CNLS q-bio Seminars

This weekly series of seminars aims to advance predictive modeling of cellular regulation, decision making, and other information processing phenomena. The emphasis is on deep theoretical understanding, detailed modeling, and quantitative experimentation directed at understanding the behavior of particular regulatory systems and/or elucidating general principles of cellular information processing. The seminar series has the same scientific and educational goals as the q-bio Conference and Summer School. CNLS also sponsors a monthly series of q-bio public lectures, which are aimed at disseminating biological knowledge gained through quantitative experimentation and mathematical, computational, and/or statistical analyses of data.

Logistics

• Time: Tuesday, 2:15-3:15 PM, starting September 2, 2008. Speakers will be at LANL all of Tuesday and the preceding Monday or following Wednesday.
• Place: CNLS Conference Room, Building 1690, TA-3, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Schedule

• Past Seminars
• Fall 2009

• Sep 22: Dr. Nikolaos G. Sgourakis, Protein Conformational and Interaction Dynamics by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary studies, RPI

  Oct 1: Boguslaw Stec, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, How proteins acquired their tricks: Physical basis of protein structure and function This seminar is at 10 AM on Thursday, October 1

  Oct 6: Sigfried Musser, Texas A&M University, Single Molecule Fluorescence Studies of Nucleocytoplasmic Transport

  Oct 13: no seminar because of federal holiday on 10/12

  Oct 20: Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman, National Institutes of Health, Artificial Nanopores that Mimic the Transport Selectivity of the Nuclear Pore Complex

  Oct 29: Robert D. Young, Northern Arizona University, Conformation relaxation dynamics of biomolecules NB: this seminar talk is on a Thursday, 10 AM - 11 AM

  Nov 2: Dipak Barua, University of Wisconsin, Rule-Based Computational Modeling of Modular Signaling Protein Interactions This seminar is at 11 AM on Monday, November 2

  Nov 3: Rusty Lansford, California Institute of Technology, Structural and cellular dynamics in vascular development

  Nov 9: Hanna Salman, University of Pittsburgh,Escherichia coli Cultures in Temperature Gradients This seminar is on MONDAY Nov 9th

  Nov 10: no seminar because of federal holiday on 11/11

  Nov 17: Srinivas Iyer, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Proteomic analysis on a MALDI-MS platform

  Nov 24: Jaeymeong Jung, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Single molecule study of disassembly of SNARE complex by NSF/α−SNAP

  Dec 1: Feng Gai, University of Pennsylvania, Kinetics of peptide folding in dehydrated and crowded environments

  Dec 8: Gregor Neuert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Dec 15: Elaine L. Bearer, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Computational modeling of tumor progression: from physical laws to biological prediction

  Dec 16: Guy Dimonte, X-1, A cell kinetics model for prostate cancer and its application to clinical data and individual patients NB: this seminar talk is on a Wednesday, 1 PM - 2 PM

  Dec 22: Erwin Van Meir, Emory University

• Future Seminars

Organizers

• S. "Gnana" Gnanakaran, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• William S. Hlavacek, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Yi Jiang, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Brian Munsky, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Janet M. Oliver, University of New Mexico
• Bridget S. Wilson, University of New Mexico
• Anton Zilman, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Sponsor

• Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS)