January 12 *

Timothy J. Deming, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Biomedical Engineering Interdepartmental Program
University of California, Los Angeles
“Self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolypeptides, the role of chain conformation”

Peter H. Siegel, Ph.D..
Beckman Institute, Division of Biology,
California Institute of Technology
Submillimeter Wave Advanced Technology,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
“Terahertz Technology in Outer and Inner Space”

February 2

Muhammad Zaman, Ph.D.
Whitehead Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Understanding the complex landscape of tumor cell migration in 3D”

Jin Kim Montclare, Ph.D.
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
“Engineering fluorinated proteins: from biosynthesis to evolution”

Uri Raviv, Ph.D.
Department of Materials and Physics
Materials Research Laboratory
UC Santa Barbara
“Microtubule – Cationic Liposome Assemblies:
Pathways to the Formation of Lipid-Protein Tubular Complexes”

Piotr E. Marszalek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
“Mechanical Properties of Single Polysaccharide, DNA and Protein Molecules Studied with the Atomic Force Microscope and Computer Simulations”

March 2

Joanne I. Yeh
Assistant Professor of Medical Science
and Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Brown University
“Nanowiring of a Redox Enzyme by a Metallized Peptide”

Sameer Shah
University of California, San Diego
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medecine
"Axonal Traffic Jams and Neurodegeneration: Induction of Amyloid-associated Transport Defects via Mechanical Blockage?”

Ana Jewett. PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Division of Oral Biology & Medicine
UCLA School of Dentistry
"Prevention of Resin Toxicity"

Mark C. Williams
Department of Physics and Center for
Interdisciplinary Research on Complex
Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
"Using optical tweezers to force single DNA molecules to interact with proteins”

Ellen Lumpkin, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco
“Probing Mammalian Touch Reception”

April 20

Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck
Physics Department, Indiana University Bloomington
"How a Small Brain Makes Sense: Motion Estimation in the Blowfly Visual System"

Erik Dutson, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“Computer-Assisted Surgery and Robotics: What’s out there and where are we going?”

May 18

Robert Gunsalus
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Schools of Medicine and Life Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles
“Genetic control of respiratory enzyme production in bacteria: When to make them and how to decide?”

Joanne I. Yeh
Assistant Professor of Medical Science and Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Brown University
“Oxidative Sensing and Glycerol Metabolism: From Crystal Structures to Nanobiotechnology Applications”

July 22

Cecile Sykes, Ph.D.
Institut Curie, Paris, France
"Biomimicking of Cellular Movements"

Tuesday, Nov. 8th
10:00AM
Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium

Nicole I. zur Nieden , Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Institute of Maternal & Child Health,
University of Calgary
“ES Cell Therapy: Bioreactors, Bone Tissue Engineering and Skeletal Regeneration”