Biological Physics & Structural Discovery Seminar

The Biological Physics & Structural Discovery Seminar is a multidisciplinary seminar series with broadly defined topics. They include biological and soft matter physics, biophysics, structural and computational biology with equal emphasis on experimental and theoretical and computational approaches. The Biological Physics Seminar is organized by the Center for Biological Physics and co-sponsored by the Department of Physics and the Center for Applied Structural Discovery (CASD). 

If you have any questions regarding the seminar please contact

Oliver Beckstein, Seminar Organizer

Juliet Speas, Seminar Coordinator

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The Biological Physics & Structural Discovery Seminar is held every Wednesday during the academic school year. The seminar is held from 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm at Goldwater Center for Science and Engineering (GWC) room 487.

In the event the seminar must be held virtually due to public health restrictions, Zoom information will be emailed a few days prior to the Seminar day (and will be included in the CBP-INFO mailings – please subscribe using the maroon Subscribe button above). We have a no-recording policy for these seminars to encourage sharing of new and unpublished results.

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host
Justin Kollman University of Washington, Seattle ENZYME POLYMERIZATION AS A MECHANISM OF ALLOSTERIC CONTROL Po-Lin Chiu
Brent Nannenga ASU School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy MICROCRYSTAL ELECTRON DIFFRACTION (MicroED):DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS
Dariush Mohammadyani Applied BioMath TBA (Mohammadyani)
Dariush Mohammadyani Applied BioMath APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOPHYSICS IN LIPID SIGNALING AND DRUG DEVELOPMENT Judith Klein-Seetharaman
Sujit Datta Princeton University LIFE IN A TIGHT SPOT: HOW BACTERIA NAVIGATE CROWDED SPACES Navish Wadhwa
Dmitry Matyushov Department of Physics, ASU CAPTURING PROTEINS WITH ELECTRIC FIELD GRADIENT Center for Biological Physics
Taras Pogorelov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LIFE IN THE CYTOPLASM: PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS, PROTEIN FOLDING, AND METABOLITE DYNAMICS Matthias Heyden
Giovanni Zocchi UCLA TBA (Zocchi) Rizal Hariadi
Bil Clemons Cal Tech A DETAILED LOOK AT TAIL-ANCHORED MEMBRANE PROTEIN TARGETING - FROM OPISTHOKONTS TO PROTISTS TO PLANTS Petra Fromme
Lillian Chong University of Pittsburgh REFRAMING WHAT IS FEASIBLE FOR MD - WEIGHTED ENSEMBLE SIMULATIONS OF PROTEIN BINDING AND SARS-COV-2 SPIKE ACTIVATION Banu Ozkan
Markus Deserno Carnegie-Mellon University DIFFERENTIAL STRESS IN ASYMMETRIC MEMBRANES Oliver Beckstein