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Welcome back! After a brief hiatus, the Structural Biology and Biophysics Interest Group will resume at 12:00 PM this Friday, January 11, 2013. We're meeting in the chemistry conference room, Hand Lab 1135.

The first speaker will be Charles Nettles (Zhang Lab), who will give a talk entitled, "Modification of Protein Fluorescence by Gold Nanoparticles (AuNPs): Inner Filteration, Surface Enhancement, or Fluorescence Quenching." The second speaker is Vu Le (Lewis Lab). He will speak about the influence of the flanking duplex regions on the stability of G-quadruplex conformations.

The holidays are upon us, and the next scheduled SBIG meeting conflicts with a Chemistry reception for the graduate students. Thus, the December meeting has been cancelled, and we'll meet again in January. See you then!

The next meeting of the Structural Biology and Biophysics Interest Group is at 12:00 PM this Friday, November 9, 2012. We'll be meeting in the chemistry conference room, Hand Lab 1135.

The presenter this week is Dr. Job Lopez, a PI in the Biology Department. He'll be speaking about the structural biology aspects of his research program. Job isn't planning to take the entire time, so this week's meeting may run a little short. If you haven't had the opportunity to attend yet, it may be the perfect chance to come and see what SBIG is all about.

The MSU Structural Biology and Biophysics Interest Group meets this Friday, October 12, at 12:00 pm in the Chemistry Department Conference Room, Hand Lab Room 1135. This week we'll have FREE PIZZA, so if you can, please email me so I know how many pizzas to order (nfitzkee at chemistry.msstate.edu). If you forget to email me, don't worry! Please come anyway, and feel free to share this email with anyone who might be interested in structural biology!

Because of a faculty meeting in the Chemistry Department, the September SBIG meeting is going to be pushed back to the third week. To confirm, that will be September 21. More information will be available as the date draws near, so check your emails!

The MSU biology department is hosting the 2012 annual meeting of the South Central Branch of the American Society for Microbiology. If you're interested in attending, please check out this flyer with the dates and details. More information will be posted at the SCB Branch Website, and you can also contact Dr. Janet Donaldson (email) for more details.

It's time for another SBIG meeting! One of our presenters had to cancel this week because of TA training, so we should have a short meeting. Ailin Wang (Fitzkee Lab) will present her research on protein interactions with gold nanoparticles.

We are back in the chemistry conference room this month, Hand Lab 1135. The meeting will start at 12:00 noon and will probably only last 30 minutes or so. As always, all grad students and faculty are welcome to attend.

The next meeting of the Structural Biology and Biophysics Interest Group is at 12:00 PM this Friday, July 13, 2012. This week, we'll be meeting in the Physics building, 135 Hilbun Hall. Please note the location change.

The speakers this week will be Hawa Gyamfi (Fitzkee Lab) and David Wilson (Emerson Lab). Hawa's presentation is titled "Peptide Binding Induces Large Scale Changes in Inter-domain Mobility in Human Pin1." David's talk is titled "Iron(II)-Substituted Carbonic Anhydrase: A Model Enzyme."

Hope to see you there!

Dinesh's talk for the 6/8 meeting will be "Investigation into the unfolding of the DNA quadruplex : effect of loop sequence." Venkata's talk will be "Thermodynamic Studies of Linker Histone H1.0 interaction with Calf-Thymus DNA." Hope to see you Friday!

It's hard to believe it's the second Friday already. This month's presenters are Dinesh Yadav (Fitzkee Lab) and Venkata Maccha (Lewis Lab). Once again, we'll meet in the Chemistry Conference Room (Hand Lab 1135) at 12:00 PM on Friday, June 8th. Hope to see you there!