Archived 2003 June
Time and Location of All Seminars:
(unless otherwise indicated)
Swain Hall West, Room 238
Fridays at 12:15 p.m.
(There will be the occasional seminars on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. in Swain West 238)
Notes: 1) If available, there will be a link provided to access the seminar's abstract and presentation.
2) For complete information on Condensed Matter Seminars in the Department of Physics, please click here.
Spring 2003 Biocomplexity Seminars
| Connections matter: Boolean modeling of gene regulatory networks | |
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Réka Albert (University of Minnesota) Host: James A. Glazier |
Tuesday, January 14th |
| abstract | presentation [PDF, 2.18 MB] | |
| How do cells create and maintain order: A biophysical look at molecular motors | |
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Steven Gross (University of California, Irvine) Host: James A. Glazier |
Tuesday, January 21st |
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| Holographic Video "Fly-Throughs" of Osteogenic Tumor Spheroids | |
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Ping Yu (Purdue University) Host: James A. Glazier |
Friday, January 24th Swain East 140 |
| abstract | presentation [PPT, 3.76 MB] | video [MPEG, 866.13 KB] | |
| The Influence of Mechano-Chemical Interactions on Cellular Behavior | |
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Karen Beningo (University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester) Host: James A. Glazier |
Friday, January 31st Swain East 140 |
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| Measuring the forces that drive morphogenesis through quantitative laser-microsurgery | |
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Shane Hutson (Duke University) Host: James A. Glazier |
Tuesday, February 11th 3:00 P.M. |
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abstract | presentation [PPT, 20.53 MB] Video CutAS_042402 [MOV, 17.16 MB] | cutbothends051502 [MOV, 11.22 MB] gastrulation-dorsal [MPG, 4.70 MB] March27_mys3 [MOV, 4.40 MB] nA1_120_1 [MOV, 796.48 KB] nAPR09_1 [MOV, 3.87 MB] QTmovie_99b08wt [MOV, 34.65 MB] Snakesfit_DC [MOV, 607.75 KB] |
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Friday, Feburary 14th - No seminar
| Electrical Wave Propagation in the Heart: Dynamics of Scroll Waves in Anisotropic Excitable Media | |
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Sima Setayeshgar (Princeton University) Host: James A. Glazier |
Friday, February 21st Swain East 140 |
| abstract | presentation [PDF, 2.14 MB] | |
| SQUID Microscopy and NanoPhysiometers to monitor complex cellular dynamics and function | |
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Franz Baudenbacher (Vanderbilt University) Host: James A. Glazier |
Tuesday, February 25th |
| abstract | presentation [PDF, 10.28 MB] | |
| Attractor States and Criticality in a Network of Living Cortical Neurons | |
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John Beggs (NIH) Host: James A. Glazier |
Friday, February 28th Swain East 140 |
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| Entropic transitions in equilibrium networks | |
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Anton Zilman (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Host: James A. Glazier |
Tuesday, March 4th |
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Friday, March 7th: No Seminar Due to APS Meeting
Friday, March 21st: No Seminar Due to Spring Break
| Essentiality and Damage in Metabolic Networks | |
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José Carlos M. Mombach (Centro de Ciencias Exatas e Technologicas Unisinos) Host: James A. Glazier |
Tuesday, March 25th |
| abstract | presentation [PDF, 1.00 MB] | |
| Fast computations with spike sequence attractors in neural networks | |
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Dezhe Jin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Host: James A. Glazier |
Tuesday, April 1st |
| abstract | presentation [PPT, 1.36 MB] | |
| Optical Studies of Calcium Signaling, Transmission and Plasticity at Individual Hippocampal Synapses | |
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Alan Fine (National Institute for Medical Research, Medical Research Council, UK and the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine) Host: James A. Glazier |
Tuesday, April 8th |
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| Applications of Information Theory to Molecular Biology: From Structure Prediction to Drug Design | |
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Chris Adami (Caltech) Host: James A. Glazier |
Friday, April 11th |
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Biocomeplexity Seminar Self-organized boolean networks |
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Maya Paczuski (Imperial College) Host: James A. Glazier |
Monday, April 14th 12:00 PM, Swain West 238 |
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Biocomeplexity Seminar Explosions on the Sun: Solar flares as cascades of reconnecting magnetic loops |
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Maya Paczuski (Imperial College) Host: James A. Glazier |
Tuesday, April 15th |
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