Bahar Lab

Conference Schedule
Year 2014 (January 2014 - December 2014)
June 2014
	Gordon Research Conference on Biopolymers. Salva Regina, Chair of the Conference.
March 2014
	Symposium on "Tracing Pathways in Biomolecular Simulation" held in the 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. Dallas, Texas. Invited Speaker.
Year 2013 (January 2013 - December 2013)
September 15-18, 2013
	Ion Channel meeting. Oleron, France. Invited Featured Speaker.
July 21-26, 2013
	7th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems (7th IDMRCS). Session: Amorphous pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals - physical and chemical stability. Barcelona, Spain. Invited Speaker.
July 1-3, 2013
	NIH -Interdisciplinary Molecular Science and Training (IMST) Program Review Panel - Site Visit for P41 Application. University of Wisconson, Madison. Review Panel.
June 10-14, 2013
	Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group computational biophysics workshop. Pittsburgh, PA, Invited Speaker.
June 3-6, 2013
	"In-silico Drug Design and In-silico Screening" track in Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress 2013 International Conference. Boston, MA, Invited Speaker, Co-Chairman.
May 21, 2012
	UPCI Basic and Translational Seminar Series. University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, PA. Invited Seminar Speaker.
May 14-16, 2013
	GLBIO (Great Lakes Bioinformatics, a conference of the International Society for Computational Biology). Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Keynote Speaker.
May 6-9, 2013
	Symposium "Computational Biology: Then and Today", Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Keynote Speaker.
April 15-19, 2013
	Conference on "Protein Dynamics and Function" Collingwood College, Durham University, UK, and workshop on Protein Dynamics and Function at the Durham Institute of Advanced Study, organized jointly between Durham Biophysics Sciences Institute and the EU Network SoftComp. Invited Speaker.
April 4, 2013
	Women in Medicine & Science Forum, "Advancing in a Male-Dominated Academic Culture" Panel. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Panel Member .
March 7-8, 2013
	Tetralateral Symposium Tsinghua University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Invited Speaker.
January 21-23, 2013
	Review Committee Meeting for The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization. Strasbourg, France. Committee Member.
January 13-18, 2013
	Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Stochastic Physics in Biology. Ventura, CA. Invited Session Chair and Speaker.
January 7-11, 2013
	Collaborative book writing meeting. San Francisco, California.
Year 2012 (January 2012 - December 2012)
December 3-7, 2012
	Zing Conference on Mathematical and Computational Medicine. Xcaret, Mexico. Plenary Speaker.
December 26-30, 2012
	Collaborative book writing meeting at Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, New York.
October 31, 2012
	Pittsburgh SOM/Koç University partnership symposium Symposium. Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, invited speaker at symposium and Bogazici University Chemical Engineering Department.
October 28-29, 2012
	RiMED symposium on Comparative Effectiveness Research & Personalized Medicine. Sicily, Italy, Invited Speaker and advisory board member for RiMed.
October 8-10, 2012
	CECAM Workshop "Signalling pathways: Interplay between microscopic changes and global behavior of biological systems." Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France. Invited speaker.
September 6, 2012
	The Child Health Research Center, CHRC Seminar series, Ohio State University, seminar speaker.
July 24-26, 2012
	Biodynamics Meeting. Buffalo, NY. Keynote Speaker.
June 3-8, 2012
	Gordon Research Conference on Biopolymers. Salva Regina, Newport, RI. Vice Chair.
May 2-4, 2012
	Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium (MPSDC). Chicago, IL.
April 24, 2012
	Seminar at SUNY Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. Invited speaker.
March 7-9, 2012
	EMBO Workshop VIZBI 2012 on Visualizing Biological Data, Visualization of Proteins & Complexes Session, European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Heidelberg, Germany. Invited Speaker
February 25-29, 2012
	56th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA
Year 2011 (January 2011 - December 2011)
December 3-7, 2011
	The Zing Conference on Protein and RNA Structure Prediction, The Ocean Coral, Puerto Morelos, Cancun, Mexico. Invited Speaker
November 4-5, 2011
	Biophysical Society, Fall Executive Board Meeting., Bethesda, MD
October 14, 2011
	Seminar, University of Akron, Department of Polymer Engineering, Akron, Ohio (host: M. Cakmak)
September 16, 2011
	Biochemistry Colloquium, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Arizona. Invited Speaker
July 25, 2011
	NIH/CSR Chair Orientation Session, Cleveland, OH.
July 14-19, 2011
	19th Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 10th Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Program Committee Member, and ISCB Student Council Symposium Keynote Speaker
July 4-7, 2011
	International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Institute Mathematics Initiative (IMI), at IISc, Bangalore, India. Invited Speaker
June 14-18, 2011
	Albany 2011: The 17th Conversation, at the State University of New York at Albany. Invited Speaker
June 13, 2011
	Biophysical Society, Spring Executive Board Meeting , Austin, TX
June 9, 2011
	Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium (MPSDC), Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
June 3-4, 2011
	Annual Meeting, Turkish Academy of Sciences, participation as Principal Member, Istanbul, Turkey
May 18-22, 2011
	The International Congress on Bioinformatics and Biomics, Pine Bay Holiday Resort, Kusadasi, Turkey. Invited Speaker.
March 5-9, 2011
	Biophysical Society 55th Annual Meeting, Baltimore MD. Executive Board Meeting and Session Co-Chair on Molecular Dynamics.
January 3-7, 2011
	Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2011, Kona, Big Island of Hawaii. Invited Speaker. PSB Session on Multi-scale Modeling of Biosystems: From Molecular to Mesoscale.
Fall 2010 (September - December 2010)
December 4-7, 2010
	The Zing Conference on Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, The Ocean Coral, Puerto Morelos, Cancun, Mexico, Invited Speaker
December 1, 2010
	University of Rochester, Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, Rochester, NY
October 30, 2010
	Biophysical Society Executive Board Fall Meeting, Society Office in Bethesda, MD
October 23-27, 2010
	RiMed Foundation Fellowship Interviews, Member, RiMed Foundation Scientific Committee, Palermo, Italy
October 20-23, 2010
	PPS2010 - Polymer Processing Society Istanbul Regional Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, Invited Speaker.
October 14-16, 2010
	Chemical Physics IX Congress, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey. Invited Speaker
September 25-28, 2010
	24th Annual Gibbs Conference in Biothermodynamics, Touch of Nature Conference Center in Carbondale Illinois. Invited Speaker
September 7-8, 2010
	Workshop on 'Coarse-Grained Modelling of Biological Systems', Kavli Royal Society Center, Organized by UK Royal Society to celebrate its 350th anniversary. Kavli, Milten Keynes, UK. Invited Speaker
Summer 2010 (May - August 2010)
August 1-3, 2010
	MERCURY National Conference on Undergraduate Computational Chemistry, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Invited Speaker.
July 21, 2010
	NIH Interdisciplinary Molecular Sciences and Training Review Panel on Computational Biology, Image Processing, and Data Mining. Panel Chair, Washington, DC
July 5-9, 2010
	TSRC, Telluride Workshop on Coarse-Grained Modeling of Structure and Dynamics of Biomacromolecules, Telluride, Colorado. Invited Speaker.
June 24-25, 2010
	NIH NIBIB Training Grantees Meeting. Bethesda, MD
June 22-23, 2010
	Biophysical Society Executive Board Spring Meeting, Society Office in Bethesda, MD
June 6-11, 2010
	Gordon Research Conference on Biopolymers, Session on binding, allsotery and dynamics, Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. Invited Speaker
May 19-21, 2010
	International Bioinformatics and Biomics Congress at Ege University, Kusadasi, Izmir. Invited Speaker
May 14-15, 2010
	Department of Computational and Systems Biology Annual Retreat. Lakeview Resort. Speaker and Session Chair
May 6-7, 2010
	IGMS Glue Grant Meeting, Membrane Proteins Consortium, University of Chicago (co-PI)
Spring 2010 (January - April 2010)
April 29-30, 2010
	Biological Interfaces: A TYC Computational Modelling Workshop, King’s College London Guy’s Campus, New Hunt’s House, London, UK. Invited Speaker.
January 10-15, 2010
	5th Gordon Research Conference on Protein Folding Dynamics, Ventura Beach, CA. Invited Speaker in "Fluctuations in the Native State" section. Talk title: "Functional Dynamics of Proteins: Learning from Ensembles of Structures and Network Models"
January 4-8, 2010
	Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Modeling of Biological Macromolecules, Big Island of Hawaii. Invited Speaker
Fall 2009 (September - December 2009)
Dec 5, 2009
	Featured Speaker for the Annual COB Day, NYU Courant Institute
Nov 11, 2009
	Seminar at City College of New York (CCNY), CUNY.
Nov 1-4, 2009
	Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop in IEEE BIBM 2009; Washington DC; Scientific Program Committee Member
October 29, 2009
	Speaker for the MB/SB Seminar Series, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh
October 21, 2009
	Blue Knot Initiative, United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
October 16-17, 2009
	22nd Annual Student Sponsored Symposium organized by NIH-funded Cell and Molecular Biology and Molecular Biophysics Programs, at the University of Illinois, Keynote Speaker
September 30-October 2, 2009
	NIBIB-HHMI Interdisciplinary Training Workshop, Chevy Chase, MD
September 7-10, 2009
	CECAM workshop on "Coarse-Graining Biological Systems: Towards Large-Scale Interactions and Assembly" EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Invited Speaker
Summer 2009 (May - August 2009)
June 5-10, 2009
	2009 Keystone Symposium on Protein Dynamics, Allostery and Function, Keystone, Organizer, co-organizer: Lila M. Gierasch.
Spring 2009 (January - April 2009)
April 30, 2009
	Seminar at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, U of Pittsburgh
April 28, 2009
	Seminar at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
April 24, 2009
	Seminar at the Center for Simulations and Modeling, University of Pittsburgh
April 14, 2009
	External Advisory Board - Beckman Institute, M & ENS (Mol and Electronic Nanostructures) Division, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
April 5-7, 2009
	External Advisory Board - Beckman Institute, M & ENS (Mol and Electronic Nanostructures) Division, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
March 22-27, 2009
	2009 Spring ACS National meeting Phys. Chem. Symposium on Functional Motions in Enzyme Catalysis, Salt Lake City. Invited Speaker
March 9-10, 2009
	NIH Study Section for renewal of National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways (TCNP), part of the NIH Director’s Roadmap for Medical Research, San Francisco.
February 28 - March 4, 2009
	53rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, Boston Massachusetts, Council Member.
February 1 - 3, 2009
	NSF's Awardees conference, "Building Connections within the Engineering Education Research Community," Reston, VA. Hosted by the NSF's Division of Engineering Education and Centers and Virginia Tech's Department of Engineering Education, requested participant.
January 10-15, 2009
	5th Gordon Research Conference on Protein Folding Dynamics, Ventura Beach, CA. Invited Speaker in "Fluctuations in the Native State" section. Talk title: "Functional Dynamics of Proteins: Learning from Ensembles of Structures and Network Models"
Fall 2008 (September - December 2008)
November 16-17, 2008
	University of Kansas, Member of the External Review Committee
October 17 – 20, 2008
	RiMed Foundation Fellowship Interviews, Invited Speaker and Interviewer, Member, Palermo, Italy, RiMed Foundation Scientific Committee. (UPMC news link)
October 9 – 11, 2008
	8th KIAS-Yonsei Protein Conference, Seoul, Korea, Invited Speaker
October 2-4 , 2008
	2008 BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) Fall Meeting, “Gateway to Innovation”, Invited Speaker.
September 18, 2008
	Seminar at Hebrew University, Biological Sci Dept, Jerusalem, Israel
September 2 and 9, 2008
	Seminars at Weizmann Institute, Structural Biology Department. Rehovot, Israel.
Summer 2008 (May - August 2008)
August 26- Sept 20, 2008
	Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Visiting Professor and Invited Speaker, Department of Structural Biology
August 21-22, 2008
	CMU/Pitt PhD Program Retreat
July 18-19, 2008
	ISMB Annual Satellite Meeting on Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics (3DSig 2008), Toronto. Keynote Speaker
July 19-23, 2008
	ISMB-2008 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Toronto, Canada. Program Committee and Highlights Session Chair.
June 8-13, 2008
	President’s Meeting of the International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology (ISQBP) at the Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, Switzerland. Plenary Lecturer
June 1-2, 2008
	NIH MABS Study Section at NIH, Bethesda, MD
Spring 2008 (January - April 2008)
April 30, 2008
	Case Western Reserve University, Center for Proteomics and Spectrometry, Cleveland, Ohio, Invited Speaker.
April 17, 2008
	BBSI Annual Meeting organized by NSF and NIH/NIBIB, Washington DC.
April 6-10, 2008
	International Symposium on "Multiscale Modeling in Biophysics", Spring 2008 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans, Louisiana. Invited Speaker. (http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/s08/computation.htm)
March 23-29, 2008
	Visiting Scientist at IMA (Institute for Mathematics and Applications) at the University of Minnesota (http://www.ima.umn.edu/)
February 1, 2008
	Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science.
January 28-29, 2008
	NIH MABS study section at San Francisco.
January 19-24, 2008
	Invited Research at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
January 14-18, 2008
	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) workshop on "Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology", University of Minnesota, Invited Speaker. (www.ima.umn.edu)
January 2-3, 2008
	NIH MABS study section at NIH, Bethesda.
Fall 2007 (September - December 2007)
December 18, 2007
	NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) Open House meeting, Chair of a CSR Biomolecular Chartered Study Section
Dec 7, 2007
	Duke University. Seminar
Dec 6, 2007
	McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series. Invited Speaker. www.mirm.pitt.edu/events/seminarseries.asp
Past Conferences
Summer 2007 (May - August 2007)
August 19-23, 2007
	234th Annual ACS meeting in Boston (Invited Speaker) http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetings%5cboston2007%5chome.html
July 29- Aug 3, 2007
	Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design, at Tilton School in New Hampshire (Invited Speaker) http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2007&program=cadd
July 21-25, 2007
	ISMB/ECCB 2007 (15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)). http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/ Invited talk. (Session Chair)
July 8-10, 2007
	EURO Working Group on Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine, Invited talk, Prag. (http://euro2007.vse.cz/)
June 17-22, 2007
	Gordon Research Conference, Proteins Session, Holderness School, Plymouth, NH. - Invited Speaker (http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2007/proteins.htm)
June 4-5, 2007
	NIH MABS Study Section, Bethesda, MD
Spring 2007 (January - April 2007)
April 29 - May 1, 2007
	Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network (MLSCN) Steering Committee meeting in Philadelphia. (Invited Participant)
April 24, 2007
	Seminar at Systems Biology Interest Group at Integrative Computational Biology Lab (http://tango01.cit.nih.gov/sig/home.taf?_function=main&SIGInfo_SIGID=124) CRIIT, NHLBI, NIH.
April 20-21, 2007
	3rd CAPRI (Critical Assessment of PRedicted Interactions) meeting in Toronto. (Invited speaker) http://caprimeeting.ccb.sickkids.ca/speakers.html
March 13, 2007
	Swiss National Meeting of Biological Sciences, Symposium on "Potassium channels: molecular biology, pathophysiology and models", Basel, Switzerland. (First Main Talk) (http://www.swissheartnet.unibe.ch/)
February 11-12, 2007
	NIH MABS Study Section, Bethesda, MD
Jan 10-17, 2007
	UCSF (meeting with KA Dill, RL Jernigan, HS Chan, S Blomberg & Nigel Orme)
Fall 2006 (September - December 2006)
December 11-12, 2006
	Workshop on the Future of BioMolecular Simulations: From Ab Initio to Nano-molecular Machines at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). (Invited speaker) (http://nccs.gov/news/workshops/biomolecular06/index.html)
October 23-24, 2006
	NIH MABS Study Section, Bethesda, MD
October 5, 2006
	"Science 2006: Feel the Power" University of Pittsburgh Annual Science Meeting, Pittsburgh (Spotlight speaker) (http://www.science2006.pitt.edu/)
September 7, 2006
	Systems Biology Symposium, organized at Pennsylvania State University, sponsored by the Huck Life Science Institute and College of Science and Engineering, College Park (PA). (Invited Speaker) (http://www.esm.psu.edu/~mcd18/sysbiol.htm)
Summer 2006 (May - August 2006)
July 31 - August 3, 2006
	Annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, joint with the Society for Industrial and Applied Math (SIAM) Life Sciences (http://www.siam.org/meetings/calendar.php?id=21) at NCSU, Raleigh (North Carolina). (Plenary Lecture) (http://www.siam.org/meetings/ls06/invited.php)
July 26-29, 2006
	"Modeling elastic manifolds, from soft condensed matter to biomolecules" (http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?ida=a05214) at ICTP (Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics), Trieste, Italy, invited speaker
June 26-28, 2006
	HMMI-NIBIB Awardees meeting, NIH, Bethesda, MD
June 11-16, 2006
	Biopolymers Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina University Newport, RI - Invited Speaker (http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2006/biopolym.htm)
May 22-26, 2006
	IPAM Cell and Materials Workshop on Systems Biology and Molecular Modeling at UCLA, and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) - Invited Speaker (http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/cmws4)
May 18-21, 2006
	Symposium on Protein Dynamics - Invited Speaker University of Wisconsin-Madison (http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/steenbock/symposium32/)
Oct 2004 - April 2006