Seminar Schedule

Date	Title	Speaker	Affiliation	Notes
April 10, 2007	TBA	Gustavo Carri	University of Akron	TBA
Dec. 19, 2006	TBA	CMU Faculty Member	Carnegie Mellon University	TBA
Dec. 15, 2006	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	11:00AM-12:00 Noon 6014 BST3
Dec. 12, 2006	How Does Voltage Open and Close Potassium Channels? (abstract)	Michael Grabe	Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Pittsburgh	4:00-5:00pm Room 6014 BST3
Dec. 5, 2006	Adventures in Reverse Engineering of Biochemical Networks (abstract)	Pedro Mendes	Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech	3:00 - 4:00pm Room 6014 BST3
Nov. 29, 2006	Computing rates from reaction coordinates with milestoning (abstract)	Ron Elber	Cornell University	TBA
Nov. 14, 2006	Understanding HIV protease inhibition: computational studies of structural dynamics and drug binding (abstract)	Carlos L. Simmerling	Center for Structural Biology, Stony Brook University	4:00-5:00pm Room 6014 BST3
Oct. 31, 2006	Models of G-Protein Coupled Receptor Structure and Function: Past, Present, and Future (abstract)	Marta Filizola	Cornell University	4:00 - 5:00pm Room 6014 BST3
Oct. 24, 2006	Dynamics Of Cellular Traction Forces (abstract)	Micah Dembo	Boston University	4:00 - 5:00pm Room 6014 BST3
Sept 12, 2006	Nucleosome Energy Level Diagrams and Chromatin Structure	Thomas Bishop	Dept. Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA	4:00-5:00pm Room 6014 BST3
August 28, 2006	Computational analysis on residue contacts in protein structures: Applications to structure prediction, folding and stability	M. Michael Gromiha	Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo	12:00 - 1:00pm Room 6014 BST3
April 17, 2006	Single pair FRET (spFRET) for the elucidation of protein/DNA dynamics: recent results and unpublished directions	Sanford Leuba	Dept. of Cell Biology and Physiology, Univ. of Pittsburgh	12:00-1:00pm Room 6014 BST3
March 30, 2006	Estimation of the stiffness of bacterial flagella using flow-induced deformation	MunJu Kim	Dept. of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City	11:00 am - 12:00pm Room 3073 BST3
February 24, 2006	Modeling Biological Development Using the Cellular Potts Model	James Glazier	Indiana Biocomplexity Institute	12:00-1:00pm Room 6014 BST3
December 8, 2005	Statistically Significant Short Blocks Discovered in the Non-Coding Parts of the Human Genome have one or more Instances within nearly all known genes and relate to Specific Biological Processes	Isidore Rigoutsos	IBM's Computational Biology Center	12:00-1:00pm Room 6014 BST3
December 1, 2005	Routes are Trees: The Parsing Perspectives on Protein Folding	Julia Hockenmaier	Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Univ. of Pennsylvania	3:30-4:30pm Room 6014 BST3
November 16, 2005	Multi-scale Modeling of DNA	Wilma Olson	Department of Chemistry Rutgers University	3:00-4:00pm 6th Floor Conference Room BST3
November 10, 2005	Common Functional Dynamics in Proteases	Cristian Micheletti	Statistical and Biological Physics International School for Advanced Studies	12:00-1:00pm Room 3073 BST3
November 9, 2005	Understanding Molecular Evolution from First Principles	Eugene Shakhnovich	Department of Chemistry Harvard University	12:00-1:00 pm 6th Floor Conference Room BST3
November 7, 2005	Prediction of Secondary Structures of Proteins Using a Two-Stage Method	Metin Turkay	Center for Computational Biology and Bioinfromatics Koc Univ. Turkey	4:00-5:00 pm Room 3073 BST3
September 29, 2005	How Cells Eat Stuff: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Phagocytosis	Marc Herant	Biomedical Engineering Boston UNiveristy
September 20, 2005	Algorithmic Challenges in Structural Molecular Biology and Proteomics	Bruce R. Donald	Center for Structural Biology and Comp. Biology Dartmouth University	12:00 – 1:00 pm WPIC Auditorium, WP-2
June 1, 2005	The Stochastic Dynamics of Molecular Motors	Michael Fisher	Institute of Physical Science & Technology Univ. of Maryland	12:00-1:00pm S120 BST
May 9, 2005	Genome-Wide Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation by microRNAS	Bino John	Computational Biology Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	12:00-1:00pm 201 A&B Cancer Pavilion - Herberman Conference Center
May 5, 2005	Computationally Optimized DNA Assembly	Richard Lathrop	Dept. of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine	12:00-1:00pm S123 BST
April 14, 2005	The Plasticity and Structure of Metabolic Networks	Eivind Almaas	Department of Physics University of Notre Dame	10:00-11:00am S100A BST
March 28, 2005	A Ran GTP gradient facilitates the "Search-and-Capture" of Chromosomes	Alex Mogilner	Dept. of Math & Center for Genetics & Development Univ. of California	12:00-1:00 S123 BST
March 16, 2005	Genome-Wide Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation by microRNAS	Bino John	Computational Biology Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	3:00-4:00pm S100 BST
March 15, 2005	Modeling side chain conformations and structural analysis of mutants using contact surface areas	Eran Eyal	Dept. of Plant Science Weizmann Institute of Science	12:00-1:00pm S123 BST
March 14, 2005	Functional Organization of Transcriptional-regulatory Networks	Zoltan N. Oltvai	Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pathology	3:00-4:00 S123 BST
February, 24 2005	Model Systems for Virtual Screening	Brian Shoichet	Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry UCSF	12:00-1:00pm S123 BST
January 21, 2005	Computational Investigations of Protein Regulation by Post Transitional Phosphorylation.	Matt Jacobson	Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry UCSF	12:00-1:30pm S123 BST
November 4, 2004	Simulating, Refining and Modeling Protein Structures at Multi-resolution and Multi-length Scales	Jianpeng Ma	Baylor College of Medicine Rice University
October 5 2004	Cue-Signal-Response Analysis of Cell Decision Processes	Dr. Douglas Lauffenburger	MIT	12:00-1:30pm S100A BST
September 15 2004	Molecular Modeling and Simulations of Membrane Proteins	Dr. Indira Shrivastava	NCI/NIH	10:00-11:00am 995 BST
August 13 2004		Klaus Schulten	Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Tech. Univ. of Illinois
June 15 2004	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 Click here for info
April 15 2004	Folded to bind: In silico predictions of protein-protein interactions	Carlos J. Camacho	Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Boston University	E1195 BST 1:30-2:30
March 4 2004	Interrogative Cell Signaling: How cells perceive their context	Steven Wiley	Biomolecular Systems Initiative Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	S 100A BST 12:00-1:00
March 2 2004	Gene Fossils: A Comprehensive Survey of Pseudogenes in the Human Genome	Zhaolei Zhang	Department of Mol Biophysics & Biochem Yale U	BST 1195 12 noon - 1 pm
March 1 2004	Comp Approaches To Cytoskeleton-Signaling Interactions Underlying Cell Polarity	Ivan V. Maly	MIT Biological Eng'g Division Depts of Biol and Chem Eng'g	BST E1295 3.30 - 4.30 pm
February 26 2004	Continuum Electrostatics and Membrane Peptides/Proteins	Wonpil Im	Department of Molecular Biology The Scripps Res Ins	BST 995 12.30 - 1.30 pm
February 13 2004	Surprising instabilities in prion proteins: Evidence from comp methods applied to se-quences and NMR structures	Dr. Ruxandra Dima	Institute of Physical Sci and Technol Dept. of Chem. andBiochem, U of Maryland	E 1295 BST 12:00-1:00
February 12 2004	Regulation of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: Theory, Computation and Experiment	John Tyson	Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	S 123 BST 12:00-1:00
January 22 2004	Water in confinement: from nanotubes to proteins	Gerhard Hummer	Laboratory of Chemical Physics NIH	12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. in BST South 100A
January 14 2004	Integrative Modeling of Spatial Self-organization in the Cytoskeleton and Cell Signaling	Ivan V. Maly	MIT Biological Eng'g Division Depts of Biology and Chem Eng'g