Past Seminars

• Winter/Spring 2009

  May 12: Wallace Marshall, University of California, San Francisco, The Flagellar Length Control System

  May 5: Christina D. Smolke, Stanford University, Programming RNA Devices to Control Cellular Information Processing

  Apr 28: Michael W. Deem, Rice University, Vaccine Design for Influenza and Dengue Fever

  Apr 21: Arup K. Chakraborty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Understanding adaptive immunity: a crossroad of the physical and life sciences

  Apr 14: Hana El-Samad, University of California, San Francisco, Stochastic Biological Circuits: Noise as a Phenotype

  Apr 7: Harmen Bussemaker, Columbia University, Learning mechanistic models of gene expression regulation from natural sequence variation

  Mar 31: Holger Conzelmann, Harvard Medical School, Model Reduction of Rule-based ODE Models: Exact vs. Approximate Approach

  Mar 24: Mingzhou Song, New Mexico State University, Computational Modeling of Interactions in Dynamic Biological Networks

  Mar 17: Ekaterina Nestorovich, NIH, Biophysics of anthrax toxin inhibition by derivatives of beta-cyclodextrin

  Mar 10: Katia Koelle, Duke University, Simple mathematical models to understand influenza’s complex evolutionary dynamics This lecture will begin at 2:30 instead the usual time of 2:15.

  Mar 3: Aleksandra M. Walczak, Princeton University, Learning design principles from noisy small gene regulatory networks

  Feb 24: Christopher V. Rao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Coordinate regulation of virulence in Salmonella typhimurium

  Feb 17: Andrea Califano, Columbia University, Cellular Network Based Identification of Master Regulators of Physiological and Oncogenic Processes

  Feb 10: Jim Werner, LANL, Tracking single quantum dots in three dimensions: Following cell receptor traffic and membrane topology

  Feb 3: Meredith Betterton, University of Colorado, Theory of microtubule depolymerization by kinesin-8 motors

  Jan 27: Chris Myers, Cornell University, Specificity and satisfiability in biological information processing networks

  Jan 20: Pablo Iglesias, Johns Hopkins University, Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Chemotactic Systems in Biology

  Jan 13: Yinjie Tang, Washington University, St. Louis, 13C-based Metabolic Flux Analysis of Environmental Microorganisms

  Jan 6: Harel Dahari, University of Illinois, Chicago, Modeling hepatitis C virus (HCV) dynamics: Relating intracellular (in vitro) and extracellular (in vivo) HCV kinetics under treatment

• Fall 2008

  Dec 9: Jean Krivine, Harvard Medical School, Modeling dynamic molecular compartments: the bigraphical approach

  Dec 2: William Ryu, University of Toronto, The thermal response and motor behavior of E. coli and C. elegans

  Nov 25: Tomasz Lipniacki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Exploring mechanisms of oscillations in p53 and NF-κB systems

  Nov 18: Karen Sachs, Stanford University, Learning signaling pathway structure from high throughput, multivariate single cell data

  Nov 12: Jin Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences-Max Planck Society Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Genome-scale analysis of protein-protein interaction networks NB: this seminar will be 3:15-4:15 PM on WEDNESDAY, November 12 because of the Veterans Day holiday on Tuesday

  Nov 4: Calin Guet, University of Chicago, A Single-Cell View of Multiple Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli

  Oct 28: Haw Yang, University of California, Berkeley, The Energetics and Mechanistic Roles of Protein Conformational Dynamics

  Oct 21: Lingchong You, Duke University, Biology by design: reduction and synthesis of cellular networks

  Oct 14: Jerome K. Percus, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, The Ubiquity of Power Law Extrapolation of Sub-Threshold Data

  Oct 7: Sotiria Lampoudi, University of California, Santa Barbara, Adapting stochastic simulation to suit biology and biological data to suit simulation

  Sep 30: Ricardo Paxson, The MathWorks, Inc., Modelling of the Mitotic Spindle Assembly Checkpoint using SimBiology

  Sep 23: Frank Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara, Simple Models for Biomembrane Structure and Dynamics

  Sep 16: John Wikswo, Vanderbilt University, The Possibility of Automated Experiments for Inference of Metabolic Models

  Sep 9: Charlie E. M. Strauss, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, On the origin of symmetry in biology: Protein oligomers

  Sep 2: Kathleen B. Hall, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Discovering the role of Protein Dynamics in RNA recognition motifs

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