Laufer Center - Past Events

Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Date
Jeffery Gore	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cooperation, cheating, and collapse in microbial populations	01/24/2012
Régis Pomès	University of Toronto	Aggregated Yet Disordered: Towards a Unified Model of Structure and Function in Self-Assembled Elastomeric Proteins	12/13/2011
Markus Seeliger, PhD	Stony Brook University Medical School	Mechanism of a New Class of Highly Specific Src Inhibitors	11/29/2011
Hue Sun Chan, PhD	University of Toronto	Cooperativity, Local-Nonlocal Coupling, and Nonnative Interactions in Protein Folding	11/15/2011
Gregory A. Voth, PhD	University of Chicago	Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: Surmounting the Challenge of Bridging the Scales	11/8/2011
Joel L. Sussman, PhD	Weizmann Institute of Science	Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Why are they More Abundant in Higher Organisms?	10/25/2011
Joanna Masel, PhD	University of Arizona	Molecular errors, cryptic genetic variation, and evolvability	10/4/2011
Hong Qian, PhD	University of Washington	Mesoscopic Open Biochemical Reaction Systems and Delbruck-Gillespie Processes for Stochastic Biochemical Population Dynamics	9/23/2011
Jhih-Wei Chu, PhD	University of California, Berkeley	Multiscale Simulation for Biomolecular Engineering: Protein Allostery and Cellulose Deconstruction	9/14/2011
Koby Levy, PhD	Weizmann Institute of Science	Biophysics and evolution of post-translation modification	6/13/2011
Purushottam Dixit	John Hopkins University	Thermodynamics of metal-protein interactions	5/24/2011
Jiang Zhu, PhD	NIAID/NIH	Analyzing CD4 binding site-directed broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibodies by 454 pyrosequencing and computational bioinformatics	5/17/2011
Paul Matsudaira, PhD	National University of Singapore	Dynamics of nm-size droplets of water at the confined-bulk transition	5/12/2011
Jorg Schwender, PhD	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Quantitative Analysis of Metabolic Fluxes in Plants	5/3/2011
Ross Walker, PhD	University of California, San Diego	Supercomputer in a Desktop: Extreme Acceleration of Scientific Applications Using NVIDIA GPUs	4/26/2011
Hao Ge, PhD	Fudan University	Stochastic Dynamics in Biochemical Systems: From Single-molecule Kinetics to Chemical Master Equation	4/21/2011
Sebastian Bernhardsson, PhD	Copenhagen University	Structural Correlations in Bacterial Metabolic Networks	4/19/2011
Alexey Onufriev, PhD	Virginia Tech	The Simple Approaches to Complex Biology	4/12/2011
Themis Lazaridis, PhD	City College of New York	Modeling Membrane Binding and Permeabilization by Antimicrobial Peptides	03/22/2011
Ronald M. Levy, PhD	Rutgers University	Exploring landscapes for protein binding and folding using replica exchange dynamics, kinetic networks and Markov state models	03/15/2011
Yan Li	Brookhaven National Laboratory	First-Principles Studies of Cellulose I: crystal structure, intermolecular interactions and water adsorption	03/08/2011
Michael Schatz, PhD	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Cloud Computing and the DNA Data Race	02/15/2011
Marco Ceruso, PhD	The City College of New York, CUNY	Elnedin: a mixed coarse-grained molecular model for the simulation of protein dynamics and protein interactions	11/30/2010
David R. Langley, PhD	Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., R&D	Three-dimensional models of the HIV-1 integration complex	11/16/2010
Lee H. Woodcock, PhD	University of South Florida	Multiscale Modeling as an Avenue to Explore Enzyme Reactivity and Structure	11/02/2010
Kenneth Foreman, PhD	Astellas Pharma	Industrial Strength Computational Chemistry	10/19/2010
Wei Yang, PhD	Florida State University	High Order Generalized Ensemble Methods: A Possible Path to Quantitative Biomolecular Simulations	10/12/2010
Bud Mishra, PhD	New York University	Detectability of Certain Dark-Genome-Matter Candidates: Algorithms for Assembling Genomes Correctly	09/28/2010
Chris Sander, Ph.D.	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	Systems Biology of Cancer Cells	09/21/2010
Bill Jorgensen, Ph.D.	Yale University	NYAS Chemical Biology Discussion Group Meeting	06/08/2010
Emmanuel Mongodin, Ph.D.	University of Maryland School of Medicine	Pan Genome of Borrelai burgdorferi	05/18/2010
Marta Filizola, Ph.D.	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Molecular Recognition, Activation, and Functional Specificity of G-Protein Coupled Receptors as Assessed by Biased Molecular Dynamics	05/04/2010
Distinguished Speakers	Stony Brook University Cancer Center and Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Symposium	Cancer Stem Cells, Differentiation and Metastasis Symposium	04/27/2010
Ken A. Dill, Ph.D.	University of California, San Francisco	Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of few-particle systems, such as in biology and nanotechnology	04/13/2010
Roberto Sanchez, Ph.D.	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Identifying protein-ligand binding sites: combining physics and evolution	04/06/2010
Tomas Lindahl, Ph.D.	London Research Institute	2010 ZICKLER LECTURE	03/30/2010
Daniel Bogenhagen, MD	Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University	Mitochondrial Molecular Systems Biology: From the Origins of Life to Human Disease	03/16/2010
James Glimm, Ph.D.	Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University	Parallel Computing: A Tutorial--Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.	03/15/2010
Danny Bluestein, Ph.D.	Bioengineering, Stony Brook University	Numerical modeling approaches for optimizing cardiovascular devices and enhancing cardiovascular disease diagnostics	03/09/2010
Yingkai Zhang, Ph.D.	Chemistry, New York University	Multiscale Simulation of Histone Modifications	03/02/2010
Wei Zhu, Ph.D.	Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University	New Development in Pathway Analysis	02/23/2010
John R. True, Ph.D.	Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University	The genome as an environment: the role of epistatic genes and networks in adaptation and speciation.	02/09/2010
David Case, Ph.D.	Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University	Critical tests of the quality of protein molecular dynamics simulations in solution and crystals	12/15/2009
Bernard Brooks, Ph.D.	Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute	Examining Protein Structure and Function using Multi-scale Methods	12/08/2009
Steven Skiena, Ph.D.	Computer Science, Stony Brook University	Genome Sequence Assembly and Synthetic Design: Better Reading and Writing through Algorithmetic	12/01/2009
Ellen Li, M.D., Ph.D	Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Stony Brook University	A novel pathway discovery and analysis paradigm for inflammatory bowel diseases	11/24/2009
Charles M. Fortmann	Materials Science & Engineering; Stony Brook University	The biomechanics of protein folding and applications	11/17/2009
Ken A. Dill, PhD	University of California at San Francisco	Exploring the physical principles of protein folding	11/03/2009
Alex MacKerell, Ph.D.	University of Maryland School of Pharmacy	Optimizing ligand-protein interactions via SILCS: Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation	10/27/2009
Eugene V. Koonin, PhD	National Institutes of Health (NIH)	Systems biology and universals of genome evolution	10/13/2009
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS	.	ICB&DD Symposium “Frontiers in Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery”	10/06/2009
Robert Jernigan, PhD	Iowa State University	Functional protein motions	09/29/2009
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS	.	Laufer Center Inaugural Symposium	09/25/2009
Randy Jirtle, Ph.D.	Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University, Durham, NC	Epigenetics: The New Genetics of Disease Susceptibility	05/19/2009
John Moult, Ph.D	Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute	SNPs, Protein Structure, and Disease	05/12/2009
William Studier, Ph.D.	Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY	Learning from genome sequences of E. coli B and K	05/05/2009
Andrea Califano, Ph.D.	Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY	Molecular Network analysis reveals master regulators of physiologic and pathologic human phenotypes	04/28/2009
Nicholas Patterson, Ph.D.	The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA	Learning the Genetic History of South Asia from Genome-wide Data	04/14/2009
Michael Hadjiargyrou, Ph.D.	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY	Unraveling the Molecular Basis of Bone Regeneration	03/17/2009
Dax Fu, Ph.D.	Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY	Novel metallochemistry in zinc transporters: integration of structural, functional and computational analyses	03/10/2009
Steffen Mueller, PhD	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY	Synthetic DNA technologies - perils and promise for the future of bioscience	02/24/2009
Mickey Atwal, Ph.D.	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY	Natural Selection of Genetic Fidelity	02/10/2009
Jin Wang, Ph.D.	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY	Potential landscape and flux framework of nonequilibrium networks: robustness, dissipation, and coherence of biochemical oscillations	02/03/2009
Michael Zhang, Ph.D.	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY	Computational Dissection of Mammalian Regulation Subnetworks	12/16/2008
Weigang Qiu, Ph.D.	Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College, New York, NY	Lineage-specific genomic variations in Lyme disease bacteria and implications for pathogenesis	12/09/2008
David S. Eisenberg, Ph.D.	University of California, Los Angeles, CA	Structural Insights into Amyloid and Prion Diseases	11/25/2008
David Baker, Ph.D.	Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA	2008 ADRIEN ALBERT LECTURE - From prediction of structure to design of function	11/21/2008
Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D.	The Simons Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ	2008 ZICKLER LECTURE - The p53 Pathway: Cancer, Fertility, Metabolic Control and the Central Nervous System	11/11/2008
Bruce Futcher, Ph.D.	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY	Transcription Circuits, in Shades of Green and Red	11/04/2008
Robert C. Rizzo, Ph.D.	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY	Characterization of drug resistance at the atomic level	10/28/2008
Eli Hatchwell, MA MB BChir (Cantab) DPhil (Oxon)	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY	The Future of Personalized Medicine	10/21/2008
Stanley Fields, Ph.D.	University of Washington, Seattle, WA	Footprinting the Genome	10/17/2008
Uri Alon, Ph.D.	Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel	Design Principles of Biological Circuits	10/07/2008
John Reinitz, Ph.D.	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY	Canalization of transcription in the Drosophila blastoderm: from data to dynamical systems	09/23/2008
Sergei Maslov, Ph.D.	Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY	Modeling biomolecular networks: from metabolism and its regulation to protein-protein interactions	09/16/2008
David F. Green, PhD	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY	Applied protein design: Engineering molecular interactions in complex systems	09/09/2008

Upcoming Events

Yuhai Tu

Date: March 20, 2012

Title: TBA

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Date: April 24, 2012

Title: Emergent Complexity of Multiscale Computational Modeling

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