Date: 20121115
Course: Protein Prediction 2
Title: Homology-based prediction of function
Speaker: Tobias Hamp

2nd Focus Lecture by Dr. Eduardo R. Mendoza, Visiting Scientist, Department of Membrane Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany and Senior Research Scientist, Faculty of Physics & Center for NanoScience, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. The lecture covered: (1) Understanding nanoparticle-cell interactions for nanosafety and nanomedicine, (2) A basic model of gold nanoparticles-cell interactions, (3) modelling targeted drug delivery with functionalized...

Date: 20121113
Course: Protein Prediction 2
Title: Predict localization 2
Speaker: Burkhard Rost

Date: 20121108
Course: Protein Prediction 2
Title: Introduction to Protein Function 3
Speaker: Burkhard Rost

The mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix are known to regulate the migration of single cells, but whether substrate stiffness also affects collective cell migration is unclear. Ng et al. reveal that epithelial sheets move faster on stiffer matrices due to increased myosin contractility and mechanical coupling through cell-cell adhesions. This biosights episode presents the paper by Ng et al. from the October 29, 2012, issue of The Journal of Cell Biology and includes an...

Date: 20121106
Course: Protein Prediction 2
Title: Introduction to Protein Function 2
Speaker: Burkhard Rost