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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     Alek Aksimentiev    Other TCB Members

Klaus Schulten

• January 2007, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
  Lecture: "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Mechanics of Living Cells"
   
• February 2007, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Department of Physics
  Lecture: "Atomic Level Resolution of Cellular Organelles - The Case of Photosynthetic Chromatophores"
   
• February 2007, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, Physics Faculty Research Talks
  Lecture: "Biophysics Theory"
   
• March 2007, Arlington, VA, National Science Foundation, New Frontiers in Dynamic Systems Workshop
  Lecture: "Brain and Brawn in Nanosystems Modeling"
   
• April 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Foundation Board Meeting 2007
  Lecture: "The Next Revolution in Scientific Computing"
   
• April 2007, Davis, California, University of California, Davis, Department of Applied Science
  Lecture: "Petascale Computing in the Biosciences - Simulating Entire Life Forms"
   
• May 2007, Los Angeles, CA, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
  Lecture: "The Computational Microscope"
   
• May 2007, Austin, Texas, University of Texas, Distinguished Lecture Series in Petascale Simulation
  Lecture: "Petascale Computing in the Biosciences - Simulating Entire Life Forms"
   
• May 2007, Bethesda, Maryland, National Institutes of Health, Structural Biology Interest Group Seminar
  Lecture: "The Computational Microscope"
   
• May 2007, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, Department of Physics, Understanding Complex Systems
  Lecture: "Pruning Degrees of Freedom in Biomolecular Dynamics Simulations through Coarse-graining and Continuum Approaches"
   
• May 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 27th Annual Conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Complexity of Biological and Soft Materials
  Lecture: "How Directional Translocation is Regulated by a DNA Helicase Motor"
   
• June 2007, Albany, NY, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Mini-Symposium on Molecular Machines and the Biology of Movement
  Lecture: "Picosecond-to-millisecond Computational Modeling of the Small Motor Protein PcrA Helicase"
   
• June 2007, Keystone, Co, Summit on Biomechanics
  Lecture: "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Mechanics of Living Cells"
   
• July 2007, Munich, Germany, Technical University of Munich
  Lecture: "The Computational Microscope"
   
• July 2007, Boston, MA, 21st Symposium of the Protein Society
  Lecture: "Studying Protein Elasticity and Unfolding by Single Molecule Experiments in vitro and in silico"
   
• July 2007, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, NCSA, Multicore Workshop
  Lecture: "Early user Experience on the Abe Parallel Computer with NAMD"
   
• August 2007, Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois, CCM Summer Course Cell Mechano-sensitivity
  Lecture: "Life under Tension"
   
• August 2007, Breckenridge, CO, The 8th International Hydrogenase Conference
  Lecture: "A simulation-based Approach for Designing an O2-tolerant Hydrogenase"
   
• August 2007, Boston, MA, 234th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
  Lecture: "Computational Microscopy Merging Crystallographic and Electron Microscope Images"
   
• August 2007, Boston, MA, 234th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
  Lecture: "From Megaflops to Teraflops: From Molecules to Cells"
   
• September 2007, South Kensington, London, UK, Imperial College, Workshop on Multiscale Modelling in Biomolecular Systems
  Lecture: "Amino Acid-based and Shape-based Forward and Backward Coarse Graining Strategies for ms Simulation of Lipid-protein and Protein-protein Assemblies"
   
• September 2007, Upton, NY, Brookhaven National Lab, Computational Biology/Bioenergy Workshop and Mini-Symposium
  Lecture: "Multiscale Biomolecular Modeling from Molecules to Cells"
   
• October 2007, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Life in Motion, Bio-X Symposium 2007
  Lecture: "Computational Approach to Structural Systems Biology"
   
• October 2007, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Student Hosted Physical Chemistry Colloquia Series
  Lecture: "Life Under Tension"
   
• October 2007, University of California, San Diego, CA, Physical Chemistry Seminar
  Lecture: "Life under Tension: The Mechanical Forces of Proteins"
   
• November 2007, University of California, Irvine, Institute for Genomics an Bioinformatics, Distinguished Speaker Series
  Lecture: "The Computational Microscope"
   
• November 2007, San Diego, CA, The Scripps Research Institute, Workshop on Advanced Topics in EM Structure Determination
  Lecture: "Fitting Crystallographic Structures into EM Density Maps. Analyzing Results through Physical Modeling and Computer Graphics"
   
• December 2007, Berkeley, CA, UC Berkeley, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley Structural and Quantitative Biology seminar series
  Lecture: "Multiscale Modeling of Cellular Systems"

Emad Tajkhorshid

• February 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Open House 2007, Computational Microscope: Visualizing Nanodevices at Work
  Presentation: "Molecular Water Pipes in the Human Body"
   
• April 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Foundation Board Meeting 2007
  Lecture: "Visualizing the Molecular Water Pipes of the Human Body at Work"
   
• June 2007, Park City, UT, Membranes and Membrane Proteins Meeting
  Lecture: "Treble role of calcium in membrane binding of blood coagulation factors"
   
• July 2007, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Experimental and Computational Approaches to Understanding Membrane Assemblies and Permeation
  Lecture: "Multiscale Methods to Simulate Membrane Organization: Combining all-atom and coarse-grained models to simulate transport across lipid bilayers"
   
• August 2007, Boston, MA, 234th ACS National Meeting
  Lecture: "Large-scale simulations of gating and transport in membrane channels and transporters"
   
• November 2007, West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University
  Lecture: "Membrane Transport at sub-Angstrom Resolution"

Alek Aksimentiev

• February 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Open House 2007, Computational Microscope: Visualizing Nanodevices at Work
  Presentation: "Transistors with Holes for Sequencing DNA"
   
• April 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Foundation Board Meeting 2007
  Lecture: "Silicon Nanopores for Personal Genomics"


• August 2007, Boston, MA, American Chemical Society Meeting,
  Lecture: "All-atom and Multiscale Modeling of Silicon Bionanodevices"


• September 2007, Ile de Berder, France, Summer school: Biosensing with Channels
  Lecture: "In Silico Single Molecule Recordings Using Biological and Artificial Nanopores"


• September 2007, Lyon, France, CECAM workshop on Ionic Transport: from Nanopores to Biological Channels
  Lecture: "Electric Field-driven Transport of DNA Through Biological and Synthetic Nanopores"


• November 2007 Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University, Department of Physics, Condensed Matter and Biological Physics Seminar
  Lecture: "Synthetic Nanopores for Sequencing DNA"

Other TCB members (includes meetings attended and poster sessions)

• January 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Nanohour Lecture Series
  Lecture: "Exploring Gas Permeability and Gating Mechanism of Aquaporins" (Yi Wang)
   
• January 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Graduate Student Seminar Series
  Lecture: "Computational Studies of Nuclear Pore Complex Transport Dynamics" (Tim Isgro)
   
• February 2007, Baltimore, MD, Biophysical Society 51st Annual Meeting
  Poster: "Tertiary and Secondary Structure Elasticity of Repeat Proteins" (Marcos Sotomayor, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Magnetic Field Effects in Arabidopsis Thaliana Cryptochrome-1" (Ilia A. Solov'yov, Danielle Chandler, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Aquaporin-mediated Gas Conduction across Biological Membranes" (Yi Wang, Jordi Cohen, Walter F. Boron, Klaus Schulten, Emad Tajkhorshid)
  Poster: "Simulation of Protein Translocation in the Bacterial Flagellum" (Zhongzhou Chen, Peter Freddolino, Anton Arkhipov, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Coarsed-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Rotational-induced Structural Transitions in the Bacterial Flagellum" (Peter L. Freddolino, Anton Arkhipov, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Ca⁺² Mediated Membrane Association of the GLA Domain to Anionic Lipid Bilayers" (Y. Zenmei Ohkubo, Emad Tajkhorshid)
  Poster: "Molecular Dynamics Studies of Ionic Conductance through Silica Nanopores" (Eduardo R. Cruz-Chu, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Dynamics of K+ Conduction through Kv1.2" (Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi, Emad Tajkhorshid, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Sugar Transport across Lactose Permease Probed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations" (Ying Yin, Morten Jensen, Emad Tajkhorshid, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Ion Conduction through MscS as Determined by Electrophysiology and Simulation" (Marcos Sotomayor, Valeria Vasquez, Eduardo Perozo, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Assembly of Lipoproteins Revealed by Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations" (Amy Y. Shih, Peter Freddolino, Anton Arkhipov, Stephen G Sliger, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Disassembly of Nanodiscs: Using Coarse-grained MD for Insight into Self-assembly" (Amy Y. Shih, Peter Freddolino, Stephen G Sligar, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Substrate Binding and Translocation in the Leucine Transporter" (Leyla Celik, Birgit Schiott, Emad Tajkhorshid)
  Poster: "Modeling and Simulations of a Bacterial Ribosome" (Leonardo Trabuco, Emma Falck, Elizabeth Villa, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Opening of the Lateral Gate of the Translocon SecY" (James Gumbart, Klaus Schulten)
  Poster: "Secondary and Tertiary Structure Elasticity of Titin Z1Z2 and the Titin Chain" (Eric H. Lee, Jen Hsin, Olga Mayans, Klaus Schulten)
  Lecture (platform presentation): "Stability and Dynamics of Virus Capsids Described by Coarse-Grained Modeling" (Anton Arkhipov, Peter Freddolino, and Klaus Schulten)
   
• February 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Open House 2007, Computational Microscope: Visualizing Nanodevices at Work
  Presentation: "Good Cholesterol" (Amy Shih)
  Presentation: "Views of Viral Infection" (Peter Freddolino and Anton Arkhipov)
  Presentation: "Making Renewable Hydrogen Energy" (Jordi Cohen)
  Presentation: "Proteins that Wrestle DNA" (Elizabeth Villa)
   
• April 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Foundation Board Meeting 2007
  Lecture: "Using Algae to Produce Affordable Hydrogen Energy" (Jordi Cohen)
  Lecture: "Visualizing How Viruses Infect Cells" (Peter Freddolino and Anton Arkhipov)
   
• April 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Student Seminar Series
  Lecture: "Stability and Dynamics of Viruses Described by Computer Simulations" (Anton Arkhipov)


• September 2007, Urbana, IL, Beckman Institute, Beckman Student Seminar Series
  Lecture: "Macromolecular Yoga: Merging Data from Different Resolutions to Reveal Biomolecular Function" (Elizabeth Villa)