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     Zaida Luthey-Schulten    Emad Tajkhorshid    Alek Aksimentiev     Other TCB Members

Klaus Schulten

  • January 2008, Steamboat Springs, CO, Keystone Symposia J1 2008 - Frontiers of Structural Biology
    Lecture: "The Computational Microscope"
     
  • February 2008, Long Beach, CA, 2008, 52nd Biophysical Society Annual Meeting & 16th IUPAB Intl Congress
    Lecture: "Observing Protein Translocation in SecY and a SecY-Ribosome Complex through Molecular Dynamics"

  • April 2008, St. Louis, MO, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
    Lecture: "How Directional Translocation is Regulated by a DNA Helicase Motor"

  • April 2008, Indianapolis, IN, Eli Lily, Global Drug Discovery Group
    Lecture: "Advances in Molecular Dynamics Simulations"

  • May 2008, University of Illinois, Urbana, 2008 NCSA Private Sector Program Annual Meeting
    Lecture: "The Computational Microscope" (video available here in quicktime or flash)

  • May 2008, Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UCS, 2008
    Lecture: "Brownian Ratchet Seen in Action: How Directional Translocation is Regulated by a DNA Helicase Motor"

  • June 2008, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Grand Challenges in Computational Biology
    Lecture: "The Computational Microscope"

  • June 2008, Sitges, Spain, XXI Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics
    Lecture: "Coarse Graining in Biomolecular Simulations"

  • June 2008, Ascona, Switzerland, 2008 President’s Meeting of the International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology (ISQBP)
    Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations Beyond Microsecond, Beyond Million Atoms, Beyond Present Force Fields"

  • July 2008, Saxtons River, Vermont, FASEB, Molecular Biophysics of Cellular Membranes
    Lecture: "Computational Modeling of Proteins Sensing and Controlling Cellular Membrane Mechanics"

  • August 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Workshop on Nuclear Pore Complex: Biology, Physics and Nanotechnology
    Lecture: "Gating Mechanism of the Nuclear Pore Complex Studied Through Molecular Dynamics"

  • September 2008, Lansing, MIchigan, Michigan State University, Quantitative Biology & Modeling Science at the Edge series
    Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations Beyond Microsecond, Beyond Million Atoms, Beyond Present Force Fields"

  • September 2008, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Erying Lectures in Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Lecture: "Computational Microscopy of the Living Cell"

  • September 2008, University of Arizona, Tempe, AZ, Erying Lectures in Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Lecture: "Physics of Photosynthesis in Purple Bacteria"

  • September 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Siebel Center, UIUC SIAM Student Chapter Colloquia
    Lecture: "Advanced Computing in Biology and Bioengineering"

  • October 2008, Atlanta, GA, Georgia Tech, International Launch Conference, Frontiers in Multi-Scale Systems Biology
    Lecture: "Cellular Systems and Processes viewed through Hybrid Methods of Observation and Modeling"

  • November 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics of Living Cells, Physics Frontier Center
    Lecture: "Physical Mechanism of Protein Elongation In The Ribosome"

  • November 2008, Urbana, IL, Dial Club
    Lecture: "The Animal Compass"

  • December 2008, 161 Noyes, UIUC Chapter, National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
    Lecture: "Making Discoveries in Biology with the Computational Microscope"

  • December 2008, University of Houston, Houston, TX, NCMI Workshop on Single Particle Reconstruction
    Lecture: "Cellular Systems and Processes viewed through Hybrid Methods of Observation and Modeling"

  • December 2008, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, MD, CARB's (Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology) External Speaker Series
    Lecture: "Cellular Systems and Processes Viewed through Hybrid Methods of Observation and Modeling"

Laxmikant Kale
  • July 2008, Seattle, WA, Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) 2008
    Lecture: "Some Essential Techniques for Developing Efficient Petascale Applications"

  • August 2008, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Universal Parallel Computing Research Center
    Lecture: "Simplifying Parallel Programming with Incomplete Parallel Languages"

Zaida Luthey-Schulten

  • February 2008, Washington, DC, U. S. Department of Energy, GTL
    Lecture: "Molecular Signatures of the Past: Coevolution of rRNA and rProteins"

  • February 2008, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Biochemistry Seminar
    Lecture: "Dynamics of Recognition in Protein/RNA Complexes"

  • June 2008, Munich, Germany, Ludwig Maximillian University Munich, Applied Physics Institute
    Lecture: "Dynamics of Recognition in Protein/RNA Complexes: Evolution of Translation"

  • June 2008, Munich, Germany, Technical University Munich, Chemistry Department
    Lecture: "Dynamics of Recognition in Protein/RNA Complexes"

  • August 2008, Philadelphia, PA, ACS Meeting, Computional Chemistry Session
    Lecture: "Dynamics of Recognition in Protein/RNA Complexes:Evolution of Translation"

  • September 2008, Annecy, France, AARS Meeting
    Lecture: "Migration tRNA from GluRs to EF-Tu"

  • September 2008, Phoenix, AZ, Arizona State University, Department of Chemistry Biochemistry
    Lecture: "Dynamics of Recognition and Signaling in Protein/RNA Complexes"

  • October 2008, Indianapolis, IN, Indiana University School of Medicine, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
    Lecture: "On the Evolution of Translation"

  • November 2008, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics Frontier Center Symposium
    Lecture: "Towards Lattice Simulations of in vivo Translation"

  • December 2008, Bowling Green, OH, Bowling Green State University
    Lecture: "On the Evolution of Translation: Dynamics of Recognition in Protein/RNA Complexes"

Emad Tajkhorshid

  • January 2008, Urbana, IL,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Departmental Seminar
    Lecture: "Membrane Transport at sub-Angstrom Resolution"

  • March 2008, Ventura, CA, Gordon Research Conference – Ligand Recognition and Molecular Gating
    Lecture: "Dynamics of Substrate Binding, Gating, and Energy Coupling in Membrane Transporters"

  • March 2008, Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve University
    Lecture: "A Dynamical View of Membrane Transport at Full Atomic Resolution: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Membrane Transporters"

  • March 2008, Sacramento, CA, University of California Davis
    Lecture: "A Dynamical View of Membrane Transport at Full Atomic Resolution: Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Membrane Transporters "

  • May 2008, Ashburn, VA, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, Conference on Force-Gated Ion Channels: From Structure to Sensation
    Lecture: "Ion Binding and Channel Opening of Acid Sensing Ion Channel-1"

  • May 2008, Calgera, Alberta, Canada, University of Calgary
    Lecture: "Visualizing the Art of Active Transport Across Cellular Membranes at Full Atomic Resolution"

  • July 2008, Telluride, CO, Telluride Science Research Center, Protein Electrostatic Workshop
    Lecture: "A Dynamical View of Membrane Transporters - Electrostatic Aspect of Transport"

  • September 2008, New York, NY, New York University
    Lecture: "Visualizing the Art of Active Transport Across Cellular Membranes at Sub-Angstrom Resolution"

  • October 2008, Newark, DE, University of Delaware, Delaware Membrane Protein Symposium
    Lecture: "Dynamics of Active Transport Across Cellular Membranes at Full Atomic Resolution"

  • October 2008, Chicago, IL, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Pharmacology
    Lecture: "An Atomic-Resolution View of Membrane Binding and Activation of Blood Coagulation Factors"

Alek Aksimentiev

  • April 2008, Columbia, MO, University of Missouri at Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, O. M. Stewart Colloquia
    Lecture: "Solid-state Nanopores: Versatile Instruments for Nanotechnology and Life Sciences"

  • April 2008, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Lecture: "Micromechanics of DNA"

  • May 2008, Grenoble, France, INRIA, SeMoVi Seminar
    Lecture: "Modeling Silicon Nanopores for Detection and Manipulation of Single Biomolecule"

  • July 2008, Yorktown Heights, NY, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
    Lecture: "Modeling Silicon Nanopores for Sequencing DNA"

  • September 2008, Liege,Belgium, Fourth Focused Workshop on Electronic Recognition of Biomolecules
    Lecture: "Effective Force, Electro-Osmotic Flow and Charge Inversion in a Solid-State Nanopore"

  • September 2008, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NSF Center for Advanced Materials for Water Purification
    Lecture: "Nanomachines: State of the Art, Perspectives and Challenges"

  • October 2008, Yokohoma, Japan, Yokohama City University, Department of Supramolecular Biology
    Lecture: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of DNA Micromechanics"

Other TCB members (includes meetings attended and poster sessions)

  • February 2008, Long Beach, CA, Biophysical Society 52nd Annual Meeting
    Poster: "Ion Binding Sites of Acid Sensing Ion Channel-1" (Saher Afshan Shaikh, Emad Tajkhorshid)
    Poster: "Multiscale Simulations of Membrane Tubulation by BAR Domains" (Ying Yin, Anton Arkhipov, Klaus Schulten)
    Poster: "Where is the bc1-complex Located in the Photosynthetic Chromatophore?" (Chris Harrison, Danielle Chandler, Jen Hsin, James Gumbart, Klaus Schulten)
    Poster: "The Allosteric Role of the Ca+2 switch in Adhesion and Elasticity of C-Cadherin" (Marcos Sotomayor, Klaus Schulten)
    Poster: "Rhodobacter sphaeroides LH1-RC-PufX Dimer Curves Chromatophore Membranes" (Jen Hsin, James C. Gumbart, Danielle E. Chandler, Christopher Harrison, Pu Qian, Per A. Bullough, C. Neil Hunter, Klaus Schulten)
    Poster: "FG repeatStructure of the Brush-like Mesh Formed by the FG-repeat Nucleoporin Nsp1" (Lingling Miao, Timothy A. Isgro, Klaus Schulten)
    Poster: "Simulation of Protein Translocation Inside the Central Channel of Bacterial Flagellum" (Zhongzhou Chen, Peter Freddolino, Anton Arkhipov, Klaus Schulten)
    Poster: "Complex Formation-Activation of Coagulation Factors at the Negatively Charged Membrane Surface" (Y. Zenmei Ohkubo, Zhijian Huang, Emad Tajkhorshid)
    Poster: "Dissecting Lipid- and Protein-Mediated Exchange of Gas Molecules across Biological Membranes" (Yi Wang, Y. Zenmei Ohkubo, Emad Tajkhorshid)
    Poster: "Extracellular Gating Mechanism of the Glutamate Transporter" (Zhijian Huang, Emad Tajkhorshid)
    Poster: "The Maturation of Human High-Density Lipoprotein Particles: Conversion of Disks to Spheres" (Amy Y. Shih, Stephen G. Sligar, Klaus Schulten)
    Poster: "The roles of the Pore Ring and the Plug in the SecY Protein-conducting Channel" (James Gumbart, Klaus Schulten)
    Lecture (platform presentation): "Molecular Mechanism of Fibrin Clot Elasticity" (Eric Lee)
    Lecture: "Gating charge calculations of the Kv1.2 potassium channel" (Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi)
    Lecture: "Electrostatic Funneling of Nucleotide Binding in the Mitochondrial ADP/ATP Carrier" (Yi Wang)
    Lecture: "Agonist Binding and Allostery in NR3A Receptors" (Chris Harrison, Klaus Schulten)
    Lecture: "Merging Data from Different Resolutions to Reveal Biomolecular Function" (Elizabeth Villa)
    Lecture: "4Pi Microscopy for Fluorescence Microphotolysis and Correlation Spectroscopy" (Anton Arkhipov, Klaus Schulten)

  • March 2008, Macomb, IL, Western Illinois University Physics Department (James Gumbart)
    Lecture: "Bringing Physics to Life: Biological Insights from Computer Simulations"

  • March 2008, New Orleans, LA, American Physical Society March Meeting
    Lecture: "Diffusion Limited Optical Effects in Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes" (Aruna Rajan)

  • March 2008, Telluride, CO, TSRC Workshop on Mechanistic Analysis of Biological Systems with Novel Computational Models
    Lecture: "Maturation of High-density Lipoprotein Particles" (Amy Y. Shih)

  • March 2008, Lake Tahoe, CA, 4th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods
    Poster: "Merging Data from Cryo-EM and X-ray Crystallography to Reveal Biomolecular Function" (Elizabeth Villa, Leo Trabuco, Kakoli Mitra, Jayati Sengupta, Joachim Frank, Klaus Schulten)

  • April 2008, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
    Lecture: "Structural Dynamics of Protein-DNA Complexes Revealed by Multiscale Simulations"

  • August, 2008, Osaka, Japan, XXI Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Interface between Cryo-EM and Crystallography Microsymposium
    Lecture: "Merging Data from Different Resolutions to Reveal Biomolecular Function" (Elizabeth Villa)

  • August 2008, Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania, Center of Molecular Modeling, Workshop on QM/MM Simulations
    Lecture: "QM/MM in NAMD" (Chris Harrison)

  • September 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire Workshop, Membrane Protein Assembly: Theory and Experiment
    Lecture: "Bending of the Chromatophore Membrane Through Core Complex Dimerization: A Molecular Dynamics and Electron Microscopy Investigation" (Jen Hsin)

  • September 2008, San Francisco, CA, American Society for Cell Biology
    Lecture: "Ribosome-induced Changes in EF-Tu Conformation: Mechanism of GTP Hydrolysis" (Elizabeth Villa)

  • September 2008, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, CSHL Meeting on Translational Control
    Lecture: "Ribosome-induced Changes in EF-Tu Conformation: Mechanism of GTP Hydrolysis" (Elizabeth Villa)

  • October 2008, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute Student Seminar Series
    Lecture: "Ribosome-induced Changes in EF-Tu Conformation Control GTP Hydrolysis" (Leonardo Trabuco)

  • November 2008, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cell and Molecular Biology & Molecular Biophysics Training Grants - 21st Annual Research Symposium
    Lecture: "Merging Data from Cryo-EM and X-ray Crystallography to Reveal Biomolecular Function" (Leonardo Trabuco)

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