BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL CLUB

	Meetings:	DISQUE 919, FRIDAYS: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS: AY 2010-2011

• 3 June 2011:
  Srinivas Jampani: Effects of Confinement on the Folding Nucleus of Amyloid β-Protein (21-30)
  ADDITIONAL LITERATURE: Lucent-et-al_PNAS_2007
  

• 10 June 2011:
  TBA
  

• 17 June 2011:
  TBA
  

• 24 June 2011:
  TBA
  

PAST PRESENTATIONS: AY 2010-2011

• 27 May 2011:
  Nicole Wagner: Insulin: Review of Structural Properties and Amyloid Fibril Formation
  PAPER A: Hua-et-al_Protein-Cell_2010
  PAPER B: Jimenez-et-al_PNAS_2002
  

• 20 May 2011: No Meeting
  Siobhan Toal: Solvent Dependence of Trialanine Conformations (postponed)
  

• 6 May 2011:
  Micholas Smith: Characterizing the Structural Behavior of Selected Aβ-42 Monomers with Different Solubilities
  PAPER: Velez-Vega_jpcb_2010
  

• 29 April 2011:
  Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner: Modeling the IR, Polarized Raman and VCD band shapes of the amide I mode for self-aggregated peptides
  

• 22 April 2011:
  Derya Meral: Pyroglutamate Amyloid β-Protein Oligomers
  PAPER: Wirths-et-al_JBC_2010

• 4 March 2011:
  Tom Williams: Aβ-membrane interactions and its relation to Alzheimer's Disease
  PAPER: Williams-et-al_Langmuir_2010

• 25 February 2011:
  John Schrek: Concentration Dependence of α-Synuclein Fibril Length Assessed by Quantitative Atomic Force Microscopy and Statistical-Mechanical Theory
  PAPERS: van Raaij et al. 2008 & van Gestel et al. 2006

• 11 February 2011:
  Bogdan Barz: Crystal Structure of the Amyloid-β p3 Fragment Provides a Model for Oligomer Formation in Alzheimer's Disease
  PAPER: Streltsov et al. J. Neurosci. 2011 & Supporting Information

• 28 January 2011:
  Travis Hoppe: Protein Folding with Implicit Crowders: A Study of Conformational States Using the Wang-Landau Method
  PAPER: Hoppe and Yuan, J. Phys. Chem. B 2011