The COB Colloquium
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM - Tuesdays @ 12:25, WWH102
SPRING 2012 SCHEDULE
| January 30 |
Cristina Turner, Universidad Nacional Cordoba Shape Optimization for Tumor Location |
| January 31 |
No Colloquium Scheduled COB Student Luncheon, Courant Institute Lounge, 13th Floor Warren Weaver Hall |
| February 7 |
No Colloquium Scheduled |
| February 14 |
Bud Mishra, Computer Science and Mathematics, Courant Institute, NYU The Genome Question: Moore vs. Jevons |
| February 21 |
Adam Stinchcombe, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University The Role of Randomness in the Expression of Genes |
| February 28 |
Eric Schadt, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Reverse Engineering Biological Systems to Construct Disease Networks |
| March 6 |
No Colloquium Scheduled |
| March 13 |
No Colloquium Scheduled: Spring Break |
| March 20 |
Ravi Iyengar, Experimental Therapeutics Institute and Systems Biology Center New York, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Shape and Signal Flow in Mammalian Cells |
| March 27 |
Ignacio Rodriguez, University of California, Irvine Evolutionary Dynamics of Feedback Escape in Stem-cell-driven Cancers |
| April 3 |
Sanford M. Simon, Rockefeller University The search for the Holey Grail: Transport Mechanism(s) of the nuclear pore |
| April 10 |
Edo Kussell, NYU Biology and Physics Optimal lineage principle for age-structured populations |
| April 17 |
Lisa Fauci, Tulane University, Mathematics Department Calcium-driven dynamics of undulatory swimmers: a tale of two Reynolds numbers |
| April 24 |
Stuart Sealfon, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Neurology Do we know how drugs work? A systems biology perspective. |
| May 1 |
Kenneth Ho, Computational Biology Program, NYU Doctoral Dissertation Public Defense: Fast direct methods for molecular electrostatics |
| SPECIAL DAY, TIME, and LOCATION: Monday, May 14 at 3:45pm, WWH room 1314 |
Jun Yan, Functional Genomics Group, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Network Reconstruction of Inter-organ Metabolic Transport in Mammals |
| May 15 |
Laura Miller, Mathematical Physiology Group, UNC-Chapel Hill Scaling effects in biological pumping: Tubular and growing hearts |
FALL 2011 SCHEDULE
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September 13 |
Terry Krulwich, Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| September 20 |
Demian Szyld, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center Healthcare Simulation at NYU Langone Medical Center: Where are we and where are we going? |
| September 27 |
David Wootton, Cooper Union Image-based modeling of the upper airway in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome |
| October 4 |
Alexander Alekseyenko, NYU School of Medicine Estimating multiple haplotypes and their frequencies from next-generation sequencing data |
| October 11 |
Fall Break |
| October 18 |
David Gresham, NYU, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology Global Analysis of Cell Growth Programs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
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October 25 |
Timothee Lionnet, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Probing transcription regulation in live cells, one mRNA at a time |
| November 1 |
No Colloquium Scheduled |
| November 8 |
Harold Scheraga, Cornell University, Chemistry Department |
| November 15 |
Themis Lazaridis, City College of New York, Chemistry Department Modeling membrane binding and permeabilization by antimicrobial peptides |
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November 22 |
Ben Ovryn, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
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November 29 |
No Colloquium Scheduled |
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December 6 |
K. Melissa Hallow, Novartis Pharmaceuticals |
| December 13 |
COB Student Public Presentations Christoph Hafemeister, NYU, Biology Department Incorporating Prior Knowledge Into Network Inference Francis Kirigin, NYU, Sackler Institute |
SPRING 2011 SCHEDULE
Newly titled: BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM - Tuesdays @ 12:25, WWH102
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January 25 |
Cheng Ly, University of Pittsburgh Coupling Regularizes Individual Units in Noisy Populations (Joint work w/Bard Ermentrout) |
| February 8 |
Enkeleida Lushi, Courant Institute The coupling of chemotaxis and hydrodynamics in suspensions of micro-swimmers |
| February 15 |
Denis Pelli, Psychology & CNS NYU and Jeremy Freeman, CNS NYU |
| February 22 |
Frank Hoppensteadt, NYU Mathematical Models of Malaria: A nonlinear systems analysis of a complex disease |
| March 1 |
Timothy Cardozo, Sackler |
| March 8 |
Larry Sirovich, Mount Sinai School of Medicine/Rockefeller |
| March 22 |
Abba Leffler, D.E. Shaw Research Applications of long-timescale molecular dynamics simulation to protein function and folding |
| April 5 |
David Beveridge, Wesleyan Dynamical Allosterism in a DNA Mismatch Repair Protein, MutS |
| April 12 |
Brian Harms, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Systems-guided development of a bispecific antibody against the ErbB receptor network |
| April 19 |
Stephen Small, NYU, Biology Department |
| April 26 |
Arjun Raj, University of Pennsylvania |
| May 3 |
COB Student Public Presentations Chaya Levovitz - Exploring the Association btwn Genetic Variations in Immune-Related Genes and Susceptibility to HNSCC Leif Halvorsen - Enhancing protein binding with non-canonical amino acids: Building an HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein binding molecule |
| May 10 |
COB Student Public Presentation Irina Nudelman - Reduction and fragility in biological networks |
FALL 2010 SCHEDULE
Venue: Warren Weaver Hall, Fridays at 4 p.m. Room 102WWH
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September 17 |
Michael Shelley, Courant Institute Complex Fluids in Biology |
| October 1 |
Chris Wiggins, Columbia University Form, function, and information processing in small biological networks |
| October 22 |
COB Student Public Presentations Evgeny Shmelkov (COB/Sackler student) - Statistical Detection of an Epitope-Specific Response to HIV-1 gp120 Immunization in Human Subjects Ruth Griswold (COB/MSSM student) - Mathematical modeling of metastatic growth in the lymphatic vessels |
| October 29 |
Meihua Tu, Pfizer Computer Assisted Design of ACC Inhibitors |
| November 12 |
COB Student Public Presentations Katherine Mantzaris (COB/MSSM student) - Regression Analysis for Parameter estimation and Model Selection in Electrophysiological Models of Cardiac Cells Andrew Sundstrom (COB/CS Student) - Analysis of Atomic Force Micrographs to Measure RNA and DNA with High Precision |
| November 19 |
Harel Weinstein, Cornell University Combining Computational and Experimental Biophysics to reveal molecular mechanisms of membrane proteins involved in cell signaling |
| December 3 |
CANCELLED |
SPRING 2010 SCHEDULE
Venue: Warren Weaver Hall, Fridays at 4 p.m. Room 102WWH
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January 29 |
Cameron Abrams, Drexel University Large-scale conformational sampling in all-atom protein models using temperature-accelerated molecular dynamics |
| February 12 |
Stuart Sealfon, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Systems Biology and Therapeutics |
| February 26 | CANCELLED |
| March 12 |
Ravi Sachidanandam, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Gene Expression: what does it say about you? |
| April 2 |
Eric Siggia, Rockefeller Geometry, Genetics and Evolution |
| April 16 |
COB Student Public Presentations Yun Lu (NYU - CS) - Functional Annotation, Statistic Analysis, and Integrated Discovery of high throughput datasets Andrew Matteson (NYU - Math) - Kinetic Model Identification of Hepatocyte Growth Factor Signaling in Cancer |
| April 30 |
Sam Burns, NYU There is no clock in the gamma-band activity of the local field potential |
FALL 2009 SCHEDULE
Venue: Warren Weaver Hall, Fridays at 4 p.m. Room 102WWH
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September 25 |
Bud Mishra, NYU Expedition in Systems Biology |
| October 16 |
Avi Ma'ayan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Data Mining in Systems Biology |
| October 23 |
COB Student Public Presentations Mariann Micsinai (NYU, Sackler) - Co-profiling of copy number events and DNA marks in Cancer David Braun (MSSM) - STAT3 Activation Dynamics in Response to IL-6 and IL-10 |
| October 30 |
Luca Maragliano, University of Chicago Mapping the network of pathways of CO diffusion in myoglobin |
| November 6 |
CANCELLED |
| November 20 |
Eric Sobie, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Models in cardiac cellular physiology: molecular details versus simplicity |
| December 11 |
Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Understanding regulation of a special stem cell |
SPRING 2009 SCHEDULE
Venue: Warren Weaver Hall, Fridays at 4 p.m. Room 102WWH
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January 30 |
Mark Siegal, NYU, Biology Department Testing Models of Phenotypic Robustness and Network Centrality |
| February 13 |
Roman Osman, Mount Sinai School of Medicine The Role of Water in Recognition of Acetylated Lysine by Bromodomains |
| February 27 |
John Rinzel, NYU, Center for Neural Science Precise Temporal Processing in the Auditory Brain Stem |
| March 13 |
Mark Tuckerman, NYU, Chemistry Department 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 |
COB Student Public Presentations Sarah Sirin (NYU, Sackler) - Modelling of lipids and proteins: a Coarse-Grained approach to studying membrane protein dynamics Segun Jung (NYU, Chemistry) - RNA Structure Analysis and Modelling |
| May 1 |
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
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September 26 |
Michael Shelley, NYU Courant Institute, Math Faculty Living Suspensions |
| October 10 |
Alex Greenfield (Sackler) Towards discovering Cancer pathways |
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October 17 |
Charles Peskin, NYU Courant Institute, Math Faculty The Look-Ahead Model for the Transcriptional Dynamics of RNA Polymerase |
| October 31 |
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, NYU Courant Institute, Math Faculty Transition Pathways of Rare Ractive Events in Molecular Simulations |
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November 14
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COB Student Public Presentations Hong Wang (Sackler) - Rational Design of Modulators of the Unfolded Protein Response Kenneth Ho (NYU) - Simple Model Reduction Techniques Applied to Apoptosis |
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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
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February 1 |
Kris Gunsalus, NYU, Biology Department C. elegans embryogenesis as a model for developmental systems biology |
| February 15 |
COB Student Public Presentations Mainak Patel (Sackler) - Odor Discrimination in a Hodgkin-Huxley type Model of the Locust Antenna Lobe Kevin Jarret (NYU) - A Generalized Linear Model for Contrast Gain Control in Retinal Ganglion Cells |
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February 29 |
Souheil Inati, NYU, Center for Neural Science Some Computational Problems in Structural and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain |
| March 14 |
J. Brandon Laflen, Sackler Common aspects of temporal and spatial processing across normal hearing and cochlear implant listening |
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March 28 |
COB Student Public Presentations Amrita Sarkar (MSSM) - Prediction and Analysis of Cardiac Action Potential Properties Using Partial Least Squares (PLS) Regression Juan Mobarec (MSSM) - Computational Modeling of GPCRs |
| April 11 |
COB Student Public Presentations Tom Weingarten (NYU) - Coarse Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecular Systems David Rooklin (NYU) - PTP1B: Resolving the Wild-type Mechanism |
| April 25 |
Alex Mogilner, UC Davis Multi-scale modeling of motile cell mechanics and prediction of cell shape |
