Biology Seminars in 2007
Monday January 22 11:00	Progress Towards Automatic MX Beamlines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Gordon A. Leonard Macromolecular Crystallography Group European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Grenoble, France Host: Bob Sweet
Friday January 26 11:00	Biomolecular Recognition Dynamics Jin Wang Chemistry Department Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY Host: Carl Anderson
Friday February 9 11:00	The Adenovirus Fiber Knob: A Model for Oligomeric Protein Assembly and Receptor Targeting In Vivo Paul Freimuth BNL Biology Department
Thursday February 15 11:00	Computational Solvent Mapping of Proteins for Binding-Site Identification and Characterization Michael Silberstein Department of Bioinformatics Boston University Host: Swami Swaminathan
Thursday March 22 11:00	Life Sciences Seminar Bcl-w and the Glutamate Receptor delta2 Function in Distinct Pathways to Promote Mitochondrial Fission and Control the Development of Purkinje Cell Dendrites and Dendritic Spines Qiong Alison Liu Howard Hughes Medical Institute Laboratory of Molecular Biology The Rockefeller University New York, NY Host: John Dunn
Friday March 23 10:30	Insights into Desaturase Mechanism: Origins and Future Possibilities John Shanklin BNL Biology Department
Friday April 6 11:00	Roles of Tree Genomics in Advancing Basic Knowledge for Plant Bioenergy Feedstocks Vincent L. Chiang Forest Biotechnology Group Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC Host: Niels van der Lelie
Friday April 13 11:00	Chemical Ecology of Parasitic Plant Associations and What Do We Know About Parasite Cellulases? Kristin C. Lewis Rowland Institute at Harvard Cambridge, MA Host: Carl Anderson
Monday April 16 11:00	Assessing Predictions of Protein-Protein Interaction: The CAPRI Experiment Joel Janin Yeast Structural Genomics Universite Paris-Sud Orsay, France Host: Bob Sweet
Friday April 20 11:00	The Clostridium thermocellum Cellulosome: A Molecular Machine for Cellulose Degradation J.H. David Wu Chemical Engineering Department and Graduate Faculty Member Biomedical Engineering Department University of Rochester Rochester, NY Host: Huilin Li
April 22-27	RapiData 2007 Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS: A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement Organizers: R.M. Sweet, S. Sclafani, H. Robinson, L. Berman, D. Schneider, A. Saxena, A. Heroux, A. Soares
April 27	EM Workshop (RapiData 2007) (Annual STEM/EM Workshop) Organizer: J. Wall
Friday May 4 11:00	Evolution of Grasses by Comparative Genomics Joachim Messing Plant Genome Initiative at Rutgers Waksman Institute Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Piscataway, NJ Host: Niels van der Lelie
Thursday May 10 10:00	Life Sciences Seminar Dynamic Membrane Interactions during IgE Receptor Signaling Barbara A. Baird Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY Host: Carl Anderson
Friday May 11 11:00	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 Host: Niels van der Lelie
Friday May 18 11:00	Pilus Biogenesis by the Twin-Pore Usher Complex David Thanassi Center for Infectious Diseases Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY Host: Huilin Li
Thursday May 24 3:00	Hepatocyte-Specific Endocytic Activity Exhibited by the Coxsackie and Adenovirus Receptor (CAR) Paul Lawrence Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY Host: Paul Freimuth
Friday May 25 11:00	Molecular Insights into the Phytochrome Superfamily from Structural and Functional Analysis of Microbial Relatives Richard D. Vierstra Department of Genetics University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI Host: John Shanklin
Friday June 8 11:00	Silent Running: RNA Interference and Heterochromatic Silencing in Plants and Fission Yeast Robert Martienssen Watson School of Biological Sciences Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY Host: Carl Anderson
Friday June 15 11:00	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 Host: Niels van der Lelie
Monday June 18 2:00	Life Sciences Seminar Echinomycin, the First Bis-Intercalator: A Paradigm for Sequence-Selective Binding to DNA Michael J. Waring Department of Pharmacology University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom Host: John Dunn
Thursday June 21 11:00	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, NC Host: Anand Saxena
June 25-29	BioCD 2007: Short Course in Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Proteins & Nucleic Acids Organizers: J. Sutherland (BNL-Biology), L. Miller (BNL-NSLS), B. Wallace and R. Janes (University of London)
Friday August 24 11:00	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 Host: Allen Orville
Monday August 27 10:00	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 Host: John Dunn
Monday September 10 10:00	Joint Biology Seminar Pumping Iron: New Transporters for Old Iron Gregor Grass Institute for Biology/Microbiology Martin-Luther-University Halle, Germany and New Insights into Copper Resistance Sylvia Franke Department of Biology Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York Host: Dax Fu
September 11-13	Gold Labeling Workshop Organizer: J.F. Hainfeld
September 28	Computational Biology/Bioenergy Workshop and Mini-Symposium Organizers: C.W. Anderson and J. Davenport Workshop: Discussions on approaches for Biology in high-end computation (BlueGene) with speakers, scientists, and administrators Mini-Symposium: Speaker 1: David Galas Institute of Systems Biology/Battelle Memorial Institute "Gene Interactions and Complex Networks: Some Large and Growing Problems in Computational Biology" Speaker 2: Rick Stevens Argonne National Laboratory "Petascale Computational Systems Biology" Speaker 3: Joachim Frank Howard Hughes Medical Institute, HRI at Wadsworth Center at SUNY, Albany "Computational Challenges in Pushing Cryo-EM of the Ribosome Toward Atomic Resolution" Speaker 4: Klaus Schulten University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Multiscale Biomolecular Modeling from Molecules to Cells" Speaker 5: Jeremy Smith Oak Rige National Laboratory "Computer Simulation of Protein Folding, Reaction and Structural Change" Speaker 6: Carlos Simmerling Stony Brook University "Using Atomistic Simulations to Study Dynamic Aspects of Biomolecular Structure and Function"
Friday October 26 11:00	Exploring the Microbial Ecology of Cellulose Degradation Javier Izquierdo Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth College Hanover, NH Host: Niels van der Lelie
Friday November 9 11:00	Lemna and the Circadian Clock: Revisiting the Visionary work of W. S. Hillman Todd P. Michael Waksman Institute of Microbiology Department of Plant Biology and Pathology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Piscataway, NJ Host: Carl Anderson
Friday December 7 11:00	Man-Made Nanosystems with Nature Developed Components Oleg Gang Center for Functional Nanomaterials Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY Host: Paul Freimuth

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