PRESENTATION TOPICS

G25.1815

MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE

FALL 2009

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTATIONS:

 

[1]  EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF 12 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 9 MINUTES ON YOUR TALK.  THE REST OF THE TIME IS FOR DISCUSSION.  I WILL CUT YOU OFF AFTER 9 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 3 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 REPEATING 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!!!

TUESDAY, DEC 01

 

1.  Chen Li

 

               C. Zhang, S.H. Ko, M. Su, Y. Leng, A.E. Ribbe, W. Jiang, C. Mao, Symmetry controls the face geometry of DNA polyhedra, J. Am. Chem. Soc.  131, 11413-1415 (2009).

 

2.  Zhenzi Mi

 

               H. Yang, C.K. McLaughlin, F.A. Aldaye, G.D. Hamblin, A. Z. Rys, I. Rouiller, H.F. Sleiman, Metal-nucleic acid cages, Nature Chem. 1, 390-396 (2009).

 

3.  Ling Dai

 

               F.A. Aldaye, P.K. Lo, P. Karam, C.K. McLaughlin, G. Cosa, H.F. Sleiman, Modular construction of DNA nanotubes of tunable geometry and single-or double-stranded character, Nature Nanotech. 4, 349-352 (2009).

 

4.  Anna Powers

 

               I. Severcan, C. Geary, E. Verzemnleks, A. Chworos, L. Jaeger, Square-shaped RNA particles from different RNA folds, NanoLett. 9, 1270-1277 (2009).

 

5.  Yuan-Cho Lee

 

               A. J. Mastroianni, S.A. Claridge, A.P. Alivisatos, Pyramidal and chiral groupings of gold nanocrystals, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 8455-8459 (2009).

 

6.  Yufeng Wang

 

               D. Lubrich, S.J. Green, A.J. Turberfield, Kinetically controlled self-assembly of DNA oligomers, J. Am. Chem. Soc.  131, 2422-2423 (2009).

 

THURSDAY, DEC 03

 

7.  Anna Croom

 

               Y.J. Seo, G.T. Hwang, P. Ordoukhanian, F.E. Romesberg, Optimization of an unnatural base pair toward natural-like replication, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 3246-3252 (2009).

 

8.  Robert Spencer

 

               Y.N. Teo, J.N. Wilson, E.T. Kool, Polyfluorophores on a DNA backbone:  A multicolor set of labels excited at one wavelength, J. Am. Chem. Soc.  131, 3923-3933 (2009).

 

9.  Chia-Ye Hsiao

 

               A. Buxboim, S.S. Daube, R. Bar-Ziv, Ultradense synthetic gene brushes on a chip, NanoLett. 9, 909-913 (2009).

 

10.  Lizheng Zhu

 

               T. Neumann, S. Gajria, M. Tirrell, L. Jaeger, Reversible structural switching of a DNA-DDAB film, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 3440-3441 (2009).

 

11.  Shufeng Li

 

               Y.J. Seo, S. Matsuda, F.E. Romesberg, Transcription of an expanded genetic alphabet, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 5046-5047 (2009).

 

12.  Paul Levine

 

               Y. Ura, J.M. Beierle, L.J. Leman, L.E. Orgel, M.R. Ghadiri, Self-assembling sequence-adaptive peptide nucleic acids, Science 325, 73-77 (2009).

 

TUESDAY, DEC 08

 

13.  Yawei Shi

 

               T.A. Lincoln, G.F. Joyce, Self-sustained replication of an RNA enzyme, Science 323, 1229-1232 (2009).

 

14.  Xiang Gao

 

               B. Hšgberg, T. Liedl, W.M. Shih, Folding DNA origami from a double-stranded source of scaffold, J. Am. Chem. Soc.  131, 9154-9155 (2009).

 

15.  Qi Jiang

 

               J. Sharma, R. Chhabra, A. Cheng, J. Brownell, Y. Liu, H. Yan, Control of self-assembly of DNA tubules through integration of gold nanoparticles, Science 323, 112-116 (2009).

 

16.  Ying Chen

 

               E.S. Andersen, M. Dong, M.M. Nielsen, K.Jahn, R. subramani, W. Mamdouh, M.M. Golas, B. Sander, H. Stark, C.L.P. Oliveira, J.S. Pedersen, V. Pirkedal, F. Besenbacher, K.V. Gothelf, J. Kjems, Self-assembly of a nanoscale DNA box with a controllable lid, Nature 459, 73-76 (2009).

 

17.  Derek Shian

 

               S.M. Douglas, H. Dietz, T. Liedl, B. Hšgberg, F. Graf, W.M. Shih, Self-asembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes, Nature 459, 414-418 (2009).

 

18.  Arun Richard Chandrasekaran

 

               H. Dietz, S.M. Douglas, W.M. Shih, Folding DNA into twisted and curved nanoscale shapes, Science 325, 725-730 (2009).

 

TUESDAY, DEC 15

 

19.  Wenchang Xiao

 

               M.H. Hansen, P. Blakskjaer, L.K. Petersen, T.H. Hansen, J.W. Hojfeldt, K.V. Gothelf, N.J.V. Hansen, A yoctoliter-scale DNA reactor for small-molecule evolution, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 1322-1327 (2009).                           

 

20.  Daniel Margul

 

               S. Modi, S.M.G.D. Goswami, G.D. Gupta, S. Mayor, Y. Krishnan, A DNA nanomacine that maps spatial and temporal pH changes inside living cells, Nature Nanotech. 4, 225-329 (2009).

 

21.  Dong Niu

 

               J.N. Pitt, A.R. FerrŽ-DŐAmare, Structure-guided engineering of the regioselectivity of RNA ligase ribozymes, J. Am. Chem. Soc.  131, 3432-3540 (2009).

 

22.  Tom Carberry

 

               B. Shlyahovsky, Y Li, O. Lioubashevski, J. Elbaz, I. Willner, Logic gates and antisense DNA devices operating on a translator nucleic acid scaffold, ACSNano 3, 1831-1843 (2009).