Biophysics seminar group selections - Fall 2009

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Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics - Atomic Resolution

Meetings:	Wednesdays at 15:30 in BO311 (11/4) & BIO668 (12/2) (tentative)
Coordinator:	Ryan Elliott Pavlovicz
Leader:	Ryan Elliott Pavlovicz
Members:	Yukti Aggarwal, Veer Sandeep Bhatt, Cai Chen, Minyeong Han, Ali Ahmed Hassanali, Elihu Ihms, Ian Robert Kleckner, Yu Kay Law, Tanping Li, Xin Li, Ryan Elliott Pavlovicz
Faculty mentors:	Chenglong Li

Experimental and computational method application to structural biology and molecular biophysics topics with a focus on atomic-level interactions. Methods include NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, molecular dynamics simulations, docking, etc. (meeting are two hours long)

Neuroscience and Related Topics

Meetings:	Thursdays at 03:00 in Rightmire Hall (R 10/29 and T 11/24) 3-5pm (tentative)
Coordinator:	Kelsey Schafer
Leader:	Kelsey Schafer
Members:	Katryna Klaudia Cisek, Adam Scott Davis, Joseph Jesse Dunbar, Kelsey Schafer, Kruthika Sundaram, Dhananjay Pramod Thakur
Faculty mentors:	Mike Zhu

The group will focus on topics concerning and related to neuroscience. This may include diseases, physiology, pathology, genetics, imaging, electrophysiology, etc. Even if your research is not in neuroscience you are welcome to join! :)

Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics: Macromolecular Interactions

Meetings:	Wednesdays at 01:00 in 401 DHLR (tentative)
Coordinator:	Sarah Javaid
Leader:	Sarah Javaid
Members:	Ravindra B Amunugama, Nicholas Callahan, Thomas James Haver, Sarah Javaid, Yashaswini Kannan, Joe Gordon Schultz, Meng Zhang
Faculty mentors:	Richard Fishel (tentative)

Biological imaging and spectroscopy

Meetings:	Tuesdays at 01:00 in TMRF, Room #140 (tentative)
Coordinator:	Lucas Abraham Citro
Leader:	Lucas Abraham Citro
Members:	Katherine Mary Binzel, Angela Rae Blissett, Lucas Abraham Citro, Olga Grigorieva, Jiwei Huang, Rick Layman, Linh Le, Sara Lim, Yi Luo, Brian Maxwell, Huyen Nguyen, Wenbo Wei
Faculty mentors:	Govindasamy Ilangovan

Presentations will be given on topics related to biological imaging (all scales), spectroscopy, AFM, etc.. Meetings (tentative): 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, and the last meeting will be decided by poll (TMRF, Room #140, 1-2 p.m.).

Cardiac Physiology

Meetings:	Thursdays at 04:00 in DHLRI 301 (tentative)
Coordinator:	Ting-Yuan Yeh
Leader:	Ting-Yuan Yeh
Members:	Sverre Erik Aune, Hsing-Ting Ho, Ryan Shelton Lee, Bin Liu, Lifei Tang, Carlos A Torres, Ting-Yuan Yeh
Faculty mentors:	Mark Angelos

Meeting days: 10/29,11/12,11/19 and 12/3

Computational Biology/Bioinformatics

Meetings:	not assigned
Coordinator:	Terry Luke Camerlengo
Leader:	Terry Luke Camerlengo
Members:	Terry Luke Camerlengo, Shareef M Dabdoub, Lizhi Li
Faculty mentors:	none assigned