BTP Seminars – Fall 2016

“Next Generation Free Energy Calculations in Drug Discovery”
Dr. Woody Sherman, Vice President, Applications Science Schrodinger, Inc., Adjunct Professor, UMass Amherst
Date/Time: Thursday, September 8, 2016 – 11:30 a.m. (reception at 11 a.m.)
Location: Lederle GRT 1634
“Bioengineering & Clinical Applications of Circulating Tumor Cells”
Memet Toner, Harvard University/Mass General Hospital
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 11:30 a.m. (reception at 11 a.m.)
Location: Lederle GRT 201
“Elements of Health and Disease: Inorganic Fluxes and Metal Receptors That Control Cell Fate Decisions“
Thomas O’Halloran, Northwestern University Department of Chemistry
Date/Time: Thursday, September 22, 2016 11:30 a.m. (reception at 11 a.m.)
Location: Lederle GRT 1634
“Using Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering to Detect Nutritional Deficiencies in the Developing World”
Mark P. Styczynski, Georgia Tech
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 27, 11:30 a.m. (reception at 11 a.m.)
Location: Lederle GRT 201
“Starving to Death”
Michael Overholtzer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 4, 4:00 pm
Location: Morrill Science Center, Section II, Room 222
“Imaging Protease Activity with Small Molecule Probes: Applications to Cancer and Infectious Diseases”
Professor Matthew Bogyo, Stanford University, Department of Pathology
Date/Time: Thursday, October 6, 2016, 11:30 a.m. (reception at 11 a.m.)
Location: Lederle GRT Room 1634
 “Aneuploidy and cancer – a complex relationship”
Angelika Amon, Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 4:00 p.m.
Location: Morrill Science Center, Section II, Room 222
 “Three Decades of Nanopore Sequencing”
Professor Mark Akeson, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute & Biomolecular Engineering Department
Date/Time: Thursday, October 20, 2016, 11:30 a.m. (reception at 11 a.m.)
Location: Lederle GRT Room 1634
 “Analyzing the complexity of multidrug resistance in cancer”
Michael Gottesman, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 4:00 p.m.
Location: Morrill Science Center, Section II, Room 222
 “Chemistry Towards Novel Mechanism-of-Action (nMoA) Compounds in Therapeutics Discovery”
Professor Stuart Schreiber, Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Date/Time: Thursday, November 10, 4:00 p.m. (reception at 3:30 p.m.)
Location: LSL S330-340
 “Allosteric modulators of cardiac myosin structure-function”
Christopher Yengo, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Penn State University
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 4:00 p.m.
Location: Morrill Science Center, Section II , Room 222
“TBD”
Maish Yarmush, Harvard University/Mass General Hospital
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 11:30 a.m. (reception at 11 a.m.)
Location: Lederle GRT 201
“Small and Bright: Tailoring Luminescent Nanoparticles in Biology”
Professor Gang Han, UMass Medical School, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Date/Time: Thursday, December 8, 2016, 11:30 a.m. (reception at 11 a.m.)
Location: Lederle GRT Room 1634
“Proteolytic control of the mitochondrial intermembrane space”
Steven Glynn, Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Stony Brook University
Date/Time: Tuesday,December 13, 2016, 4:00 p.m.
Location: Morrill Science Center, Section II , Room 222