The COB Colloquium

FALL 2009 SCHEDULE

Venue:  Warren Weaver Hall, Fridays at 4 p.m. Room 102WWH

 

September 25                           Dr. Bud Mishra (NYU)

                                                 "Expedition in Systems Biology"

October 16                                 Dr. Avi Ma'ayan (MSSM)

                                                  "Data Mining in Systems Biology"                                              

October 23                                Mariann Micsinai  (NYU, Sackler)

                                                 "Co-profiling of copy number events and DNA marks in Cancer

                                                                  AND

                                                  David Braun (MSSM)

                                                  "STAT3 Activation Dynamics in Response to IL-6 and IL-10"

October 30                                 Dr. Luca Maragliano (University of Chicago)

                                                   "Mapping the network of pathways of CO diffusion in

                                                     myoglobin"

November 6                               NO COLLOQUIUM - CANCELLED                                                 

November 20                             Dr. Eric Sobie (MSSM)

                                                   (Topic to be announced)

December 11                             Dr. Ruth Lehmann (Skirball)

                                                   (Topic to be announced)

 

 

 

 

SPRING 2009 SCHEDULE

Venue:  Warren Weaver Hall, Fridays at 4 p.m. Room 102WWH

 

January 30                               Dr. Mark Siegal (NYU, Biology)

                                                 "Testing Models of Phenotypic Robustness and Network Centrality"

February 13                             Dr. Roman Osman (MSSM)

                                                 "The Role of Water in Recognition of Acetylated Lysine by

                                                  Bromodomains"

February 27                             Dr. John Rinzel (NYU, Center for Neuro Science)

                                                 "Precise Temporal Processing in the Auditory Brain Stem"

 

March 13                                   Dr. Mark Tuckerman (NYU, Chemistry)

                                                  "Enhancing conformational sampling in complex systems via novel

                                                    spatial-warping transformations"

 

April 3                                        Bob Shapley (NYU, Center for Neural Science)

                                                   "Analyses of neuronal populations in the primary visual cortex, V1:

                                                    Dynamics and spatial summation"

 

April 24                                      Sarah Sirin (NYU, Sackler)

                                                  "Modelling of lipids and proteins: a Coarse-Grained approach to

                                                   studying membrane protein dynamics"

                                                   AND

                                                   Segun Jung (NYU, Chemistry)

                                                   "RNA Structure Analysis and Modelling"

 

May 1                                          Dr. Bruce Tidor (MIT)

                                                    "Molecular and Network Modeling in Synthetic and Systems Biology"

 

FALL 2008 SCHEDULE
Venue: Warren Weaver Hall,  Fridays at 4 p.m. Room 102

September 26	Dr. Michael Shelley (NYU, Math Faculty) "Living Suspensions"
October 10	Alex Greenfield (Sackler) "Towards discovering Cancer pathways"
October 17	Dr. Charles Peskin (NYU, Math Faculty) "The Look-Ahead Model for the Transcriptional Dynamics of RNA Polymerase"
October 31	Dr. Eric Vanden-Eijnden( NYU, Math Faculty) "Transition Pathways of Rare Ractive Events in Molecular Simulations"
November 14	Hong Wang (Sackler) "Rational Design of Modulators of the Unfolded Protein Response" AND Kenneth Ho (NYU) "Simple Model Reduction Techniques Applied to Apoptosis"
ANNOUNCEMENT	There will be no more COB colloquiums this term.  However, please note, COB Day attendance will be required in lieu of any further COB colloquiums.    Please plan to attend COB Day, scheduled for Saturday, December 6th.

 

SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE
Venue: Warren Weaver Hall,  Fridays at 4 p.m. Room 102

February 1	Dr. Kris Gunsalus (NYU, Biology Faculty) "C. elegans embryogenesis as a model for developmental systems biology" Download paper
February 15	Mainak Patel (Sackler) "Odor Discrimination in a Hodgkin-Huxley type Model of the Locust Antenna Lobe" AND Kevin Jarret (NYU) "A Generalized Linear Model for Contrast Gain Control in Retinal Ganglion Cells"
February 29	Dr. Souheil Inati (NYU, CNS Faculty) "Some Computational Problems in Structural and Functional Magnetic  Resonance Imaging of the Brain"
March 14	Dr. J. Brandon Laflen (Sackler Faculty) "Common aspects of temporal and spatial processing across normal hearing and cochlear implant listening"
March 28	Amrita Sarkar (MSSM) "Prediction and Analysis of Cardiac Action Potential Properties Using Partial Least Squares (PLS) Regression" AND Juan Mobarec (MSSM)                                                                                                  "Computational Modeling of GPCRs"
April 11	Tom Weingarten (NYU) "Coarse Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecular Systems AND David Rooklin (NYU) "PTP1B:  Resolving the Wild-type Mechanism"
April 25	Dr. Alex Mogilner (UC-Davis) "Multi-scale modeling of motile cell mechanics and prediction of cell shape