Wednesdays at 4:00 PM except where noted.                        Location:  Gonda Conference room, 3:45 pm refreshments, seminar 4:00 – 5:00 PM

March 12, 2003

Igor M. Rouzine, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor,
Molecular
Microbiology Department
Tufts University
, Boston

The Solitary Wave of Asexual Evolution: Theory and Applications to Virology

March 13, 2003
(
noon, Gonda)

Igor M. Rouzine, Ph.D.
irouzine@tufts.edu

Tight Regulation of Primary Cytotoxic Immune Response by "Innate Helper" Cells and its Impairment by Persisting Viruses (HIV)

April 2, 2003

Thomas R. Powers, Ph.D.
James R. Rice Assistant Professor of Solid Mechanics and Assistant Professor of Engineering
Division of Engineering,
Brown University
Thomas_Powers@Brown.EDU

Mechanics of Bacterial Flagella: Bundling, Hydrodynamic Interactions, and Polymorphism

April 9, 2003

Andrew T. Sornborger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Applied Math,
Biomathematics Department
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

ats@camelot.mssm.edu

Estimating Dynamical Response in Multivariate Stimulus-Response Data

 

April 16, 2003

George F. Oster, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Division of Insect Biology
University of California, Berkeley

goster@nature.berkeley.edu

How the World’s Smallest Rotary Motor Works

April 23, 2003

Simon D.W. Frost, M.A., D.Phil.
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Pathology
University of California, San Diego
Antiviral Research Center
sdfrost@ucsd.edu

Evolution of Drug Resistance in Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Absence of Therapy

April 30, 2003

Francisco J. Solis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Physics Department
University
of Texas at El Paso
fjsolis@utep.edu

Statistical Mechanics of Chromatin

May 7, 2003

Joseph Rudnick, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
jrudnick@physics.ucla.edu

Structure of Icosahedral Viruses; the Role of Physics

May 14, 2003

Noah Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California
noahr@usc.edu

The Shapes of Gene Genealogies

May 21, 2003

Frederic Y.M. Wan, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Mathematics

University of California, Irvine
fwan@math.uci.edu

Do Morphogen Gradients Arise by Diffusion?

May 28, 2003

Greg Lakatos
Graduate Student Researcher, Physics Department
University of British Columbia, Canada
glakatos@stanfordalumni.org

Stochastic models of One-Dimensional Biological Transport

June 4, 2003

Craig Benham, Ph.D.

Professor, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics; Associate Director, UC Davis Genome Center, University of California, Davis
cjbenham@ucdavis.edu

Stress-Induced Transitions in DNA - Their Statistical Mechanical Analysis and Roles in Regulation

June 11, 2003

Kevin Klapstein

Graduate Student Researcher

UCLA Department of Biomathematics

kklap@biomath.medsch.ucla.edu

RecA and the Long, Hard Road to Homology Recognition