Biology Department Events

CBMS Lecture Series

Architecture and genomic arrangement of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis complexes

Andrea Dessen, IBS, France

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

Center for Molecular Biology

CBMS PI Meeting

Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 2 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series

CBMS Lecture Series

Olga Rechkoblit, MSSM

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

CBMS 101 Training - AMX

CBMS 101 Training

Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 5 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

CBMS 101 Training - FMX

CBMS 101 Training

Thursday, February 8, 2024, 5 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

CBMS Structural Biology Workbench

Monday, January 29, 2024, 9 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series

CBMS Lecture Series

Erik Debler, Thomas Jefferson University

Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series

Exploring symbiome-mediated territorial nutrient processes and environmental adaptation through the Pinus-Suillus Model

Hui-Ling (Sunny) Liao, SWES, NFREC/University of Florida

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

Center for Biomolecular Structure Workshop

CBMS Workbench:Structural Biology

Monday, November 13, 2023, 9 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series

TBD

Jochen Zimmer, University of Washington

Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

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

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

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

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

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

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

CBMS Workbenches - Structural Biology

Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 9 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

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

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

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

Brookhaven Lecture

Structural Biology of Metal Homeostasis and Usage

Qun Liu, Biology Department

Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 4 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

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

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

Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series

CBMS Workbench - Structural Biology

Multiple speakers

Monday, June 6, 2022, 9 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

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

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

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

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

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

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

Center for Biomolecular Structure Lecture Series

Professor Lee Makowski, Northeastern University

Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 1:30 p.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

CBMS Workshop

Center for BioMolecular Structure Workbenches - October 11 to 13

Monday, October 11, 2021, 9 a.m., Videoconference / Virtual Event

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

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

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

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

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

NSLS-II Friday Lunchtime Seminar

Structural biology in drug discovery: Development of viral protease inhibitors

Scott Lovell, University of Kansas, KS

Friday, June 12, 2020, 12 p.m., via Zoom - contact: nsls2user@bnl.gov

Biology Department Seminar

Dr. Hailing Jin, University of California, Riverside

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NSLS-II Seminar

X6A Workbench: Hands-on Synchrotron Structural Biology

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 9 a.m., Conference Room C, Bldg. 725

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

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

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

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

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

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

BSA Distinguished Lecture

Precision Measurement in Biology

Stephen Quake, Stanford Univeristy

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pegram Lecture

The Great Ideas of Biology

Paul Nurse, The Rockefeller University

Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Biology Department Seminar

Artificial Photosynthesis

James Muckerman, BNL Chemistry Department

Friday, January 18, 2008, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

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

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

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

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

Mini-Symposium

Computational Biology/Bioenergy Mini-Symposium

Friday, September 28, 2007, 12:30 p.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

Workshop

Computational Biology/Bioenergy Workshop

Friday, September 28, 2007, 9:30 a.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Employee Lunchtime Tour of Biology Greenhouse

Friday, January 20, 2006, 12 p.m., Meet in upper Lobby of Berkner Hall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Workshop on Multi-Teraflop Computing in Biology, Materials & Energy Science

Monday, September 12, 2005, 8 a.m., Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University

Biology Department Seminar

The Rice Genome

Benjamin Burr, Biology Department

Friday, September 9, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Biology Department Seminar

DNA damage checkpoints and cancer

Thanos Halazonetis, UPENN

Friday, April 22, 2005, 11 a.m., John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pegram Lecture

Microtools for Biology

George M. Whitesides, Harvard University

Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 11 a.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium

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

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

Computing for Biology

IBM-BNL Blue-Gene Science Workshop 2003

Friday, August 1, 2003, 8 a.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Computing for Biology

IBM-BNL Blue-Gene Science Workshop 2003

Thursday, July 31, 2003, 8 a.m., Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510