Online Seminar on Mathematical Molecular Biosciences

Mathematical Molecular Biosciences (MMB) has been emerging as a promising interdisciplinary research area at the interface of mathematics and biology, driven by the trends of contemporary life sciences that transform biosciences from macroscopic to microscopic or molecular, and from qualitative and phenomenological to quantitative and predictive. To promote research and education in MMB, an online seminar series will be organized by the committee .

The online seminar on MMB consists of invited talks from researchers in mathematical and biological sciences and other related disciplines to report their current progress and exchange research ideas. The seminar series will be held on in a biweekly manner during Spring and Fall semesters. The speakers and titles can be found below:

Fall 2022 Schedule:  (Wednesdays 4-5pm EST)

• September 14, 2022
  Speaker:   Reidun Twarock   (University of York)
  Title:  Mathematical Virology in the Fight against Viral Infection
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• September 28, 2022
  Speaker:   Julie C. Mitchell   (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)  
  Title:  Machine Learning Approaches to Biophysics
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• October 5, 2022
  Speaker:   Emil Alexov   (Clemson University)  
  Title:  Energy and pathogenicity: Case study of X-linked monogenic diseases
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• October 19, 2022
  Speaker:   Christine Heitsch   (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Title:  Can geometric combinatorics improve RNA folding prediction?
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• November 2, 2022
  Speaker:   David Green   (Stony Brook University)
  Title:  Sweet Viral Evolution: Using computation to understand the selective pressures shaping viral envelope glycosylation
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• November 15, 2022 (Tuesday)
  Speaker:   Tamar Schlick   (New York University)  
  Title:  The SARS-CoV-2 Frame Shifting RNA Element: Structures, dynamics, and evolution
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• December 6, 2022 (Tuesday)
  Speaker:   Jana Shen   (University of Maryland School of Pharmacy)  
  Title:  Binding mechanism and dissociation kinetics of fentanyl and analogs at the mu-opioid receptor
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Spring 2023 Schedule:  (Thursdays 4-5pm EST)

• January 26, 2023
  Speaker:   Natasha Jonoska   (University of South Florida)  
  Title:  Mathematical models to study RNA interactions with DNA
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• February 9, 2023
  Speaker:   Joanna I. Sulkowska (University of Warsaw)  
  Title:  How entangled proteins can be? In vitro verification of theoretical prediction
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• February 23, 2023 (1:00-2:00PM)
  Speaker:   Rommie Amaro (University of California, San Diego)  
  Title:  In Situ Dynamics Reveal Unseen Vulnerabilities of Viral Glycoproteins
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• March 9, 2023
  Speaker:   Jasmine Foo (University of Minnesota)  
  Title:  Computational methods for inferring tumor evolution and heterogeneity
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• March 23, 2023
  Speaker:   Surl-Hee (Shirley) Ahn (University of California, Davis)  
  Title:  Building the lens of a computational microscope
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• April 6, 2023
  Speaker:   Jiali Gao (University of Minnesota)  
  Title:  Allosteric Dynamics in Signal Perception by Photoreceptors
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• April 20, 2023
  Speaker:   Emad Tajkhorshid (University of Illinois)  
  Title:  Seeing is Believing - Microscopic View of Lipid Modulation of Protein Function Using Advanced Simulations
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• May 4, 2023
  Speaker:   Eleni Panagiotou (Arizona State University)  
  Title:  Topological Metrics of Biopolymer Structure and Function
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This seminar series is sponsored by the Michigan State University and the journal: Computational and Mathematical Biophysics (CMB) . The speakers and participants are encouraged to submit their research work to the CMB :   https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cmb.

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