The Falk-Plaut Lectures
(Three Days)
Tuesday's Lecture (9/8): "Studies of the torsional properties of single DNA molecules: an old problem with a new twist"
Wednesday's Lecture (9/9): "The role of topology in the folding cooperativity of a protein"
Thursday's Lecture (9/10):"Grabbing the cat by the tail: Discrete steps by a DNA packaging motor and the inter-subunit coordination in a ring-ATPase"
Presented by Prof. Carlos Bustamante, University of California-Berkeley
Carlos J. Bustamante received a Ph.D. in biophysics in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1994, Dr. Bustamante has held an appointment as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. In 1998, he became the director for the Advance Microscopies Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a Professor of Physics as well as Molecular and Cell Biology at Berkeley. His research interests include single molecule manipulation methods and their application to investigate various biochemical processes: torque measurements on single DNA molecules, reversible folding of single RNA molecules by force, and the mechanochemistry of nucleic-acid binding molecular motors. He was nominated as America’s Best in Time magazine (2001), received the Biological Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (2002), and he accepted the Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics from the National Academy of Science (2004). He has also received the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award by the American Association of Physics Teachers (2005), and a Doctor honoris causa by the University of Chicago (2005). Dr. Bustamante has given well over 400 presentations and lectures and has published over 200 papers in several journals such at PNAS, Nature, and Cell. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Science Advisory Committee, and the Board of Directors of the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund. He also holds several other advisory roles within the University of California, Berkeley and the larger scientific community.
Hosted by Prof. Ann McDermott
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
September 8th, 9th and 10th 2009
Lectures at 4:30 in room 209 Havemeyer
Tea & cookies will be served prior to each lecture.
