BPJC Schedule
| Spring 2013: | ||
| This semester, we tentatively meet on Mondays at 12:00 (food at 11:45) in Room 410, Barus and Holley building. | ||
| Date | Presenter | Reference |
| May 6 | Daniel Saenz | D Clarke, H Whitney, G Sutton, and D Robert. "Detection and Learning of Floral Electric Fields by Bumblebees." Science 340 (2013) |
| May 2 | Prof. Jim Valles | "Surface Accumulation of Micro-organisms Driven by Intense Magnetic Fields." |
| Apr 15 | Angus McMullen | RS Fruedkabder, ..., J Aizenberg. "Bacterial flagella explore microscale hummocksand hollows to increase adhesion." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 110 (2013) |
| Apr 8 | Mirna Mihovilovic |
DM Vlassarev and JA Golovchenko. "Trapping DNA near a Solid-State Nanopore." Biophys J, 103 (2012) |
| Apr 4 | Katherine Miao | D Rodriguez-Larrea and H Bayley. "Multistep protein unfolding during nanopore translocation." Nature. Published online ahead of print. (2013) |
| Mar 25 | no meeting | (spring recess) |
| Mar 18 | no meeting |
(APS March Meeting) |
| Mar 11 |
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March Meeting practice talks:
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| Mar 4 | Mike Morse | Mario E. Di Salvo and C. A. Condat, "Observed frequency-independent torque in flagellar bacterial motors optimizes space exploration." Phys Rev E. 86. 061907 (2012) |
| Feb 25 | Alex Loosley | H Levine and WJ Rappel, "The physics of eukaryotic chemotaxis." Phys Today, 66 (2013) |
| Feb 14 | Xu Liu | K Jensen. "Physical limits of leaf size in tall trees." Phys Rev Lett, 110, 018104 (2013) |
| Feb 7 | William Maulbetsch | A Muto et al. "Real-Time Visualization of Neuronal Activity during Perception." Curr Biol, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.12.040 (2013) |
| Fall 2012: | ||
| Date | Presenter | Reference |
| Dec 3 | Angus McMullen | J Rosenstein, et al. "Integrated nanopore sensing platform with sub-microsecond temporal resolution." Nat Methods, 9, 487–492 (2012) |
| Nov 26 | Wang Miao | S Das et al. "Concentration polarization in translocation of DNA through nanopores and nanochannels." Phys Rev Lett, 108, 138101 (2012) |
| Nov 19 | David Stout |
T Lämmermann et al. "Rapid leukocyte migration by integrin-independent flowing and squeezing." Nature, 453, 51-55 (2008) T Lämmermann and M Sixt. "Mechanical modes of 'amoeboid' cell migration." Curr Opin Cell Biol, 21, 636-644 (2009) |
| Nov 12 | Bin Liu & Kenneth Breuer |
Sneak peak of their talks at the upcoming APS March Meeting (Click here for abstracts)
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| Nov 5 | Mike Morse |
D Kim et al. "Chemotactic steering of bacteria propelled microbeads." Biomed Microdevices. Published ahead of print (2012) Sahari et al. "Effect of body shape on the motile behavior of bacteria-powered swimming microrobots (BacteriaBots)." Biomed Microdevices. Published ahead of print (2012) |
| Oct 29 | No Meeting | (Hurricane Sandy) |
| Oct 22 | Xu Liu | M T J van Loenhout, M V de Grunt, and C Dekker "Dynamics of DNA Supercoils." Science, 338, 94-97 (2012) |
| Oct 15 | William Maulbetsch |
M. Zapka et al. "Visual but not trigeminal mediation of magnetic compass information in a migratory bird." Nature, 461, 1274-1277 (2009) K. Maeda et al. "Magnetically sensitive light-induced reactions in cryptochrome are consistent with its proposed role as a magnetoreceptor." P Natl Acad Sci USA, 109, 4774-4779 (2012) |
| Oct 8 | No Meeting | (Columbus Day) |
| Oct 1 | Elnez Alipour-Assiabi | P Lee and C W Wolgemuth. "Crawling Cells Can Close Wounds without Purse Strings or Signaling." PLoS Comput Biol, 7, e1002007 (2011) - Presentation in followup to BPJC on Sept 17, 2012. |
| Sept 24 | Jay Tang | J Yuan, KA Fahrner, and HC Berg. "Switching of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor Near Zero Load." J Mol Biol, 390, 394-400 (2009) - Presentation in advance of Dr. Yuan's Seminar Oct 11 |
| Sept 17 | Alex Loosley | X. Serra-Picamal et al. "Mechanical waves during tissue expansion." Nat Phys, 8, 628-634 (2012) |