2014-2015 Student Organizers:
Julie Park (H. Lin lab, Cell Biology)
Stefan Elrington (Barrett lab, Physics)
2014-2015 PEB discussion group schedule
September 26, 2014
Research: Hyeran Kang (De La Cruz lab): Site-specific cation release drives actin filament severing by vertebrate cofilin
Research: Erdem Karatekin (Karatekin lab): Control of fusion pore nucleation and dynamics by SNARE proteins
October 24, 2014
Research: Ellen White (Miranker lab): Self-assembly and stability of a small beta-helix
Research: Ramesh Ramji (Miller-Jensen lab): Microdevices enabling single cell analysis
November 21, 2014
Research: Alejandro Virrueta (O’Hern lab), Hard sphere models: Predicting methionine side-chain dihedral angles
Research: Ying Guo (Yan lab), Thermal stability of vertebrate visual pigments is correlated to molecular evolution of vision
January 16, 2015
Research: Diego Caballero (O’Hern lab), Equilibrium transitions between side chain conformations in leucine and isoleucine
Research: Sarah Schreiner (King lab), Tethering of chromatin to the nuclear envelope supports stable nuclear mechanics
February 20, 2015
Research: Betsy Speltz (Regan lab), Synthetic proteins for synthetic biology
Research: Aaron Lewis (De Camili, Dufresne, Prum labs), Development of gyroid membranes in butterfly scale cells
March 20, 2015
Research: Ross Boltyanskiy (Dufresne lab), Mechanical response of single cells to stretch
Research: Xiongfe Fu (Emonet lab), Phenotypic diversity and collective behavior in chemotactic migratory waves
April 17, 2014
Research: Ziad Ganim (Ganim lab), Structural Resolution in Single Molecule Experiments
Research: Shirin Bahmanyar (Bahmanyar lab), Nuclear stiffness protects against mitotic errors
May 16, 2014
2nd year PEB students