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Annual Retreat

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Symposium Presentations, MSU - Monday, May 21

Morning Session Page
Digital Organisms for Experimental Evolution by Chris Adami 1
Exploring Chemistry Space by Gerald Maggiora 2
Statistical Physics of Proteinsby Jayanth Banavar 3
Recent Developments in Protein Fold Recognition by Ronald Levy 4

Talks, Brook Lodge - Monday, May 21

Afternoon Session
The Flexibility of Proteins and Ligands by Michael Thorpe 5
Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanical Approaches to Charge Transfer Reactions and Proton Translocation in Proteins by Robert Cukier 6
Complex Phenomena of Disease Trends with Simple Mathematics and Statistics by Wenjiang Fu 7
Longitudinal Models for the Analysis of Health Care Costs and Outcomes: Application to Cost-effectiveness Analysesby Joseph Gardiner 8
Cancer Detection on a Cell-by-Cell Basis Using a Fractal Dimension Analysis by Wolfgang Bauer 9
The Avida Research Platform: Past, Present, and Future by Charles Ofria 10
The Evolutionary Origin of Complex Features by Richard Lenski 11
Evaluating Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithms Using Digital Life Organisms by Eric Torng 12
Docking of Cytochrome c with Cytochrome c Oxidase: Modeling and Experiment Go Hand-in-Hand by Shelagh Ferguson-Miller 13

 

Posters - Brook Lodge

1. The Ribosomal database Project - II by Cole, James 14
2. Modeling the Flexibility of Ring Molecules in Structure-Based Screening for Ligands by Day, A. Roy 15
3. A New Methodology for Evaluating Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction Algorithms by Chan, christina 11
4. Identifying the Initiation Sites of Protein Folding Using FIRST Flexibility Analysis by Hespenheide, Brandon 17
5. Characterizing the Molecular Determinants of Stability and Activity at High Temperatures Using a Thermostable Adenylate Kinase as a Model by Krishnamurthy, Harini 18
6. Constrained Dynamics of the Flexible Regions in Proteins by Lei, Ming 19
7. Determination of the Membrane Topology of the Prostaglandin Endoperoxide H2 Synthase by EPR Spectroscopyby MirAfzali, Zahra 20
8. Species Divergence Under Genetic Drift and Geographic Isolation by Misevic, Dusan 21
9. Cellular Dynamics Simulation of Chemotactic Migration in Porous Media by Mondro, Jason 22
10. Ecological Specialization and Adaptive Decay in Artificial Organisms by Ostrowski, Elizabeth 23
11. Protein Unfolding: Rigidity Lost? by Rader, Andrew 24
12. Modeling of Hydrophobic Interactions in Computational Ligand Screening: A Template Matching Approach by Sanschagrin, Paul 25
13. Solid State NMR Evidence for an Extended B-strand Conformation of the Membrane-Bound HIV-1 Fusion Peptide by Yang, Jun 26
14. Realistic Modeling of Polar Interactions in Ligand screening by Zavodszky, Maria 27

Participant List