Unless otherwise noted, the seminar will take place at 2:00-3:00 pm in POB 6.304. Students or postdocs that are interested in talking with the speaker should contact Melibea (melibea@ices.utexas.edu) to join a lunch with the speaker in POB 4.304 (formerly ACE 4.304)
The following MBP Seminars are currently scheduled for 2016-2017. Contact Melibea if you wish to schedule a speaker.
(Past seminars are listed following the current seminars).
CURRENT SEMINARS
2016
Monday, September 26
Silvina Matysiak, University of Maryland, Hydrophobicity Versus Dipole Interactions in Self-Assembly Processes
Monday, October 3
Jiali Gao, University of Minnesota, and Jilin University, Changchun, China,
Control of Water by Protein Functional Dynamics in Two Photoreceptors
Monday, October 31
Michael Grabe, University of California, San Francisco, "Continuum and atomistic simulations of protein mediated membrane deformation"
Monday, November 21
George Stan, University of Cincinnati, "TBA"
2017
Monday, January 30
Rui Sousa, UT Health Science Center - San Antonio, TBA
Wednesday, March 1
Joseph J. Loparo, Harvard Medical School, TBA
Monday, April 24
Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University, TBA
PAST SEMINARS (beginning 2014)
2014
Monday, December 8
Mark Stevens, Sandia Laboratories, "Self-assembly of Model Microtubules: Shape, Chirality and Twist"
2015
Monday, January 12
Chung Wong, University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Incorporating Protein Flexibility in Structure-Based Drug Design"
Monday, January 26
Anatoly Kolomeisky, Rice University, "How to Understand the Formation of Signaling Molecules Profiles in Biological Development"
Monday, March 30
Guowei Wei, Michigan State University, "Geometric and Topological Modeling of Biomolecules"
Monday, April 13
BIOPHYSICS DAY
Monday, April 20
Michael Woodside, University of Alberta, "Observing the physics of folding in single molecules: energy landscapes and conformational diffusion"
Monday, April 27
Ruhong Zhou, Watson/IBM, "Modeling Nanotoxicity: Molecular Simulation of Protein-Nanoparticle Interactions and their Implications in Nanomedicine"
Monday, November 2
Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, "Computational Methods for Data-Driven Study of Protein Structure and Function"
2016
Friday, January 15
Yaakov (Koby) Levy, Weizmann Institute, "Protein-DNA Interactions: Fine balance Between High Affinity and Fast Kinetics"
Monday, April 18
Thomas Perkins, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Probing protein folding using state-of-the-art atomic force microscopy"
Thursday, April 28 (Part of Membrane/Biophysics Day)
Stephen White, University of California - Irvine, "Membrane Protein Folding: Biology Meets Thermodynamics"
2014
Monday, December 8
Mark Stevens, Sandia Laboratories, "Self-assembly of Model Microtubules: Shape, Chirality and Twist"
2015
Monday, January 12
Chung Wong, University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Incorporating Protein Flexibility in Structure-Based Drug Design"
Monday, January 26
Anatoly Kolomeisky, Rice University, "How to Understand the Formation of Signaling Molecules Profiles in Biological Development"
Monday, March 30
Guowei Wei, Michigan State University, "Geometric and Topological Modeling of Biomolecules"
Monday, April 13
BIOPHYSICS DAY
Monday, April 20
Michael Woodside, University of Alberta, "Observing the physics of folding in single molecules: energy landscapes and conformational diffusion"
Monday, April 27
Ruhong Zhou, Watson/IBM, "Modeling Nanotoxicity: Molecular Simulation of Protein-Nanoparticle Interactions and their Implications in Nanomedicine"
Monday, November 2
Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, "Computational Methods for Data-Driven Study of Protein Structure and Function"
2016
Friday, January 15
Yaakov (Koby) Levy, Weizmann Institute, "Protein-DNA Interactions: Fine balance Between High Affinity and Fast Kinetics"
Monday, April 18
Thomas Perkins, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Probing protein folding using state-of-the-art atomic force microscopy"
Thursday, April 28 (Part of Membrane/Biophysics Day)
Stephen White, University of California - Irvine, "Membrane Protein Folding: Biology Meets Thermodynamics"
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