The CoPhy BiCh* Friday Journal Group!
* "COllaborative PHYsics, BIology, CHemistry" group, coined by HL Youngs.
Populated by members of the
Hansmann, Pandey, Taylor, and Youngs
groups.


Current Schedule


Meeting Friday mornings at 10:00am in Fisher 119, or Dow 702, or ChemSci 404.

Schedule:
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  • 27 April 2007:Prof. Caroline Taylor (ChemSci 404)
    "Nonequilibrium Mechanics of Active Cytoskeletal Networks," Mizuno, Tardin, Schmidt,and MacKintosh, Science, 315, 370-373 (2007). pdf file, supplemental information.

  • 20 April 2007: Liang Han (ChemSci 404)
    "Destruction of long-range interactions by a single mutation in lysozyme," Zhou, Eleftheriou, Royyuru, and Berne, PNAS, 104, 5824-5829 (2007). pdf file.

  • 13 April 2007:Ibrahim Al Hroub (ChemSci 404)
    "Two-color far-field fluorescence nanoscopy,"
    Donnert, Keller, Wurm, Rizzoli, Wetphal, Schoenle, Jahn, Jakobs, Eggeling, and Hell, Biophys. J. 92 L67-L70 (2007). pdf file.
    Supplementary Material.

  • 6 April 2007:Yanjie Wei (ChemSci 404)
    "Atom-by-atom analysis of global downhill protein folding," Sadqi, Fushman, and Munoz, Nature, 442, 317-321 (2006). pdf file.
    Further communications arising in response:
    Ferguson, Sharpe, Johnson, Schartau, and Fersht, nature-445-e15-2007.
    Zhou and Bai, nature-445-e16-2007.
    Sadqi, et al. reply, nature-445-e17-2007.

  • 30 March 2007:Prof. Heather Youngs (ChemSci 404)
    "Applications of Phospholipid Bilayer Nanodiscs in the Study of Membranes and Membrane Proteins," Nath, Atkins, and Sligar, Biochemistry, 46(8), 2059-2069, (2007). pdf file

  • 23 March 2007: Parimal Kar (ChemSci 404)
    "Single-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesion," Lee, Scherer, and Messersmith, PNAS, 103(35), 12999-13003, (2006). pdf file

  • 16 March 2007:No meeting (Spring Break)

  • 9 March 2007:Dr. Siegfried Hoefinger (ChemSci 404)
    "The mechanism by which influenza A virus nucleoprotein forms oligomers and binds RNA," Ye, Krug, Tao, Nature, 444 1078--1082 (2006). pdf file

  • 2 March 2007: Canceled Due to Weather
    Forum on Ethics in Research
    9:30-11:00, MUB Ballroom A: "Research Ethics, and the Life of the University"
    2:00-3:30, MUB Ballroom A: "The Spirit and Challenge of Research Ethics"
    7:00-8:30, Fisher 135: "Trust and Troth - The Passion That is Research Integrity"
    Additional Information

  • 23 February 2007:Dr. Ralph Scheicher (ChemSci 404)
    "Femtosecond diffractive imaging with a soft-X-ray free-electron laser," Chapman, et al., Nature Physics 2, 839 (2006). pdf file

  • 16 February 2007:Dr. Walter Nadler (ChemSci 404),
    "Biology's next revolution," Goldenfeld, Nature 445, 369 (2007). pdf file
    of interest: related blog discussion

  • 2 February 2007: Scheduling for current term, Fisher 119
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Fall 2006
Spring 2006


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