Search
 

 


Seminars
Presenter
Title/Presentation
DATE & Time
Location

Monday November 22, 2004

9 am

Calvin Seminar Room 116

 

Monday February 23rd, 2004
4 pm
100 Lewis Hall
Structural and Quantitative Biology Seminar
Guest Speaker Professor Arthur Horwich
Department of Chemistry, Yale University
"Chaperonin-Mediated Protein Folding
Contact Christina Davis (643-0572) for more information

*****************************************************************************

Special Inorganic Seminar
Dr. Jeremy M. Rawson
Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge

Thursday February 19, 2004
3 pm
775B Tan Hall

"Designing Molecular Materials: Making Light Work of Some Radical Ideas"
The development of molecular materials for Particular applications relies heavily on the serendipitous crystallization of molecules into a favourable arrangement in the solids state.
Recent structural studies of sulfur-nitrogen radicals which we have investigated as molecular magnetic materials, have been extended to the development of fluorinated donor-pi-acceptor molecules as a new class of molecular material for non-linear optics, ferro-electric and piezo-electric applications.
Contact Jeff Long (2-0860 or jlong@cchem.berkeley.edu) if you would like to meet with Dr. Rawson
*****************************************************************************

Wednesday, February 18, 2004
3:00 p.m.
375 Le Conte Hall
Steven Chu
Department of Applied Physics
Stanford University

Polymer Dynamics of the Coil-Stretch Transition:
Phase Transitions and Hysteresis

The dynamics of a single molecule has striking similarities to phase transitions of many body systems. All two dimension flows are described as a mixture of elongational (E) and rotational (Omega) flows. In 1974, de Gennes predicted the existence of a first order phase transition from a coiled to an extended state for all flows where E > Omega. Furthermore, the extension would exhibit hysteresis with different critical values depending on the past history of the polymer. In the special case where E = Omega, this transition would ìsoftenî and become a second order phase transition.
Single molecule experiments have been used to map out the phase diagram of two-dimensional flows. We have observed the sudden phase transition in both elongational and mixed flows. By visualizing individual molecules, a physical picture of how the transition softens to a second order transition is revealed. Hysteresis and dramatic fluctuations near a critical point are also observed.

****************************************************************************************************

 

Fabilli Hoffer Essay Contest: "What Were They Thinking?"

The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 30, 2004.The topic for the Fabilli Hoffer
Essay Contest has been decided by the Committee on Prizes. This year the topic is
"What Were They Thinking?"
Prizes are awarded for the best essays of 500 words or less.
This is the only competition that I administer open to the entire Berkeley campus
- students, faculty, and staff. A total of $3,000 will be divided at the judges' discretion.
For more detailed information, please check the Prize's website: http://uga.berkeley.edu/fao/Prizes/prose-hoffer.htm
If you have a flair for writing, I invite you to submit an entry.
Best wishes,
Anne Repp
Committee on Prizes
210 Sproul Hall

4:00 PM TUESDAY, January 13, 2004
Building 66 Auditorium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Host: Abby Dernburg

Life Sciences and Genomics Divisions Seminar
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stuart Kim, Ph.D.
Stanford University

"Global Discovery of Conserved Genetic Modules"
Genes encoding proteins that participate in the same pathway or are part of
the same protein complex often exhibit correlated expression patterns
across a variety of conditions. Since gene interactions that are
physiologically significant are often conserved through evolution,
orthologous pairs of genes should show similar expression correlations in
expression data from diverse organisms.
We are assembling all available DNA microarray data from several key
organisms (human, mouse, fly, worm and yeast), and finding sets of orthologs
that are co-expressed across evolution, providing strong evidence that these
genes are functionally related and implicating the involvement of new genes
in core biological functions such as the cell cycle, secretion, and protein
expression. Analysis of entire sets of genes suggests that some pathways
have gene interactions that are evolving rapidly whereas gene interactions in
others are stable.
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory continues to welcome off-site
visitors. However, during these times of heightened security, site access
procedures have been adjusted. Whether you plan to drive or take the LBNL
shuttle, please contact Gail Mosley
at 510-495-2981 or glmosley@lbl.gov twenty-four (24) hours prior to the
seminar to arrange site access.
If you are coming from off-site, please consider taking the LBNL-
Strawberry Canyon shuttle bus to the seminar
(http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/Facilities/Support/Busses/off-site.html).
For updates and other information, see http://www.lbl.gov/resources/lifesciences/resurces/seminars.html.


WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2003
Nanotechnology Forum Sponsored by Alumni Association
Congressman Mike Honda
"The $3.7 Billion Nano Bill: Learn From Congressman Mike Honda How This Federal Bill Will Impact You and Your Business"
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Stanford University
for more information, please see: http://quantuminsight.com/_MSB/

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2003
Organic Chemistry Seminar
Professor Virginia Cornish, Columbia University
"Chemical Complementation: A Genetic Assay for Protein Evolution and Proteomics"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 775 Tan Hall

MSI SEMINAR
Monday, December 15, 2003 at 12:00 pm
2168 Shattuck Avenue o Berkeley o 510-647-0690
From RNAi to Systems Biology:
Riding the wave in integrative genomics

Animesh Ray
Associate Professor
Keck Graduate Institute

We will talk about our work on the role of RNAi in plant development,
which underscores the importance of post-transcriptional control in
gene regulatory networks. From plants we will transition to yeast for
the purpose of modeling the behavior of complex gene regulatory
networks. Deriving model networks through data-intensive
computational methods suffer from several limitations, including the
difficulty in integrating heterogenous data classes, and the inability to
assimilate a rich variety of genetic information. We will discuss our
approaches to solving some of these problems.


Thursday, December 11
Exit Seminar announcement: Elyssa B. Margolis
"Control of Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons by Opioids"
UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering
Time: 2 pm
Location Room S214 (Parnassus Campus)
Host: Howard Fields, 476-4201

Abstract:

Dopaminergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) play a
critical role in motivation and reinforcement of goal-directed
behaviors. Excitation of these neurons has been implicated in the
addictive process initiated by drugs such as morphine that act at the
mu-opioid (MOP) receptor. In contrast, kappa-opioid (KOP) receptor
activation in the VTA produces motivational actions opposite to those
elicited by MOP receptor activation. In this thesis, I report KOP-
mediated effects on dopaminergic neurons that can account for the
opposing behavioral effects of MOP and KOP receptor agonists.


THURSDAY , DECEMBER 11, 2003
Organic Chemistry Seminar
Dr. Armen Zakarian, UC Irvine
"Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Ouabain and Guanacastepene A"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 120 Latimer Hall, Pitzer Aud.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2003
Chemical Engineering
Professor Dennis W. Hess, Georgia Tech
“Photoresist Removal in IC Manufacture Using Sub-Critical and Super-Critical Fluids”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Pitzer Aud., 120 Latimer Hall

Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center Research Day
Wednesday, December 10th, 2003 9:00am-5:00pm
Location: 5101 Tolman Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

Please join us for our annual review of brain research projects using the 4 Tesla MRI scanner. Presentations from students and post-doctoral fellows will cover a wide range of research into human brain function, from sensorimotor control to high-level cognitive processing, as well as new functional MRI processing methods, white matter tractography, and other cutting edge MRI techniques.
Coffee and refreshments will be served

December 10th, 2003 - Program for Brain Imaging Center Research Day

Location: 5101 Tolman Hall, UC Berkeley Campus.

8.30 BREAKFAST for visitors, speakers and moderators
9.00 WELCOME - Mark D'Esposito
9.10 SCANNER STATUS REPORT - Ben Inglis

SENSORY AND MOTOR SYSTEMS
9.30 Local spatial attention causes widespread shifts in V1 BOLD retinotopic tuning - Kathleen Bradley
9.45 fMRI retinotopy using temporal frequency modulated stimuli - Ariella Popple
10.00 The role of the cerebellum in olfaction: concentration-dependent sniff modulation - Joel Mainland
10.15 Intensity coding in primary olfactory cortex - Brad Johnson

10.30-11:00 MORNING BREAK (coffee and breakfast items)

COMBINING METHODOLOGIES
11.00 Methods of integrating fMRI and TMS: Current and future options - Tim Verstynen
11.15 - 11:45 Methods of integrating fMRI and ERP: Current and future options - Cathrine Dam and Brian Miller
11.45 Methods of integrating fMRI and pharmacological probes: an example using a dopaminergic agonist - Sasha Gibbs

LUNCH 12.00 - 1:15

fMRI SIGNAL PROCESSING and OTHER METHODS
1.15 Functional connectivity of the motor network at rest and at task - Felice Sun
1.30 Functional connectivity during working memory maintenance - Jesse Rissman

HIGHER ORDER COGNITION
1.45 Stimulus coincidence and perceptual fusion in the crossmodal integration of speech - Lee Miller
2.00 Top-down modulation of stimulus-specific visual association cortex - Adam Gazzaley
2.15 Pattern detection in prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia: an fRMI study of implicit motor sequence learning - Susan Landau
2.30 Changes in frontal and inferotemporal cortices accompanying category expertise - Joe Degutis
2.45 Neural mechanisms involved in emotional learning - Christine Hooker

3.00 - 3.30 AFTERNOON BREAK (coffee and cookies)

CLINICIAL STUDIES
3.30 BOLD responses to hypercapnia and neural activity in aging and stroke - Dan Handwerker
3.45 Age-related changes in brain activation patterns during working memory and long-term memory - Jeff Cooney
4.00 Prefrontal-premotor circuitry for learning arbitrary conditional visuomotor associations: Implications for studying addiction - Charlotte Boettiger
4.15 Neural correlates of selective interference for faces in working memory: Implications for studying schizophrenia - Jong Yoon
4.30 An fMRI study of working memory in adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Margaret Sheridan
4.45 Diffusion tensor imaging and tractography of traumatic brain injury - Leslie Shupenko & Kate Shannon.

5.00 CLOSING REMARKS Bob Knight

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2003
Organic Chemistry Seminar
Dr. Mark Gallop, Xenoport, Inc.
"New Strategies in Medicinal Chemistry: Harnessing Nutrient Transport Mechanisms to Optimize Drug Absorption and Disposition In Vivo"
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 120 Latimer Hall, Pitzer Aud.

Special Seminar, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2003
Eyal Barash, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabour, Garrett and Dunner LLP, Washington, D.C.
"A Patent Law Primer for Scientists with an MRI Study"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, D62 Hildebrand Hall

4:00 PM TUESDAY, December 9, 2003 Life Sciences and Genomics Divisions Seminar
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Thomas Lewellen, Ph.D.
University of Washington Medical Center

“Development of Small Animal PET Scanners at the University of Washington”

An overview of small animal PET scanner design approaches will be presented.
The details of the MiCES PET scanner built at the University of Washington will be
described. Future directions in scanner development at the University of Washington
will also be discussed.
Host: Bill Moses
4:00 PM TUESDAY, December 9, 2003
Building 66 Auditorium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory continues to welcome off-site visitors. However, during
these times of heightened security, site access procedures have been adjusted. Whether you plan to drive or take the LBNL shuttle, please contact Gail Mosley at 510-495-2981 or glmosley@lbl.govtwenty-four (24) hours prior to the seminar to arrange site access.

If you are coming from off-site, please consider taking the LBL-Strawberry Canyon shuttle bus to the
seminar (http://www.lbl.gov/Workplace/Facilities/Support/Busses/off-site.html ).

Tuesday December 2nd, 2003
Chemistry Dept. interview for a faculty position
Jennifer Kohler's seminar is at 11 AM in 120 Latimer
her proposal presentation is at 2 PM in 775 Tan
Jennifer is currently a posdoc in the Bertozzi lab and she carried out her PhD work with Alanna Schepartz at Yale.

Please make every effort to attend. Thank you.

Tuesday November 25th, 2003
P. Chem. Seminar series
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: 120 Latimer Hall
Visiting Speaker Professor Uri Banin from the Hebrew University
Title "Combined Optical and Tunneling
Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Rods"

Wednesday November 19, 2003 from 1-5 pm
A special presentation and symposium on the new $900,000 Global Energy International Prize
Location: Joseph Wood Krutch Theater on the Clark Kerr Campus (Warring St. at Parker).
The program includes:
Zhores Alferov, head of the prize committee and Nobel laureate; first-year prize winners Gennady Mesyats and Ian
Smith talk about their field of pulsed power; and a talk by California Energy Commissioner and Professor Emeritus Art Rosenfeld on
energy efficiency and global warming.
Faculty, staff, and students are invited. Please RSVP to JPereira@uclink.berkeley.edu if you plan to attend.

Further information about the event, the complete program, and information about the prize is available at the web site:

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/html/hot/news_events/Global_Energy_Prize/Prize.htm

Wednesday November 19, 2003 at 3.30 pm
LBL Physical Biosciences Division Seminar Series
Guest Speaker Jennifer Doudna
Title: "A Conformational Switch Controls Catalysis by the Hepatitis
Delta Virus Ribozyme"
Location: Calvin Lab Seminar Room
Refreshments will be served
The Physical Biosciences Seminar Series gives division members
an opportunity to come hear researchers talk about the current
research going on in labs throughout the division. These informal
talks are suited to the scientist and non-specialist alike.

Tuesday November 18, 2003 at 4 pm
Physical Chemistry Seminar
Guest Speaker Professor Veronica Bierbaum, University of Colorado at Boulder
<http://www.colorado.edu/Chemistry/faculty/Bierbaum/>
Title: "Gas Phase Ion Chemistry: From Analytical Applications to the Interstellar Medium"
Location: 120 Latimer Hall

Monday November 10, 2003 at 4 pm
Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar
Guest Speaker Dr. Ad Bax, Division of Chemistry, National Institutes of Health
Title: "Weak Alignment Sharpens the NMR View of Protein Structures"
Location: 100 Lewis Hall

Tuesday November 4th, 2003 at 4:00pm

Physical Chemistry seminar speaker from the University of Utah, Prof. Gregory
Voth. The title of his talk will be: "Biomolecular Systems
Studied at Multiple Length and Time Scales" and it will take
place on Tuesday, November 4, 2003 at 4:00 p.m. in 120
Latimer Hall. For more information on this speaker, please
visit the following website:
<http://www.bioscience.utah.edu/bc/bcFaculty/voth/voth.html>

Monday, October 27, 2003 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Division of Bioengineering SeminarSeminar Series 2003-2004
Christopher Voigt, PhD UCSF Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

"Emergence and Evolvability of Complex Gene Circuits"

N-225 School of Nursing, enter at 521 Parnassus Ave.

Introduction by Sharmila Majumdar, Ph.D Professor of Radiology, UCSF

Light Refreshments Provided
www.bioengineering.ucsf.edu/Seminar

Coordinators Sharmila Majumdar, Ph.D.

For more information contact: Hillie Cousart 514-9242 or hillie@bioengineering.ucsf.edu

October 10, 2000 5:00 pm
Sri Kosuri
HHMI Undergraduate Summer Research Talks
Biology Fellows Program
177 LSA
Refreshments Will Be Served will bring food.

October 10th, 5-6:30, in 177 LSA we will have the research presentations 
that you have all been waiting for! Our summer scholars who were off
campus or at another meeting will present their work, and refreshments will
also be served. Note that LSA is a building that is locked at 5 pm, so we
will be checking the FRONT DOOR ONLY until 5:15 to allow you to
enter. Please let me know if you will be coming!!!
Friends are welcome, too, and this is an event sponsored by the Fall
Biology Fellows Program Members.

Speakers are:

Sriram Kosuri, Adam Arkin's lab at LBNL
Gwynne Johnston, a summer in Costa Rica with dolphins
Julie Kemp, Wayne Sousa's group and work at the Truckee River Site
Chris DiVittorio, Mary Powers and Carla D'Antonio's groups and work at the
Eel River

Caroline
Caroline M. Kane
Adjunct Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology
401 Barker Hall
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720-3202
kanecm@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Phone: 510-642-4118
FAX: 510-643-9290

July 10, 2000 12:00 pm

Dr. Peggy Lemaux


A contemporary food fight: genetically modiefied foods in the marketplace


Dr. Caroline M. Kane
177 LSA
The department will bring food.
THE BIOLOGY FELLOWS PROGRAM
FACULTY SUMMER SEMINAR SERIES

This seminar series is directed toward

undergraduate students and is often a

general overview and why the professor

entered the field of research, etc.


June 26, 2000 12:00 pm
Dr. Anastasios Melis

Photosynthesis and the production of hydroden as a renewable fuel.


Dr. Caroline Kane
177 LSA
The department will bring food.

June 14, 2000 11:00 am
Jun Kin, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine

Network Analysis Proteomics and the BRCA1-associated Genome Surveillance Complex


Life Sciences Division
Building 66. Room 316. LBNL
N/A will bring food.
Cancer is a multi-step process that results from the 
accumulation of mutations in the genes that directly
control cell growth or cell death.

Genetic instability is a key feature of this evolutionary
process and the risk of malignancy is highly associated
with chromosomal instability. Cells have evolved with
elaborate schemes to maintain the integrity of the genome,
which include cell cycle checkpoints, DNA repair and
fidelity of chromosome segregation. The caretaker type
tumor suppressors of BRCA1 play important roles in this
process. We recently discovered that BRCA1 resides in a
large protein complex with a group of proteins that are
involved in maintenance of the genome, including tumor
suppressors and DNA damage repair proteins MSH2, MSH6,
MLH1, ATM, BLM, RAD50/MRE11/NBS1 protein complex and DNA
replication factor C (RFC). All these BRCA1-associated
proteins identified also form smaller, stable sub-complexes
independent of BRCA1. We hypothesize that these
sub-complexes form their own pathways and BRCA1 integrate
these pathways to form an intricate signaling network.
I will discuss a proteomics approach to delineate the BRCA1
signaling networks that maintain the human genome. This
approach combines affinity purification and mass
spectrometry analysis to purify and identify the
components of the BRCA1 signaling networks. The
identification of these components will depict a picture
of how cells utilize the elaborate BRCA1 tumor suppressor
signaling networks to safeguard the genome. This
information will lay the foundation for the understanding
of genetic instability in cancer.


June 12, 2000 12:00 pm
Dr Eva Nogales

“Going places to look at small things: A structural biologist’s journey”


Carol Kane
177 LSA
will bring food.
Here is the announcement for the first faculty summer seminar under the aegis of the Biology Fellows Program.  Sandwiches and drinks will also be provided for you.  Professor Nogales has also recently become an Assistant Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  

June 7, 2000 4:00 pm
Professor Judith Berman
Tails on Two Yeasts: Telomere and Senescense in Saccharomyces cerevisiae & Regulation of Morphogenesis in Candida albicans
Life Sciences Division Seminar Series
Building 84. Room 318. LBNL
Noone will bring food.

My research is organized into two separate areas using two 
different yeasts: the budding yeast model organism
Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the human pathogenic yeast
Candida albicans.

We study telomeres, telomeric chromatin and the consequences
of losing telomerase activity in S. cerevisiae. Through
genetic screens we have identified several genes that
influence telomeric chromatin organization. These include
genes encoding components of Chromatin Assembly Factor I,
new alleles of SIR3 that affect the maintenance, but not
the establishment of silencing, and genes, such as NMD2,
that encode components of the nonsense-mediated decay
pathway that regulates mRNA stability. We found that both
SIR3 and NMD2 affect not only telomeric chromatin but also
the rate at which cells senesce in response to the loss of
telomerase activity. We are currently exploring the
genetic requirements of this senescence response.

Candida albicans virulence requires cells to adhere to
host tissue and is postively correlated with the ability
to switch between different morphogenetic states: round
yeast form cells, elipsoidal pseudohyphae and
parallel-sided true hyphae. INT1 encodes a C. albicans
protein that participates in both adhesion to epithelial
tissue and the switch to filamentous growth. When
expressed in S. cerevisiae, INT1 induces the growth of
highly polarized filaments. Our work implicates genes
involved in cell cycle control and genes important for
actin cytoskeleton organization in filament formation in
both S. cerevisiae and C. albicans. Furthermore, in S.
cerevisiae, Int1p induces the formation of an elaborate
network of septin spirals to which it localizes. The
spiral network is dependent upon the presence of Int1p,
septin proteins and Swe1p, the morphogenesis checkpoint
kinase. We are currently examining the relative
contribution of these different structures and regulators
to filamentous growth.

For the bus schedule see

Busses


January 1, 2000 1:00 am

Dr. Peggy Lemaux<\h2>

A contemporary food fight: genetically modiefied foods in the marketplace<\h3>
Dr. Caroline M. Kane
177 LSA
Food will be provided will bring food.
THE BIOLOGY FELLOWS PROGRAM
FACULTY SUMMER SEMINAR SERIES

This seminar series is directed toward

undergraduate students and is often a

general overview and why the professor

entered the field of research, etc.


Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
Physical Biosciences Division, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS Stanley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
(tel) 510-495-2116   (fax) 510-486-6219
© Adam Arkin, 2000,. All Rights Reserved

 

Internal pages Download, Manuscripts, etc. Events People Research About