Lectures and Talks

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Below are lectures, talks, and other presentations given by TCB faculty and other group members in meetings and conferences locally and around the world.

Lectures & Talks 2004

Klaus Schulten    Laxmikant Kale    Emad Tajkhorshid    Other TCB Members

Klaus Schulten

  • February 2005, Long Beach, CA, Biophysical Society 2005 Annual Meeting
    Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Study of Membrane Channel Gating"
     

  • March 2005, Urbana, IL, Biophysics Recruiting Weekend
    Lecture: "Modeling Cellular Processes"
     

  • April 2005, West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University, 100 Years of Physics Accomplishments - "Grande Finale" Symposium
    Lecture: "The Future of Biological Physics"
     

  • April 2005, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Departmental Seminar
    Lecture: “Towards Understanding Membrane Channels”
     

  • April 2005, Atlanta, GA, Georgia Tech, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Frontiers in Macromolecular Simulations
    Lecture: “Molecular Modeling as a Tool in Bioengineering”
     

  • April 2005, Bethesda, MD, National Institute of Health, Martin Karplus Symposium
    Lecture: "From 3 to 3,000,000 Atoms"
     

  • May 2005, Tahoe City, CA, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
    Lecture: "Introduction to Protein Structure"
    Lecture: "Statistical Mechanics of Proteins"
     

  • June 2005, Chicago, IL, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
    Lecture: "Introduction to Protein Structure"
    Lecture: "Statistical Mechanics of Proteins"
     

  • June 2005, San Francisco, CA, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
    Lecture: "Introduction to Protein Structure"
    Lecture: "Statistical Mechanics of Proteins"
     

  • June 2005, Irvine, CA, University of California, Physics Department
    Lecture: "The Physics of Biological Channels"
     

  • June 2005, Bethesda, MD, 2005 Protein Interest Group
    Lecture: "Computational Studies of Membrane Channels"
     

  • June 2005, Bethesda, MD, NIH NCRR/NIBIB PI Meeting
    Lecture: "Towards Understanding Membrane Channels"
     

  • July 2005, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, Chemical Biology Seminar
    Lecture: "Mechanical Functions of Proteins"
     

  • July 2005, Hangzhou China, Zhu Kezhen Distinguished Lecturer
    Lecture: "How Nature Harvests Sunlight"
    Lecture: "Towards Understanding Membrane Channels"
    Lecture: "Mechanical Functions of Proteins"
     

  • July 2005, Paris, France, BioImage Summer School
    Lecture: "Connecting Molecular Simulations to Experiment"
     

  • July 2005, Putney, Vermont, FASEB Summer Research Conference
    Lecture: "Quantum Mechanical/molecular Mechanical Analysis of ATP Synthase"
     

  • August, 2005, Bad Honnef, Germany, 350. Heraeus-Seminar
    Lecture: "Biochemical Mechanisms for Magnetic Orientation Animals"
     

  • August, 2005, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, Molecular and Cellular Biology
    Lecture: "Advances in Molecular Cell Biology and Computational Biophysics"
     

  • September, 2005, Penn State University, 2005-2006 Colloquium Program
    Lecture: "Towards Understanding Membrane Channels"
     

  • September, 2005, UCLA, IPAM Workshop
    Lecture: "Multiscale Simulations of DNA-protein, Protein-lipid Complexes"
     

  • September, 2005, University of Illinois, Department of Physics Colloquium
    Lecture: "What is Life?  An Answer Sought from Photosynthetic Bacteria"
     

  • October, 2005, Tutzing Germany, '87th International Bunsen Discussion Meeting
    Lecture: "Mechanical Functions of Proteins"
     

  • October, 2005, Zurich, Switzerland, ETHZ Workshop Multiscale Modeling and Simulation
    Lecture: "Physics of Photosynthesis"
    Lecture: "The Many Faces of Aquaporins"
    Lecture: "Single Molecule Electrical Recording with Natural and Synthetic Nanoporins
    Lecture: "Proteins with Mechanical Functions"
    Lecture: "Quantum Biology"
    Lecture: "Molecular Double Motor ATP Synthase"
     

  • October-November, 2005, Geneva, Program 3me Cycle Lectures
    Lecture: "Quantum Biology"
    Lecture: "The Many Faces of Aquaporins"
    Lecture: "Proteins with Mechanical Functions"
    Lecture: "Quantum Biology"
     

  • November, 2005, Cold Springs Harbor, Banbury Lab, Banbury Lab Discussion of the Intracellular Environment
    Lecture: "In Situ Molecular Modeling of Cellular Processes"
     

  • November, 2005, Seattle, WA, SC-05 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
    Presentation (NCSA Booth): "Grid-Based NAMD Simulation of Gas Transport in Proteins"
    Presentation (Argonne Teragrid Booth): "Grid-Based NAMD Simulation of Gas Transport in Proteins"
     

  • November-December 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
    Lecture: "Introduction to Protein Structure"
    Lecture: "Statistical Mechanics of Proteins"
     

  • December 2005, Bonn, Germany, FIAS seminar, DFG's Review on Mathematics and Scientific Computing
    Lecture: "Proteins with Mechanical Functions"

Laxmikant Kale

  • September 2005, Knoxville, TN, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Future Technologies Colloquium Series
    Lecture: "Adaptive MPI: Intelligent runtime strategies and performance prediction via simulation"

Emad Tajkhorshid

  • February 2005, Long Beach, CA, Biophysical Society 2005 Annual Meeting
    Poster: "Structural evidence for asymmetric function of passive membrane channels"
    Poster: "Role of water in transient cytochrome c2 docking"
     

  • February 2005, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, 4D Nanostructure Lecture Series
    Lecture: "The Art of Water Conduction in Living Cells"
     

  • May 2005, Tahoe City, CA, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
    Lecture: "Parameters for Classical Force Fields"
    Lecture: "Simulating Membrane Channels"
     

  • June 2005, Chicago, IL, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
    Lecture: "Parameters for Classical Force Fields"
    Lecture: "Simulating Membrane Channels"
     

  • June 2005, San Francisco, CA, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
    Lecture: "Parameters for Classical Force Fields"
    Lecture: "Simulating Membrane Channels"
     

  • October 2005, Philadelphia, PA, Membranes and Ion Channels, e- cheminfo 2005
    Lecture: "Understanding Membrane Transport at Full Atomic Resolution: Molecular dynamics simulations of lipid bilayers and membrane channels"
     

  • October 2005, Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, Biological Membranes: Structure and Function
    Lecture: "Transmembrane Traffic of Materials Through Pure Lipid Bilayers and Membrane Channels"
     

  • October 2005, Chicago, IL, Rush University, Department of Physiology, Departmental seminar
    Lecture: "Visualizing the Art of Selective Transport in Membrane Channels"
     

  • November 2005, New Haven, CT, Yale University, Department of Physiology, Departmental seminar
    Lecture: "Transmembrane traffic of materials through pure lipid bilayers and membrane channels"
     

  • November-December 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
    Lecture: "Parameters for Classical Force Fields"
    Lecture: "Simulating Membrane Channels"

Other TCB members (includes meetings attended and poster sessions)

  • February 2005, Long Beach, CA, Biophysical Society 49th Annual Meeting
    Lecture: "Molecular dynamics simulations of nuclear pore FG repeat proteins binding to importin-beta" (Tim Isgro)
    Lecture: "Computational Study of the Chemo-Mechanical Coupling and ATP Hydrolysis in F1-ATPase" (Markus Dittrich)
    Lecture: "Modeling the Polarizability of Carbon Nanotube Molecular Channels" (Deyu Lu)
    Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Study of an Integrin Ligand Complex" (Mu Gao)
    Poster: "Microscopic Kinetics of DNA translocation through synthetic nanopores" (Aleksij Aksimentiev)
    Poster: "Stretching DNA using artificial Nanopore" (Aleksij Aksimentiev)
    Poster: "Imaging the Permeability of alpha-Hemolysin with Molecular Dynamics" (Aleksij Aksimentiev)
    Poster: "Molecular Dynamics Study of Mechanosensation Proteins Ankyrin and Cadherin" (Marcos Sotomayor)
    Poster: "Multiscale Modeling of Gating and Ion Conduction in the Mechanosensitive Channel of Small Conductance MscS" (Marcos Sotomayor)
    Poster: "Molecular dynamics studies of nucleotide gated ion channel activity of aquaporin-1" (Jin Yu)
    Poster: "Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of GB1 Protein Fibril" (Eric Lee)
    Poster: "Molecular dynamics simulations of discoidal bilayers assembled from truncated human lipoproteins" (Amy Shih)
    Poster: "Molecular dynamics study of substrate permeation and selectivity in E. coli aquaporins GlpF and AqpZ" (Yi Wang)
    Poster: "Evolution of Excitation Transfer Pathways of Photosystem I from Cyanobacteria to Plants" (Melih Sener)
    Poster: "Molecular dynamics simulations of spontaneous and forced motions of isolated subunits of F1-ATP synthase" (Barry Isralewitz)
    Poster: "Mechanical Interactions between Lac Repressor and DNA Loops" (Elizabeth Villa)
    Poster: "Molecular Dynamics Study of KvAP Gating" (Fatemeh Khalili)
     

  • February 2005, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, Beckman Institute, Imaging Technology Group Forum
    Lecture: "Dancing Proteins: 3-D Visualization of Protein Structure and Dynamics on Next-Generation Graphics Hardware" (John Stone)
     

  • February 2005, Rolla, MO, University of Missouri, Department of Computer Science CS Colloquium
    Lecture: "Dancing Proteins: 3-D Visualization of Protein Structure and Dynamics on Next-Generation Graphics Hardware" (John Stone)
     

  • February 2005, West Lafayette, IN, Purdue Univesity, Envision Center
    Lecture: "Dancing Proteins: 3-D Visualization of Protein Structure and Dynamics on Next-Generation Graphics Hardware" (John Stone)
     

  • March 2005, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, 4D Nanostructure Lecture Series
    Lecture: "The Molecular Basis of Hearing" (Marcos Sotomayor)
    Lecture: "Wrestling with DNA - How Proteins Regulate the Genome" (Elizabeth Villa)
    Lecture: "And Then There Was Light - How Nature Harvests Sunlight" (Melih Sener)
     

  • March 2005, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute Open House 2005
    Lecture: "Wrestling with DNA - How Proteins Regulate the Genome" (Alexander Balaeff)
    Lecture: "Wrestling with DNA - How Proteins Regulate the Genome" (Elizabeth Villa)
    Lecture: "The Molecular Basis of Hearing" (Marcos Sotomayor)
    Lecture: "DNA Inside a Nanopore" (Eduardo Chu-Cruz, Alek Aksimentiev)
    Lecture: "Nanodisc" (Amy Shih)
    Lecture: "Nano-soccer" (Deyu Lu)
     

  • April 2005, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, 4D Nanostructure Lecture Series
    Lecture: "Transistors to DNA - Using Nanoscale Electronics for Sequencing Genomes" (Alek Aksimentiev)
     

  • April 2005, Albany, NY, New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center
    Lecture: "Multiscale Modeling of Protein-DNA Complexes" (Elizabeth Villa)
     

  • June 2005, Dresden, Germany, MPIPKS, International Workshop on Classical and Quantum Dynamical Simulations in Chemical and Biological Physics
    Lecture: "Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical simulations of biomolecular systems" (Markus Dittrich)
     

  • July 2005, UIUC, Urbana, IL, Illinois Biophysics Society, Biophysics and Computational Biology Summer Symposium
    Lecture: "When Light Falls in LOV: A Computational Study of a Plant Photoreceptor" (Markus Dittrich)
     

  • July 2005, Biddeford, ME, Gordon Research Conference, Mechanotransduction & Gravity Signaling In Biological Systems
    Lecture Title: "Mechanisms of Mechanosensitive Channels and Mechanical Sensors Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations" (Marcos Sotomayor)
     

  • August 2005, Montpellier, France, IUPAB/EBSA International Biophysics Congress
    Poster Title: "Tertiary and Secondary Structure Elasticity of Repeat Proteins" (Marcos Sotomayor)
     

  • August 2005, Bremen, Germany, Summer School: Biosensing with Channels
    Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of DNA Translocation through Synthetic and Biological Nanopores" (Alek Aksimentiev)
     

  • September 2005, Urbana, IL, Focused Workshop on Electronic Recognition of Biomolecules
    Lecture: "Crawling with DNA Through a Nanopore: Molecular Dynamics Perspective" (Alek Aksimentiev)
     

  • September 2005, Los Angeles, CA, UCLA, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), MA2005 Workshop I: Multiscale Modeling in Soft Matter and Bio-Physics
    Poster: "Mechanical Interactions between Lac Repressor and DNA Loops" (Elizabeth Villa)
     

  • October 2005, Tutzing, Germany, 87th International Bunsen Discussion Meeting on Mechanically Induced Chemistry -Theory and Experiment-
    Lecture Title: "Tertiary and Secondary Structure Elasticity of Repeat Proteins" (Marcos Sotomayor)
     

  • October 2005, Urbana, IL, UIUC, The Beckman Institute, The Eighteenth Annual Cell & Molecular Biology/ Molecular Biophysics Training Grant Research Symposium
    Lecture: "Dynamics of the lac repressor–DNA Complex Revealed by a Multiscale Simulation" (Elizabeth Villa)
     

  • October 2005, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, David Baker Laboratory
    Lecture: "Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Simulations of Biomolecular Systems" (Markus Dittrich)
     

  • November 2005, Seattle, WA, SC|05 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
    Presentation (NCSA Booth): "Grid-Based NAMD Simulation of Gas Transport in Proteins" (Jordi Cohen, Anton Arkhipov, Jim Phillips, Michelle Gower, Rick Kufrin, Klaus Schulten)
    Presentation (Argonne Teragrid Booth): "Grid-Based NAMD Simulation of Gas Transport in Proteins" (Jordi Cohen, Anton Arkhipov, Jim Phillips, Michelle Gower, Rick Kufrin, Klaus Schulten)
     

  • December 2005, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, A. Sali Laboratory,
    Lecture: "Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical simulations of biomolecular systems" (Markus Dittrich)
     

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