Past Seminars

 

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Date

Qing Nie

UC Irvine

Robust and Stochastic Dynamics in Signal Transduction and Developmental Patterning

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04/30/2013

Mike Keiser

SeaChange Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Predicting unexpected off-targets for approved drugs

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04/23/2013

Sasha Levy

Stanford University

High-throughput lineage tracking reveals complex population dynamics in response to environmental change

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04/09/2013

Chenghang Zong

Harvard

Whole Genome Amplification and Sequencing of Single Human Cells

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04/04/2013

Kirill Korolev

MIT

Ecology and evolution of cancer tumors and expanding populations

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03/28/2013

Lucas Carey

Weizmann Institute

Understanding DNA encoded mechanisms of regulation using high-throughput measurements of cell-to-cell variability

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03/13/2013

Daniel Dwyer

Boston University

Quantitative exploration of antibiotic-induced bacterial cell death physiology

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03/12/2013

Danielle Basset

University of California Santa Barbara

Network Architecture and Predictive Dynamics of Brain Systems

03/07/2013

Jianhua Xing

Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University

Physics meets biology: Simplicity out of complexity

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03/05/2013

Zachary Pincus

Yale University

Variability in Longevity and the Origins of Individuality

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02/26/2013

Vikas Nanda

Rutgers University

Computational design of protein misfits

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02/19/2013

David Mobley

University of California, Irvine

Calculating binding free energies from molecular simulations:Blind predictions, model binding sites, and automated planning

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02/12/2013 

Joanna Slusky

Developmental Therapeutics Philadelphia

The ins and outs of charges in membrane proteins

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01/29/2013

Cheemeng Tan

Carnegie Mellon University

Creating Synthetic Biological Systems with Coupled Genetic and non-Genetic Control Elements

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01/22/2013

D. Allan Drummond

University of Chicago

Selection against protein aggregation at the proteome scale

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12/11/2012

Jie Xiao

Johns Hopkins University

Gene regulation at the single-molecule level: transcription factor and DNA looping

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11/13/2012

Gabor Balazsi

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Networks, noise and evolution: Lessons from synthetic gene circuits

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11/06/2012

Lingchong You

Duke University

The inoculum effect and band-pass bacterial response to periodic antibiotic treatment

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10/09/2012

Dave Mathews

University of Rochester Medical Center

 

09/25/2012

Guanyu Wang

George Washington University

Around Singularity, the Connections of Diseases

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09/18/2012

Brandon Xia

Boston University

Biological Networks in Three Dimensions

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09/11/2012

Ron Koder

CCNY

Engineering Artificial Protein Function

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09/04/2012

Claus Wilke

University of Texas at Austin

A structural perspective on protein molecular evolution 

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08/28/2012

Julia Hockenmaier

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Dynamic programming for ab-initio prediction of protein folding routes

05/29/2012

Willy Wriggers

Weill Cornell Medical College

Emergent Complexity of Multiscale Computational Modeling

04/24/2012

Adrian Roitberg

University of Florida, Gainesville

Sometimes a pKa is not a pKa. Protein Simulations at Constant pH

04/17/2012

Yuhai Tu

IBM Watson Research Center

Systems biology of a simple organism: On E. coli\'s memory, computation, and energy cost

 03/20/2012

Jeffrey Gore

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cooperation, cheating, and collapse in microbial populations

01/24/2012

Régis Pomès

University of Toronto

Aggregated Yet Disordered: Towards a Unified Model of Structure and Function in Self-Assembled Elastomeric Proteins

12/13/2011

Markus Seeliger, PhD

Stony Brook University Medical School

Mechanism of a New Class of Highly Specific Src Inhibitors

11/29/2011

Hue Sun Chan, PhD

University of Toronto

Cooperativity, Local-Nonlocal Coupling, and Nonnative Interactions in Protein Folding

11/15/2011

Gregory A. Voth, PhD

University of Chicago

Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: Surmounting the Challenge of Bridging the Scales

11/8/2011

Joel L. Sussman, PhD

Weizmann Institute of Science

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Why are they More Abundant in Higher Organisms?

 

10/25/2011

Joanna Masel, PhD

University of Arizona

Molecular errors, cryptic genetic variation, and evolvability

10/4/2011

Hong Qian, PhD

University of Washington

Mesoscopic Open Biochemical Reaction Systems and Delbruck-Gillespie Processes for Stochastic Biochemical Population Dynamics

9/23/2011

Jhih-Wei Chu, PhD

University of California, Berkeley

Multiscale Simulation for Biomolecular Engineering: Protein Allostery and Cellulose Deconstruction"

9/14/2011

Koby Levy, PhD

Weizmann Institute of Science

Biophysics and evolution of post-translation modification

6/13/2011

Purushottam Dixit

John Hopkins University

Thermodynamics of metal-protein interactions

5/24/2011

Jiang Zhu, PhD

NIAID/NIH

Analyzing CD4 binding site-directed broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibodies by 454 pyrosequencing and computational bioinformatics

5/17/2011

Paul Matsudaira, PhD

National University of Singapore

Dynamics of nm-size droplets of water at the confined-bulk transition

5/12/2011

Jorg Schwender, PhD

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Quantitative Analysis of Metabolic Fluxes in Plants

5/3/2011

Ross Walker, PhD

University of California, San Diego

Supercomputer in a Desktop: Extreme Acceleration of Scientific Applications Using NVIDIA GPUs

4/26/2011

Hao Ge, PhD

Fudan University

Stochastic dynamics in biochemical systems: from single-molecule kinetics to Chemical master equation

4/21/2011

Sebastian Bernhardsson, PhD

Copenhagen University

Structural correlations in bacterial metabolic networks

4/19/2011

Alexey Onufriev, PhD

Virginia Tech

The Simple Approaches to Complex Biology

4/12/2011

Themis Lazaridis, PhD

City College of New York

Modeling Membrane Binding and Permeabilization by Antimicrobial Peptides

03/22/2011

Ronald M. Levy, PhD

Rutgers University

Exploring landscapes for protein binding and folding using replica exchange dynamics, kinetic networks and Markov state models

03/15/2011

Yan Li

Brookhaven National Laboratory

First-Principles Studies of Cellulose I: crystal structure, intermolecular interactions and water adsorption

03/08/2011

Michael Schatz, PhD

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cloud Computing and the DNA Data Race

02/15/2011

Marco Ceruso, PhD

The City College of New York, CUNY

Elnedin: a mixed coarse-grained molecular model for the simulation of protein dynamics and protein interactions

11/30/2010

David R. Langley, PhD

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., R&D

Three-dimensional models of the HIV-1 integration complex

11/16/2010

Lee H. Woodcock, PhD

University of South Florida

Multiscale Modeling as an Avenue to Explore Enzyme Reactivity and Structure

11/02/2010

Kenneth Foreman, PhD

Astellas Pharma

Industrial Strength Computational Chemistry

10/19/2010

Wei Yang, PhD

Florida State University

High Order Generalized Ensemble Methods: A Possible Path to Quantitative Biomolecular Simulations

10/12/2010

Bud Mishra, PhD

New York University

Detectability of Certain Dark-Genome-Matter Candidates: Algorithms for Assembling Genomes Correctly

09/28/2010

Chris Sander, Ph.D.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Systems Biology of Cancer Cells

09/21/2010

Bill Jorgensen, Ph.D.

Yale University

NYAS Chemical Biology Discussion Group Meeting

06/08/2010

Emmanuel Mongodin, Ph.D.

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Pan Genome of Borrelai burgdorferi

05/18/2010

Marta Filizola, Ph.D.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Molecular Recognition, Activation, and Functional Specificity of G-Protein Coupled Receptors as Assessed by Biased Molecular Dynamics

05/04/2010

Distinguished Speakers

Stony Brook University Cancer Center and Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Symposium

Cancer Stem Cells, Differentiation and Metastasis Symposium

04/27/2010

Ken A. Dill, Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of few-particle systems, such as in biology and nanotechnology

04/13/2010

Roberto Sanchez, Ph.D.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Identifying protein-ligand binding sites: combining physics and evolution

04/06/2010

Tomas Lindahl, Ph.D.

London Research Institute

2010 ZICKLER LECTURE

03/30/2010

Daniel Bogenhagen, MD

Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University

Mitochondrial Molecular Systems Biology: From the Origins of Life to Human Disease

03/16/2010

James Glimm, Ph.D.

Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University

Parallel Computing: A Tutorial--Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.

03/15/2010

Danny Bluestein, Ph.D.

Bioengineering, Stony Brook University

Numerical modeling approaches for optimizing cardiovascular devices and enhancing cardiovascular disease diagnostics

03/09/2010

Yingkai Zhang, Ph.D.

Chemistry, New York University

Multiscale Simulation of Histone Modifications

03/02/2010

Wei Zhu, Ph.D.

Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University

New Development in Pathway zhang

02/23/2010

John R. True, Ph.D.

Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University

The genome as an environment: the role of epistatic genes and networks in adaptation and speciation.

02/09/2010

David Case, Ph.D.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University

Critical tests of the quality of protein molecular dynamics simulations in solution and crystals

12/15/2009

Bernard Brooks, Ph.D.

Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Examining Protein Structure and Function using Multi-scale Methods

12/08/2009

Steven Skiena, Ph.D.

Computer Science, Stony Brook University

Genome Sequence Assembly and Synthetic Design: Better Reading and Writing through Algorithmetic

12/01/2009

Ellen Li, M.D., Ph.D

Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Stony Brook University

A novel pathway discovery and analysis paradigm for inflammatory bowel diseases

11/24/2009

Charles M. Fortmann

Materials Science & Engineering; Stony Brook University

The biomechanics of protein folding and applications

11/17/2009

Ken A. Dill, PhD

University of California at San Francisco

Exploring the physical principles of protein folding

11/03/2009

Alex MacKerell, Ph.D.

University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Optimizing ligand-protein interactions via SILCS: Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation

10/27/2009

Eugene V. Koonin, PhD

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Systems biology and universals of genome evolution

10/13/2009

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

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ICB&DD Symposium “Frontiers in Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery”

10/06/2009

Robert Jernigan, PhD

Iowa State University

Functional protein motions

09/29/2009

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

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Laufer Center Inaugural Symposium

09/25/2009

Randy Jirtle, Ph.D.

Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University, Durham, NC

Epigenetics: The New Genetics of Disease Susceptibility

05/19/2009

John Moult, Ph.D

Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

SNPs, Protein Structure, and Disease

05/12/2009

William Studier, Ph.D.

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

Learning from genome sequences of E. coli B and K

05/05/2009

Andrea Califano, Ph.D.

Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Molecular Network analysis reveals master regulators of physiologic and pathologic human phenotypes

04/28/2009

Nicholas Patterson, Ph.D.

The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA

Learning the Genetic History of South Asia from Genome-wide Data

04/14/2009

Michael Hadjiargyrou, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Unraveling the Molecular Basis of Bone Regeneration

03/17/2009

Dax Fu, Ph.D.

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

Novel metallochemistry in zinc transporters: integration of structural, functional and computational analyses

03/10/2009

Steffen Mueller, PhD

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Synthetic DNA technologies - perils and promise for the future of bioscience

02/24/2009

Mickey Atwal, Ph.D.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Natural Selection of Genetic Fidelity

02/10/2009

Jin Wang, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Potential landscape and flux framework of nonequilibrium networks: robustness, dissipation, and coherence of biochemical oscillations

02/03/2009

Michael Zhang, Ph.D.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Computational Dissection of Mammalian Regulation Subnetworks

12/16/2008

Weigang Qiu, Ph.D.

Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College, New York, NY

Lineage-specific genomic variations in Lyme disease bacteria and implications for pathogenesis

12/09/2008

David S. Eisenberg, Ph.D.

University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Structural Insights into Amyloid and Prion Diseases

11/25/2008

David Baker, Ph.D.

Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2008 ADRIEN ALBERT LECTURE - From prediction of structure to design of function

11/21/2008

Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D.

The Simons Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

2008 ZICKLER LECTURE - The p53 Pathway: Cancer, Fertility, Metabolic Control and the Central Nervous System

11/11/2008

Bruce Futcher, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Transcription Circuits, in Shades of Green and Red

11/04/2008

Robert C. Rizzo, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Characterization of drug resistance at the atomic level

10/28/2008

Eli Hatchwell, MA MB BChir (Cantab) DPhil (Oxon)

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

The Future of Personalized Medicine

10/21/2008

Stanley Fields, Ph.D.

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Footprinting the Genome

10/17/2008

Uri Alon, Ph.D.

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Design Principles of Biological Circuits

10/07/2008

John Reinitz, Ph.D.

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Canalization of transcription in the Drosophila blastoderm: from data to dynamical systems

09/23/2008

Sergei Maslov, Ph.D.

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

Modeling biomolecular networks: from metabolism and its regulation to protein-protein interactions

09/16/2008

David F. Green, PhD

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Applied protein design: Engineering molecular interactions in complex systems

09/09/2008