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Lectures and Talks

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

Klaus Schulten     Laxmikant Kale     Emad Tajkhorshid     Other TCB Members

Klaus Schulten

• February 2004, Urbana, IL, 2004 Physics Faculty Recruitment Talks
  Lecture: "Biophysics Theory"
   
• March 2004, Bonn, Germany, Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, NIC Winter School 2004
  Lecture: "Protein Mechanics"
   
• March 2004, Lake Tahoe, CA, International Workshop Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods
  Lecture: "Multiscale Simulations of Supramolecular Dynamics Demonstrated for Lac Repressor and ATPase"
   
• April, 2004, Washington, DC, NSF/EPSRC US/UK Workshop
  Lecture: "HPC and Grid Computing for Biomolecular Modeling of Membrane Processes" (with Diane Lynch)
   
• April 2004, Chicago, IL, Witnessing in front of the Energy Department, BESAC Subcommittee Meeting
  Lecture: "Software Development in Computational Biology"
   
• May 2004, Tempe, AZ, NSF Workshop on the Role of Theory in Biological Physics and Materials
  Lecture: "Plenary Lecture"
   
• May 2004, Santa Fe, NM, 24th Annual Conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies
  Lecture: "Mechanical Functions of Proteins"
   
• May 2004, Urbana, IL, WUN Bioinformatics on line Video Seminar Series
  Lecture: "Physical Bioinformatics – A Case Study"
   
• June 2004, Perth, Australia, 2004 Summer School in Computational Biophysics
  Lecture: "Introduction to Molecular Dynamics in Biological Systems"
  Lecture: "Computational and Theoretical Biophysics"
   
• June 2004, Washington, DC, P41 Investigator Meeting
  Lecture: "Towards Understanding Membrane Channels"
   
• July 2004, San Diego, CA, JASONs Meeting
  Lecture: "Computational Biophysics"
   
• August 2004, UIUC , Urbana, IL, Biophysics & Computational Biology Non-MCB Faculty Talks
  Lecture: "Theoretical Biophysics"
   
• August 2004, Philadelphia, PA, 228th ACS National Meeting and Exposition
  Lecture: "Single Molecule Electrical Recordings Through Artificial Nanopores, an Experimental - Computational Study"
   
• August 2004, Irvine, CA, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Future Initiatives Conference
  Lecture: "Biological and Synthetic Nanopores for Single Molecule Sorting and Recording"
   
• September 2004, UIUC, Urbana, IL, Applied Math Seminar
  Lecture: "Conceptual and Mathematical Challenges in Computational Biology"
   
• September 2004, Golden, CO, 2004 NREL Computational Biology Workshop
  Keynote address: "Towards Understanding Membrane Channels"
   
• October 2004, UIUC, Urbana, IL, Physics Faculty Retreat
  Lecture: "Theoretical and Computational Biophysics"
   
• October 2004, UIC, Chicago, IL, Symposium on Computational Science of Biomolecules; Applications in Medicine and Therapeutics
  Keynote address: "Physical Bioinformatics: A Case Study"
   
• October 2004, UIUC, Urbana, IL, Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures Program Review
  Lecture: "Theoretical and Computational Biophysics"
   
• October 2004, New York, NY, D. E. Shaw Research and Development Seminar Series
  Lecture: "Biomolecular Modeling Today"
   
• November 2004, UIUC, Urbana, IL, Physics Advisory Board Meeting
  Lecture: "Theoretical and Computational Biophysics"
   
• November 2004, Irvine, CA, Physics Department Colloquium at UC-Irvine
  Lecture: "The Physics of Biological Channels"
   
• November 2004, Urbana, IL, 'Hands-on' Workshop in Computational Biology
  Lecture: "Introduction to Protein Structure and Dynamics"
  Lecture: "Statistical Mechanics of Proteins"
   
• December 2004, Houston, TX, University of Texas Science Center, The John P. McGovern Lectureship in Biomedical Computing and Imaging
  Lecture: "Computational Bio- and Nanoscience"
   
• December 2004, Boston, MA, 'Hands-on' Workshop in Computational Biology
  Lecture: "Introduction to Protein Structure and Dynamics"
  Lecture: "Introduction to Bioninformatics"
  Lecture: "Statistical Mechanics of Proteins"

Laxmikant Kale

• April 2004, Santa Fe, NM, CAC Workshop at IPDPS ’04
  Lecture: "Opportunities and Challenges of Modern Communication Architectures: Case Study with QsNet"
  Lecture: "BigSim: A Parallel Simulator for Performance Prediction of Extremely Large Parallel Machines"
  Lecture: "Performance Modeling and Programming Environments for Petaflops Computers and the Blue Gene Machine"
   
• May 2004, Siebel Center, UIUC, Urbana, IL,  Interactive Molecular Dynamics in Parallel Supercomputers

Emad Tajkhorshid

• February 2004, Baltimore, MD, 48th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society
  Lecture: "Electrostatics Regulation of Substrate Permeation and Selectivity of Aquaporins"
  Lecture: "Structural Basis of Substrate Permeation and Selectivity in Membrane Channels: Lessons from Non-Equilibrium Simulations"
   
• June 2004, Chicago, IL, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
  Lecture: "Selective Transport of Substrates across Biological Membranes: Lessons from Computational Studies of Membrane Channels"
   
• September 2004, Heidelberg, Germany, International Symposium on Retinal Proteins: Experimental and Theory
  Lecture: "Mechanism of Storage of Light Energy in Rhodopsins"
   
• September 2004, Freiburg, Germany, Annual Meeting of the German Biophysical Society
  Lecture: "Novel Mechanisms of Substrate Selectivity in Membrane Channels"
   
• November 2004, Urbana, IL, 'Hands-on' Workshop in Computational Biology
  Lecture: "Simulating Membrane Channels"
   
• December 2004, Boston, MA, 'Hands-on' Workshop in Computational Biology
  Lecture: "Parameters for Classical Force Fields"
  Lecture: "Simulating Membrane Channels"

Other TCB members (includes meetings attended and poster sessions)

• February 2004, Baltimore, MD, Biophysical Society 48th Annual Meeting (Fangqiang Zhu, Jordi Cohen, Marcos Sotomayor, Barry Isralewitz, Markus Dittrich, Timothy Isgro, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Elizabeth Villa, Rosemary Braun, Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi)
  Poster: "QM/MM study of ATP hydrolysis in F 1ATPase" (Markus Dittrich)
  Poster: "Insights into the Molecular Mechanism of Rotation in the Fo sector of ATP Synthase" (Aleksij Aksimentiev)
  Poster: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Nanopore Device for DNA Sequencing" (Aleksij Aksimentiev)
  Poster: "Conformation change during simulated rotation of F 1ATPase central stalk" (Barry Isralewitz)
  Poster: "Molecular Dynamics Studies of SDS Aggregation about GlycophorinA Transmembrane Helix Dimer" (Rosemary Braun)
  Poster: "Lipid Bilayer Pressure Profiles and Mechanosensitive Channel Gating" (Justin Gullingsrud)
  Poster: "Molecular Dynamics of Gating in the Mechanosensitive Channel of Small Conductance MscS" (Marcos Sotomayor)
  Poster: "Mechanical Properties of Ubiquitin Chains" (Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi)
  Poster: "Theory of water permeation in single-file water channels" (Fangqiang Zhu)
  Poster: "Lac repressor-DNA loop dynamics" (Elizabeth Villa)
  Poster: "Molecular dynamics simulations of isolated β–subunits of F 1ATPase" (Ulrich Kleinekathofer)
   
• March 2004, Montreal, Canada, Annual American Physics Society Meeting  (Deyu Lu)
   

• March 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, University of British Columbia
  Lecture: "Nano-devices in Action: Torque-generating Molecular Pump and DNA Sequence Sensor" (Alek Aksimentiev)
   

• April 2004, Santa Fe, NM, IPDPS Conference (Sameer Kumar, Gengbin Zheng)
   
• May 2004, Santa Fe, NM, Statistical Physics of Macromolecules (Jin Yu) 
   
• May 2004, Siebel Center, UIUC, Urbana, IL, Interactive Molecular Dynamics in Parallel Supercomputers (Jordi Cohen, Jay Desouza, Gengbin Zheng)
   
• May 2004, Argonne, IL, APS Users Meeting
  Poster: "Solution X-Ray Scattering from Nanoscale Phospholipid Bilayer - Protein Systems" (Amy Shih)
   
• June 2004, Proctor Academy, Andover, NH, Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Cellular Bioenergetics (Markus Dittrich)
  Lecture: "Insights into the molecular mechanism of ATP synthase"
   
• June 2004, Frauenchimsee, Germany, 11th International Conference on Retinal Proteins
  Lecture: "Molecular dynamics simulation of bacteriorhodopsin's photoisomerization using ab initio forces for the excited state chromophore" (Shigehiko Hayashi)
   

• July 2004, West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University, Linking Bio and Nano
  Lecture: "Sizing DNA with Artificial Nanopores" (Alek Aksimentiev)
   

• August 2004, Philadelphia, PA, American Chemical Society Meeting - Biophysical Chemistry and Novel Imaging of single Molecules and Single Cells
  Lecture: "Single Molecule Electrical Recordings with Artificial Nanopores" (Aleksei Aksimentiev)
   

• September 2004, Liege, Belgium, Focused Workshop on Electronic Recognition of DNA Molecules
  Lecture: "Microscopic Kinetics of DNA Translocation through Nanopores" (Alek Aksimentiev)
   

• October 2004, Arlington, VA, NSF Cyberenabled Chemistry Workshop
  Lecture: "BioCoRE" (Kirby Vandivort)
   
• November 2004, Pittsburgh, PA, IEE/ACM SC2004 Conference
  Lecture: "Exploring Biomolecular Machines with Supercomputers" (James Phillips)
   
• December 2004, Nance, France, INRIA/CNRS ARC Docking Project
  Lecture: "VMD Biomolecular Visualization and Analysis" (John Stone)