PRESENTATION TOPICS

G25.1815

MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE

FALL 2007

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTATIONS:

[1] EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF 18 MINUTES. PLEASE COME TO CLASS AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE, BECAUSE IF EVERYONE IS THERE WE CAN START. WE WILL START WHEN EVERYONE IS THERE, OR 3:30, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST.

[2] PLAN TO SPEND NO MORE THAN 13 MINUTES ON YOUR TALK. THE REST OF THE TIME IS FOR DISCUSSION. I WILL CUT YOU OFF AFTER 13 MINUTES.

[3] YOU SHOULD USE GRAPHICS TO ILLUSTRATE THE IMPORTANT FIGURES AND POINTS IN THE PAPER. THESE SHOULD BE DERIVED FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION. IF FIGURES ARE IN COLOR IN THE ORIGINAL, YOUR OVERHEADS, IF YOU MAKE THEM, SHOULD BE IN COLOR, AS WELL. START LOOKING FOR YOUR ARTICLES NOW. IF THEY ARE HARD TO FIND IN THE E-JOURNALS AT BOBST, TELL ME. IF YOU START PREPARING YOUR PRESENTATION THE NIGHT BEFORE YOUR TALK, YOU MAY HAVE ONLY GARBAGE TO SHOW. IF YOU USE OVERHEADS, POINT ON THE SCREEN, NOT ON THE PROJECTOR.

[4] EVERYBODY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERY PAPER. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE 5 MINUTES OF DISCUSSION SCHEDULED. YOU WILL BE GRADED ON YOUR DISCUSSION PARTICIPATION. EVERYBODY STARTS WITH A DISCUSSION GRADE OF 'C', A FAILING GRADE FOR A GRADUATE STUDENT. HOWEVER, IF YOU ASK A DUMB QUESTION, INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE NOT READ THE ARTICLE, YOU WILL GET A GRADE BELOW 'C'. GOOD QUESTIONS DO NOT REPEAT WHAT THE SPEAKER JUST SAID, BUT INVOLVE CLARIFICATION OF POINTS RAISED. IF I AM UNSATISFIED WITH THE QUALITY OF DISCUSSION, I WILL GIVE A FINAL EXAM ON THE CONTENT OF THE PAPERS. OTHERWISE I WON'T.

[5] PRACTICE YOUR TALK AT LEAST 30 TIMES!!!

(1) TUESDAY, NOV 20

Aptamer-Tagged Nanoarchitectures -- Johan Guillaume

1. R. Chhabra, J. Sharma, Y. Ke, Y. Liu, S. Rinker, S. Lindsay & H. Yan, Spatially addressable Multiprotein Nanoarrays Templated by Aptamer-Tagged DNA Nanoarchitecturs, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 10304-10305 (2007).

(2) TUESDAY, NOV 20

Guests in Nanoscale Arrays -- Xiaozhuang Zhao

2. F. A. Aidaya & H.F. Sleiman, Guest-Mediated Access to a Single DNA Nanostructure from a Library of Multiple Assemblies, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 10070-10071 (2007).

(3) TUESDAY, NOV 20

DNA Six-Point Stars -- Joy Romulus

3. Y. He, Y. tian, A.E. Ribbe & C. Mao, Highly Connected Two-Dimensional Crystals of DNA Six-Point-Stars, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 15978-15979 (2006).

(4) TUESDAY, DEC 11

Nano-switch Array -- Monica Menzenski

4. D. Liu, A. Bruckbauer, C. Abell, S. Balasubramanian, D.-J. Kang, D. Kieneman & D. Zhou, A Reviersible pH-Driven DNA Nanoswitch Array, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 2067-2071 (2006).

(5) TUESDAY, DEC 11

Nanometronome -- Ricky Silver

5. C. Buranachai, S. A. McKinney & T. Ha, Single Molecule Nanometronome, NanoLett. 6, 496-500 (2006).

(6) TUESDAY, DEC 11

Computational Primitives -- Xiang Xu

6. R.D. Barish, P.W.K. Rothemund & E. Winfree, Two Computational Primitives for Algorithmic Assembly: Copying and Counting, NanoLett. 5, 2586-2592 (2005).

(7) TUESDAY, DEC 11

Molecular Logic Gates -- Mia Huang

7. J. Macdonald, Y. Li, M. Sufovic, H. Lederman, K. Pendri, W. Lu, B.L. Andrews, D. Stefanovic & M.N. Stojanovic, Medium Scale Integration of Molecular Logic Gates in an Automaton, NanoLett. 6, 2598-2603 (2006).