, NY
Friday, November 21, 2003, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV17Monday
Biology Department Seminar
The Unusual Genome of the Lyme Agent Borrelias - From Replication to Comparative Genomics
Sherwood Casjens, Department of Pathology, University of Utah Medical School
Monday, November 17, 2003, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- NOV10Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Postponed until further notice
Brian K. Kay, Senior Biochemist and Group Leader, Argonne National Laboratory
Monday, November 10, 2003, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT29Wednesday
Biology Department Seminar
The biology and biophysics of OxlT, a model membrane transporter
Peter C. Maloney, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 1:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT17Friday
Biology Department Seminar
Dorsoventral Patterning; A Means to Create Diversity in Life
Marja Timmermans, Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Friday, October 17, 2003, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- OCT2Thursday
Biology Department Seminar
Regulating Neuronal Phenotype by Regulating Repressors
Gail Mandel, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Thursday, October 2, 2003, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- SEP23Tuesday
Pegram Lecture
Microtools for Biology
George M. Whitesides, Harvard University
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 11 a.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- AUG18Monday
Biology Department Seminar
Homologous Recombination in Rice
Shigeru Iida, National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan
Monday, August 18, 2003, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463
- AUG15Friday
Chemistry Department Workshop
BNL Workshop to Discuss Future Non-DOE Funding Opportunities in Plant Biology
Richard Ferrieri, Chemistry Department
Friday, August 15, 2003, 11 a.m., Chemistry Bldg., Room 300
- AUG1Friday
Computing for Biology
IBM-BNL Blue-Gene Science Workshop 2003
Friday, August 1, 2003, 8 a.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
- JUL31Thursday
Computing for Biology
IBM-BNL Blue-Gene Science Workshop 2003
Thursday, July 31, 2003, 8 a.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
