Bahar Lab

Conference Schedule
Year 2025 (January 2025 - December 2025)
November 9-13, 2025
	Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting on "Understanding Membrane - Protein Interactions: Structure, Dynamics, Function and Therapy" in Thessaloniki, Greece. Keynote Speaker
October 11-14, 2025
	Statistical Physics in Biology Workshop at Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona in celebration of our 20th anniversary.
July 7-11, 2025
	International Society for Serotonin Research (ISSR) biennial meeting "A Serotonin Symphony in Vienna" Vienna, Austria, Invited Speaker.
June 25-28, 2025
	BIT25: Biophysics invites Bioinformatics Conference at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University. Torun, Poland. Invited Speaker.
May 19-23, 2025
	ERC (European Research Council) PE5 Review Panel (Phase 2). Panel Member, Brussels, Belgium
May 5-7, 2025
	CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. 5 Year Review, NY. External Advisory Board member.
April 25-27, 2025
	National Academy's 162nd Annual Meeting: Friday, April 25 to Sunday, April 27 in Washington, DC.
March 4-6, 2025
	CUP XXIV, in Santa Fe, NM
February 11-14, 2025
	ERC (European Research Council) PE5 Review Panel (Phase 1). Panel Member, Brussels, Belgium
Year 2024 (January 2024 - December 2024)
December 4-5, 2024
	Seminar at Icahn School of Medicine, NYC, New York. Invited seminar speaker.
October 14-16, 2024
	Biophysical Origins of Life Workshop at the Laufer Center of Stony Brook University. Invited Participant.
October 10, 2024
	ICB&DD 18th Annual Symposium on Frontiers in Neuroscience and Drug Discovery, Wang Center, Stony Brook; Plenary Lecturer
September 30-October 1, 2024
	3rd Structural and Computational Biology Symposium at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Memphis, Tennessee. Invited Speaker.
September 18, 2024
	Seminar at the Department of Chemistry: Bridging biomolecular structure and function: Insights from hybrid methods in computational biology by Dr. Ivet Bahar. Stony Brook University, New York.
July 12, 2024
	ICB&DD Special Research Seminar by Dr. Ivet Bahar "How Do Advances in Structural Biology and AI Technology Facilitate Drug Discovery and Development?" Stony Brook University, New York.
May 11, 2024
	Celebrating the Legacy of a Pioneering Scientist in Chemical Biology: The Arthur P. Grollman Memorial Conference. Stony Brook, NY. Organizer.
May 7, 2024
	Joint SBU-BNL Workshop on Artificial Intelligence. Stony Brook, NY. Invited Speaker.
March 4-15, 2024
	ESI Workshop on Chromatin Modeling: Integrating Mathematics, Physics, and Computation for Advances in Biology and Medicine (SSG24). Vienna, Austria. Invited talk/collaboration.
February 10-14, 2024
	68th Annual Biophysical Society 2024 Meeting. Pennsylvania, USA. Invited Speaker.
Year 2023 (January 2023 - December 2023)
December 5-10, 2023
	2023 HFSP (Human Frontiers in Science) Awardees Meeting at the Cape Town International Convention Center (CTICC), organized by South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the National Research Foundation (NRF). Cape Town, South Africa. Invited HFSP Awardee.
October 4-7, 2023
	CECAM Flagship Workshop on "Making the invisible protein life visible using integrative biophysical approaches", Lugano, Switzerland. Invited Speaker.
September 20-21, 2023
	Apex Lecture, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences. Tennessee, USA. Invited Lecturer.
September 13-15, 2023
	Interstellar Initiative Workshop by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and The New York Academy of Sciences. New York City, USA. Invited Mentor.
September 3-7, 2023
	EMBO Practical Course on Structural Biophysics and Proteomics of Biomolecular Complexes, Istanbul, Turkey. Invited Lecturer.
August 13-17, 2023
	Invited speaker at the symposium "Emerging Techniques to Quantify Biomolecular Conformational Ensembles" at the Fall 2023 National ACS Meeting in San Francisco.
July 9-14, 2023
	19th Asian Chemical Congress overseen by the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS), in İstanbul, Turkey. Keynote Speaker.
June 19-23, 2023
	European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants Synthetic Chemistry and Materials panel PE5. Brussels, Belgium. Panel Member
May 25-27, 2023
	Modeling of Protein Interactions at MPI 2023 (ku.edu). Invited Speaker.
April 16-19, 2023
	RECOMB 2023 on "Research on Computational Molecular Biology" - The EMBO Lecture: Confluence of Structure-Based Models and Machine Learning. Istanbul, Turkey. Keynote Speaker and EMBO Lecturer
March 25-28, 2023
	2023 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Annual Meeting on "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Structural Biology, Drug Design, and Systems Biology". Seattle, WA. Invited Speaker and Chair of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Session.
March 14-17, 2023
	European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants Synthetic Chemistry and Materials panel PE5. Brussels, Belgium. Panel Member
February 11-14,2023
	Biophysical Society Meeting, Philadelphia, Invited Speaker
Year 2022 (January 2022 - December 2022)
October 7, 2022
	Frontiers in Computational Chemistry: Inaugural New York University Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry Symposium. New York, NY. Invited Speaker
September 6-8, 2022
	University of Connecticut School of Medicine Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling (CCAM) Review Board. Farmington, CT. Chair.
July 18-22, 2022
	Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry. Castelldefels, Spain. Invited Speaker.
July 4-8, 2022
	MMBioS Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biology. Pittsburgh, PA. Instructor
June 1, 2022
	Physics Colloquium, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. Invited Speaker.
May 24-28, 2022
	The 25th Annual National Congress of the Turkish Thoracic Society (TTS). Antalya, Turkey. Keynote Speaker.
May 16-20, 2022
	The Biophysical Society Hamburg Thematic Meeting, "Biophysics at the Dawn of Exascale Computers". Hamburg, Germany. Invited Speaker.
April 26, 2022
	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2022 Steelman Lecturer. Invited Speaker
April 25 - May 2, 2022
	The National Academy of Sciences 159th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.
April 7, 2022
	Colloquium with students at Koc Lisesi, Istanbul, Turkey. Invited Speaker
March 18, 2022
	Bionfocongress Kongre Daveti - Bioinforange Öğrenci Topluluğu. Turkey. Invited Speaker
March 16, 2022
	Colloquium at the Physics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL. Invited Speaker
March 8-11, 2022
	Chromatin Modeling Conference, ESI. Vienna, Austria. Invited Speaker
March 2-3, 2022
	National Institutes of Health Common Funds Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Program Face-to-Face Committee. External Program Consultant (EPC), Arlington, VA
February 15, 2022
	Acibadem University Special Seminar Series. Istanbul, Turkey. Invited Speaker
February 10, 2022
	University of Pittsburgh Departments of Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology (MBSB) Seminar Series. Pittsburgh, PA. Invited Speaker
January 18, 2022
	Drexel University Mini-Symposium on Allosteric Modulation of EAATs
Year 2021 (January 2021 - December 2021)
December 16-21, 2021
	The International Chemical Congress of Pacifichem Basin Societies 2021 Symposium, 'Biomolecules at Interfaces Defining the Cellular Environment: From Conformational Dynamics to Informatic Approaches', Honolulu, Hawaii. Invited Speaker. (rescheduled from December 2020 due to COVID-19)
November 9, 2021
	"The Integrative Modelling Informal Virtual Seminar Series", The Molecular Biophysics Unit (MBU) at the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc). Bangalore, India. Invited Speaker.
November 8, 2021
	University of Illinois, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (TCBG) Seminar Series. Invited Speaker. Click here to view seminar recording.
November 3, 2021
	University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Physics Colloquium Series. Invited Speaker.
October 25, 2021
	UT Southwestern Medical Center, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series. Invited Speaker.
September 21, 2021
	The 78th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, part of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Users' Conference. Invited Speaker.
September 17, 2021
	CECAM Workshop on "Quantifying Protein Dynamics and Allosteric Regulation in the Cell with Emerging Technologies". Virtual program. Invited Speaker.
September 10-11, 2021
	The 14th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT) 2021 at Bilkent University, Turkey. Keynote Lecturer.
Fall 2021
	The American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Exposition "Dynamic Ensembles, Cell Signaling and Drug Discovery: A Symposium in Honor of Ruth Nussinov"; San Francisco, CA. Invited Speaker. (originally scheduled for August 2020 and has been postponed to the Fall of 2021 due to COVID-19. Confirmed dates will be forthcoming.)
July 26-30, 2021
	The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) 28th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2021). Virtual Meeting. Invited Speaker.
July 5-8, 2021
	The 20th Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Awardees Meeting. Virtual Meeting. Awardee/Presenter.
June 28-July 1, 2021
	MMBioS Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics. Virtual workshop. Instructor.
June 18, 2021
	Stanford University Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) 2021 Virtual Seminar Series. Invited Speaker.
June 8-11, 2021
	European Research Council (ERC) PE5 Starting Grant Panel Meeting. Brussels, Belgium. Panel Member.
May 24-28, 2021
	The Biophysical Society meeting, "Biophysics at the Dawn of Exascale Computers". Center for Free-Electron Laser Science. Hamburg, Germany. Invited Speaker. (cancelled due to COVID-19)
April 28, 2021
	The Koc University Chemical Engineering Club Virtual Seminar Series, Invited Speaker.
April 23-25, 2021
	The National Academy of Sciences 158th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. Elected Member
April 12, 2021
	University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center Computational & Systems Biology Seminar Series. Dallas, TX. Invited Lecturer.
April 5-16, 2021
	The American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2021 Virtual Conference and Exposition "A Call to Action: The Many Roles of Computational Chemistry in Addressing COVID-19". "A Superantigenic Region that Overlaps with Proteolytic Cleavage Site of SARS-CoV-2 Spike: A New Target for Monoclonal Antibody Binding". Invited Speaker.
March 18-19, 2021
	The National Institutes of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS) Early Stage Investigator Maximizing Investigator Research Award (ESI MIRA) Grant Review Board. Panel Member.
March 15-17, 2021
	The 2021 Cold Spring Harbor Asia Virtual Conference on "Frontiers of Biomedicine Empowered by Computational Approaches and Biophysical Principles". Special Guest Speaker.
March 8-11, 2021
	"2021 Chromatin Modeling: Integrating Mathematics, Physics, and Computation for Advances in Biology and Medicine". Research Centre of the Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI); Vienna, Austria. Invited Speaker.
February 17, 2021
	Invited webinar, at Tree of Evolution, Seminar Series in celebration of Darwin's birthday. Talk title: "Evolution of Biomolecular Sequence, Structure and Dynamics: Compromise between Adaptability and Specificity for Functional Viability". Invited Speaker.
February 3, 2021
	The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Focus on Pharmacology Virtual Conference; "A Superantigenic Region in SARS-CoV-2 Spike and Its Immunotherapeutic Consequences: Lessons Learned from Recent Computations and Experiments". Invited Speaker.
Year 2020 (January 2020 - December 2020)
November 26, 2020
	Research Institute for Fundamental Sciences. "Frontiers of Science: Biological Sciences Seminar Series." Virtual Meeting, Invited Speaker.
November 11, 2020
	Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh Conference on "AI-driven Discoveries in Biophysics". Pittsburgh, PA,. Virtual Meeting, Invited Speaker.
November 10-13, 2020
	Academic Program Review Committee for the Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA. Invited Committee Member.
November 10, 2020
	Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center - IBG Science Day. Izmir, Turkey. Virtual Meeting, Invited Speaker.
November 2, 2020
	The Weizmann Institute of Science Protein Folding & Dynamics Webinar Lecture Series, Rehovot, Israel. Invited Speaker. Protein Folding & Dynamics YouTube Channel.
October 22-23, 2020
	International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) "Workshop on Modular Modeling in Biophysics", Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Invited Speaker. (postponed due to COVID-19)
September 24-25, 2020
	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Chemical Biology & Therapeutics, 2020 Chemical Biology and Therapeutics Symposium. Memphis, TN. Virtual Meeting, Invited Speaker.
September 5-7, 2020
	The Annual Meeting of the Austrian Biophysical Society 2020, Strobl am Wolfgangsee, Austria. Invited Speaker. (originally scheduled in July and has been postponed due to COVID-19)
July 19-24, 2020
	2020 Gordon Research Conference (GRC), 33rd Anniversary of the GRC in Computational Chemistry, "Multiscale Modeling of Complex Systems: Methods and Applications", Castelldefels, Spain. Invited Speaker.
July 13-16, 2020
	The International Society for Computational Biology in conjunction with National Institutes of Health, NIH-OD/ODSS Data Science Strategy (ISMB 2020) Virtual Meeting. Invited Speaker.
July 2-3, 2020
	The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), HITS gGmbH Scientific Advisory Board "Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM)" Research Group Review Board. Heidelberg, Germany. Invited Reviewer. (postponed due to COVID-19)
June 10, 2020
	The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Center for Systems Immunology (CSI) SARS-CoVID Special Seminar Series. Virtual Meeting. Invited Speaker.
May 7-8, 2020
	Joint Symposium with Hacettepe University School of Medicine (Turkey) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Ankara, Turkey. Co-organizer of the Joint Symposium and Invited Speaker. (postponed due to COVID-19)
March 4-6, 2020
	U.S. National Library of Medicine. Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee (BILDS) Meeting. NIH; Bethesda, Maryland. Committee Member.
February 20, 2020
	R.D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling (CCAM) Seminar Series, University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Farmington, CT. Invited Speaker.
February 11-12, 2020
	2020 National Institutes of Health Common Fund's Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Program Committee. External Program Consultant (EPC), Arlington, VA.
February 10, 2020
	National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Seminar Series. Baltimore, MD, USA, Invited Speaker.
Year 2019 (January 2019 - December 2019)
December 3, 2019
	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 2019 Laureate Lecture Series. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Invited Lecturer.
November 13-15, 2019
	U.S. National Library of Medicine. Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee (BILDS) Meeting. NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Committee Member.
November 7-8, 2019
	The Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute of Genomic Medicine Seminar Series; Cleveland, OH. GMI Distinguished Speaker.
September 4-6, 2019
	Biological Physics Mexico City 2019 Scientific International Conference, Mexico City, Mexico. Keynote Speaker.
June 27-29, 2019
	Izmir University of Technology Izmir Statistical Physics Days Conference; Izmir, Turkey. Keynote Speaker.
June 13-14, 2019
	U.S. National Library of Medicine. Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee (BILDS) Meeting. NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Committee Member.
June 3-7, 2019
	European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Panel Meeting. Brussels, Belgium. Panel Member.
May 20-24, 2019
	Jacques Monod Conference, Sciences biologiques Ecologie et Environnement, Ligand-gated ion channels from atomic structure to synaptic transmission. Roscoff, France, Invited Speaker.
May 13-14, 2019
	National Institute of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Intramural Research Program (IRP) Seminar Series. Baltimore, MD, USA, Invited Speaker.
March 31-April 5, 2019
	Multiscale Modeling of Chromatin: Bridging Experiment with Theory. (Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting.) Les Houches, France. Invited Speaker.
March 20-26, 2019
	The 2019 Kadir Has Outstanding Achievement Award, Kadir Has University. Istanbul, Turkey, Award receipient.
March 5-8, 2019
	European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Panel Meeting. Brussels, Belgium. Panel Member.
March 2-4, 2019
	63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, Symposium on Glutamate Receptors. Baltimore, MD, Invited Speaker.
Year 2018 (January 2018 - December 2018)
November 15-16, 2018
	U.S. National Library of Medicine. Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee (BILDS) Meeting. NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Committee Member.
November 8-10, 2018
	Conference on Modeling of Protein Interactions (MPI). Lawrence, Kansas. Invited Speaker.
October 15-17, 2018
	CECAM (Centre European pour le Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) Workshop, "Multiscale simulations of allosteric regulatory mechanisms in cancer-associated proteins and signaling protein networks," Lugano, Switzerland. Invited Speaker.
October 10, 2018
	MMBioS National Center for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems External Advisory Board Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. Principal Investigator.
October 6-8, 2018
	Computational Biology Workshop, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. Invited Participant.
September 18-21, 2018
	Inaugural International Transmembrane Transporter Society (ITTS) Symposium. Vienna, Austria. Session Organizer and Speaker.
September 12-14, 2018
	CECAM (Centre European pour le Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) Workshop, "Normal modes of biological macromolecules: methods and applications," Paris, France. Invited Speaker.
September 9-12, 2018
	European Conference in Computational Biology (ECCB) 2018, jointly held with the ISMB (International Society for Computational Biology). Athens, Greece. Session Organizer and Speaker.
July 31-August 2, 2018
	6th Annual iGluRetreat, jointly held with the Department of Chemistry of Carnegie Mellon University and the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. Invited Speaker.
June 25-27, 2018
	"CONES2018: Frontiers of Non-Equilibrium Science" Conference, London, UK. Invited Speaker.
June 21-22, 2018
	NIH Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering 2018 Training Grantees Meeting. NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, MD. Attendee.
June 7-8, 2018
	U.S. National Library of Medicine. Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee (BILDS) Meeting. NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Committee Member.
May 21-25, 2018
	Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pennsylvania. Instructor.
May 3, 2018
	Department of Physics, Drexel University. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Invited Colloquium Speaker.
March 8-9, 2018
	U.S. National Library of Medicine. Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee (BILDS) Meeting. NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Committee Member.
February 27, 2018
	NIMH Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health. NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Invited Speaker.
February 17-21, 2018
	Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. Attendee.
Year 2017 (January 2017 - December 2017)
December 3-7,2017
	Molecular Perspectives on Protein-Protein Interactions (PPI2017), Eilat, Israel. Invited Speaker.
November 19-21, 2017
	Review of Computational Biology Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas. External Reviewer.
November 1-4, 2017
	U.S. National Library of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences (BILDS, formerly BLIRC) Review Committee Meeting. Committee Member.
October 30-November 1, 2017
	CECAM (Centre European pour le Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) Workshop, "Computational Approaches to Investigating Allostery", Lausanne, Switzerland. Invited Speaker.
October 19-21, 2017
	"5th International BAU Drug Design Conference", Istanbul, Turkey. Invited Speaker.
August 20-25, 2017
	The IV International Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS) Conference, Waterloo, Canada. Invited Plenary Speaker.
August 7-11, 2017
	5th Edition of the Brazilian Molecular Modelling School, Sao Paolo, Brazil. Invited Speaker and Lecturer.
June 19-20, 2017
	Royal Society Discussion Meeting, 'Allostery and Molecular Machines', Royal Society Headquarters, London, UK. Invited Speaker.
June 15-16,2017
	U.S. National Library of Medicine, Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee (BLIRC) Meeting. Committee Member.
June 11-14, 2017
	Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Computational Aspects - Biomolecular NMR, Grand Summit Hotel, Newry, ME. Invited Speaker.
May 30-June 2, 2017
	Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pennsylvania. Instructor.
May 18-20, 2017
	2017 Workshop on Computational Biophysics and Systems Biology (CBSB2017), Cincinnati, OH. Invited Keynote Speaker.
May 10, 2017
	Greater Boston Theoretical Chemistry Lecture, Boston University, Boston, MA. Invited Lecturer.
April 2-6, 2017
	Long-range Correlated Motions in Proteins at the 253^rd National Meeting, American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA. Invited Symposium Speaker
March 30, 2017
	Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. Invited Speaker.
March 7-10,2017
	U.S. National Library of Medicine, Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee (BLIRC) Meeting. Committee Member.
February 11-15, 2017
	Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Attendee.
Year 2016 (January 2016 - December 2016)
December 4-6, 2016
	Review of Computational Biology Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas. External Reviewer.

September 22, 2016
	Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University. Taiwan. Invited Lecturer.
September 20, 2016
	2016 Taiwan International Graduate Program Distinguished Lecture, Hosted by Academia Sinica, Taiwan
August 31-September 2, 2016
	9th SFB35 Symposium, "Transmembrane Transporters in Health and Disease". Vienna, Austria. Invited Chairperson.
July 28-29, 2016
	National Strategic Computing Initiative Anniversary Workshop. White House, Washington, DC. Invited Speaker.
July 11-12, 2016
	NIBIB Training Grantees Meeting. Natcher Conference Center, NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, MD. Invited NIBIB Training Program Director.
June 21, 2016
	SBGrid - ProDy Webinar hosted by Harvard University. Invited Speaker.
June 6-10, 2016
	Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pennsylvania. Instructor.
May 26-27, 2016
	Big Data Bioinformatics Conference. Boston, MA. Invited Distinguished Speaker.
March 15-17, 2016
	"Landscapes, Pathways, and Kinetics in Biomolecular Simulations" Symposium, 251st ACS National Meeting & Exposition. San Diego, California. Invited Speaker.
March 13-15, 2016
	NIH BTRR P41 Directors Meeting, NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, MD. Invited Speaker.
February 10, 2016
	Arizona State University in the Center for Biological Physics Seminar Series, Tempe, AZ. Invited Speaker.
February 9, 2016
	External Advisory Board Meeting for P41 NIGMS Center for Biomolecular NMR Processing and Analysis, UConn Health, Farmington, CT. Invited EAB Member.
January 25-27, 2016
	The International Human Frontier Science Program Selection Committee, Strasbourg, FR. Selection Committee Member.
January 19-20, 2016
	Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB) program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Review Board Member.
Year 2015 (January 2015 - December 2015)
December 7, 2015
	University of Maryland Biophysics Program, Seminar Series. Invited Seminar Speaker.
December 4, 2015
	CATER Seminar Series. Invited Seminar Speaker.
November 17-18, 2015
	NIH P01 Program Project application "Molecular structure, dynamics, and mechanism of key membrane transporters and enzymes in cellular metabolism". Online Review Panel Chair.
November 11, 2015
	University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute (UPDDI) External Advisory Board (EAB) meeting. Attendee.
October 1-2, 2015
	Center for Causal Discovery (CCD) External Advisory Board Meeting. University of Pittsburgh, PA. Principal Investigator.
September 20-22, 2015
	NINDS Board of Scientific Counselors meeting. NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, MD. Ad Hoc Reviewer.
September 17-18, 2015
	MMBioS National Center for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems External Advisory Board Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. Principal Investigator.
September 7-9, 2015
	8th SFB35 Transmembrane Transporters in Health and Disease Symposium , Vienna, Austria. Invited Speaker.
August 12-19, 2015
	Collaborative book writing meeting in Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY.
August 9-10, 2015
	P01DK096990 External Advisory Board Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Computational Pharmacology Core PI.
June 29-July 1, 2015
	The International Human Frontier Science Program Selection Committee, Strasbourg, FR. Selection Committee Member.
June 15-23, 2015
	Collaborative book writing meeting in Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, NY.
June 1-5, 2015
	Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pennsylvania. Instructor.
April 23-24, 2015
	NIH Director's New Innovator Award Review. NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, Maryland. Editorial Review Panel Member.
April 16, 2015
	Bioengineering Department Seminar Series, University of Pittsburgh, PA. Invited Seminar Speaker.
March 30-31, 2015
	Chair of the NIH IMST-R, Pilot Centers for Precision Disease Modeling (U54) study section meeting. Washington, DC. Chair.
March 22-26, 2015
	ACS National Meeting Symposium, "Progress and Challenges in Molecular Simulations of Biomolecules". Denver, Colorado. Invited Presenter and Speaker.
March 9-11, 2015
	CUP XV OpenEye Scientific Software's Annual Meeting , Santa Fe, CA. Levinthal Lecturer.
February 15-20, 2015
	22nd International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference. San Francisco, CA. Featured Speaker.
February 7-11, 2015
	In Vivo Biophysics Subgroup Symposium in conjunction with the Bridging the Sciences: Computation and Experiment, Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland. Invited Speaker.
February 5, 2015
	Inaugural Lecture for your appointment as Distinguished Professor of Computational and Systems Biology in the School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA.
January 26-28, 2015
	The International Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant Review Committee. Strasbourg, France. Review Committee Member.
January 12-16, 2015
	Collaborative book writing meeting at Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, New York.
Year 2014 (January 2014 - December 2014)
December 8-12, 2014
	Collaborative book writing meeting at the Iowa State University. Ames, Iowa.
December 4, 2014
	Israeli Biochemistry Society Meeting on "Molecular Machines in Action". Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Keynote Lecturer.
November 11, 2014
	Fall Seminar Series, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland. Invited Speaker.
October 30-31, 2014
	MMBioS National Center for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems External Advisory Board Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. Principal Investigator.
October 20-21, 2014
	Biophysical Publications Committee Meeting. Rockville, Maryland. Committee Member.
October 13-18, 2014
	Collaborative book writing meeting at Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, New York.
September 30, 2014
	Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Molecular Medicine Research Seminar Series. Pittsburgh, PA. Seminar Speaker.
September 10-14, 2014
	Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting "Modeling of Biomolecular Systems Dynamics, Allostery and Regulation: Bridging Experiments and Computations." Istanbul, Turkey. Organizer (co-organizer: Dr. Keskin, Koc U).
August 14-21, 2014
	Collaborative book writing meeting at Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, New York.
August 11-14, 2014
	IUPAP Conference for Computational Physics (CCP 2014). Boston, MA, Invited Speaker.
July 16-19, 2014
	Zing Conference on Protein Folding. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Invited Speaker.
June 15-19, 2014
	Coarse-graining as a Frontier of Statistical Mechanics Conference. Santa Fe, New Mexico, Invited Speaker.
June 9-13, 2014
	Collaborative book writing meeting at the University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
June 2-6, 2014
	Gordon Research Conference on Biopolymers. Salva Regina, Chair of the Conference. (photo)
May 19-23, 2014
	Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pennsylvania. Instructor.
May 11-19, 2014
	Collaborative book writing meeting at Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, New York.
May 7-9, 2014
	Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium Frontiers in Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics. Chicago, IL. Invited Speaker.
April 7, 2014
	NIH Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS): Perturbation-Induced Data and Signature Generation Centers (U54) Area Review. Washington, DC. Review Panel Chair.
April 4, 2014
	Saint Francis University Seminar Series. Invited Seminar Speaker.
March 24-25, 2014
	National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBB) and National Institute for General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Technology Research (P41) Centers Principal Investigator Meeting. Rockville, Maryland. P41 Principal Investigator.
March 5-7, 2014
	NIH Review Panel for National Biomedical Computation Resource (P41-BTRC) Program. UCSD, San Diego, CA. Review Panel Member.
February 19, 2014
	Biophysical Society Publications Committee Meeting. San Francisco, California. Publications Committee Member.
February 15-19, 2014
	Biophysical Society 58th Annual Meeting on "Bridging the Sciences to Explore Biology". Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Invited Speaker at the Mid Career Luncheon.
January 20-22, 2014
	The International Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant Review Committee. Strasbourg, France. Review Committee Member.
January 14, 2014
	Laufer Center Seminar Series. Stony Brook University, New York. Invited Seminar Speaker.
Year 2013 (January 2013 - December 2013)
December 9-10, 2013
	NIH R15 Area Review. Washington, DC. Review Panel (Study Section) Member.
October 25, 2013
	Biophysical Society Publications Committee Meeting. Rockville, MD. Committee Member.
October 20-22, 2013
	NIH Advisory Board Meeting. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL. Advisory Board Member.
October 4, 2013
	Science 2013 Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. Invited Speaker.
October 2-3, 2013
	MMBioS National Center for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems Workshop: Critical Challenges for Spatially temporally-realistic Cell Modeling Packages. Pittsburgh, PA. Workshop participant.
October 1-2, 2013
	MMBioS National Center for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems External Advisory Board Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. Principal Investigator.
July 21-26, 2013
	7th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems (7th IDMRCS). Session: Amorphous pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals - physical and chemical stability. Barcelona, Spain. Invited Speaker.
July 1-3, 2013
	NIH Site Visit Review Panel. Center For Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 IMST-J 41 P, Resource Center: Proteomics, University of Wisconsin.
June 10-14, 2013
	Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group Computational Biophysics Workshop. Pittsburgh, PA, Invited Speaker.
June 3-6, 2013
	"In-silico Drug Design and In-silico Screening" track in Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress 2013 International Conference. Boston, MA, Invited Speaker, Co-Chairman.
May 21, 2013
	UPCI Basic and Translational Seminar Series. University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, PA. Invited Seminar Speaker.
May 14-16, 2013
	GLBIO (Great Lakes Bioinformatics, a conference of the International Society for Computational Biology). Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Keynote Speaker.
May 6-9, 2013
	Symposium "Computational Biology: Then and Today", Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Keynote Speaker.
April 15-19, 2013
	Conference on "Protein Dynamics and Function" Collingwood College, Durham University, UK, and workshop on Protein Dynamics and Function at the Durham Institute of Advanced Study, organized jointly between Durham Biophysics Sciences Institute and the EU Network SoftComp. Invited Speaker.
April 4, 2013
	Women in Medicine & Science Forum, "Advancing in a Male-Dominated Academic Culture" Panel. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Panel Member .
March 18-19, 2013
	NIH BTRC P41 Directors Meeting, Bethesda, MD. Invited Speaker.
March 7-8, 2013
	Tetralateral Symposium Tsinghua University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Invited Speaker.
January 21-23, 2013
	Review Committee Meeting for The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization. Strasbourg, France. Committee Member.
January 13-18, 2013
	Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Stochastic Physics in Biology. Ventura, CA. Invited Session Chair and Speaker.
January 7-11, 2013
	Collaborative book writing meeting. San Francisco, California.
Year 2012 (January 2012 - December 2012)
December 3-7, 2012
	Zing Conference on Mathematical and Computational Medicine. Xcaret, Mexico. Plenary Speaker.
December 26-30, 2012
	Collaborative book writing meeting at Stony Brook University. Stony Brook, New York.
October 31, 2012
	Pittsburgh SOM/Koï¿½ University partnership symposium Symposium. Koï¿½ University, Istanbul, Turkey, Invited Speaker at symposium and Bogazici University Chemical Engineering Department.
October 28-29, 2012
	RiMED symposium on Comparative Effectiveness Research & Personalized Medicine. Sicily, Italy, Invited Speaker and advisory board member for RiMed.
October 8-10, 2012
	CECAM Workshop "Signalling pathways: Interplay between microscopic changes and global behavior of biological systems." Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France. Invited speaker.
September 6, 2012
	The Child Health Research Center, CHRC Seminar series, Ohio State University, Seminar Speaker.
July 24-26, 2012
	Biodynamics Meeting. Buffalo, NY. Keynote Speaker.
June 3-8, 2012
	Gordon Research Conference on Biopolymers. Salva Regina, Newport, RI. Vice Chair.
May 2-4, 2012
	Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium (MPSDC). Chicago, IL.
April 24, 2012
	Seminar at SUNY Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. Invited speaker.
March 7-9, 2012
	EMBO Workshop VIZBI 2012 on Visualizing Biological Data, Visualization of Proteins & Complexes Session, European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Heidelberg, Germany. Invited Speaker
February 25-29, 2012
	56th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA
Year 2011 (January 2011 - December 2011)
December 3-7, 2011
	The Zing Conference on Protein and RNA Structure Prediction, The Ocean Coral, Puerto Morelos, Cancun, Mexico. Invited Speaker
November 4-5, 2011
	Biophysical Society, Fall Executive Board Meeting., Bethesda, MD
October 14, 2011
	Seminar, University of Akron, Department of Polymer Engineering, Akron, Ohio (host: M. Cakmak)
September 16, 2011
	Biochemistry Colloquium, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Arizona. Invited Speaker
July 25, 2011
	NIH/CSR Chair Orientation Session, Cleveland, OH.
July 14-19, 2011
	19th Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 10th Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Program Committee Member, and ISCB Student Council Symposium Keynote Speaker
July 4-7, 2011
	International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Institute Mathematics Initiative (IMI), at IISc, Bangalore, India. Invited Speaker
June 14-18, 2011
	Albany 2011: The 17th Conversation, at the State University of New York at Albany. Invited Speaker
June 13, 2011
	Biophysical Society, Spring Executive Board Meeting , Austin, TX
June 9, 2011
	Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium (MPSDC), Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
June 3-4, 2011
	Annual Meeting, Turkish Academy of Sciences, participation as Principal Member, Istanbul, Turkey
May 18-22, 2011
	The International Congress on Bioinformatics and Biomics, Pine Bay Holiday Resort, Kusadasi, Turkey. Invited Speaker.
March 5-9, 2011
	Biophysical Society 55th Annual Meeting, Baltimore MD. Executive Board Meeting and Session Co-Chair on Molecular Dynamics.
January 3-7, 2011
	Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2011, Kona, Big Island of Hawaii. Invited Speaker. PSB Session on Multi-scale Modeling of Biosystems: From Molecular to Mesoscale.
Fall 2010 (September - December 2010)
December 4-7, 2010
	The Zing Conference on Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, The Ocean Coral, Puerto Morelos, Cancun, Mexico, Invited Speaker
December 1, 2010
	University of Rochester, Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar Series, Rochester, NY
October 30, 2010
	Biophysical Society Executive Board Fall Meeting, Society Office in Bethesda, MD
October 23-27, 2010
	RiMed Foundation Fellowship Interviews, Member, RiMed Foundation Scientific Committee, Palermo, Italy
October 20-23, 2010
	PPS2010 - Polymer Processing Society Istanbul Regional Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, Invited Speaker.
October 14-16, 2010
	Chemical Physics IX Congress, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey. Invited Speaker
September 25-28, 2010
	24th Annual Gibbs Conference in Biothermodynamics, Touch of Nature Conference Center in Carbondale Illinois. Invited Speaker
September 7-8, 2010
	Workshop on 'Coarse-Grained Modelling of Biological Systems', Kavli Royal Society Center, Organized by UK Royal Society to celebrate its 350th anniversary. Kavli, Milten Keynes, UK. Invited Speaker
Summer 2010 (May - August 2010)
August 1-3, 2010
	MERCURY National Conference on Undergraduate Computational Chemistry, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Invited Speaker.
July 21, 2010
	NIH Interdisciplinary Molecular Sciences and Training Review Panel on Computational Biology, Image Processing, and Data Mining. Panel Chair, Washington, DC
July 5-9, 2010
	TSRC, Telluride Workshop on Coarse-Grained Modeling of Structure and Dynamics of Biomacromolecules, Telluride, Colorado. Invited Speaker.
June 24-25, 2010
	NIH NIBIB Training Grantees Meeting. Bethesda, MD
June 22-23, 2010
	Biophysical Society Executive Board Spring Meeting, Society Office in Bethesda, MD
June 6-11, 2010
	Gordon Research Conference on Biopolymers, Session on binding, allsotery and dynamics, Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. Invited Speaker
May 19-21, 2010
	International Bioinformatics and Biomics Congress at Ege University, Kusadasi, Izmir. Invited Speaker
May 14-15, 2010
	Department of Computational and Systems Biology Annual Retreat. Lakeview Resort. Speaker and Session Chair
May 6-7, 2010
	IGMS Glue Grant Meeting, Membrane Proteins Consortium, University of Chicago (co-PI)
Spring 2010 (January - April 2010)
April 29-30, 2010
	Biological Interfaces: A TYC Computational Modelling Workshop, King’s College London Guy’s Campus, New Hunt’s House, London, UK. Invited Speaker.
January 10-15, 2010
	5th Gordon Research Conference on Protein Folding Dynamics, Ventura Beach, CA. Invited Speaker in "Fluctuations in the Native State" section. Talk title: "Functional Dynamics of Proteins: Learning from Ensembles of Structures and Network Models"
January 4-8, 2010
	Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Modeling of Biological Macromolecules, Big Island of Hawaii. Invited Speaker
Fall 2009 (September - December 2009)
Dec 5, 2009
	Featured Speaker for the Annual COB Day, NYU Courant Institute
Nov 11, 2009
	Seminar at City College of New York (CCNY), CUNY.
Nov 1-4, 2009
	Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop in IEEE BIBM 2009; Washington DC; Scientific Program Committee Member
October 29, 2009
	Speaker for the MB/SB Seminar Series, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh
October 21, 2009
	Blue Knot Initiative, United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
October 16-17, 2009
	22nd Annual Student Sponsored Symposium organized by NIH-funded Cell and Molecular Biology and Molecular Biophysics Programs, at the University of Illinois, Keynote Speaker
September 30-October 2, 2009
	NIBIB-HHMI Interdisciplinary Training Workshop, Chevy Chase, MD
September 7-10, 2009
	CECAM workshop on "Coarse-Graining Biological Systems: Towards Large-Scale Interactions and Assembly" EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Invited Speaker
Summer 2009 (May - August 2009)
June 5-10, 2009
	2009 Keystone Symposium on Protein Dynamics, Allostery and Function, Keystone, Organizer, co-organizer: Lila M. Gierasch.
Spring 2009 (January - April 2009)
April 30, 2009
	Seminar at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, U of Pittsburgh
April 28, 2009
	Seminar at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
April 24, 2009
	Seminar at the Center for Simulations and Modeling, University of Pittsburgh
April 14, 2009
	External Advisory Board - Beckman Institute, M & ENS (Mol and Electronic Nanostructures) Division, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
April 5-7, 2009
	External Advisory Board - Beckman Institute, M & ENS (Mol and Electronic Nanostructures) Division, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
March 22-27, 2009
	2009 Spring ACS National meeting Phys. Chem. Symposium on Functional Motions in Enzyme Catalysis, Salt Lake City. Invited Speaker
March 9-10, 2009
	NIH Study Section for renewal of National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways (TCNP), part of the NIH Director’s Roadmap for Medical Research, San Francisco.
February 28 - March 4, 2009
	53rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, Boston Massachusetts, Council Member.
February 1 - 3, 2009
	NSF's Awardees conference, "Building Connections within the Engineering Education Research Community," Reston, VA. Hosted by the NSF's Division of Engineering Education and Centers and Virginia Tech's Department of Engineering Education, requested participant.
January 10-15, 2009
	5th Gordon Research Conference on Protein Folding Dynamics, Ventura Beach, CA. Invited Speaker in "Fluctuations in the Native State" section. Talk title: "Functional Dynamics of Proteins: Learning from Ensembles of Structures and Network Models"
Fall 2008 (September - December 2008)
November 16-17, 2008
	University of Kansas, Member of the External Review Committee
October 17 – 20, 2008
	RiMed Foundation Fellowship Interviews, Invited Speaker and Interviewer, Member, Palermo, Italy, RiMed Foundation Scientific Committee. (UPMC news link)
October 9 – 11, 2008
	8th KIAS-Yonsei Protein Conference, Seoul, Korea, Invited Speaker
October 2-4 , 2008
	2008 BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) Fall Meeting, “Gateway to Innovation”, Invited Speaker.
September 18, 2008
	Seminar at Hebrew University, Biological Sci Dept, Jerusalem, Israel
September 2 and 9, 2008
	Seminars at Weizmann Institute, Structural Biology Department. Rehovot, Israel.
Summer 2008 (May - August 2008)
August 26- Sept 20, 2008
	Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Visiting Professor and Invited Speaker, Department of Structural Biology
August 21-22, 2008
	CMU/Pitt PhD Program Retreat
July 18-19, 2008
	ISMB Annual Satellite Meeting on Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics (3DSig 2008), Toronto. Keynote Speaker
July 19-23, 2008
	ISMB-2008 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Toronto, Canada. Program Committee and Highlights Session Chair.
June 8-13, 2008
	President’s Meeting of the International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology (ISQBP) at the Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, Switzerland. Plenary Lecturer
June 1-2, 2008
	NIH MABS Study Section at NIH, Bethesda, MD
Spring 2008 (January - April 2008)
April 30, 2008
	Case Western Reserve University, Center for Proteomics and Spectrometry, Cleveland, Ohio, Invited Speaker.
April 17, 2008
	BBSI Annual Meeting organized by NSF and NIH/NIBIB, Washington DC.
April 6-10, 2008
	International Symposium on "Multiscale Modeling in Biophysics", Spring 2008 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans, Louisiana. Invited Speaker. (http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/s08/computation.htm)
March 23-29, 2008
	Visiting Scientist at IMA (Institute for Mathematics and Applications) at the University of Minnesota (http://www.ima.umn.edu/)
February 1, 2008
	Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science.
January 28-29, 2008
	NIH MABS study section at San Francisco.
January 19-24, 2008
	Invited Research at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
January 14-18, 2008
	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) workshop on "Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology", University of Minnesota, Invited Speaker. (www.ima.umn.edu)
January 2-3, 2008
	NIH MABS study section at NIH, Bethesda.
Fall 2007 (September - December 2007)
December 18, 2007
	NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) Open House meeting, Chair of a CSR Biomolecular Chartered Study Section
Dec 7, 2007
	Duke University. Seminar
Dec 6, 2007
	McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series. Invited Speaker. www.mirm.pitt.edu/events/seminarseries.asp
Past Conferences
Summer 2007 (May - August 2007)
August 19-23, 2007
	234th Annual ACS meeting in Boston (Invited Speaker) http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetings%5cboston2007%5chome.html
July 29- Aug 3, 2007
	Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design, at Tilton School in New Hampshire (Invited Speaker) http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2007&program=cadd
July 21-25, 2007
	ISMB/ECCB 2007 (15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)). http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/ Invited talk. (Session Chair)
July 8-10, 2007
	EURO Working Group on Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine, Invited talk, Prag. (http://euro2007.vse.cz/)
June 17-22, 2007
	Gordon Research Conference, Proteins Session, Holderness School, Plymouth, NH. - Invited Speaker (http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2007/proteins.htm)
June 4-5, 2007
	NIH MABS Study Section, Bethesda, MD
Spring 2007 (January - April 2007)
April 29 - May 1, 2007
	Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network (MLSCN) Steering Committee meeting in Philadelphia. (Invited Participant)
April 24, 2007
	Seminar at Systems Biology Interest Group at Integrative Computational Biology Lab (http://tango01.cit.nih.gov/sig/home.taf?_function=main&SIGInfo_SIGID=124) CRIIT, NHLBI, NIH.
April 20-21, 2007
	3rd CAPRI (Critical Assessment of PRedicted Interactions) meeting in Toronto. (Invited speaker) http://caprimeeting.ccb.sickkids.ca/speakers.html
March 13, 2007
	Swiss National Meeting of Biological Sciences, Symposium on "Potassium channels: molecular biology, pathophysiology and models", Basel, Switzerland. (First Main Talk) (http://www.swissheartnet.unibe.ch/)
February 11-12, 2007
	NIH MABS Study Section, Bethesda, MD
Jan 10-17, 2007
	UCSF (meeting with KA Dill, RL Jernigan, HS Chan, S Blomberg & Nigel Orme)
Fall 2006 (September - December 2006)
December 11-12, 2006
	Workshop on the Future of BioMolecular Simulations: From Ab Initio to Nano-molecular Machines at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). (Invited speaker) (http://nccs.gov/news/workshops/biomolecular06/index.html)
October 23-24, 2006
	NIH MABS Study Section, Bethesda, MD
October 5, 2006
	"Science 2006: Feel the Power" University of Pittsburgh Annual Science Meeting, Pittsburgh (Spotlight speaker) (http://www.science2006.pitt.edu/)
September 7, 2006
	Systems Biology Symposium, organized at Pennsylvania State University, sponsored by the Huck Life Science Institute and College of Science and Engineering, College Park (PA). (Invited Speaker) (http://www.esm.psu.edu/~mcd18/sysbiol.htm)
Summer 2006 (May - August 2006)
July 31 - August 3, 2006
	Annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, joint with the Society for Industrial and Applied Math (SIAM) Life Sciences (http://www.siam.org/meetings/calendar.php?id=21) at NCSU, Raleigh (North Carolina). (Plenary Lecture) (http://www.siam.org/meetings/ls06/invited.php)
July 26-29, 2006
	"Modeling elastic manifolds, from soft condensed matter to biomolecules" (http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?ida=a05214) at ICTP (Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics), Trieste, Italy, invited speaker
June 26-28, 2006
	HMMI-NIBIB Awardees meeting, NIH, Bethesda, MD
June 11-16, 2006
	Biopolymers Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina University Newport, RI - Invited Speaker (http://www.grc.uri.edu/programs/2006/biopolym.htm)
May 22-26, 2006
	IPAM Cell and Materials Workshop on Systems Biology and Molecular Modeling at UCLA, and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) - Invited Speaker (http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/cmws4)
May 18-21, 2006
	Symposium on Protein Dynamics - Invited Speaker University of Wisconsin-Madison (http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/steenbock/symposium32/)
Oct 2004 - April 2006