2015 Spring Seminars

Date	Time	Location	Event
Tue 13 Jan 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Dmitri Kireev Seminar Univ. North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Hosts: Dr. Wei Yang & Dr. Igor Alabugin	In silico design in the valley of death
Tue 20 Jan 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Christian Bleiholder Seminar FSU Dept. of Chem & Biochem	‘Structure-elucidation by ion mobility spectrometry: from amyloid self-assembly to chemotaxis.’
Thu 22 Jan 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Pieter Smith Special Seminar Weizmann Institute, Israel; Host Dr. Huan-Xiang Zhou	Insights into dynamic biomolecules and drug compounds derived from NMR spectroscopy
Tue 27 Jan 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Liz Miller Seminar–Postponed Columbia University; Host: Dr. Scott Stagg	“Policing secretion: vesicle architecture and protein quality control”
Tue 03 Feb 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Juliana Martinez Student Seminar Martinez: FSU Biochemistry Student (Dr. Brian Miller lab)	Biochemical characterization of the GKRP-GK regulatory process.
Tue 10 Feb 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Zena Werb Seminar Univ. of Calif, San Francisco; Host: Dr. Amy Sang	“New insights into molecular mechanisms underlying breast cancer metastasis”
Tue 17 Feb 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Karin Vallega / Ge Yu Student Seminars FSU Biochemistry students: Vallega (Dr. Amy QX Sang Lab) / Yu (Dr. Hong Li lab)	Vallega: “Investigating the role of Resistin; A bioinformatics approach”; Yu: “Structural and biochemical study of box C/D snoRNP assembly factors”.
Tue 24 Feb 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Youxing Jiang Seminar Univ. Texas Southwestern; Host: Dr. Huan-Xiang Zhou	“On the Origin of Ion Selectivity in K Channels”
Tue 03 Mar 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Edward Egelman Seminar University of Virginia; Host: Dr. Beth Stroupe	Cryo-EM of Helical Polymers at Near-Atomic Resolution Gives New Insights Into Evolutionary Conservation and Divergence
Tue 17 Mar 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Andrew McCammon Seminar–Annual Caspar Lecture Univ. of Calif, San Diego; Host: Dr. Peter Fajer	Computer-aided Drug Discovery
Tue 24 Mar 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Austin Schwartz / Anna Wright Student Seminars FSU Biophysics students: Schwartz (Dr. Debi Fadool lab) / Wright (Dr. Tim Cross lab)	Schwartz: “Design and Development of Drug Bound Nanoparticles Targeting a Unique Modulator of Metabolism in the Olfactory Bulb”/Wright: “Elucidating the Mechanism of M2 Proton Channel Inhibition Using Solid-State NMR to Aid in Design of Compounds With Broad Specificity”
Thu 26 Mar 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Vern Schramm Seminar Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University; Host: Dr. Peter Fajer	“Enzymatic Transition States in Drug Design and Chemistry”
Tue 31 Mar 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Ewa Bienkiewicz Seminar-POSTPONED FSU College of Medicine; Host: Dr. Peter Fajer	“Intrinsically disordered proteins, peptides, and translational research”
Thu 02 Apr 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	John Spear Student Seminar FSU MOB student (Dr. Scott Stagg lab)	Near Atomic Resolution CryoEM: Using AAV-DJ to Break Resolutions Barriers in 3DEM.
Tue 07 Apr 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Erick Aitchison / Zhihui Zhang Student Seminars FSU Biophysics Students: Aitchison (Dr. Wei Yang lab) / Zhang (Dr. Oliver Steinbock lab))	Zhang: “Simulations of vortex waves in chemical media and cardiac tissues”./ Aitchison: Protein Slow Conformational Fluctuations Play a Pivotal Role in Protein-Ligand Binding: A Case Study on Cyclooxygenase Enzyme Systems
Thu 09 Apr 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Cristian Escobar and Yiseul Shin Student Seminars Escobar: FSU MOB student (Dr. Tim Cross lab)/ Shin: FSU Biochemistry student (Dr. Tim Cross lab)	Escobar: “ChiZ, an intrinsically disordered membrane protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis”/ Shen: “Understanding the structure-function relationship of the cell division protein CrgA found in Mycobacterium tuberculosis”.
Tue 14 Apr 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Daniel Adamek Seminar Kasha Award Speaker: 2001 MOB graduate Host: MOB Program	Effective Communication for Translational Science and Technology Transfer
Tue 21 Apr 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Liz Miller Seminar Columbia University, Host: Dr. Scott Stagg	“Policing secretion: vesicle architecture and protein quality control”
Thu 23 Apr 2015	11:15 AM	KLB 112	Dr. Claudius Mundoma – Special Seminar Florida State University	“Core Research Facilities as Drivers of Leading Edge Research: Challenges and Opportunities”