MOAC Seminars 2003-2004
Please note this is only a partial listing, created after the events.
You can click on the little posters to see a full sized version...
Autumn Term
Billiard Balls to Biology - Can you Count on Computers?
19 October 2003, Mike Allen (CSC/Physics)![[Poster]](thumb_2003_10_19.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=244)
Remarkable DNA Structural Effects Induced by Cylinders that Grab the Major Groove
5 November 2003, Mike Hannon (Chemistry)[NO POSTER]
Describing fluid membranes theoretically
11 November 2003, Matthew Turner (Physcis)[NO POSTER]
How the Immune System tells Friend from Foe
19 November 2003, Hugo van den Berg (Maths)![[Poster]](thumb_2003_11_19.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=240)
Cell entry and mode of action of Shiga toxin and ricin
26 November 2003, Daniel Smith (Biology)![[Poster]](thumb_2003_11_26.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=239)
Orientation of the unknown - IR spectroscopy and modelling of transmembrane helices
3 December 2003, Andreas Kukol![[Poster]](thumb_2003_12_03.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=242)
Spring Term
Atomistic Simulations of Biomacromolecules
14 January 2004, Mark Rodger (Chemistry)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_01_14.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=245)
c-Myc friend or friendly fire: regulating growth and regeneration in pancreatic islets
21 January 2004, Mike Khan![[Poster]](thumb_2004_01_21.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=245)
The "war" between a plant and a pathogen fuels an "arms race"
28 January 2004, Jim Beynon (HRI)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_01_28.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=245)
Two-Component System Signalling Networks in Myxobacteria: Social Development and Predatory Swarming
4 February 2004, David Whitworth (Biology)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_02_04.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=245)
Multiple Catalytic Function in the Alpha/Beta Hydrolase Family of Enzymes
11 February 2004, Tim Bugg (Chemistry)[NO POSTER]
3D structure of auxilin bound to clathrin cages determined by cryo-electron mircoscopy and single particle analysis
18 February 2004, Corinne Smith (Biology)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_02_18.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=247)
Networks emerging from stochastic perturbations of classical systems; a brief introduction to Wentzell and Freidlin's theory
25 February 2004, Luca Sbano (Maths)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_02_25.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=243)
Binding Plant Hormones
3 March 2004, Richard Napier (HRI)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_03_03.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=226)
Biological applications of electro-chemical scanned probe techniques
10 March 2004, Julie MacPherson (Chemistry)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_03_10.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=240)
Summer Term
How many shapes can a protein remember (in lattice models)?
5 May 2004, Robin Ball (Physics)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_05_05.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=242)
Correlating Interfacial Properties with Cell Physiology - Applications in Medicine and Ecology
12 May 2004, Anna Whitworth (Chemistry)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_05_12.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=247)
MOAC students into the real research world
26 May 2004Short (2 minute) presentations from the MOAC MSc students at the end of their first research mini-projects.
[NO POSTER]
Molecular Modelling of Biomacromolecules
2 June 2004, Syma Khalid (Oxford)[NO POSTER]
In vivo Tat-mediated import into plant cells
9 June 2004, Alessandra Di Cola (Biology)![[Poster]](thumb_2004_06_09.jpg?maxWidth=350&maxHeight=245)
Big Magnets and Metals: NMR and Mass Spectroscopy of Cu- and Zn- Binding Proteins
16 June 2004, Claudia Blindauer (Chemistry)[NO POSTER]