DCB Seminars

Seminars

Upcoming Department Seminars

All Department Seminars are held in 6014 Biomedical Science Tower 3
on Tuesdays at 4:00 PM, unless otherwise indicated.

Scheduled speakers for 2006-2007 academic year – Summer Term
	8/3	Marek Cieplak	Stretching to understand proteins
	8/16	Ken Dill	Protein folding physics, structure prediction, and ligand binding

Scheduled speakers for 2007-2008 academic year – Fall Term
	9/18	Nikolay Borisov	Adapter Proteins of IRS family: a key junction of mitogenic and survival RTK pathways
	10/3*	Rieko Ishima & Michael Widom	The reason to use model-free analysis & Soft modes near the buckling transition of icosahedral shells
	10/31	Tomasz Lipniacki	Stochastic Robustness of NF-kB Signaling
	11/6	Michael Wall	Computational studies of protein function and Dynamics Perturbation Analysis
	11/7*	James Faeder & Lillian Chong
	11/13	Liz Marai	Data-Driven Predictive Modeling of Anatomical Joints (or What Can Computer Graphics Research Do for Biomedical Research?)
	12/5*	Markus Deserno & Rob Coalson
	1/16*	Jeffrey Brodsky


	Scheduled speakers for 2007-2008 academic year – Spring Term
	1/15	Dimitrios Vavylonis	Modeling Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics in Fission Yeast
	2/12	Ilya Nemenman	Information theoretic methods in molecular, structural, and neuro-biology
	2/26	Christopher Lipinski	Drug discovery: changing approaches and the roles of biology and chemistry
	3/4	Rohit Pappu	Driving Forces for Polyglutamine Oligomerization and Implications for Aggregation
	3/18	Hanna Salman	Population Effects On Bacterial Thermotaxis
	3/31	Sebastien Pfeffer	Viral Infections And MicroRNAs
	4/1	Arieh Warshel	Dynamical Contributions to Enzyme Catalysis: Critical Tests of A Problematic Hypothesis
	4/11	Israel Silman	From Acetylcholinesterase to Intrinsically Unfolded Proteins (and Back Again)
	4/15	Nick Sahinidis	Optimization in the New Biology

	*The Pittsburgh Biophysical Theory Club

Other Seminars:
	CMU-Pitt Computational Biology
	Structural Biology/Molecular Biophysics
	Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry
	Biological Sciences
	Biophysical Theory Club

Past seminars

Prior to August 2007