Distinguished Lecture Series in Systems Biology
The Center for the Study of Systems Biology (CSSB) is pleased to announce the Distinguished Lecture Series in Systems Biology. The goal of this seminar series is to present cutting edge research in Systems Biology.
Video recordings and presentation slides of the select past seminars
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
- Kirill Lobachev, Georgia Institute of Technology: "Mechanisms of chromosomal fragility and genome rearrangements triggered by human unstable repeats" (Tuesday, January 22, 2008)
- Facundo Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology: "Enabling Mass Spectrometry Technologies for High-Throughput Proteomics and Metabolomics" (Tuesday, January 29, 2008)
- Eberhard Voit, Georgia Institute of Technology: "Systems Biology and its Role in Predictive Health and Personalized Medicine" (Tuesday, February 5, 2008)
- Dietmar Schomburg, Technical University of Braunschweig: "Joining Bioinformatics and metabolome research to systems biology models." (Tuesday, February 12, 2008)
- Kevin Plaxco, University of California, Santa Barbara: "Better living through biosensors" (Tuesday, February 19, 2008)
- Erin O'Shea, Harvard University: "Reverse Engineering of a Transcriptional Network Regulated by the MAPK Hog1" (Tuesday, February 26, 2008)
- Greg Wray, Duke University: "Positive selection on non-coding sequences during human evolution: From genome to nucleotide" (Tuesday, March 4, 2008)
- Nick Grishin, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas: "Protein comparison: from new methods to unexpected discoveries" (Tuesday, March 11, 2008)
- Gabriele Varani, University of Washington: "New RNA-binding peptidomimetic structures that repress HIV viral replication by specifically inhibiting transcriptional activation" (Tuesday, March 18, 2008)
- Martha J. Fedor, : "RNA Enzymes: From Folding to Function in Living Cells" (Tuesday, March 25, 2008)
- Ernest Fraenkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Using High-Throughput Data to Understand Transcriptional Regulation" (Tuesday, April 1, 2008)
- Nikolaos V. Sahinidis, : "Optimization in the New Biology" (Tuesday, April 8, 2008)
- Martin J. Cohn, Department of Zoology, University of Florida: "Fins, limbs and genitalia: from evolutionary origins to congenital malformations." (Tuesday, April 29, 2008)
Fall 2007
- Akos Vertes, George Washington University: "In Vivo Imaging of Plant Metabolism with Mass Spectrometry" (Tuesday, September 18, 2007)
- Boris Mizaikoff, Georgia Institute of Technology: "From Systems Biology to Systems Analytics - Seeing More by Looking at Less" (Tuesday, October 9, 2007)
- Christodoulos A. Floudas, Princeton University: "De Novo Protein Design with Flexible Templates" (Tuesday, October 16, 2007)
- Barry Honig, Columbia University: "Relating Cellular to Molecular Specificity - the recognition mechanism of hox proteins and cadherins" (Tuesday, October 23, 2007)
- Robert Butera, Georgia Institute of Technology: "Hybrid Experiments: Linking Real-Time Simulations to In Vitro Electrophysiology Experiments" (Tuesday, October 30, 2007)
- Benjamin F. Cravatt, III, The Scripps Research Institute: "Mapping Biochemical Pathways in Human Disease by Integrated Proteomics and Metabolomics." (Wednesday, November 7, 2007)
- James R. Williamson, The Scripps Research Institute: "A Post-proteomic approach to study assembly of a macromolecular machine" (Tuesday, November 13, 2007)
- Marc Vidal, Harvard Medical School: "Interactome Networks" (Tuesday, November 27, 2007)
- Michael Levitt, Stanford University School of Medicine: "Mesoscale Modeling of Protein Nanomachines" (Tuesday, December 4, 2007)
- David Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology: "Petascale Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Evolutionary Histories" (Tuesday, December 11, 2007)
Spring 2007
- Jonathan Dordick, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute : "Molecular Bioprocessing as a New Paradigm for Drug Discovery" (Thursday, January 11, 2007)
- Sham Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology: "Text Mining Biomedical Literature for Knowledge Discovery About Genes" (Tuesday, February 6, 2007)
- Christopher A. Voigt, University of California - San Francisco: "Programming Bacteria" (Tuesday, March 6, 2007)
- Fabio Piano, New York University: "Global and local views of C. elegans early embryogenesis" (Thursday, March 15, 2007)
- Alfred Merrill, Georgia Institute of Technology: "Sphingolipidomics and the Lipid MAPS Consortium: Omics gets sweet and greasy" (Tuesday, April 10, 2007)
- Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School: "Designing Biological Systems" (Thursday, April 19, 2007)
- Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley: "Building Life from the Ground Up: Applications and Implications of Synthetic Biology" (Tuesday, May 1, 2007)
- E. Terry Papoutsakis, Northwestern University: "The growth, differentiation and death of the megakaryocyte" (Thursday, May 10, 2007)
- Charlie Boone, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research: "Large-scale mapping of genetic and chemical-genetic interactions in yeast" (Tuesday, May 22, 2007)
- Gregory A. Voth, University of Utah: "The Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: A Systematic Approach" (Tuesday, May 29, 2007)
Fall 2006
- Harold Scheraga, Cornell University: "The Two Aspects of the Protein Folding Problem" (Tuesday, September 5, 2006)
- Ron Elber, Cornell University: "Modeling the Kinetics of Biological Machines" (Tuesday, September 19, 2006)*
- John Yates, The Scripps Research Institute: "Driving Biological Discovery using Mass Spectrometry" (Tuesday, October 10, 2006)*
- Eugene I. Shakhnovich, Harvard University: "Learning Nature's lessons: what thermal adaptation tells us about
principles of protein structure and evolution" (Monday, November 6, 2006)*
- Michael Snyder, Yale University: "Analyze This and That - Genomes and Proteomes" (Tuesday, November 14, 2006)*
- Zaida Luthey-Schulten, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Tuesday, December 12, 2006)*
- Klaus J. Schulten, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: "Petascale Computing in the Biosciences - Simulating Entire Life Forms" (Wednesday, December 13, 2006)*
(*) Seminars affiliated with the Center for the Study of Systems Biology