Past CBM/QBM Seminars
- Fall 2005
- Spring 2005
- Fall 2004
- Spring 2004
- Fall 2003
- Spring 2003
- Fall 2002
- Spring 2002
- Fall 2001
- Spring 2001
- Fall 2000
A schedule of seminars covering biological, physical, mathematical, computational
and materials science topics (including the Campus Theory Seminar series)
may be found on the Science at the
Edge page.
Past Bioinformatic Seminars
(Jointly Sponsored with Department of Statistics and Probability/Department
of Plant Biology)
August 1, 2005
Amar Klar, National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research in Frederick,
Maryland, Fission Yeast Paradigm Used to Explain Genetics of Human
Hand-use Preference, Brain Laterality, Schizophrenia and Biopolar Traits
Top
April 12, 2005
Keith Baggerly, Department of Biostatistics & Applied Mathematics,
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Proteomics, Ovarian Cancer, and Experimental
Design
October 19, 2004
Saunak Sen, University of California San Francisco, Quantitative Trait
Mapping Study Designs from an Information Perspective
Top
2003-2004 Bioinformatics
April 28, 2004
Eve Wurtele, University of Iowa, METNET: Integration of Metabolomic,
Proteomic and Transcriptomic Gene Expression Data
September 17, 2003
Kerby Shedden, Department of Statistics, Center for Statistical Genetics,
Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Identifying
Mechanistic Gene/Drug Associations
September 23
Matthew Young, University of Michigan
Structure and Computational Investigations of Protein Kinase Regulation
and Implications for Drug Therapy Targeting the Bcr-Abl Oncogene
October 14
Jeffrey Gray, Johns Hopkins University
Computational Protein Structure Prediction Applied to Docking, Therapeutic
Antibodies, and Allostery
November 4
Ronen Marmorstein, Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Structure and Chemistry of Histone Modification and Targeting in Chromatin
Regulation
December 2
Andrey Rzhetsky, Columbia University
Of Truth and Pathways
January 28
Marc Kirschner, Harvard Medical School
A Quantitative Description of Signal Transduction: Models as Hypothesis
Generators
February 7
Robert Sterner, University of Minnesota
Stoichiometric Homeostasis as a Creative Force in Ecology and Evolution
February 18
David Rocke, University of California-Davis
Some Principles for the Design and Analysis of Experiments Using Gene
Expression Arrays and Other High-Throughput Assay Methods
March 18
Trey Ideker, University of California-San Diego
Complex Biological Queries on the Protein Interaction Network
April 4
Steve Smith, SUNY Stony Brook
Helix Interactions in Membrane Protein Structure, Function and Disease
April 8
Zhiping Weng, Boston University
Protein-Protein Docking: Algorithm Development and Testing
April 29
Weitao Yang, Duke University
Simulation of Structures and Functions of Proteins with Linear-scale
and Multi-scale Approaches
May 13
Douglas Gage, Pfizer Corporation
Can 'Omics Technologies Help Drug Discovery?
September 24
Gavin Reid, Michigan State University
Quantitative Proteome Analysis by Stable Isotope Labelling and Mass
Spectrometry
October 15
Gianluigi Veglia, University of Minnesota
Probing Intramembrane Protein-Protein Interactions by NMR Spectroscopy
October 22
Evan Dorn, California Institute of Technology
Life Not as We Know It: How Digital Life can Aid
the Search for Extraterrestrial Organisms
November 12
Isabel Novella, Medical College of Ohio
Peculiarities of RNA Virus Evolution
January 23
John Marko, University of Illinois-Chicago
Micromechanical Study of DNA Organization from Protein-DNA Interactions
to Whole Chromosomes
February 13
So Hirata, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Computational" Spectroscopy for Molecules and Polymers
March 5
Peter Kuhn, The Scripps Research Institute
High-Throughput Biophysical Methods in Structural Proteomics and Drug
Discovery
April 2
Stephen Harvey, Georgia Tech
Molecular Modeling Approaches to Understanding Viral Assembly
May 4
Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine
Electron Cryomicroscopy of Macromolecular Complex
Top
September 12
Ioan Andricioaei, University of Michigan
Changes in the Energy Landscape: From simple peptides to a DNA polymerase
complex
October 10
Lydia Kavraki, Rice University
Modeling the Conformational Flexibility of Proteins
October 24
C. Titus Brown, Caltech
Towards an Understanding of Development: Gene Regulatory Networks
and cis-Regulation
November 5
John Schotland, University of Pennsylvania
Jointly sponsored with Math Department
November 7
Teresa Head-Gordon, University California-Berkeley
The Role of Hydration in Protein Structure, Folding and Function
January 21
Shahriar Mobashery, Wayne State University
Antibacterials as Wonder Drugs and How Their Effectiveness is Being
Compromised
February 21
Richard Blevins, Merck & Company
Deep Genome Data Mining - Applications in Drug Discovery
March 14
Wayne Anderson, Northwestern University
Structural Genomics and the Accelerating Pace of Structural Biology
April 9
Normand Mousseau, University of Montreal, Exploring the Energy Landscape
of Proteins
April 11
Laurence Florens, The Scrips Research Institute
A Proteomic View of the Malaria Parasite Life Cycle
April 18
Gregory Voth, University of Utah
The Computer Simulation of Proton Transport in Biomolecular Systems
Top
Fall Semester 2002
September 27, 2002
Andrej Sali, The Rockefeller University
Modeling Structures of Proteins and Protein Assemblies
October 11, 2002
Wilma Olson, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
DNA Structure and Gene Regulation
November 1, 2002
Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University
Enzymes in Action in the NMR Tube: Protein Dynamics During Catalysis
and Signaling
November 8, 2002
Michael Garavito, Michigan State University
The Elephant and the Blind Men: Assessing the Structure and Function
of Prostaglandin Endoperoxide H2 Synthase
Spring Semester 2002
February 26, 2002
Brian Shoichet, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Hits, Leads, and Artifacts from Virtual and High-Throughput Screening
March 22, 2002
Edward Pate, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
The Opening and Closing of the Phosphate-Tube to Myosin and Kinesin-Family
Molecular Motors
April 19, 2002
Jeffrey Skolnick, Danforth Plant Science Center
Prediction of Protein Structure and Function on a Genomic Scale
Fall Semester 2001
October 19, 2001
Joe Landman, MSC Software, Supercomputing
Scalability Matters - Why We Need to Make Bioinformatics Programs
Scalable, and Results from Work on Various Programs
October 26, 2001
Gerhard Hummer, National Institute of Health
Computational Analysis of Water and Proton Movements in Proteins
November 30, 2001
Alexei Stuchebrukhov, University of California-Davis
Charge Transfer in Biological Membranes
Spring Semester 2001
January 12*
Larry Greller, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Research & Development
Dynamics and the Biochemical Basis of Disease
January 19
Chris Adami, California Institute of Technology
Evolution in Digital organisms
February 9
Gunter Wagner, Yale University
The Evolution of Mutational Robustness: Opportunities from Constraints
February 23
Chuck Taylor, University of California-Los Angeles
Population Structure of the Malaria Vector, Anopheles Gambiae,
in Mali, West Africa
April 6
Gloria Elliott, Michigan State University
Death by Freezing: Thermophysical Response of Tissues to Low Temperatures
April 20
Bruce Tidor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Solvation Effects on Protein Folding, Binding and Design: Exploring
the Electrostatic Balance
April 27
Regis Pomes, University of Toronto
Modeling Proton and Water Movement in Proteins
May 4*
Samir Hanash, University of Michigan
Operomics: Integrating Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics
* Jointly sponsored by Campus Theory Seminars
September 8
Marilyn Gunner, CCNY
Protein Motifs That Facilitate Electron Transfer Reactions
September 22
Victoria Roberts, Scripps Research Institute
Antibody Modeling and Remodeling
Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois
Folding Proteins and Synthetic Structure Seekers
December 1*
Larry Greller, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Research & Development
Dynamics and the Biochemical Basis of Disease
December 8
Claus Wilkie, Caltech
Dynamic Fitness Landscapes in Molecular Evolution
* Jointly sponsored by Campus Theory Seminars