COB Day

COB Day 2009 is scheduled for Saturday, December 5, 2009

beginning at  9:00am

251 Mercer Street, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109 in Lobby Level

Come join us for a day of exploring various aspects of Computational Biology. This is a day COB students and faculty won’t want to miss. This day will include invited lectures and student poster presentations. 

Featured speakers include:

 

• Benoît Roux, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Chicago

Refinement and validation of models of the Kv1.2 channel and calculation of the gating charge using molecular dynamics simulations

 

• Charlie Peskin, Silver Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science,
  Courant Institute, NYU

From hearts to molecules by the immersed boundary method

 

• Ivet Bahar,  Professor of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Protein Dynamics: Insights from Structural Ensembles and Network Models

 

• Ehud Kaplan, Professor of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Cortical choreography of thalamic dances: From Mahler to the LGN

 

• Eve Marder, Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Volen Center and Department of Biology, Brandeis University

Variability, Homeostasis, and Compensation in Neuronal Networks

 

• Adi Rangan, Assistant Professor of Mathemathics, Courant Institute, NYU

Coding capacity and reliability in the fly olfactory system

 

 

This event is open to the ENTIRE CIMS and COB Community as well as Prospective COB Students

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COB Day 2008 is scheduled for Saturday, December 6, 2008

From  9:00am - 4:00pm

251 Mercer Street, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109 in Lobby Level

Come join us for a day of exploring various aspects of Computational Biology. This is a day COB students and faculty won’t want to miss. We have arranged for four featured lectures as well as presentations of student posters.

This event is open to the ENTIRE CIMS and COB Community as well as Prospective COB Students

Our speakers include:

 

·       @ 9:45am Marcelo Magnasco, Ph.D. (Rockefeller University) Professor & Head, Mathematical Physics Lab. 

    “Dynamical and Statistical Criticality in a Model of Neural Tissue”

 

·       @ 11:00am Edo Kussell, Ph.D. (NYU), Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology.

   “Sensing and Selection in Bacterial Populations”

 

·       @ 1:30pm Chris Wiggins, Ph.D. (Columbia University), Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.

         “Inferring and Encoding Modules in Biological Networks”

 

·       @ 2:45pm Stevan R. Hubbard, Ph.D. (NYU), Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Structural Biology Program, Skirball Institute

  “Structural Basis for Protein Recruitment to Activated Receptor Tyrosine Kinases”

 

 

 

 

Breakfast and Lunch will be provided

 

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COB Day September 29, 2007

Saturday, September 29th, from 9am – 4pm
251 Mercer Street, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109 in lobby level

Come join us for a day of exploring various aspects of Computational Biology. This is a day COB students and faculty won’t want to miss. We have arranged for four featured lectures from various backgrounds and presentations of student posters.

Our speakers, include:

	Jeff Saltzman (Merck), Senior Director of Applied Computer Sciences and Mathematics.
	Eric Jakobsson (UIUC), Director, National Center for Biomimetic nanoconductors, and Senior Research Scientist, NCSA.
	Fabio Piano (NYU Biology), Associate Professor, Biology.
	Ajay Royyuru (Watson Research Center, IBM), Senior Manager, Computational Biology Center.

This event is open to entire Courant and COB community.