KANG SHEN, DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
Attend Dr. Shen's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about his seminar, "Mechanisms of Neuronal Morphogenesis - how does a neuron take its shape?", to be held Thursday, January 14th.
Understanding the structural and dynamic information encoded in the primary sequence of a protein is one of the most fundamental challenges in modern biology. The amino acid sequence of a protein encodes more than the native three-dimensional structure; it encodes the entire energy landscape – an ensemble of conformations whose energetics and dynamics are finely tuned for folding, binding and activity. Dr. Marqusee will present her laboratory's recent results probing these sequence and environmental effects using a combination of single-molecule and ensemble-based studies.
PEHR HARBURY, DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Attend Dr. Harbury's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Susan Marqusee's seminar, "Touring the Protein Folding Landscape: the View Depends on How and Where You Look", to be held Thursday, December 3rd.
MICHELLE MONJE, DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY
Attend Dr. Monje's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Sarah Knox's seminar, "Nerve-Stem Cell Interactions During Organ Development and Regeneration", to be held Thursday, October 29th.
Dr. Knox will describe her lab's recent findings on the mechanisms by which autonomic nerves regulate morphogenic and regenerative programs using the salivary gland as their model system.
JUDITH FRYDMAN, DEPARTMENTS OF BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
Attend Dr. Frydman's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Eugene Shakhnovich's seminar, "Merging Molecular Mechanism and Evolution: Theoretical Concepts and Experimental Explorations of Biophysical Fitness Landscapes", to be held Thursday, October 1st.
EUGENE SHAKHNOVICH, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Fitness landscape (FL) is a common metaphoric description of genotype-phenotype relationship. However its precise nature is not known. Dr. Shakhnovich will present his lab's theoretical and experimental efforts to outline FL of viruses and bacteria in terms of biophysical properties of their proteins such as thermodynamic stability, catalytic activity and intracellular abundances as well as functional and non-functional interactions with other proteins.
Oussama Khatib
Michelle Monje
Jennifer Cochran
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Yanmin Yang
Antonio Hardan
Firdhaus Dhabar
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Karl Deisseroth
Theo Palmer
Edward Graves
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