Past CMS Seminars
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Systematic & accurate coarse-graining of soft matter and biological systems
Date : Tuesday, 16th May, 2017 Time: 11:45 - 13:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker : Prof. Aatto Laaksonen, Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden
Atomic-level characterization of protein-protein association
Date : Tuesday, 9th May, 2017 Time: 11:45 - 13:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker : Albert Pan, Senior Scientist, D.E. Shaw Research, New York
Some cell behaviors are attributable to protein physics
Date : Monday, 10th April, 2017 Time : 13:30 - 14:30 Location : BI # 211
Speaker : Prof. Ken A. Dill, Director, Laufer Center for Physical & Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University
Structural Features of Tubulin on Biomimetic Mitochondrial Membranes Measured with Neutron Reflectometry
Date : Tuesday, 28th March, 2017 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location : BI # 561
Speaker : Prof. David P. Hoogerheide, Physicist, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD
Overview of the Classical Drude Oscillator Polarizable Force Field for Biomolecules (CMS/BCEM Seminar)
Date : Tuesday, 7th March, 2017 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker : Prof. Alexander D. MacKerell, Grollman-Glick Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Director, Computer-Aided Drug, Design Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore
From Electronic Wave Functions to Kohn-Sham Effective Potentials
Date : Tuesday, 21st February, 2017 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker : Prof. Viktor N. Staroverov, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario
2016
Model Comparison in Structural Biology
Date : Tuesday, 14th June, 2016 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker : Dr. Nathan Babcock, Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University
Mathematics, Engineering, and Molecular Biology
Date : Wednesday, 25th May, 2016 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location : BI # 587
Speaker : Prof. Bob Eisenberg, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
Structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules at cellular scales
Date : Friday, 29th April, 2016 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker : Prof. Michael Feig, Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Chemistry Adjunct Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University
Slipping and Sliding: First-Principles Simulations of Tribological Processes
Date: Tuesday, 12th April, 2016 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location: BI # 211
Speaker : Prof. Nick Mosey, Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.
The direct binding and action of cAMP to HCN channels
Date: Monday, 11th April, 2016 Time : 11:00 - 12:00 Location: BI # 211
Speaker : Prof. Eric Accili, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia
Evidence for Nanoscopic Lipid Domains in Model Membranes and a Bacterium
Date: Tuesday, 9th February, 2016 Time: 11:45 - 13:00 Location: BI # 211
Speaker : Dr. John Katsaras, Senior Scientist Biological Systems, ORNL, Distinguished R&D Staff, Joint Faculty, Professor of Physics, University of Tennessee
All-atom molecular simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins:force fields, and experimental interpretation
Date : Tuesday, 19th January, 2016 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location: BI # 587
Speaker : Dr. Robert Best, Investigator, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases National Institutes of Health
2015
The architecture of local adaptation: Theoretical predictions and empirical patterns in lodgepole pine and interior spruce
Date: Tuesday, 10th November, 2015 Time: 11:45 - 13:00 Location: BI # 211
Speaker : Prof. Samuel Yeaman, Assistant Professor, AIHS Chair Bioinfo/Computational, Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
SLC4A11, a Mysterious Membrane Protein Causing Corneal Blindness (CMS/BCEM Seminar)
Date : Thursday, 5th November, 2015 Time : 11:00 - 12 noon Location: BI # 211
Speaker: Prof. Joe Casey, Director, Membrane Protein Disease Research Group, Director, International Research Training Group in Membrane Biology, Department of Biochemistry
Regulation of Sec-Facilitated Protein Translocation and Membrane Integration
Date : Tuesday, 13th October, 2015 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location: BI # 211
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Miller, Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Visualizing Molecular Binding, Aggregation and Assembly from Simulations
Tuesday, 22nd September, 2015 Time : 11:45 - 13:00 Location: BI # 211
Speaker : Dr. Tian Tang, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Making the Cut: Regulation of Rhomboid-Mediated Intramembrane Proteolysis (CMS/Biochemsitry Seminar)
Tuesday, 18th August, 2015 Time : 11:00 - 12:00 Location : BI # 561
Speaker : Dr. M. Joanne Lemieux, Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Systems Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Multiscale Modeling towards Understanding of DNA-CNT Nanohybirds
Friday, 26th June, 2015 Time : 11:00 - 12:00 Location : BI # 499
Speaker : Morteza Amirani, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Molecular Simulations of Selective Ion Permeation in Biological Ion Channels
Monday 8th June, 2015 Time : 11:00 - 12:00 Location : BI # 499
Speaker : Professor Robert Farley, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Computer simulations of a pH-triggered anticancer peptide in model membranes
Monday 11th May, 2015 Time : 11:00 - 12:00 Location : BI # 561
Speaker : Dr. Drew Bennett, Banting Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo
SPARK OF LIFE: Understanding Nature’s Ion Channel Design via Computation
Monday 13 th April, 2015 Time : 11:30 - 13:00 Location : BI # 587
Speaker : Prof. Michael L. Klein, Dean and Laura H. Carnell, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, USA
Breaking the Curse of Dimension for the Electronic Schrödinger Equation
Tuesday 10 th March, 2015 Time : 11:30 - 13:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker : Prof. Paul W. Ayers, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, McMaster University,Canada
Computational Modeling of Catalytic Mechanisms of Radical Enzymes-B12-independent Glycerol Dehydratase and 4-Hydroxyphenylacetate Decarboxylase
Monday 23rd February, 2015 Time : 13:00 - 14:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker: Dr. Mikolaj Feliks, Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France
Molecular driving interactions defining lipid positions around aquaporin-0
Thursday 5th February, 2015 Time : 13:00 - 14:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker: Dr. Camilo Aponte-Santamaria, Molecular Biomechanics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Germany
Cross-amyloid interactions between A? oligomers
Wednesday 4th February, 2015 Time : 13:00 - 14:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker: Yoav Atsmon-Raz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Molecular Evolution in the Golden Age of Genetics
Tuesday 13th January, 2015 Time : 11:30 am - 13:00 Location : BI # 211
Speaker: Dr. Jason de Koning, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary