February 11, 2009
Z. Jane Wang
Associate Professor, Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
Title: Insect Flight: Aerodynamics, Energetics, and Evolution
Website: http://dragonfly.tam.cornell.edu/index.html
Host: Lois Pollack, 255-8695, lp26@cornell.edu

February 18, 2009
Karl Kasischke
Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Development & Disease, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Title: Intravital two-photon NADH imaging in the mouse cortex
Website: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/web/index.cfm?event=doctor.profile.show&person_id=1002779&display=for_patients
Host: Watt Webb, 255-3331, www2@cornell.edu

February 25, 2009
Manfred Lindau
School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Title: The mystery of the fusion pore - Mechanisms of fusion and transmitter release
Website: http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=161
Host: Lois Pollack, 255-8695, lp26@cornell.edu

March 3, 2009
No Colloquium due to Annual Biophysical Society Meeting

March 11, 2009
Arthur Salomon
Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cellular Biology Biochemistry, Proteomics Laboratory, Brown University
Title: Quantitative Phosphoproteomic Dissection of Immunological Signaling Pathways Applied to Mast Cell and T Cell Signaling
Website: http://biomed.brown.edu/facultydirectory/profile.php?id=1100925751
Host: Barbara Baird, 255-4095, bab13@cornell.edu

March 18, 2009
No Colloquium
Spring Break

March 25, 2009, Special Location: 119 Baker Laboratory, 4:30 pm
Alan Waggoner
Director, Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Melon University
Title: A new concept for live cell fluorescent biosensors
Website: http://www.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/waggoner.shtml
Host: Watt Webb, 255-3331, www2@cornel.edu

April 1, 2009, Special Location: 119 Baker Laboratory, 4:40 pm
Kalina Hristova
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Seeking the physical principles of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling
Website: https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/pghosh8/public_html/MembersPage.html
Host: Barbara Baird, 255-4095, bab13@cornell.edu

April 8, 2009
Samuel Butcher
Associate Professor, Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: The dynamic structural biology of spliceosomal RNA
Website: http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/faculty/butcher/
Host: Ailong Ke, 255-3945, ak425@cornell.edu

April 15, 2009
Juyang Huang
Associate Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University
Title: The Role of Interfacial Line Tension in Phase Separation in DOPC/DSPC/Cholesterol Ternary Mixtures
Website: http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~huang24/
Host: Jerry Feigenson, 255-4744, gwf3@cornell.edu

April 22, 2009
Carol Deutsch
Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Title: Tunnel Vision
Website: http://www.med.upenn.edu/camb/faculty/cbp/deutsch.html
Host: Lois Pollack, 255-8695, lp26@cornell.edu

April 29, 2009
C. Storm (Cornelis)
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Theoretical and Polymer Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology
Title: Soft Biological Matter: Function through Structure
Website: http://web.phys.tue.nl/nl/people_pages/?script=showemp.php&pid=1308
Host: Itai Cohen, 255-0815, ic64@cornell.edu

May 6, 2009
Harel Weinstein
Chairman, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College
Title: Machines, Pathways, and Energies in Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Signaling
Website: http://physiology.med.cornell.edu/faculty/hweinstein/index.html
Host: Harold Scheraga, 255-4034, has5@cornell.edu