Center for Molecular Machines

Wednesday, May 22, 2008

David Axelrod Institute / Auditorium, 4 pm

Prof. Thomas A Steitz, HHMI and Yale University

Motion in the Macromolecular Machines of Replication and Transcription

Steitz Seminar Flyer

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Prof. Tereza Ruiz, University of Vermont

Insights into the structure of bacterial adhesins

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Prof. Michael Radermacher, University of Vermont

The structure and function of Complex I

Monday, March 24, 2008

Prof. Stephen C. Harrison, Harvard Medical School & HHMI

Single Molecules of RNAP II: Backtracking and Beyond

Thursday, February 15, 2008

Eric Galburt, MPI Dresden

Molecular Mechanisms of Viral Entry

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

George Makhatadze, RPI

Molecular strategies for the rational design of thermostable proteins

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Chris Renken, DMM, Wadsworth Center

Cryo-tomography studies of the Calcium Release Unit

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Pan Li, University at Albany

Effect of Mg²⁺ Ions on the Stability of a Minimal RNA Kissing Complex

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Phoebe Rice, University of Chicago

Regulation of Sin-mediated DNA recombination by a twisted and intertwined complex

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Minisymposium

Full schedule

Monday, May 14, 2007

Nilesh Banavali, Wadsworth Center

Using Molecular Modeling to Tackle Problems in Structural Biology

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Janice Pata, Wadsworth Center

Lesions, bypasses and DNA polymerases - a tiny machine in action.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Christine Dunham, MRC, Cambridge

Stuctural Studies of the 70S Ribosome

Wednesday, Feb 7th, 2007

Pei-Yong Shi, DID, Wadsworth Center

"Structure and Function of Flavivirus Methyltransferase: A Novel Target for Antiviral Therapy"

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2006

Scott Bailey, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

"Replication of the Eubacterial Genome: a Structural Perspective"

Wednesday, Nov 1st, 2006

Derek Taylor, Wadsworth Center, NYSDOH

"Structures of eEF2-80S Ribosome Complexes Reveal the Role of GTP Hydrolysis in Translocation"

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

April Burch, Div. Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center

"Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 induces changes in the 26S proteasome during lytic infection"

Wednesday, Jul. 12th, 2006

Satwik Kamtekar, Yale University

Molecular Machines at work: Synaptic complexes of γδ resolvase

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Kakoli Mitra, HHMI and Wadsworth Center

"A new framework for co-translational translocation through the protein-conducting channel"

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Cell and Developmental Biology, U Penn.

"Probing the structure of calcium release units in skeletal and cardiac muscle"

Wednesday, Mar 8th, 2006

Terry Wagenknecht, DMM, Wadsworth Center

"Structure of the Excitation-Contraction Coupling Machinery"

Thursday, Feb. 2nd, 2006

Peter Moore, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

"Why are things that are the same different? Species specificity and anti-ribosomal antibiotics."

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Joachim Frank, HHMI Investigator and Director, Center for Molecular Machines

Roundtable Discussion

Thursday, December 7th, 2005

Nilesh Banavali, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY

"Understanding conformational changes using molecular dynamics"

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

James Hogle, Harvard University

"How does poliovirus get into a cell: a multiscaled structural characterization of a molecular machine in operation"

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2005

Taekjip Ha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Single molecule analysis of helicase mechanisms"

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

Willy Wriggers, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

"Probing the functional dynamics of supramolecular assemblies by hybrid computational strategies"

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

Scott Blanchard, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

"Single-molecule FRET: insights into tRNA selection and kinetic proofreading in translation"

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Michael Marko, DMM, Wadsworth Center

"In situ imaging of molecular machines: Challenges to be overcome in cryo-electron tomography"

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

David Jeruzalmi, Harvard University

"Structural studies of the DNA clamp loader complex"

Wednesday, Apr. 6th, 2005

Joachim Jaeger, Wadsworth Center

"RNA replicases: well greased machines?"

Thursday, Mar. 3rd, 2005

Aleksei Aksimentiev, University of Illinois Urbana

"Electronic recognition of nucleic acids with a nanopore sensor"

Wednesday, Feb. 2nd, 2005

Michael P Koonce, Wadsworth Center

"Understanding the mechanics of the dynein machinery"

Wednesday, Jan. 5th, 2005

Joachim Frank, HHMI Investigator and Director, Center for Molecular Machines

"Cryo-EM of the Ribosome - Glimpses of a Molecular Machine in Motion."