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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     Emad Tajkhorshid     Zaida Luthey-Schulten    Alek Aksimentiev    Other TCB Members

Klaus Schulten

• January 2006, Osaka, Japan, Symposium on Dynamics of Biological Systems
  Lecture: "Large Scale Biomolecular Simulation of Cellular Processes"
   
• March 2006, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Biophysics Recruiting Weekend
  Lecture: "Modelling Cellular Processes"

• March 2006, Frankfurt, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Colloquium
  Lecture: "Towards Understanding Membrane Channels"
   

• March 2006, Frankfurt, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
  Lecture: "Introduction to Protein Structure"
  Lecture: "Statistical Mechanics of Proteins"  
   

• April 2006, Cambridge, MA, Harvard-MIT Seminar
  Lecture: "Towards Understanding Membrane Channels"
   
• May 2006, Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma, Linux Clusters Institute
  Lecture: "Cluster Computing in Everyday Biomedical Research:  Past, Present, and Future"
   
• May 2006, Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania, Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter
  Lecture: "The Role of Molecular Modeling in Bionanotechnology"
   
• May 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, University of California, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, New Physical Approaches to Molecular and Cellular Machines
  Lecture: "Proteins with Mechanical Functions"
   
• May 2006, Frankfurt, Germany, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies
  Lecture: "Recent Conceptual and Methodological Developments in Biomolecular Modeling"
   
• May 2006, Mainz, Germany, Mainz University
  Lecture: "Recent Conceptual and Methodological Developments in Biomolecular Modeling"
   
• May 2006, Mainz, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Science
  Lecture: "In Situ Modeling of Biological and Artificial Channels"
   
• May 2006, Frankfurt, Germany, University of Frankfurt, Deutsche Bank Lectureship
  Lecture: "Inate and Living Matter – Biological Physics in Search of the Secret of Life"
   
• May 2006, Vienna, Austria, University of Vienna, Evolution of Biomolecular Structure / symposium dedicated to Professor Peter Schuster
  Lecture: "What is Life? An Answer Sought from Photosynthetic Bacteria”
   
• May 2006, St. Louis, MO, Washington University, Institute for Complex and Adaptive Matter Workshop / Multiscale Interactions and Dynamics in Biological Systems
  Lecture: "Multiscale Simulation of Protein-DNA and Protein-Lipid"
   
• June 2006, New London, NH, Gordon Conference On Single Molecule Approaches to Biology
  Lecture: "Molecular Mechanisms of Cellular Mechanics"
   
• July 2006, Munich, Germany, Euroscience Open Forum 2006
  Lecture: "Clustering of Function in Biological Cells"

• August 2006, Arlington, VA, National Science Foundation, Workshop on Petascale Computing in the Biological Sciences
  Lecture: "Petascale Computing in the Biosciences - Three Projects Starting Today"

• September 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, 71st Annual Meeting of the U of I Foundation, Mini-symposium on "Computational Medicine"
  Lecture: "Viruses - Seeing the Enemy up Close"

• October 2006, Munich, Germany, Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig Maximilian University
  Lecture: "The Role of Molecular Modeling in Bionanotechnology"

• October 2006, Munich, Germany, Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  Lecture: "Molecular Mechanisms of Cellular Mechanics"

• October 2006, Martinsried, Germany, Max Planck - Institute for Biochemistry
  Lecture: "Structure and Function of Chromatophores of Photosynthetic Bacteria"

• October 2006, Regensburg, Germany, University of Regensberg, Center for Sensory Photoreceptors
  Lecture: "Biochemical Mechanisms for Magnetic Orientation in Animals"

• October 2006, Munich, Germany, Department of Physics, Ludwigs-Maximilian-University, Arnold Sommerfeld Lecture
  Lecture: "In Silico Single Molecule Experiments"

• November 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Structural Biology, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biology
  Lecture: "Introduction to Protein Structure and Dynamics"
  Lecture: "Parameters for Classical Force Fields"

• November 2006, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics Colloquium
  Lecture: "From the Atom to the Cell - The Multi-scale Nature of Living"

• November 2006, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics, Saturday Physics Honor Program
  Lecture: "Physics of the Body"

• November 2006, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics, Physics Colloquium
  Lecture: "Physics - Grasping the Multi-scale Nature of Biological Cells"

• November 2006, Bochum, Germany, Bochum University Conference Center
  Lecture: "PcrA Helicase, a Molecular Motor studied from the Electronic to the Functional Level"

• December 2006, Atlanta, GA, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biology Seminar
  Lecture: "Petascale Computing in the Biosciences - Simulating Entire Life Forms"

• December, 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Presentation to UIUC Provost Linda Katehi
  Lecture: "Overview and Computational Microscopy Mission"
  Lecture: "Training on Computational Biophysics and Summary"

• December, 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Director's Seminar Series
  Lecture: "Turning Advanced Science into Advanced Teaching"
  
• December 2006, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  Lecture: "Petascale Computing in the Biosciences - Simulating Entire Life Forms"

Emad Tajkhorshid

• February 2006, Salt Lake City, UT, 50th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical  Society
  Lecture: "Coupling of Proton Translocation and Protein Conformational Changes  in Lactose Permease"
   
• February 2006, Boston, MA, Brandeis University
  Lecture: "Visualizing the Art of Selective Transport in Membrane Channels at Full Atomic Resolution"
   
• February 2006, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Lecture: "Visualizing the Art of Selective Transport in Membrane Channels at Full Atomic Resolution"
   
• March 2006, Gomadingen, Germany, German Biophysical Society, International  Workshop on "Dynamics of Membranes"
  Lecture: "Visualizing the Art of Selective Transport in Membrane Channels at  Full Atomic Resolution"
   
• March 2006, West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University
  Lecture: "Visualizing the Art of Selective Transport in Membrane Channels at  Full Atomic Resolution"
   
• March 2006, Frankfurt, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
  Lecture: "Unraveling molecular mechanisms of permeation, selectivity, and  gating of membrane channels at full atomic resolution"
   
• September 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, 71st Annual Meeting of the U of I Foundation, Mini-symposium on "Computational Medicine"
  Lecture: "Molecular Water Channels Keep You Healthy"

• November 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Structural Biology, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biology
  Lecture: "Parameters for Classical Force Fields"
  Lecture: "Simulating Membrane Channels"

• December, 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Presentation to UIUC Provost Linda Katehi
  Lecture: "Computational Microscopy of Biological Water Channels"

Zaida Luthey-Schulten

• March 2006, Frankfurt, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biophysics
  Lecture: "Introduction to Bioinformatics"

• September 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, 71st Annual Meeting of the U of I Foundation, Mini-symposium on "Computational Medicine"
  Lecture: "Scientific Basis of Biological Evolution"

• November 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Structural Biology, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biology
  Lecture: "Introduction to Bioinformatics"

Alek Aksimentiev

• February 2006, Salt Lake City, UT, Biophysical Society 50th Annual Meeting
  Lecture: "Computing the Cconductance of a Membrane Channel from All-atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
  Poster: "Silica Parameterization based on Structural Surface Properties and Wetting Behavior for Silica Nanopore Simulation"
  Poster: "Exploring the Electro-Mechanical Properties of Single DNA Molecules with a Synthetic Nanopore"
   
• March 2006, Baltimore, MD, American Physical Society Meeting
  Lecture: "Microscopic Kinetics of DNA Translocation through Synthetic and Biological Nanopores"
   
• March 2006, Ventura, CA, Gordon Research Conference on Protons and Membrane Reactions
  Lecture: "Animating Atomic-detail Structures of Ion-motive ATPases with Molecular Dynamics"
   
• May 2006, Urbana, IL, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
  Lecture: "Atomic Resolution Imaging of Nanodevices with Large Scale Molecular Dynamics"
   
• September 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, 71st Annual Meeting of the U of I Foundation, Mini-symposium on "Computational Medicine"
  Lecture: "Tomorrow's DNA Sequencing"
   
• September 2006, Aussois, France, Gordon Research Conference on Bioelectrochemistry
  Lecture: "Imaging DNA Translocation through Nanopores with Molecular Dynamics"
   
• September 2006, Liege, Belgium, Third Focused Workshop on Electronic Recognition of Bio-molecules
  Lecture: "Forcing Biomolecules through Synthetic and Biological Nanopores"
   
• October 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Nanohour Lecture Series
  Lecture: "Toward Sequencing DNA with a Synthetic Nanopore"
  
  
• October 2006, Fayetteville, AR, University of Arkansas, Department of Physics, Colloquium
  Lecture: "Toward Sequencing DNA with a Synthetic Nanopore"
  
  
• November 2006, Talca, Chile, University of Talca, Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular, Hands-On Workshop on Computational Biology
  Lecture: "Introduction to Biomolecular Modeling with VMD and NAMD"
  Lecture: "All-atom Modeling of Membrane Proteins"
  Lecture: "Advanced Topics: Custom Forces and Bionanotechnology"
   
• November 2006, Talca, Chile, University of Talca, Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular
  Lecture: "Present and Future of Biomolecular Simulations"
   
• November 2006, Urbana, IL, Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Seminar
  Lecture: "Toward Sequencing DNA with a Synthetic Nanopore"
   
• December, 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Presentation to UIUC Provost Linda Katehi
  Lecture: "Computational Microscopy of Synthetic Nanopores for DNA Sequencing"

Other TCB members (includes meetings attended and poster sessions)

• February, 2006, Salt Lake City, UT, Biophysical Society 50th Annual Meeting
  Poster: "A Coarsed Grained Protein-lipid Model with Application to High-density Lipoprotein Particles" (Amy Y. Shih, Anton Arkhipov, Peter L. Freddolino)
  Poster: "Molecular Basis of Gating in Aquaporin Water Channels" (Yi Wang)
  Poster: "Dynamics of the Translocon SecY Investigated through MD" (James Gumbart)
  Poster: "Channel Mediated Gas Transport Across Lipid Membranes" (Yi Wang)
  Poster: "Tertiary and Secondary Structure Elasticity of Ankyrin Repeats" (Marcos Sotomayor)
  Poster: "The Mechanical Stability of the Titin Z1Z2-Telethonin Complex as Revealed by Steered Molecular Dynamics" (Eric H. Lee, Mu Gao)
  Poster: "A Computational Study of ATP Hydrolysis and Force Generation in PcrA Helicase" (Markus Dittrich)
  Poster: "Simulated Forced Closure of an F1-ATPase Subunit Leads to Rotation of the Central Stalk" (Barry Isralewitz)
  Poster: "Structure-Based Model of a Stepping Motor on ssDNA: PcrA Helicase" (Jin Yu)
  Poster: "Gas Migration Pathways Inside Proteins: Application to CpI hydrogenase" (Jordi Cohen)
  Poster: "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Voltage-Gated K+ Channel" (Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi)
  Poster: "Silica Parameterization Based on Structural Surface Properties and Wetting Behavior for Silica Nanopore Simulation" (Eduardo Cruz-Chu)
  Poster: "Coupling of Proton Translocation and Protein Conformational Change in E. coli Lactose Permease" (Ying Yin)
  Poster: "Oxygen Pathways in Myoglobin" (Anton Arkhipov, Jordi Cohen, Rosemary Braun)
  Poster: "The Mechanism of Sugar Transport Across E. coli Lactose Permease" (Ying Yin)
  Poster: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Complete Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus" (Peter L. Freddolino, Anton S. Arkhipov)
  Poster: "Conformational Geometries of Holliday Junction in Conformer Transition" (Jin Yu)

• March 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Stiles Group Lab
  Lecture: "Insights into the Mechanism of Molecular Motors" (Markus Dittrich)
   
• March 2006, Albuquerque, NM, Sandia National Labs
  Lecture: "Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Simulations of Biomolecular Systems"  (Markus Dittrich)
   
• April 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute,  TCBG Cluster Building Workshop
  Lecture: "Linux Clusters for High-Performance Computing: An Introduction" (Tim Skirvin, Jim Phillips)
  Lecture: "Linux Clusters: Details and Case Studies" (Jim Phillips, Tim Skirvin" (Tim Skirvin, Jim Phillips)
   
• November-December 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute,  TCBG Cluster Building Workshop
  Lecture: "Linux Clusters for High-Performance Computing: An Introduction" (Tim Skirvin, Jim Phillips)
  Lecture: "Linux Clusters: Details and Case Studies" (Jim Phillips, Tim Skirvin" (Tim Skirvin, Jim Phillips)
   
• December, 2006, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Presentation to UIUC Provost Linda Katehi
  Lecture: "Computational Microscopy for Photosynthetic Hydrogen Gas Production" (Jordi Cohen)
  Lecture: "Computational Microscopy for Fighting Cardiovascular Diseases" (Amy Shih)
  Lecture: "Computational Microscopy for Fighting Viral Infections" (Peter Freddolino)