TCB Seminars

Fall 2013


	Mon, Dec 16, 2013	Prof. Mark Yeager, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA X-ray structures of the human Cx26 gap junction channel reveal an electrostatic mechanism for calcium-mediated ion selectivity and a model for channelopathies
	Mon, Dec 9, 2013	Asst. Prof. Alan Grossfield, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY Understanding GPCR Function via Computer Simulations at Multiple Resolutions
	Fri, Dec 6, 2013	Dr. Andrew Ferguson, UIUC, Urbana, IL Machine Learning in Soft Materials: Protein folding pathways and materials self-assembly mechanisms
	Fri, Nov 22, 2013	Dr. Ilia Solov"yov, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Quantum Biology of a Magnetic Sense: Physical Principle, Chemical Reality, Biological Purpose
	Mon, Nov 18, 2013	Dr. Marcos Sotomayor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH "Mechanisms and Mechanosensitivity: Inner-Ear Cadherins Gone Wild"
	Mon, Nov 11, 2013	Prof. Isaac K.O. Cann, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology - UIUC , "Clamps and clamp loaders in the archaeal/eukaryotic lineage"
	Fri, Nov 8, 2013	Dr. Anton S. Arkhipov, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA "Architecture and Membrane Interactions of the EGF Receptor"
	Mon, Nov 4, 2013	Prof. Dmitry Matyushov, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Protein Electron Transfer
	Mon, Oct 28, 2013	Assoc. Prof. Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Prediction of Macromolecular structures of protein Interactions
	Mon, Oct 14, 2013	Professor Graham Johnson, University of California, San Francisco, CA "Cell PACK: A Virtual Mesoscope to Model and Visualize Structural Systems Biology"
	Fri, Oct 11, 2013	Dr. Francois Dehez, Nancy University, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France Dangerous liaisons between detergents and membrane proteins. The case of mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2.
	Mon, Oct 7, 2013	Dr. Alessandro Senes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI "Biophysical and comutational analysis of protein-protein interactions in the bacterial divisome and in other systems"
	Mon, Sep 30, 2013	Dr. Jeff Comer, CNRS - Nancy Universite, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France "Constructing diffusive models using Bayesian inference. Applications to conduction in synthetic membrane channels and permeability of lipid bilayers"
	Mon, Sep 23, 2013	Prof. Gunnar F. Schroder, Institute of Complex Systems (ICS-6), Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany CANCELLED "Protein structure and dynamics from cryo-EM data"
	Mon, Aug 26, 2013	Professor Bo Chen, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL A novel coarse-grain model that captures protein backbone structure and its application to simulate the self-assembly of HIV capsid proteins
	Thu, Aug 22, 2013	Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA "Studying the structural origins of microtubule dynamic instability through combining computational modeling and cryoEM"
	Mon, Aug 19, 2013	Dr. Niladri Patra, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL "Activated and Guided Self-Assembly of Graphene Nanostructure"
	Fri, Aug 2, 2013	Ivan Ufimtsev, Stanford University, Stanford, CA GPU (and Epiphany)-Accelerated Quantum Chemistry

Spring 2013


	Fri, Jun 7, 2013	Prof. Dr. Marcus Elstner, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe, Germany “A coarse grained QM/MM approach for the description of charge transfer in DNA and E. coli Photolyase”
	Mon, May 13, 2013	Prof. Jiali Gao, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Connecting protein dynamics with enzyme catalysis
	Mon, Apr 29, 2013	Prof. Vinzenz Unger, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL "Bending Boundaries - Mechanisms and Implications of BAR-Domain Mediated Membrane Remodeling"
	Fri, Apr 26, 2013	Prof. Hei-Chi Chan, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL Gallavotti-Cohen type Fluctuation Theorems (with examples)
	Mon, Apr 22, 2013	Prof. Petra Fromme, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ “ Femtosecond Nanocrystallography: Dawn of a new Era in Structural Biology”
	Fri, Apr 19, 2013	Prof. Hei-Chi Chan, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL Fokker-Planck Equation
	Fri, Apr 12, 2013	Prof. Hei-Chi Chan, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL Jarzynski Equality (with examples)
	Mon, Apr 8, 2013	Profs. Dewey Holten and Christine Kirmaier, Washington University, St. Louis, MO “Electron and Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers and Biohybrid Antenna Complexes”
	Tue, Apr 2, 2013	Prof. Alessandro Laio, Statistical and Biological Physics, Trieste, Italy "METAGUI - A VMD extension to analyze and visualize metadynamics simulations "
	Mon, Apr 1, 2013	Prof. Alessandro Laio, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy “Simulating complex biochemical processes by the combined use of metadynamics and replica exchange”
	Mon, Mar 25, 2013	Prof. Peijun Zhang, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA “Structural Mechanisms of HIV-1 Capsid Assembly, Maturation and Host Cell Restriction ”
	Mon, Mar 11, 2013	Dr. Robert Best, NIDDK, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD "Coarse grained models for protein folding and misfolding in the bacterial chaperonin GroEL"
	Fri, Mar 8, 2013	Prof. Hei-Chi Chan, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL Langevin Equation
	Fri, Feb 22, 2013	Prof. Hei-Chi Chan, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL Random Walks
	Mon, Feb 18, 2013	Dr. Chris Chipot, Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France Free Energy Calculations in NAMD: Practical Aspects
	Mon, Feb 11, 2013	Prof. Jeremy Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN “Computational molecular biophysics for renewable energy, environmental science and drug design”
	Fri, Feb 8, 2013	Prof. Hei-Chi Chan, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL A Quick Tour on Random Variables
	Mon, Jan 28, 2013	Professor Narayana Aluru, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, ILlinois “Quasi-Continuum Theory for Fluids under Confinement”
	Mon, Jan 14, 2013	Professor Adrian Elcock, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA “Development and Application of Molecular Simulation Methods for Modeling Macromolecular Behavior In Vivo”

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