Biophysics: an interdisciplinary science that applies the approaches and methods of physics to study biological systems. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. Biophysical research shares significant overlap with biochemistry, physical chemistry, nanotechnology, bioengineering, computational biology, biomechanics and systems biology.
The global threat of antimicrobial resistance has been recognized by the World Health Organization, the United Nations and many other expert bodies. The burden of resistant pathogens is immen...
Background: In March 2014, a molecular cluster of five multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis was detected by the Austrian National Reference Laboratory. An investigation was initiate...
Rob Dunn has recently published Never Out of Season, the story of the homogenization of our global food supply and the risks that homogenization poses. He will build on the stories from this...
The immune system is complex and dynamic, focused on defending the body from a host of pathogens ranging from viruses to cancer. A number of different mechanisms have evolved that help the bo...
Virus – host interactions are currently among the most intensively studied research areas due to the promising new antiviral approaches emerging from these studies. Indeed, RNA viruses,...
Increasing prevalence and severity of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections has necessitated novel antibacterial strategies. Ideally, new approaches would target bacterial pat...
Prokaryotes have long been at war with bacteriophage. The evolutionary pressure of this struggle has led both sides to develop sophisticated defenses. Notably, CRISPR-Cas systems evolved to l...
Adjunct probiotic therapy has the potential to decrease Clostridium difficile disease incidence and severity. After screening several potential probiotic bacteria for intrinsic resistance to...
DATE: August 31, 2017TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET, 4:00pm CETA tuberculosis (TB) vaccine consisting of a recombinant fusion protein (referred to as H4) combined with a novel sy...
DATE: July 20, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 5:00pm CESTNeurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are clinically and etiologically highly heterogeneous and are characterized by a...
As reprogramming methodologies have become more reliable and efficient, corresponding improvements were needed in the characterization workflow as well; specifically in terms of the speed, ef...
In this seminar, I will discuss issues in transcriptome analysis. I will first talk about core aspects - how we analyze the activity patterns of genes in model organisms and humans. I will fo...
Genomics and metagenomics have become ubiquitous research efforts. Here we will show details of the development of physical, computational, and even space-based standards for metagenomi...
Recent advances in single-cell RNA sequencing are producing exciting new insights into cell diversity within different tissues and cancers. Listen in to hear Dr Gonçalo Castelo-B...
DATE: December 7, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
Kinases play important roles in many biological signaling pathways. Kinase inhibitors are therefore potentially found as actives in ty...
Bulk analysis often leads to conclusions that assume averages reflect the dominant biological mechanism operating within an entire population. To fully understand how cellular heterogeneity c...
DATE: November 10, 2016
TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ET
The CellSimple™ Cell Analyzer enables quick and easy research assays, including functional cell-based assays, cell-model...
DATE: October 27, 2016
TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET
The importance of antibodies as tools in scientific research studies cannot be understated, yet these reagents have increasi...
FTIR spectroscopic imaging is an emerging tool for label-free, non-destructive characterization of tissues. The pathological annotation of tissue can be performed in an automated and objectiv...
DATE: September 22, 2016
TIME: 4:00am PT, 7:00am ET, 11:00am GMT
Here, we present a novel approach that combines the principles of the western blot (protein separation by SDS-PAGE; ...
DATE: September 20, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PST, 11:00 EST
Studies of cell-substrate interactions are important for an array of biotechnology applications. The nature of specific, recepto...
Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs) are becoming a bigger and bigger concern throughout the world. Antibiotic resistance forms and spreads faster than pharmaceutical companies have been ab...
Virus Ecology is a field that is gaining momentum, fueled in part by metagenomic studies from many environments previously ignored. Biodiversity studies of plant viruses show that they...
This presentation will be demonstrating several different approaches to explore the diversity, function, and ecology of microbial communities. In Metagenomics, the sequencing of DNA dir...
The global threat of antimicrobial resistance has been recognized by the World Health Organization, the United Nations and many other expert bodies. The burden of resistant pathogens is immen...
Background: In March 2014, a molecular cluster of five multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis was detected by the Austrian National Reference Laboratory. An investigation was initiate...
Rob Dunn has recently published Never Out of Season, the story of the homogenization of our global food supply and the risks that homogenization poses. He will build on the stories from this...
The immune system is complex and dynamic, focused on defending the body from a host of pathogens ranging from viruses to cancer. A number of different mechanisms have evolved that help the bo...
Virus – host interactions are currently among the most intensively studied research areas due to the promising new antiviral approaches emerging from these studies. Indeed, RNA viruses,...
Increasing prevalence and severity of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections has necessitated novel antibacterial strategies. Ideally, new approaches would target bacterial pat...
Prokaryotes have long been at war with bacteriophage. The evolutionary pressure of this struggle has led both sides to develop sophisticated defenses. Notably, CRISPR-Cas systems evolved to l...
Adjunct probiotic therapy has the potential to decrease Clostridium difficile disease incidence and severity. After screening several potential probiotic bacteria for intrinsic resistance to...
DATE: August 31, 2017TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET, 4:00pm CETA tuberculosis (TB) vaccine consisting of a recombinant fusion protein (referred to as H4) combined with a novel sy...
DATE: July 20, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 5:00pm CESTNeurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are clinically and etiologically highly heterogeneous and are characterized by a...
As reprogramming methodologies have become more reliable and efficient, corresponding improvements were needed in the characterization workflow as well; specifically in terms of the speed, ef...
In this seminar, I will discuss issues in transcriptome analysis. I will first talk about core aspects - how we analyze the activity patterns of genes in model organisms and humans. I will fo...
Genomics and metagenomics have become ubiquitous research efforts. Here we will show details of the development of physical, computational, and even space-based standards for metagenomi...
Recent advances in single-cell RNA sequencing are producing exciting new insights into cell diversity within different tissues and cancers. Listen in to hear Dr Gonçalo Castelo-B...
DATE: December 7, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
Kinases play important roles in many biological signaling pathways. Kinase inhibitors are therefore potentially found as actives in ty...
Bulk analysis often leads to conclusions that assume averages reflect the dominant biological mechanism operating within an entire population. To fully understand how cellular heterogeneity c...
DATE: November 10, 2016
TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ET
The CellSimple™ Cell Analyzer enables quick and easy research assays, including functional cell-based assays, cell-model...
DATE: October 27, 2016
TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET
The importance of antibodies as tools in scientific research studies cannot be understated, yet these reagents have increasi...
FTIR spectroscopic imaging is an emerging tool for label-free, non-destructive characterization of tissues. The pathological annotation of tissue can be performed in an automated and objectiv...
DATE: September 22, 2016
TIME: 4:00am PT, 7:00am ET, 11:00am GMT
Here, we present a novel approach that combines the principles of the western blot (protein separation by SDS-PAGE; ...
DATE: September 20, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PST, 11:00 EST
Studies of cell-substrate interactions are important for an array of biotechnology applications. The nature of specific, recepto...
Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs) are becoming a bigger and bigger concern throughout the world. Antibiotic resistance forms and spreads faster than pharmaceutical companies have been ab...
Virus Ecology is a field that is gaining momentum, fueled in part by metagenomic studies from many environments previously ignored. Biodiversity studies of plant viruses show that they...
This presentation will be demonstrating several different approaches to explore the diversity, function, and ecology of microbial communities. In Metagenomics, the sequencing of DNA dir...