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Seminars given by Dr. Groves...


   UPCOMING SEMINARS:

• 3rd International Workshop on Approaches to Single-Cell Analysis, ETH Zurich, September 11 - 12, 2008, Zurich, Switzerland

• "Nanoscale Organization of Biological Systems" Plenary Session, NanoTech Northern Europe, September 25, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark



 2008

• Polytechnic University and New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) Jointly Sponsored Symposium on "Bioactive Systems." Pfizer Auditorium, Polytechnic University, Six MetroTech Center, June 12, 2008, Brooklyn, NY

• NIH Conference on Multivalency, National Institutes of Health, May 19 - 20, Bethesda, Maryland

• Nano Systems Institute (National Core Research Center) Workshop Series: A Nanotechnology-Based Approach to Cell Signal Transduction, 3:10pm, April 18, Seoul, Korea

• 101st National Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society, KINTEX, 9:00am, April 18, 2008, Goyang, Korea

• Seoul National University Chemistry Seminar, 5:00pm, April 16, 2008, Seoul, Korea

• Pomona College, April 8, 2008, Claremont, CA

• California Institute of Technology, April 7, 2008, Pasadena, CA

• 2008 ASBMB Meeting, April 6, 2008, San Diego, CA

• Telluride Workshop on "Mechanistic Analysis of Biological Systems with Novel Computational Models", March 24 - 28, 2008, Telluride, CO

• CINT Workshop on Membrane-Based Nanocomposites, January 9 - 10, 2008, Albuquerque, NM

• Chemical Biology Seminar, The Rockefeller University, January 11, 2008, New York, NY

• Keystone Symposium: "Molecular Basis for Biological Membrane Organization", January 12 - 17 2008, Big Sky, MT

 2007

• "The Cell as a Machine: Mechano-, Controls, Systems Engineering Approach to Cell/Molecular Biology" Workshop, National Science Foundation, December 20 - 21, 2007, Washington, DC

• 3rd Max Bergmann Symposium, Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, December 5 - 7, 2007, Dresden, Germany

• Bioactive Surfaces Seminar, Max Plank Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, December 4, 2007, Potsdam, Germany

• Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, November 13, 2007, Singapore

• Atlanta Area Chemical Physics Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, November 5, 2007, Atlanta, GA

• Biomolecular Materials Contractors’ Meeting, Airlie Conference Center, November 4, 2007, Warrenton, Virginia

• Materials Science Department Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 15, 2007, Urbana, IL

• International Workshop on "Novel Model Systems for Biomolecular Lipid Membranes", September 19 - 22, 2007, Schloί Ringberg, Bavaria, Germany

• 2007 Gordon Conference, "Chemistry and Physics of Liquids", The Holderness School, July 29 - August 3, 2007, Plymouth, NH

• Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins: Challenges for Theory and Experiment, June 10 - 14, 2007, Park City, UT

• Chinese National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, May 28, 2007, Beijing, China

• US - China Early Career Workshop on Chemical Biology, May 21 - 25, 2007, Shanghai, China

• Center for Nonlinear Studies Annual Meeting, May 21 - 25, 2007, Santa Fe, NM (Presentation to be given by Prof. Raghu Parthasarathy)

• Gulliver Multiscale Bioimaging workshop, May 17 - 19, 2007, Berkeley, CA

• 1st International Symposium on Nanomedicine (ISNM2007) and 2nd Molecule-Based Information Transmission and Reception (MB-ITR2007), April 20 - 22, 2007, Okazaki, Japan

• ACS National Meeting, Division of Small Chemical Business, March 25-29, 2007, Chicago, IL

• ACS National Meeting, Division of Colloid and Surface Science, "Biological Surface Chemistry", March 25-29, 2007, Chicago, IL

• APS National Meeting, Elasticity of Biological Membranes: from Physical Principles to Biological Processes, March 5 - 9, 2007, Denver, CO

• CeNS Winterschool in Mauterndorf, February 12 - 16, 2007, Mauterndorf, Austria

• 2007 Advanced Optical Methods Workshop, UC Berkeley, January 17 - 19, 2007, Berkeley, CA

 2006

• American Society for Cell Biology, NIH Nanomedicine Symposium, December 9, 2006, San Diego CA

• Physical Chemistry Seminar, MIT, November 20, 2006, Boston, MA

• Chemistry Dept. Seminar, Columbia University, November 16, 2006, New York, NY

• 2006 Biointerface Science Gordon Research Conference, October 22 - 27, 2006, Les Diableret, Switzerland

• ETH Zurich, Materials Science Department, October 20, 2006, Zurich, Switzerland

• Chemistry Departmental Seminar, Michigan State University, October 5, 2006, East Lansing, MI

• UCSF Imaging Symposium, September 30, 2006, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

• Biomaterials Symposium of the Multiscale Materials Modeling, MMM2006 Conference, September 18 - 22, 2006, Freiburg, Germany

• ACS Meeting, PHYS "Physical Chemical Foundations of Biological Membrane Phenomena", September 11, 2006, San Francisco, CA

• University of California, Physical Chemistry Departmental Seminar, August 29, 2006, Berkeley, CA

• Gordon Research Conference on Signal Transduction by Engineered Extracellular Matrices, Connecticut College, July 2 - 6, 2006, New London, CT

• Center for Computational Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, Workshop on Multiscale Interactions and Dynamics in Biological Systems. May 27 - 29, 2006, St. Louis, MO

• Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, UCLA, May 17, 2006, Los Angeles, CA

• Harvard University, Physical Chemistry Departmental Seminar, May 11, 2006, Cambridge, MA

• 3rd Annual Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience, April 23 - 27, Snowbird, Utah

• Chemical Biophysics Symposium, April 21 - 23, 2006, Toronto, Canada

• MRS Spring Meeting, Mechanotransduction and Engineered Cell-Surface Interactions Symposium, April 17 - 21, 2006, San Francisco, CA

• MRSEC Director's Meeting, University of Chicago, April 14, 2006, Chicago, IL

• Cells and Materials, UCLA, March 27 - 31, 2006, Los Angeles, CA

• ACS National Meeting, March 26 - 30, 2006, Atlanta, GA

• Duke University, Biomedical Engineering Departmental Seminar, March 2, 2006, Durham, NC

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Departmental Seminar, March 1, 2006, Chapel Hill, NC

• AAAS Symposium, "Integrative Nanotechnologies: Lipid Bilayers and Hybrid Interfaces", February 16 - 20, 2006, St. Louis, MO

• Northwestern Chemical and Biological Engineering Departmental Seminar, February 3, 2006, Evanston, IL

 2005

• University of Tokyo, December 12, 2005, Tokyo, Japan

• US - Japan Scientific Exchange Symposium, December 9, 2005, Tokyo, Japan

• Dynamic Imaging Group Seminar, UCSF, November 30, 2005, San Francisco, CA

• Northwestern Chemistry Departmental Seminar, November 18, 2005, Evanston, IL

• UC Davis Biophysics Seminar, November 4, 2005, Davis, CA

• UC System-Wide Technology Transfer Forum, November 3, 2005, Hyatt Regency Hotel at San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, CA

• Texas A&M University, Physical and Analytical Chemistry Seminar, October 25, 2005, College Station, TX

• Stanford University Chemistry Departmental Seminar, October 11, 2005, Stanford, CA

• Rockefeller University Biochemistry and Structural Biology Seminar, September 27, 2005, New York, NY

• Penn State University, Analytical Chemistry Seminar, September 7, 2005, University Park, PA

• ACS National Meeting, Langmuir Lectures, August 30, 2005, Washington, DC

• George Washington University, August 29, 2005, Washington DC

• ACS National Meeting, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, August 28, 2005, Washington, DC

• Genentech, July 19, 2005, South San Francisco, CA

• International Workshop on Interfaces: Interfaces by Design at Nanoscale, June 26 - 30, 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• Condensed Matter Physics Gordon Research Conference, June 19 - 24, 2005, Connecticut College, New London, CT

• The James Franck Institute Colloquium, University of Chicago, May 24, 2005, Chicago, IL

• 2005 Spring MRSEC/CUMIRP Symposium: Materials at the Synthetic-Biological Interface, University of Massachusetts, May 11, 2005, Amherst, MA

• QB3 Symposium on Cell Membrane Systems and Technology, May 7, 2005, San Francisco, CA

• Searle Scholar's Annual Meeting, April 10 - 12, 2005, Chicago, IL

• MRS Spring Meeting, March 28 - April 1, 2005, San Francisco, CA

• ACS National Meeting, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry: The Biomolecular Interface, March 14, 2005, San Diego, CA

• ACS National Meeting, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry: Transmembrane Biopolymers and Engineered Surfaces, March 13, 2005, San Diego, CA

• Northwestern Bionanotechnology Symposium, March 7 - 9, 2005, Chicago, IL

• LabAutomation 2005, Emerging Technologies, February 2, 2005, San Jose, CA

• UC Riverside Chemistry Seminar, January 19, 2005, Riverside, CA

• Workshop on Biomolecular and Biomimetic Self-Assembly, January 4 - 8, 2005, Merida, Mexico

 2004

• Scripps Research Institute Seminar, November 18, 2004, San Diego, CA

• American Vacuum Society's 51st International Symposium, November 14 - 19, 2004, Anaheim, CA

• Applied Biosystems Inc., October 21, 2004, Foster City, CA

• 334th Heraeus Seminar "Biofunctional interfaces: Basic Science and Applications" October 5 - 8, 2004, Tutzing Germany

• Rice University Physics Seminar, September 22, 2004, Houston, TX

• Corning Inc., September 16, 2004, Corning, NY

• Cornell University Biophysics Seminar, September 15, 2004, Ithaca, NY

• Woodshole Seminar, July 23, Woodshole, MA

• "Biological Membranes: Emerging Challenges at the Interface between Theory, Computer Simulation, and Experiment," June 20 - 25, Sun Valley, ID

• Dynamic Energy Landscapes, March 28 - April 3, 2004, Santa Fe, NM

• ACS National Meeting, Analytical Division, March 28 - April 1, 2004, Anaheim, CA

• ACS National Meeting, Colloid Division, March 28 - April 1, 2004, Anaheim, CA

• Tufts University, Biophysics Seminar, March 16, 2004, Medford, MA

• University of Maryland, Biophysics Seminar, March 15, 2004, College Park, MD

• Pittcon2004, March 12, 2004, Chicago IL

• Whitehead Institute at MIT, March 10, Cambridge, MA

• Nanotech 2004, March 7 - 11, Boston, MA

• California Institute of Technology, Chemical Physics Seminar, February 24, 2004, Pasadena, CA

• University of Utah, January 20, 2004, Salt Lake City, UT

 2003

• CBST Workshop, December 12, 2003, Davis, CA

• University of California, Biophysics Seminar, November 6, 2003, San Francisco, CA

• IBC “Chips to Hits”, October 28 - 31, 2003, Boston, MA

• National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Workshop on NanoBiotechnology, October 9 - 11, 2003, Arlington, VA

• ACS National Meeting, Physical Chemistry of Complex Fluids, September 7 - 11, 2003, New York, NY

• Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM), “Frontiers in Biological Physics: Signaling Complexes, Membranes, and the Cytoskeleton”, July 25 – 28, 2003, Aspen, CO

• Shanghai-Silicon Valley Seminar on Nanotechnology, July 16, 2003, Menlo Park, CA

• NanoTech 2003, February 23 – 27, 2003, San Francisco, CA

• University of California Davis CBST Seminar, January 17, 2003, Davis, CA

 2002

• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and the Biomedical Engineering Society (EMBS), October 22 – 26, 2002, Houston, TX

• Virtual Arrays, Research Seminar, October, 11, 2002, Sunnyvale, CA

• PNNL – University of Washington Nanoscience and Technology Workshop, September 19 – 20, Seattle, WA

• German and American Symposium: The Frontiers of Chemistry, August 23 – 25, 2002, Durham, NH

• ACS National Meeting, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, August 18-22, 2002, Boston, MA

• CPIMA Forum, Stanford University,August 8, 2002, Stanford, CA

• JASON study, The MITRE Corporation,June 25, 2002, La Jolla, CA

• University of California, Davis, Biophysics Seminar, April 24, 2002, Davis, CA

• ACS National Meeting, Division of Physical Chemistry, April 7 - 11, 2002, Orlando, FL

• MRS National Meeting, Chemical and Biological Sensors-Materials and Devices, April 2 – 4, 2002, San Francisco, CA

• Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory, US-UK Proteomics Scientific Symposium, February 21-22, 2002, Berkeley, CA

• Louisiana State University, Nanotechnology at the Interface of Information Technology, February 7-9, 2002, Baton Rouge, LA

 2001

• University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Research Lab Seminar, November 28, 2001, Santa Barbara, CA

• Stanford Research Institute, November 9, 2001, Menlo Park, CA

• University of California, Berkeley, NanoBio Seminar Series, October 25, 2001, Berkeley, CA

• University of California, Berkeley, Biophysics Retreat, Grinlibakken Conference Center, October 12-14, 2001, Lake Tahoe, CA

• NanoBioTec Congress & Exibition, September 24-27, 2001, Mόnster, Germany

• University of California, Berkeley, Physical Chemistry Seminar, August 28, 2001, Berkeley, CA

• Berkeley in Silicon Valley: New Directions in Chemistry and Engineering, June 9, 2001, Santa Clara, CA

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Washington Office, June 1, 2001, Washington DC

• Merrill Lynch Innovation Grants Forum, May 15, 2001, New York, NY

• Second UC-Wide Bioengineering Symposium, May 6 – 7, 2001, Santa Barbara, CA

• Los Alamos National Laboratory, May 3, 2001, Los Alamos, NM

• The 254 Heraeus Seminar on "Biomolecules at Soft Surfaces", April 20 – 23, 2001, Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany

• Boston University, Bioengineering Departmental Seminar, February 21, 2001, Boston, MA

 2000

• US-Swiss Forum on NanoBioSciences, December 13 – 15, 2000, Princeton, NJ

• University of California, Berkeley, Structural Biology Seminar, November 6, 2000, Berkeley, CA

• Mόnchner Biophysik Kolloquium, June 30, 2000, Technische Universtδt Mόnchen, Ludwig Maximillians Universitδt, and Max-Planck-Institut fόr Biochemie, Mόnchen, Germany

• Princeton University, Physics Departmental Seminar, February 24, 2000, Princeton, NJ

• The University of Chicago, Chemistry Departmental Seminar, January 20, 2000, Chicago, IL

 1999

• Princeton University, Chemical Engineering Departmental Seminar, December 6, 1999, Princeton, NJ

• University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry Departmental Seminar, December 2, 1999, Berkeley, CA

• Keynote Lecture, The Fifth Symposium of the Biophysical Society of Taiwan, May 12 - 15, 1999, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

 1998

• Hong Kong Baptist University, December 10, 1998, Hong Kong

• Academia Sinica, Institute of Chemistry, November 23-24, 1998, Taipei, Taiwan

• National Tsing-hua University, Life Sciences Department, November 20, 1998, Hsinchu, Taiwan

• National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Chemistry, November 16, 1998, Taipei, Taiwan

• National Tsing-hua University, Department of Chemistry, November 6, 1998, Hsinchu, Taiwan

• The Molecular Sciences Institute, July 8, 1998, Berkeley, CA

• Stanford University, Molecular Biophysics Seminar, June 10, 1998, Stanford, CA

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Center for Advanced Materials, May 8, 1998, Berkeley, CA

• Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, March 3, 1998, Cambridge, MA

• Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, January 13, 1998, Beijing, China

 1997

• Qinghua University, November 4, 1997, Beijing, China

• LB8 Eighth International Conference on Organized Molecular Films, August 24-29, 1997, Asilomar, CA

• Princeton University, Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar, August 4, 1997, Princeton, NJ

• 71st American Chemical Society Symposium on Colloid and Surface Science, June 29 - July 2, 1997, Newark, DE

• Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, March 10, 1997, Murray Hill, NJ

 1996

• University of California, Santa Barbara, Macromolecular Seminar, April 5, 1996, Santa Barbara, CA

• Stanford Industrial Affiliates Program, Materials chemistry: Challenges And Opportunities For Industry and Academe, January 14-17, 1996, Asilomar, CA





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