Mathematics 596a

Biomathematics Seminar

Fall 2010

Course Schedule

Week	Dates	Topics	Speakers	Title	References
1	24Aug	Organizational Meeting
2	31Aug	--
3	7Sep	Protein Structure Prediction	Logan Ahlstrom Brian Anderson Ian Borukhovich	Merging Experimental and Theoretic Approaches to Predicting Protein Structure	Caflisch Raman et al.
4	14Sep		Matthew Cordes	Application of Combined Experimental NMR and Ab Initio Computational Methods to Protein Structure Determination
5	21Sep		Osamu Miyashita	Molecular Dynamics simulation: Force Fields and Algorithms
6	28Sep		Joe Watkins	An Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo slides	Boomsma et al. Drummond andRambaut
7	5 Oct	--
8	12Oct	Signal Transduction	David Lyttle Simon Stump	Building Predictive Quantitative Models of the Immune System	Lyzebnic Aldridge et al. Goldstein et al.
9	19Oct		Ryan Gutenkunst	Rules-Based Modeling for Signal Transduction
10	26Oct		Ryan Gutenkunst	Stochastic Simulation in Systems Biology
11	2Nov		David Lyttle Simon Stump	Applications of the Gillespie Algorithm
12	9Nov	--
13	16Nov	Stem Cells	Brendan Fry Deborah Shelton	Adult and Embryonic Stem Cells	Lyerly and Faden Rao and Condic Lo et al Nature editorial The President's Council on Bioethics Orkin and Morrison Holden
14	23Nov		Michael Tabor
15	30Nov		Michael Tabor
16	7Dec