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Date
Title
Speaker
Affiliation
Notes
2007
May 15
Molecular Recognition: Informatics, Entropy,and Design
Michael K. Gilson
University of Maryland
4 pm
6014 BST3
May 1
Multi - resolution Protein Modeling by Combining Theory and Experiment
Cecilia Clementi
Rice University
4 pm
6014 BST3
Apr. 12
Ruled - based Modeling of Signal Transduction
James Faeder
Los Alamos National Laboratory
12:30 pm
3073 BST3
Apr. 10
Coupling Between Protein and Solvent Dynamics: Microscopic Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Gustavo Carri
University of Akron
2 pm
6014 BST3
Mar. 28
Collapse or Collaborate: Using Synthetic Biology and Mathematical Analysis to Study Cooperation
Wenying Shou
Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer left
12 pm
6014 BST3
Mar. 27
One - hit Cell Death in Neurogdegeneration: Evaluation, Implications, and Possible Mechanisms
Geoffrey Clarke
University of Toronto
2 pm
6014 BST3
Mar. 16
Whole - Genome Analyses and Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza A
Elodie Ghedin
University of Pittsburgh
11 am
6014 BST3
Mar. 13
Molecular Interactions: From Transcriptional Regulation to Protein-protein docking
Zhipeng Weng
Boston University
4 pm
6014 BST3
Mar. 2
The Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: A Systematic Approach
Gregory Voth
University of Utah
11 am
6014 BST3
Feb. 8
Computational Methods for Reconstructing Biomolecular Systems and Studying their Evolution
Chen - Hsiang Yeang
University of California, Santa Cruz
11 am
6014 BST3
Feb. 23
How Much Got There and What Did It Do: Computational and Mathematical Techniques in Oncology Drug Discovery
Arijit Chakravarty
Millenium Pharmaceuticals
11 am
6014 BST3
Feb. 21
CaMKII mediates electrical remodeling post-infarction: From in vivo to in silico and back
Thomas J. Hund
Washington University
10 am
6014 BST3
Feb. 19
Function and Evolution of Cis-Regulatory Sequences in the Human Genome: from Extreme Conservation to Human-Specific Divergence
Shyam Prabhakar
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11 am
6014 BST3
Feb. 16
Understanding Biological Networks from a Spectral Graph-Theoretic Perspective
Chakra Chennubhotla
University of Pittsburgh
10 am
6014 BST3
Feb. 5
Deciphering Information Encoded in Dark Matter of the Human Genome
Xiaohui Xie
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
12 pm
6014 BST3
Feb. 1
Genome and Development at Single-Cell Resolution: Automated lineaging and it’s Applications in C. elegans
Zhirong Bao
University of Washington
3 pm
6014 BST3
Jan. 5
Models and algorithms for genomic sequences, proteins and networks of protein interactions
Serafim Batzoglou
Stanford University
11 am
6014 BST3
2006
Dec. 15
Microtubule Array in the Interphase Cell: Spatial and Temporal Organization
Prof. Ivan A. Vorobjev
Laboratory of Cell Motility, A.N. Belozersky Institute, Moscow State University
11 am - 12 pm
6014 BST3
Dec. 12
How Does Voltage Open and Close Potassium Channels?
Michael Grabe
Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Pittsburgh
4 - 5 pm
Room 6014 BST3
Dec. 5
Adventures in Reverse Engineering of Biochemical Networks
Pedro Mendes
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
3 - 4 pm
Room 6014 BST3
Nov. 29
Computing rates from reaction coordinates with milestoning
Ron Elber
Cornell University
Nov. 14
Understanding HIV protease inhibition: computational studies of structural dynamics and drug binding
Carlos L. Simmerling
left for Structural Biology, Stony Brook University
4 - 5 pm
Room 6014 BST3
Oct. 31
Models of G - Protein Coupled Receptor Structure and Function: Past, Present, and Future
Marta Filizola
Cornell University
4 - 5 pm
Room 6014 BST3
Oct. 24
Dynamics Of Cellular Traction Forces
Micah Dembo
Boston University
4 - 5 pm
Room 6014 BST3
Sep. 12
Nucleosome Energy Level Diagrams and Chromatin Structure
Thomas Bishop
Dept. Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
4 - 5 pm
Room 6014 BST3
Aug. 28
Computational analysis on residue contacts in protein structures: Applications to structure prediction, folding and stability
M. Michael Gromiha
Computational Biology Research left (CBRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo
12 - 1 pm
Room 6014 BST3
Apr. 17
Single pair FRET (spFRET) for the elucidation of protein/DNA dynamics: recent results andunpublished directions
Sanford Leuba
University of PittsburghDept. of Cell Biology and Physiology
12 - 1 pm
Mar. 30
Estimation of the stiffness of bacterial flagella using flow - induced deformation
MunJu Kim
University of Utah, Salt Lake CityDept. of Mathematics
11 am - 12 pm
Feb. 24
Modeling Biological Develo pment Using the Cellular Potts Model
James Glazier
Indiana Biocomplexity Institute
12 - 1 pm
2005
Dec. 8
Statistically Significant Short BlocksDiscovered in the Non - Coding Parts of the Human Genome have one or moreInstances within nearly all known genes and relate to Specific Biological Processes
Isidore Rigoutsos
IBM's Computational Biology left
12 - 1 pm
Dec. 1
Routes are Trees:The Parsing Perspectives on Protein Folding
Julia Hockenmaier
University of PennsylvaniaInstitute for Research in Cognitive Science
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Nov. 16
Multi - scale Modeling of DNA
Wilma Olson
Rutgers UniversityDepartment of Chemistry
3 - 4 pm
Nov. 10
Common Functional Dynamics in Proteases
Cristian Micheletti
Statistical and Biological Physics International School for Advanced Studies
12 - 1 pm
Nov. 9
Understanding Molecular Evolutionfrom First Principles
Eugene Shakhnovich
Harvard UniversityDepartment of Chemistry
12 - 1 pm
Nov. 7
Prediction of Secondary Structures of Proteins Using a Two - Stage Method
Metin Turkay
Koc Universityleft for Computational Biology and Bioinfromatics
4 - 5 pm
Sep. 29
How Cells Eat Stuff: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Phagocytosis
Marc Herant
Boston UniversityBiomedical Engineering
Sep. 20
Algorithmic Challenges in Structural Molecular Biology and Proteomics
Bruce R. Donald
Dartmouth Universityleft for Structural Biology and Comp. Biology
12 - 1 pm
June 1
The Stochastic Dynamics of Molecular Motors
Michael Fisher
University of MarylandInstitute of Physical Science & Technology
12 - 1 pm
S120 BST
May 9
Genome - Wide Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation by microRNAS
Bino John
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer leftComputational Biology left
12 - 1 pm
Herberman Conference left
May 5
Computationally Optimized DNA Assembly
Richard Lathrop
University of California, IrvineDept. of Information and Computer Science
12 - 1 pm
S123 BST
April 14
The Plasticity and Structure of Metabolic Networks
Eivind Almaas
University of Notre DameDepartment of Physics
10 - 11 am
S100A BST
Mar. 28
A Ran GTP gradient facilitates the Search - and - Capture of Chromosomes
Alex Mogilner
Univerisity of CaliforniaDept. of Math & left for Genetics & Develo pment
12 - 1 pm
S123 BST
Mar. 16
Genome - Wide Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation by microRNAS
Bino John
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer leftComputational Biology left
3 - 4 pm
S100 BST
Mar. 15
Modeling side chain conformations and structural analysis of mutants using contact surface areas
Eran Eyal
Weizmann Institute of ScienceDept. of Plant Science
12 - 1 pm
S123 BST
Mar. 14
Functional Organization of Transcriptional - regulatory Networks
Zoltan N. Oltvai
University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineDepartment of Pathology
3 - 4 pm
S123 BST
Feb. 24
Model Systems for Virtual Screening
Brian Shoichet
UCSFDept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
12 - 1 pm
S123 BST
Jan. 21
Computational Investigations of Protein Regulation by Post Transitional Phosphorylation
Matt Jacobson
UCSFDept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
12 - 1:30 pm
S123 BST
2004
Nov. 4
Simulating, Refining and Modeling Protein Structures at Multi - resolution and Multi - length Scales
Jianpeng Ma
Rice UniversityBaylor College of Medicine
Oct. 5
Cue - Signal - Response Analysis of Cell Decision Processes
Dr. Douglas Lauffenburger
MITDept.
12 - 1:30 pm
S100A BST
Sep. 15
Molecular Modeling and Simulations of Membrane Proteins
Dr. Indira Shrivastava
NCI/NIH
10 - 11am
995 BST
Aug. 13
Klaus Schulten
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Tech.
June 15
Informatics in Biomed Science and Healthcare: Spanning from the Molecular to the Clinical
Ivet Bahar/ Gregory F. Cooper
CCBB, Pitt
Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium
April 15
Folded to bind: In silico predictionsof protein - protein interactions
Carlos J. Camacho
Boston UniversityDept. of Biomedical Engineering
1:30 - 2:30 pm
E119 5BST
Mar. 4
Interrogative Cell Signaling:How cells perceive their context
Steven Wiley
Biomolecular Systems InitiativePacific Northwest National Laboratory
12 - 1 pm
S 100A BST
Mar. 2
Gene Fossils: A Comprehensive Survey of Pseudogenes in the Human Genome
Zhaolei Zhang
Yale UniversityDepartment of Mol Biophysics & Biochem
BST 1195
Mar. 1
Comp Approaches To Cytoskeleton - Signaling Interactions Underlying Cell Polarity
Ivan V. Maly
MITBiological Eng'g Division
BST E1295
Feb. 26
Continuum Electrostatics and Membrane Peptides/Proteins
Wonpil Im
The Scripps Res Ins.Department of Molecular Biology
BST 995
Feb. 13
Surprising instabilities in prion proteins:Evidence from comp methods applied to se - quences and NMR structures
Dr. Ruxandra Dima
University of MarylandInstitute of Physical Sci and TechnolDept. of Chem. and Biochem
12 - 1 pm
E 1295 BST
Feb. 12
Regulation of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: Theory, Computation and Experiment
John Tyson
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityDept. of Biology
12 - 1 pm
S 123 BST
Jan. 22
Water in confinement:from nanotubes to proteins
Gerhard Hummer
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIH
12 - 1 pm
BST South 100A
Jan. 14
Integrative Modeling of Spatial Self - organization in the Cytoskeleton and Cell Signaling
Ivan V. Maly
MIT Biological Eng'g DivisionDepts of Biology and Chem Eng'g
12 - 1 pm
BST South 100A
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