Invited Speakers
(confirmed)
Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame, On Modeling Fruiting Body Formation in Myxobacteria
Ioan Andricioaei, University of Michigan, On the Force Dependence of Biomolecular Conformational Kinetics
David Arnosti, Michigan State University, Modeling the cis-regulatory Grammar of Transcriptional switches
Titus Brown, Cal Tech, Many Numbers at Many Levels: Intradisciplinary Thoughts on Gene Regulatory Networks
Bob Cukier, Michigan State University, Molecular Dynamics of apo-Adenylate Kinase: A distance Replica Exchange Method for the Free Energy of Conformational Fluctuations
Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University, On the Variability of the Single Photon Response in Visual Transduction
Phil Duxbury, Michigan State University, Modeling Life or Death Decisions of the Human Apoptosis Network
B. Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh, Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Biology
Leon Glass, McGill University, Dynamics in Genetic Networks
Yang Kuang, Arizona State University, Resource Quality Dynamics and its Implications
Leslie Kuhn, Michigan State University, Constraint Counting and Flexibility in Protein Networks
Jarek Meller, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Prediction of Lipid accessibility and Protein-Protein Interaction sites in Membrane Proteins
Julie Mitchell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Knowledge-based Approaches to Predicting Protein Interface Hot Spots
Qing Nie, University of California-Irvine, Specificity and Robustness in Cell Signaling
Art Olson, The Scripps Research Institute, Shape and Search in Protein Docking, using Radial Basis Functions
Dennis Pearl, The Ohio State University, Using Molecular Data to Estimate the Evolution of Species - not just the Phylogeny of Genes
John Schotland, University of Pennsylvania, Inverse Problems in Transport Theory
Saurabh Sinhas, University of Illinois, Computational Methods for Predicting Cis-Regulatory Modules
Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Evaluating Multi-body Potentials in Protein Design
Moxun Tang, Michigan State University, Temporal and Spatial Specificity of Gene Expression Regulated by Sp1 and Sp3
David Terman, The Ohio State University, Spatial and Temporal Codes in a Model for an Insect's Antennal Lobe
Rami Tzafriri, Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, Stability of Intracellular Growth Factor Complexes
Bill Wedemeyer, Michigan State University, Loop Closure Methods for Proteins
Guowei Wei, Michigan State University, A New Paradigm for Biomolecular Electrostatics
Honggao Yan, Michigan State University, Role of Conformational Dynamics in Enzymatic Catalysis - A Tale of 6-Hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropterin Pyrophosphokinase, a Target for Developing Antimicrobial Agents
Weitao Yang, Duke University, TBA
Todd Yeates, University of California-Los Angeles, The Emerging Structure of Bacterial Microcompartments: Protein shells serving as Primitive Organelles
Maria Zavodszky, Michigan State University, Improving Protein-Ligand Scoring Using a Correlation-Based Method