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

Douglas Shepherd,  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 We have a no-recording policy for these seminars to encourage sharing of new and unpublished results.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
Ulrike Alexiev Freie Universität Berlin FROM PROTON REACTIONS TO ADVANCED BIOPHYSICAL VISUALIZATION METHODS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATION Judith Klein-Seetharaman
Jong Seto ASU SEMTE ON MULTIMODAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING BIOMINERALIZATION ACROSS LENGTH-SCALES Banu Ozkan
Thomas T. Perkins University of Colorado, Boulder PROBING THE HIDDEN DYNAMICS AND ENERGETICS OF DIVERSE BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEMS BY AFM Banu Ozkan
Suckjoon Jun UCSD BACTERIAL CELL CYCLE AND PRECISION CONTROL IN BIOLOGY Steve Pressé
Gabriel A. Montaño Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications, Northern Arizona University BIOINSPIRED MEMBRANE MATERIALS: NATURAL, SYNTHETIC AND SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN Douglas Shepherd
Yi He University of New Mexico IN SILICO MODELING OF PICK1 PROTEIN DYNAMICS AND INTERACTIONS: PATHWAY TO PEPTIDE-BASED THERAPIES FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS Petr Sulc
Franz X. Kärtner University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany FROM OPTICAL ELECTRONICS TO TERAHERTZ ACCELERATORS Petra Fromme
POSTPONED - Giulia Palermo UC Riverside DYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS OF CRISPR-CAS9 THROUGH THE LENS OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS Petr Sulc
Daniel Schultz Dartmouth - Geisel Medical School EVOLUTION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESPONSES IN COMPLEX DYNAMIC SETTINGS Abhishek Shrivastava
Jennifer Wade Northern Arizona University MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MOISTURE-DRIVEN DAC WITHIN CHARGED POLYMERS (MISSIONDAC) Petra Fromme
Judith Klein-Seetharaman ASU School of Molecular Sciences THE HUMAN PROTEIN TARGETOME Petra Fromme
Dongyan Tan Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University CHROMATIN REGULATION IN TRANSCRIPTION AND IN DNA DAMAGE REPAIRS Po-Lin Chiu