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Date Time Speaker Presentation Other Articles Reviewed

Spring 2025 (January - May 2025)

4/1 2:00 PM Isabelle Kwan ESSENTIAL INTERFACES: How Complexation Alters Structural Dynamics

3/27 2:30 PM Matthew Licht Overcoming Drug Resistance in Candida Auris

3/13 2:30 PM Satyaki Saha Conformational Sampling of β2AR

1/30 2:30 PM Diksha Parwana From Local Perturbations to Global Dynamics: ENMs for Allostery

1/7 2:30 PM JiYoung Lee Genetic regulation and targeted reversal of lysosomal dysfunction and inflammatory sterol metabolism in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Fall 2024 (September - December 2024)

11/21 2:30 PM Isabelle Kwan Discovering Drug-Target-Pathway Relationship in Clozapine Antipsychotic Efficacy with QuartataWeb

11/12 9:00 AM Xiaowei Bogetti Experimental data guided conformational sampling of protein alternate states

11/07 2:30 PM Umur Turgut Partial Inhibition of the CtaA Chemotaxis Receptor in Pseudomonas Fluorescens increases motility and reduces biofilm formation

10/17 2:30 PM Anthony Bogetti The next frontier in protein structure prediction: pathways and kinetics

Spring 2024 (January - May 2024)

7/16 3:00 PM JiYoung Lee Drug Discovery in collaboration with experimentalists

7/09 2:30 PM Mary Hongying Cheng Research Updates

7/02 2:30 PM Anupam Banerjee Rhapsody2: Enhanced Prediction and Comprehensive Biophysical Characterization of Pathogenic Missense Variants

6/25 2:30 PM Xiaowei Bogetti smFRET and DEER with ProDy

6/11 2:30 PM Anthony Bogetti New methods being developed in the Bahar group

5/21 2:30 PM Hoang Nguyen Signature Dynamics reveal sequence to dynamic relation

5/14 2:30 PM Haotian (Frank) Zhang Exploring Mechanisms of Coproporphyrinogen III oxidase mutations causing Porphyria

4/16 2:30 PM Rostam Razban Linking brain structure to function with elastic network theory

4/02 2:30 PM Isabelle Ming Suet Kwan Essential Site Scanning Analysis (ESSA)

3/19 2:30 PM Mary Hongying Cheng Structural mechanisms for VMAT inhibition by tetrabenazine

3/12 2:30 PM Ivet Bahar Bridging Sequence, Structure and Function

2/20 2:30 PM Hoang Nguyen Allosteric review on hSERT and dDAT

2/06 2:30 PM Frank Zhang Deciphering the Molecular Landscape of Ferroptosis: Drug Interventions and Gene Expression Dynamics

1/30 2:30 PM Carlos Ventura Structure Based Mechanistic Approaches for Target Selection of NSCLC for Inducing Ferroptosis

1/16 2:30 PM Anthony Bogetti Improving our maps of protein conformational space

1/02 2:30 PM Xiaowei Bogetti GNM and ANM analysis reveals the global motions of human V-ATPase

Fall 2023 (September - December 2023)

12/22 2:00 PM Satyaki Saha Deciphering the Molecular Mechanism Underlying CIP2A-Mediated Inhibition of PP2A Tumor Suppressor Activity

12/15 2:30 PM Rostam Razban Do protein motions constrain enzyme catalysis?

11/28 2:30 PM Diksha Parwana GNM analysis on Human V-ATPase

11/12 2:00 PM Hoang Nguyen VPS13 and ENM analysis

10/31 2:30 PM Haotian (Frank) Zhang Drugs are likely to bind hinge regions

10/24 2:30 PM Xiaowei Bogetti Integrating EPR and computational modeling to measure protein structure and dynamics

10/17 2:30 PM Pemra Doruker APOP Algorithm for Allosteric Pokcet Prediction

10/10 2:30 PM Anupam Banerjee Leveraging Elastic Network Models to Explore the Connectome

9/12 2:30 PM Anthony Bogetti Shooting for the moon with weighted ensemble applications

Spring 2021 (January - May 2021)

3/17 11:25 AM James Krieger Marie Curie Fellowship

3/10 11:25 AM Burak Kaynak 2D Rigid Body Extension for MCell

2/11 11:25 AM Hongying (Mary) Chen How do mutations in SARS-CoV-2 receptor alter ACE2 binding?

2/03 11:25 AM JiYoung Lee Modeling of PAK2-PAK2 dependent on mutation

1/26 11:25 AM Haotian (Frank) Zhang Predicting PPI with symmetric logistic matrix fractorization

1/19 11:25 AM Qingya (Hannah) Shi Systems level analysis reveals repurposable drugs for COVID-19

1/12 11:25 AM Ivet Bahar Lab Objective for 2021

Fall 2020 (September - December 2020)

12/08 11:25 AM Yan Zhang Mapping a vecotr field of single cells

12/08 11:00 AM Mary Hongying Cheng (Short Talk) A pan-coronavirus fusion inhibitor for SARS-CoV2

11/17 11:00 AM Pemra Doruker GPR3/Beta-arr2/Gamma-secretase interplay in Alzeimer's disease

10/20 11:00 AM JiYoung Lee Druggability simulations and pharmacophore modeling for PTHR and GLP1R

10/06 11:00 AM Hongchun Li Pharmacological suppression of B7-H4 glycosylation restores antitumor immunity in immune-cold breast cancers

9/29 11:00 AM James Krieger Inhibiting host proteases involved in SARS-CoV-2 viral entry

9/15 11:00 AM Hannah Shi Mechanisms of Action of Autophagy Modulators Dissected by Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Analysis

9/08 11:00 AM Haotian(Frank) Zhang Leading Compounds Screening to Target γ-secretase APH-1 subunit

Summer 2020 (June - August 2020)

8/18 11:00 AM Fen Pei Predicting large scale protein-protein interactions using symmetric logistic matrix factorization

8/11 11:00 AM Daniel Penaherrera Structure-aware context Embeddings for proteins

8/4 11:00 AM She Zhang Efficient evaluation of subsystem ENM when the environment is a membrane lattice

7/28 11:00 AM Fangyuan Chen A case of precision medicine approach in treating breast cancer bone metastases

7/21 11:00 AM Cassandra Olivas Essential Site Scannig Analysis on Select Multimers

7/7 11:00 AM Burak Kaynak Essential Site Scanning Analysis

6/30 11:00 AM Bentley Wingert Protein Domain Family Dynamics: SH2 & PDZ

Spring 2020 (January - May 2020)

2/25 2:30 PM Yan Zhang From RNA Velocity to Stochastic Dynamics of Cell Fate

2/17 2:30 PM James Krieger Dynamics of AMPA-type glutamate receptors and mechanisms of regulation by TARP

2/4 2:30 PM Jiyoung Lee Interaction mechanism between beta-arrestin 2 and gamma-secretase related to Alzheimer's disease

Fall 2019 (September - December 2019)

12/19 3:00 PM She Zhang Hierarchical organization of chromosomal domains

12/12 4:00 PM Bing Liu A platter of data-driven side projects

11/12 11:00 AM Ivet Bahar Discussion on projects in the lab

11/5 11:00 AM James Krieger Alignment of multi-chain structures in ProDy and results for TRiC/CCT

10/22 11:00 AM Fangyuan Chen Transcriptional profiling of breast cancer cell lines at single cell resolution

10/15 11:00 AM Fen Pei Predicting large scale protein-protein interactions using symmetric non-negative matrix factorization

10/8 11:00 AM Pemra Doruker & Burak Kaynak ENM-based site-scanning, allostery and orthostery - II

10/1 11:00 AM Pemra Doruker & Burak Kaynak ENM-based site-scanning, allostery and orthostery - I

9/24 11:00 AM Hongying Cheng Regulation of monoamine transporters by small molecules

9/11 3:00 PM Stephanie Aldrich Evaluating in silico binding predictions with experimental mutagenesis to identify calcium channel residues involved in the activity of a novel agonist

Summer 2019 (June - August 2019)

8/14 2:30 PM Yan Zhang Dynamical Inference From Single Cell RNA-Seq

8/7 2:30 PM Hongchun Li Protein ubiquitylation via designed PROTACs or natural protein-protein interactions

7/31 3:00 PM Jiyoung Lee Pharmmaker: Pharmacophore modeling and hit identification based on druggability simulations

7/24 2:30 PM She Zhang Differences in the intrinsic spatial dynamics of gene loci contribute to cell differentiation

7/17 3:00 PM Bing Liu Dopamine transpoter in lipid rafts

7/10 10:30 AM Luca Ponzoni Rhapsody: algorithm improvements and applications

6/19 10:30 AM Chen Fangyuan RET pathway activation and missense mutations in breast cancer & characterizing highly mobile genes from chromatin dynamics

Spring 2019 (January - May 2019)

5/29 2:30 PM Fen Pei Predicting large scale protein-protein interactions using symmetric non-negative matrix factorization

5/1 2:30 PM James Krieger Updates to CoMD: application to various systems

4/24 3:30 PM Burak Kaynak Protein-ligand complexes as constrained dynamical systems

4/10 2:30 PM Mary Cheng Oligomerization in human dopamine transporter

2/27 1:30 PM Dror Tobi Dynamical comparison as a tool to study proteins: the hemoglobin case

2/13 1:30 PM Ana Ligia Scott Self-adaptive collective motions of macromolecules incorporating structural and environmental effects

2/6 1:30 PM Pemra Doruker Conformational dynamics and interactions of CaMKII

Fall 2018 (September - December 2018)

12/11 1:00 pm Hongchun Li Intrinsic dynamics of toroidal proteins and their behaviors in several biomolecular machineries

12/4 1:00 pm Indira Myers Bahar, Kagan and Bayir lab collaborative efforts

11/27 1:00 pm Balint Dudas The activation mechanism of auto-inhibited RalF

11/20 1:00 pm Yan Zhang/She Zhang An improvement to the system-environment framework when the environment is a lattice

10/16 1:00 pm Ji Young Lee A mechanism of channel pore opening in AMPA receptor related with external domains dynamics

10/9 1:00 pm Ana Ligia Scott Structural analysis and searching for allosteric modulators of dengue virus protease (NS2B / NS3)

10/2 1:00 pm Luca Ponzoni Classification of Single Amino acid Variants (SAVs)

9/25 1:00 pm Bing Liu Computational Modeling Reveals Polypharmacological Strategies for Regulating alpha1-antitrypsin Z Mutant Protein Disposal

Summer 2018 (June - August 2018)

8/14 1:00 pm Yan Zhang CCT Conformational Space Elucidated by Elastic Network Model Analysis of Cryo-EM Data

8/7 1:00 pm Burak Kaynak Towards to rigid body motions in MCell

7/24 1:00 pm Stephanie Aldrich Voltage-gated sodium channel

7/17 1:15 pm She Zhang Signature dynamics of protein families: conserved vs. specific mechanisms of conformational motions

6/19 1:00 pm Hongchun Li BalestraWeb 2.0

6/12 1:00 pm Various Presenters Progress report

Spring 2018 (January - May 2018)

5/15 1:00 pm Various Presenters ProDy workshop rehearsal

4/24 1:00 pm Jiyoung Lee Channel pore in AMPA receptor

4/17 1:00 pm Karolina Mikulska-Ruminska In search of cardiolipin binding site motif

4/10 1:00 pm Burak Kaynak Chapters

4/3 1:00 pm Luca Ponzoni State-of-the-art sequence-based methods for pathogenicity predictions

3/20 1:00 pm Mary Cheng Protein complex network of VCP, PINK1, and P47

3/13 1:00 pm Bing Liu PEBP1-15LO1-LC3 orchestrate autophagic activity to limit ferroptosis

3/6 1:00 pm Ana Ligia Scott Some Studies of Conformational Changes and Functional Movements studies using Full-Atom combined with Coarse-Grained model

1/16 1:00 pm James Krieger Collective MD for sampling conformational landscapes

1/9 1:00 pm She Zhang 3D structures of individual mammalian genomes studied by single-cell Hi-C (paper discussion) Stevens, T. J., et al. (2017). Nature, 544(7648), 59-64.

1/2 1:00 pm Cihan Kaya Projects and Future Ideas

Fall 2017 (September - December 2017)

12/19 1:00 pm Ivet Bahar General discussion

12/12 1:00 pm She Zhang Studying Chromatin Dynamics Using the Gaussian Network Model

11/29 11:30 am Hongchun Li Druggability analysis for Trypsin

11/7 1:00 pm Ivet Bahar Causality, transfer entropy, and allosteric communication landscapes in proteins with harmonic interactions (paper discussion) Perturbation-response scanning (PRS) theory

10/4 1:00 pm Jiyoung Lee ANM/GNM Druggability MD simulations Pharmacophore modeling of Trypsin

9/26 1:00 pm Yan Zhang DNA Condensation

9/5 10:00 am Bing Liu Deciphering the Dynamics of Cannabinoid Receptor Type 2

Summer 2017 (June - August 2017)







8/22 10:00 am Stephaine Aldrich Modeling voltage sensor movement in the Cav2.1 calcium channel

8/15 10:00 am Various Presenters Research Summaries

7/18 10:00 am Ivet Bahar Biomolecular Systems Dynamics using Elastic Network Models: From Proteins to Chromosomes

7/5 10:00 am Ivet Bahar Biomolecular Systems Dynamics using Elastic Network Models: From Proteins to Chromosomes

6/30 1:00 pm Mary Cheng Allosteric Modulation of Human Dopamine Transporter Activity under Conditions Promoting its Dimerization

6/5 10:00 am Luca Ponzoni Impact of dynamical features on the classification of missense variants

Spring 2017 (January - May 2017)







5/2 10:00 am James Krieger Dynamics of ionotropic glutamate receptors and allosteric potential of their N-terminal domains (continued) meta

4/25 10:00 am James Krieger Dynamics of ionotropic glutamate receptors and allosteric potential of their N-terminal domains R3displacement R3openning-hres

4/19 1:00 pm Fen Pei Inferring protein-protein interaction mechanism for HD model based on drug combination data

3/21 11:00 am She Zhang Chromosomal Dynamics using the GNM

3/15 11:00 am Cihan Kaya Activation triggered subunit exchange in CaMKII

2/28 10:00 am Luca Ponzoni Prediction of functional effects of human nsSNPs

2/21 10:00 am Karolina Mikulska-Ruminska MechStiff: A New Tool for Evaluating Stress-Induced Dynamics

2/7 9:30 am Hongchun Li Updates on the theory of Perturbation Response Scanning (PRS) oENM server

1/31 9:30 am Guangya Hu Differences between thermophilic and mesophilic homologous proteins are mainly from residues with high interaction degrees

Fall 2016 (September - December 2016)







10/26 9:00 am She Zhang Adaptability of protein structures to enable functional interactions and evolutionary implications (paper discussion) Haliloglu T. and Bahar I., Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol 35 (2015) 17

10/26 9:15 am Cihan Kaya Lab meeting paper discussion

10/26 9:30 am Hongchun Li Lab meeting paper discussion

10/10 9:00 am Yan Zhang Normal Mode Analysis of TRiC/CCT Based on Cryo-EM Density Map

10/10 9:30 am Hongchun Li Dynamic Modulation of Binding Affinity as a Mechanism to Regulate Interferon Signaling

9/14 9:00 am Bing Liu Tetrad tutorial

Spring 2016 (January - August 2016)







7/21 12:30 pm Kliment Ziko A new paradigm of protein allostery: insight through the gaussian network model

7/14 1:15pm Bing Liu Computational Modeling of Redox "Asthmasome"

6/23 1:00pm JiYoung Lee ANM analysis of beta-arrestin-1

6/16 1:10pm Zuhal Ozcan G-protein-coupled receptors

6/16 12:50pm Pei Fen Huntington Disease Project

6/16 12:30pm She Zhang Revealing Chromatin Dynamics by Gaussian Network Model

Spring 2015 (January - August 2015)







5/20 12:30pm Hongchun Li Dynamic Modulation of affinity as a Mechanism to regulate signaling

4/8 12:30pm Indira Srivastava Mitochondrial Dynamics: Fission and Fusion

4/1 3:30pm Hongchun Li Mechanisms of insertion of tryptophan rich AMPs on membranes

3/25 3:15pm Guang Hu Protein rings and cages

3/18 1:30 pm Ivet Bahar Projects in the lab

Fall 2014 (September - December 2014)







12/17 1:00pm Bing Liu Autophagy-Apoptosis Crosstalk

11/05 1:00pm Murat Can Cobanoglu Prestwick Library Screen Analysis

10/22 1:00pm Ivet Bahar Learning from Computational Models and Pharmacology Methods

10/07 3:00pm Filippo Pullara Emerging regulation and functions of autophagy

09/30 4:00pm JiYoung Lee Structure and Dynamics of AMPA Receptor GluA2 in Resting, Pre-Open and Desensitized States

09/23 4:00pm Mary Cheng A Coarse-grained elastic network atom contact model and its use in the simulation of protein dynamics and the prediction of the effect of mutations

09/18 4:00pm Kirubakaran Palani Computational identification and invitro validation of novel lead molecules against TOPK and Tankrase proteins
Spring 2014 (January - August 2014)






08/28 10:00am Filippo Pullara Experimental and Simulation Study of Dopamine Receptors, Calmodulin dependent Kinase Type II and G-proteins

08/06 10:00am Indira Shrivastava Hemoglobin Druggability Simulations

07/30 10:00am Zeynep Kurkcuoglu Conformer Generation with Elastic Network Models

07/23 10:00am Bing Liu Modeling Toll-like Receptor Pathways

07/09 10:00am Cihan Kaya Spatiotemporal modelling of synapses

06/23 10:00am Murat Can Cobanoglu BalestraWeb: Efficient, online drug-target interaction prediction

06/11 12:00pm Feizhuo Kaitlyn Hu Drug predictions and simulations for dopamine transporters

05/21 12:00pm Wenzhi Mao Comparative analysis of sequence co-evolution methods

05/02 01:00pm Mert Gur Toward Gaining a mechanistic understanding of substrate transport by LeuT

04/24 09:30am Filippo Pullara Effect of Protein-Protein Interactions on Conformational Energy Landscape

04/17 09:00am All lab members Paper discussion of NMDARs

04/02 10:00am All lab members Paper discussion of Leucine transporter

03/19 10:00am All lab members Paper vote

03/12 09:30am Ivet Bahar Paper discussion of Synaptic Signaling in Memory and learning

03/04 09:00am All lab members Paper discussion of Synaptic Signaling in Memory and learning

02/13 10:00am Mary Cheng Review of Synaptic signaling

02/05 10:00am Indira Shrivastava VDAC

01/28 9:30am Bing Liu Approximation and Verification Techniques for Biological Pathway Modeling

01/03 3:00pm Ignacio General CAMK II

Fall 2013 (Sep-Dec 2013)






12/11 10:00am Ahmet Bakan Applications of Prody and Drugui

12/04 10:00am Ivet Bahar Discussion of Michael Levitt's research

11/21 10:00am Murat Can Cobanoglu Probabilistic Latent Factor Models for Transformative Drug Discovery

11/13 10:00am Cihan Kaya Dynamic allostery and multiscale modeling

10/23 9:30am Wenzhi Mao Comparison of Performances of Different Protein Coevolution Approaches for Non-interacting Protein Pairs

10/09 10:00am Chang Liu Probabilistic Matrix Factorization in drug-target interaction prediction

09/23 3:30 pm Filippo Pullara what is missing in single MD simulation

09/05 3:30 pm Mary Cheng Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels

Spring 2013 (January - August 2013)






08/29 3:30 pm Mert Gur Multiscale Investigation of Biomolecular Systems Dynamics


08/08 11:00 am Indira Shrivastava

Tim Lezon

Murat Can Cobanoglu

Elia Zomot

VDAC: Voltage Dependent Anion Channel

Computational Modeling of Spatial Heterogeneity in Growing Tumors

Automated Hypothesis Generation for Neuroprotective Drugs

Pathway and mechanism of coupled sodium and substrate binding to outward-facing leucine transporter, LeuT


08/01 3:30 pm Ignacio General Hsp70's missing conformer

06/27 3:30 pm Ahmet Bakan Modeling Cytochrome c inhibitors

06/20 3:30 pm Ignacio General Protein-Protein Interactions (or lack thereof)

05/30 10:00 am Wenzhi Mao Redundancy and Diversity of Evolutionary Analysis

05/23 10:00 am Murat Can Cobanoglu Predicting polypharmacology and its applications to drug discovery

05/17 12:30 pm Feizhuo Kaitlyn Hu Target and pathway identification using quantitative systems pharmacology methods

05/02 3:30 pm Anindita Dutta Handling noise in correlated mutation analysis Detection and reduction of evolutionary noise in correlated mutation analysis

04/11 3:30 pm Filippo Pullara Evaluation of conformational difference between functional and PDB structures

04/03 11:00 am Elia Zomot Identification of conformational transitions in the outward-facing structure of the sodium-coupled leucine transporter, LeuT

03/21 3:30 pm Mary Cheng Coupling of global and local changes directs substrate binding to a neurotransmitter-sodium symporter orthologue LeuT

02/14 3:30 pm Mert Gur Protein structures from evolutionary sequence variations: Part 2 Hopf et al, 2012

01/31 3:30 pm Tim Lezon Protein structures from evolutionary sequence variations: Part 1 Morcos et al, 2011 Supporting Information MaxEnt Primer

01/03 3:30 pm Indira Shrivastava Role of VDAC in Mitochondrial Apoptosis

Fall 2012 (September - December 2012)






12/13 3:30 pm Anindita Dutta ProDy EVOL: Sequence and Dynamics Comparison Tool

12/06 3:45 pm Ivet Bahar Protein Dynamics and Relevance to Sequence Evolution and Drug Discovery

11/15 3:30 pm Ignacio General Allosteric signal transmission in the nucleotide-binding of 70-kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70) molecular chaperones

10/25 3:30 pm Ahmet Bakan Structure-Based Drug Discovery

10/18 3:30 pm Kristina Paris Hitting a moving target: Druggability, flexibility, and stability in c-Myc inhibitor design

09/27 3:30 pm Murat Can Cobanoglu Repurposing a known drug for Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

09/20 3:30 pm Ahmet Bakan Virtual Screening for Cyt c Inhibitor Discovery

09/13 3:30 pm Elia Zomot A conformational switch in a partially unwound helix selectively determines the pathway for substrate release from the carnitine/gamma-butyrobetaine antiporter CaiT

Spring/Summer 2012 (January - August 2012)






08/23 3:30 pm Mary Cheng Investigation of Sodium-coupled Neurotransmitter Transporters

08/16 3:30 pm Fei Lu Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phenazine Biosynthetic enzyme PhzF

08/09 3:30 pm Mert Gur Transition pathways of proteins explored by Monte Carlo sampling of collective modes coupled with MD

08/02 12:00 pm Tim Lezon A hilbert space formalism to analysis of high content screening data

07/05 3:30 pm Indira Shrivastava HIV-Envelope Protein gp120

05/31 3:30 pm Anindita Dutta Druggability of iGluR NTDs

05/24 3:30 pm Ignacio General Interdomain Allostery of Heat Shock Protein 70

04/26 3:30 pm Kristina Paris Flexibility, Stability, and Druggability: Implications for c-Myc-Max inhibitor design

04/12 3:30 pm Elia Zomot Activation mechanism of the beta2-adrenergic receptor Dror et al. PNAS 2011
Rasmussen et al. Nature 2011

03/29 3:30 pm Ahmet Bakan Prediction of Drug Combinations by Integrating Molecular and Pharmacological Data Zhao et al.PlosCompBio 2011

03/15 3:30 pm Murat Can Cobanoglu Drug Target Interaction Discovery using Active Learning

03/01 3:30 pm Mert Gur The Substrate-Driven Transition of Dopamine Transporter Shan et al.Plos One 2011

02/16 4:00 pm Hagai Meirovitch Calculation of the Absolute Free Energy of Binding of Protein-Ligand Complexes

02/09 4:00 pm Tim Lezon Drug Sensitivity Encoded in Population Heterogeneity Singh et al. Mol Sys Biol 2010

01/27 11:00 am Ignacio General Binding Free Energy of the Avidin-Biotin System

Fall 2011 (September - December 2011)






12/15 11:00 am Indira Shrivastava Vijayan et al. PCCP 2011

12/01 11:00 am Murat Can Cobanoglu Predicting Polypharmacology

11/10 11:00 am Kristina Paris FEP/H-REMD for Absolute Ligand Binding Free Energy Calculations Jiang and Roux. JCTC 2010
Sugita and Okamoto. ChemPhysLett 1999
Wang et al. Biophys J. 2006

10/03 11:00 am Anindita Dutta Thesis Proposal Practice Talk

10/27 11:00 am Elia Zomot Pathway and Mechanism of Drug Binding to G-protein-coupled Receptors Dror et al. PNAS 2011

09/29 11:00 am Ahmet Bakan The Importance of Discerning Shape in Molecular Pharmacology Yera et al. J Med Chem 2011
Kortagere et al. TIPS 2008

09/22 10:30 am Ying Liu Thesis Defense Practice

Spring/Summer 2011 (January - August 2011)






04/21 9:30 am Lin Liu Morcos et al.PlosCompBio 2010.pdf

04/14 9:30 am Lidio Meireles CG-NMA for Modeling Protein Conformational Changes upon Ligand Binding

03/31 9:30 am Anindita Dutta Computational methods for identifying a layered allosteric regulatory mechanism for ALS-causing mutations of Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase 1 Schuyler et al. Proteins 2010

03/10 9:30 am Discuss Lab Showcase

03/03 9:30 am Elia Zomot Microsecond simulations of the aspartate transporter GltPh on the ANTON machine

02/17 9:30 am Ying Liu Deformation Modes of Protein Families Orozco et al Structure 2010
Orozco et al BMC Bioinformatics 2009

02/10 9:30 am Ahmet Bakan A ML-based method to improve docking scoring functions and its application to drug repurposing ML_Docking_Bourne_JCIM_2011

02/03 9:30 am Divesh Bhatt Proteome-wide study of PTS1-Pexp5 affinities Ghosh&Berg JACS 2010

01/20 9:30 am Mert Gur Finding Transition Pathways Using the String Method with Swarms of Trajectories Roux et al J.Phys.Chem. 2008

01/13 9:30 am Muratcan Cobanoglu Predicting Drug-Target Interactions
Classification of GPCRs Using Family Specific Motifs

Fall 2010 (September - December 2010)






12/22 1:30 pm Tim Lezon Is Protein Folding Sub-Diffusive? Sergei Krivov, PLoS 2010.

12/15 1:30 pm Indira Shrivastava Combining an Elastic Network with a Coarse-Grained Molecular Force Field: Structure, Dynamics, and Intermolecular Recognition J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2009

11/17 1:30 pm Lin Liu Self-Guided Langevin Dynamics Simulation Method (SGLD) Self-guided Langevin Dynamics (Wu and Brooks, 2003) Self-guided MD simulation (Wu and Wang, 1998)

11/10 3:00 pm Anindita Dutta Dynamics of Lactose Permease (LacY) and other MFS proteins SGLD-Brooks

11/04 1:00 pm Lidio Meireles Fragment-Based Design of Molecular Mimicry

10/06 1:30 pm Elia Zomot Protonation of Glutamate-208 Induces the Release of Agmatine in Outward-Facing Conformation of Arginine/Agmatine Antiporter (AdiC)

9/29 1:30 pm Ying Liu Residue Mobility and Function Lunde et al. (2007)  Yogurtcu et al. (2008)

9/23 4:00 pm Ahmet Bakan Prody Demo

9/15 1:30 pm Divesh Bhatt Path Sampling








9/1 11:30 am Ahmet Bakan
NMWiz Tutorial







Spring/Summer 201 0 (January - August 2010)





8/18 1:00 pm Tim Lezon
Statistical Analysis of Protein Structural Dynamics (cont'd)













8/11 11:00 am Tim Lezon
Statistical Analysis of Protein Structural Dynamics













7/28 11:00 am Lin Liu Motions extracted from MD simulations are robust Senet et al. (2008)  Liu et al. (2009)













7/19 11:30 am I. Shrivastava Single Molecule Dynamics of Gating in a Neurotransmitter Transporter Homolog Zhao et al. (2010)













6/16 11:00 am Anindita Dutta Coarse-grained modeling of  protein receptors Balabin et al. (2009)













6/2 11:00 am Lidio Meireles Recore Maass et al. (2007)












5/18 11:00 am Elia Zomot AdiC1: a system for extrusion of protons Gao et al. (2009)  Gao et al. (2010)












4/21 11:00 am Literature Club














4/14 11:00 am I. Shrivastava Structure of an AMPA-Subtype Glutamate Receptor
Sobolevsky et al. (2009)













4/7 11:00 am Ahmet Bakan ProDy Introduction ProDy Documentation Download ProDy













3/31 11:00 am Ying Liu the Relation between Intrinsic Dynamics and Sequence Variation
Mittermaier et al. (2003)













3/24 11:00 am Anindita Dutta
Lidio Meireles
Ying Liu
Lin Liu
J. DeChancie
Overview
Substrate Binding Site
Inhibition Mechnism of LeuT and GltPh
Gating Mechnism of LeuT and GltPh

Krishnamurthy et al. (2009)
Gouaux (2009)













3/10 11:00 am Ahmet Bakan
Elia Zomot
I. Shrivastava
Tim Lezon
LeuT-vSGLT alignment
Neurotransmitter Transporters
Symmetry in Topology of SSS and NSS transporters
>Incorporating membrane effects into ANM
Krishnamurthy et al. (2009)
Gouaux (2009)













3/3 11:00 am Lin Liu Analysis of Sub-τc and Supra-τc Motions in Protein GB1
Bui et al. (2009)













2/17 11:00 am J. DeChancie Simulation of GltPh Gate Opening
Reyes et al. (2009)













2/3 11:00 am Tim Lezon Random Matrix
Potestio et al. (2009)













1/20 12:00 am Bahar Group General Discussion







Fall 200 9 (August - December 2009)




12/16 11:30 am Ivet Bahar Lecture on Elastic Network Models and Normal Mode Analysis: Historic Remark and Theretical Basis













12/9 11:30 am Nicki Zevola Diagnosing and exploiting cancer's addiction to blocks in apoptosis through the Bcl-2 pathway Letai (2008)













12/2 11:30 am Ahmet Bakan Ph.D. Thesis Defense Rehearsal













11/4 11:30 am Anindita Dutta Protein Dynamism and Evolvability Tokuriki and Tawfik (2009)













10/28 11:30 am Lidio Meireles Fragment-Based Drug Discovery













10/14 11:30 am I. Shrivastava Inherent Dynamics of Acid Sensing Ion Channel Yang et al. (2009)













10/7 11:30 am Elia Zomot Computational Analysis of vSGLT
Faham et al. (2008)













9/29 4:00 pm Ying Liu Dynamics-Based Alignment
Derivation of Equation (4)  CATH
Zen et al. (2008)  Zen et al. (2009)
Hinsen et al. (2000)













9/23 11:30 am Lin Liu Kinetic Studies of Domain Swapped Proteins
Samson and Levitt (2008)













9/16 11:30 am Tim Lezon Non-uniqueness of the Protein Structure
Burra et al. (2009)













9/2 11:30 am J. DeChancie Structure of a Na-independent AA Transporter
Shaffer et al. (2009)













8/26 12:30 pm Anindita Dutta Metal-binding residues are distinguished by lower mobilities and efficient signal propagation













Spring 200 9 (January - April 2009)



8/19 12:30 pm Ahmet Bakan Binding Site Detection and Druggability Index from First Principles
Seco et al. (2009)





















7/22 2:00 pm Zheng Yang Thesis Defense Rehearsal
























6/24 9:30 pm Group Discussion Summary1 Summary 2






















6/17 12:30 pm Elia Zomot
Substrate Binding and the Occluded State in the Leucine Transporter

Celik et al. (2008) Singh et al. (2008)




















5/27 12:30 pm Lee-wei Yang Intrinsic Dynamic Domains



















5/20 12:30 pm Tim Lezon
Optimizing GNM Spring Constants


















5/12 10:30 pm Lin Liu
Computational Studies of Domain Swapping
Sirota et al. (2008)
Ding and et al. (2006)















5/6 12:00 am Ying Liu
Central Residues Crucial to Maintain Short Paths in Network Communication
del Sol et al. (2006)
Watts and Strogatz (1998)













4/29 12:30 pm J. DeChancie
Structural Basis for Sulfhydryl Oxidase Ero1p Regulation













4/15 12:30 pm Ahmet Bakan
MAP Kinase Phosphatase Family













4/1 12:30 pm I. Shrivastava
Glutamate Transporter: Gltph













3/25 12:30 pm Nicki Zevola
Structure of BH3 Domains Day et al. (2008)












2/25 12:30 pm Enrique Marcos
Intermediates in Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions
Marcos et al (2008)













2/18 12:30 pm Anindita Dutta

Zheng et al (2007)













2/11 12:30 pm Ying Liu
A Hierarchy of Timescales in Protein Dynamics
Henzler-Wildman et al (2007a)
Henzler-Wildman et al (2007b)
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2/4 12:30 pm Lin Liu
Comparative Analysis of the Equilibrium Dynamics of Designed Protein












1/28 12:30 pm Tim Lezon
Estimating the absolute time scales of ANM












1/21 12:30 pm Zheng Yang
Allosteric Transitions of Supramolecular Systems










1/14 12:30 pm Yan Gu Dynamics from RDC-Derived Ubiquitin Ensemble
Lange et al (2008)








1/6 11:30 am J. DeChancie Milestones in the Activation of a GPCR
Chipot (2008)








Fall 2008 (September - December 2008)


12/18 3:30 pm Ahmet Bakan
Normal Mode Analysis in Molecular Docking








12/2 11:00 am Yan Gu
I-TASSER Server
Yang Zhang (2008)







11/25 10:30 am I. Shrivastava Convergence of MD Simulations of Membrane Proteins
Grossfield et al. (2007)






11/18 3:30 pm Ying Liu
Zheng Yang
Evolutionary Trace Method
Min Action Path
Lichtarge et al. (1996)
Franklin er al. (2007)







11/11 11:30 am Ivet Bahar Guidelines and Review
Eyal and Bahar (2008)




Lin Liu Topological Determinants of Protein Domain Swapping
Ding and et al. (2006)







Spring 2008 (January - April 2008)

5/8 4:30pm Suvrajit Maji Formal Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network






5/1 4:00pm Ying Liu
Hsp Project Progress Report Swain et al. (2007) Dunn et al. (2007)





4/24 3:30pm Ivet Bahar
Ahmet Bakan
Basak Isin
NMA in Drug Discovery Floquet et al. (2006) Cavasotto et al. (2004)





4/10 3:30pm Eran Eyal Anisotropic Response of Proteins to External Forces Eyal and Bahar (2008)





4/3 3:30pm Yan Gu
A Putative Aspartate Permission Pathway Liu et al. (2008)





3/20 3:30pm
List of Papers to be Discussed
Ivetac et al. (2007) Fares et al. (2006) Qian_et al. (2004)
Aden and Wolf-Watz. (2007) Liu et al. (2008) Floquet et al. (2006)
Dyer_et al. (2007) Zheng et al. (2007)





3/6 3:30pm Rakesh Mishra
Rotation Project: Conformational Flexibilities






2/28 3:30pm Zheng Yang
Spherical Proteins Studied by Elasticity






2/21 3:30pm Lin Liu
Comparison of NMR and X-Ray Data
Yang et al. (2007)





2/14 3:30 pm Basak Isin
I. Shrivastava
Ahmet Bakan
Combining Conformational Sampling and ENM
Schroder et al. (2007)





2/7 3:30 pm Ivet Bahar Guidelines

Link





Fall 2007 (September - December 2007)
12/19 3:30pm Basak Isin
Allosteric Pathways




11/26 3:30 pm Zheng Yang Spherical_Proteins Coccia et al. (1998)


11/5 3:30 pm Yan Gu Research Description Wang et al. (2006)


10/29 3:30 pm I. Shrivastava Electrostatic Basis for Enzyme Catalysis Warshel et al. (1989) Warshel et al. (2006)


10/22 3:30 pm C.Chennubhotla Allosteric Changes in Conformations Ming_wall_prl (2005) Ming_wall_prl_erratum (2006)
Ming_wall_jmb (2006) Zheng_Brooks (2005)
Handout1 Handout2 Handout3



10/19 4:00 pm
Ying Liu


10/8 3:30 pm Eran Eyal Correlated Mutations and the Applications Halperin et al. (2006)


10/1 3:30 pm Tim Lezon Promiscuity of Drugs Agoston et al. (2005) Hopkins et al. (2006)


9/24 3:30 pm C.Chennubhotla
Suvrajit Maji
Protein-Protein Interaction Networks II Batada et al. (2006) Han et al. (2004) Bertin et al. (2007)


9/10 3:30 pm Ahmet Bakan
Ivet Bahar
Alchemy v.s. Umbrella: A Review
Umbrella Sampling
Torrie et al. (1976)


9/4 3:30 pm Lin Liu Study of PRL-2 Phosphatease as a Drug Target
Stephens et al. (2005)


8/27 3:30 pm Ahmet Bakan Predicting Absolute Ligand Binding Free Energies Mobley et al. (2007)


Suvrajit Maji
Protein-Protein Interaction Networks I
Han et al. (2004)  Bertin et al. (2007)                          




I. Shrivastava
Hermann et al. (2007)


Ying Liu Evolutionary Noise Detection Noivirt et al. (2005)


Fall/Spring 2006
9/29 12 : 00 pm Ivet Bahar (Continued from 9/15)  

9/15 12 : 00 pm Ivet Bahar MD Trajectory Analysis Garcia (1992) Hess (2000) Hess (2002)  Flyvbjerg and Petersen (1989)

9/8 12:00 pm Dror Tobi (Ch. 3, Linssen, 1998) Essential Dynamics Amadei et al. (1993) van Aalten (1995)

5/5 10 :00 am I. Shrivastava
Basak Isin



5/3 12 : 15 pm Dr. T Haliloglu


4/18 2:00 pm Chakra
Chennubhotla 
Finding Pathways of Allosteric Com-munication: Static and Dynamic Views Can Conformational Changes Be Described by Only a Few Normal Modes. Petrone & Pande (2006)

4/11 2 : 00 pm Eran Eyal (Continued from last week) ((2) Comparing protein-ligand docking programs Cole et al (2005)  |  Presentation (Chuang)(3)  Hemagluttinin Presentation (Zheng)

4/5 12 : 15 pm Eran Eyal ANM: evaluation, improvement and a new web-based visualization tool 1) Receptor flexibility in ligand docking through normal modes  Cavasotto et al (2005)  |  Presentation (Basak)

3/29 12 : 15 pm Xiong Liu Conservation profiles based on
n-gram patterns
Fight AIDS@Home - AUTODOCK (The Scripps Institute) Presentation (Ahmet)

3/22 12 : 15 pm Yingyu Wang Comparison of dynamics characterized
by X-ray, NMR and GNM
Discovery of a novel class of reversible non-peptide caspase inhibitors via a structure-based approach. Fatturoso et al (2005)  |  Presentation (Zerrin)

3/15 12 : 15 pm Lee-Wei Yang Comparison of dynamics characterized by X-ray, NMR and computations

3/8 12 : 15 pm Dror Tobi (Continued from last week) Essential motions in a fungal lipase with bound substrate,  inhibitor and product. Peters & Bywater (2002)  | Presentation (Zerrin)

3/1 12 : 15 pm Dror Tobi         Indira Shrivastava Identification of protein functionally
important regions using unique 3-grams
(1) Protein dynamics and conformational transitions in allosteric proteins. target="_blank">Jardetzky (1996)  (2) Energetics of Ion Conduction through the K+ Channel.  Bernèche & Roux (2001) Presentation .. (Indira)

2/24 3 : 15 pm Tural Aksel


2/17 2 : 30 pm Chuang Wu Topological basis of signal integration in yeast transcription regulatory network  

2/1 12 : 15 pm Zheng Yang Update: Study of Virus Capsids  

1/25 12 : 15 pm Ahmet Bakan Screening Chemical Libraries for Compoundswith Cdc25B Activity

Characterization of topological structure on complex networks. Nakamura (2003)(Zerrin)


1/17 12 : 00 pm Zerrin Bagci Roles of Cooperativity and Nitric Oxide in Regulating Apoptotic Response