Biomachina Collaborators and Visitors

Collaborators on Manuscripts (1999-Present)

• Alexander Rigort (Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany)
• Alexander Freiberg (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston)
• Marek Szczepanski (Silesian University of Technology, Poland)
• Wilma Olson (Rutgers U)
• Cristobal dos Remedios (U Sydney, Australia)
• Joseph Stember (Weill Cornell Medical College)
• Sharon Wolf (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
• Raúl Padrón (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Venezuela)
• Herwig Zilken (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
• Seth Darst (Rockefeller U)
• Tetsuro Fujisawa (RIKEN Harima Institute, Japan)
• Jürgen Markl (Institute of Zoology, Mainz, Germany)
• Ulrich Meissner (Institute of Zoology, Mainz, Germany)
• Danny C. Sorensen (Dept. of Comp. and Applied Math., Rice U)
• Peter Rubenstein (Dept. of Biochemistry, U Iowa)
• Emil Reisler (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA)
• Florence Tama (The Scripps Research Institute)
• Charles L. Brooks III (The Scripps Research Institute)
• Joachim Frank (Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY)
• Steven Rosenfeld (Dept. of Neurology, U Alabama Birmingham)
• Edward H. Egelman (Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, U Virginia)
• Gerard Wong (Dept. of Material Science and Engineering, U Illinois Urbana Champaign)
• Patricia Jennings (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSD)
• Jui-Yoa Chang (Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston)

Visitors, 2007-2011, at UT Houston

• Abby L. Parrill. Dept. of Chemistry, University of Memphis. Seminar Computer-Guided Discovery of Autotaxin Inhibitors. December 9, 2010.
• Teresa Ruiz. Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, University of Vermont. Seminar Structure/Function of Macromolecules: Eukaryotic Phosphofructokinase and Bacterial Adhesins. January 27, 2010.
• Jeffry D. Madura. Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Center for Computational Sciences, Duquesne University. Seminar Simulation of Biomolecules in Solution and Bilayers. January 6, 2010
• Stefano Constanzi. Laboratory of Biological Modeling, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, NIH. Seminar Applicability of Molecular Models of G protein-coupled receptors to Structure-based Drug Discovery. December 2, 2008.
• Francisco Javier Luque Garriga, Dept of Chemical Physics, University of Barcelona, Spain.  Seminar Dynamical Understanding of Biomolecules: Ligand Flexibility and Protein Function. October 15, 2008.
• Tracy Nixon. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University. Seminar Bacterial Enhancer Binding Proteins: AAA+ ATPase Motors Controlled by Two-Component Signal Transduction.  May 7, 2008.
• Ulrich Meissner, Ph.D. Institute of Zoology, Mainz, Germany. Seminar 3D-Cryo-TEM of High and Low Symmetry Proteins. June 4, 2008.
  
  

Visitors, 2003-2007, at UT Houston

• Alexander Rigort. Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. June 16-20, 2007.
• Wonmuk Hwang. Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University. Seminar How Does Kinesin Generate a Power Stroke?. October 10, 2006.
• Jennifer Knight. Dept. of Chemistry, Rutgers U, New Jersey. Seminar Modeling Maximal Structural Diversity in X-ray Crystallographic Refinement. September 13, 2006.
• Lorenzo Alamo. Department of Structural Biology, Institute for Scientific Research, Caracas, Venezuela. Seminar 3D Reconstruction of Molecular Motors in Tarantula Thick Filament. July 30 - August 6, 2006.
• 50 registered participants and 21 invited speakers of our workshop: Innovations in Nanoscale Modeling and Imaging of Biological Systems, April 17-23, 2006.
• Thomas C. Bishop. Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans. December 7, 2005. (McGovern Lecture).
• John Robinson. University of Alabama, Birmingham. Seminar Using FRET to evaluate the nonlinear energetics of muscle activation. November 16, 2005.
• Harold Scheraga. Todd Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Cornell University. October 19, 2005. (McGovern Lecture).
• Julius Wan. Dept. of Physics, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Seminar Dynamic Localization in Electronic and Optical Systems. August 15, 2005.
• Ioan Kosztin, University of Missouri-Columbia. May 31-June2, 2005 (McGovern Lecture).
• Dimitri Svergun, EMBL Hamburg Outstation, Germany. Seminar: Small-Angle X-ray and Neutron Scattering from Solutions of Biological Macromolecules. May 19-21, 2005.
• Dalia Segal. Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel. May 15-20, 2005. Seminar: 3D Reconstructions of GroEL and CCT Chaperonins.
• Tetsuro Fujisawa. RIKEN Harima Institute, Japan. February 21-22, 2005. Seminar: High Pressure Small-angle X-ray Scattering. February 22, 2005.
• Sharon Wolf. Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel. February 16-17, 2005 (McGovern Lecture).
• Jochen Heyd, Rice University. February 2, 2005. Seminar: Screened Coulomb Hybrid Density Functionals:  Enabling High Quality Calculations for Large Systems.
• Oliver Passon. Department of Programming Techniques, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. February 4 - February 24, 2005.
• Klaus Schulten. Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. December 1, 2004 (McGovern Lecture).
• Hans Tietz. Tietz Video & Image Processing Systems GmbH. Seminar CCD Imaging in TEM: An Overview. November 30, 2004.
• 15 participants of our Cryo-Microtomy Workshop, organized with Boeckeler Instruments and Atomic Spectroscopy Instruments, at our Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, November 10-11, 2004.
• Phoebe L. Stewart. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. October 6, 2004 (McGovern Lecture).
• Javier Angel Velazquez. Biocomputing Unit, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Campus Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain. Seminar Superfamily Probability In Electron Microscopy. August 10, 2004.
• Masahide Kikkawa. University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center. June 2, 2004 (McGovern Lecture).
• Chandrajit Bajaj. Center for Computational Visualization, University of Texas - Austin. February 11, 2004 (McGovern Lecture).
• Seth Darst, Rockefeller University, New York, December 2, 2003 (McGovern Lecture).
• J. Andrew McCammon. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSD, November 14, 2003.
• Rasmus Schröder. Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany, October 8, 2003 (McGovern Lecture).
• Jose Maria Carazo, Javier Angel Velazquez. Biocomputing Unit, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Campus Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain. August 6, 2003 (McGovern Lecture).

Visitors, 1999-2003, at Scripps Research Institute

• 11 out of town and 18 local participants of our Situs user workshop, February 3-5, 2003.
• Gerard Wong, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Seminar Supramolecular Organization of F-Actin with Condensed Multivalent Ions. July 17, 2002.
• Sara Sandin Reneby, Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Medical Nobel Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Seminar 3D Electron Tomography of Individual Immunoglobulin G Particles in Solution Reveals Large-Scale Domain Motions. March 12, 2002.
• Mattia Rocco, U.O. Biologia Strutturale, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro (IST), Genova, Italy. Seminar The Mechanism of Integrin Activation: Insights from Hydrodynamics. February 8, 2002.
• Tetsuro Fujisawa and Yukihiro Nishikawa, RIKEN Harima Institute (SPring-8 synchrotron), Japan. December 17-22, 2001.
• Stefan Birmanns, Department of Programming Techniques, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. October 1 - November 22, 2001.
• John M. Robinson. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Seminar Cooperative Activation of Muscle: A Synthesis of Analysis, Theory, and Experimentation. October 11, 2001.
• Andrey Bobkov. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA. Seminar Cofilin Alters Protomer-Protomer Interactions in F-Actin. July 25, 2001.
• Joost VandeVondele. Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zentrum Zürich, Switzerland. Seminar Extending Lenght and Time Scales of Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations. July 19/20, 2001.
• Robert Skeel. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois. Seminar Multigrid Methods for Classical Molecular Dynamics. November 15, 2000.
• Jose Maria Carazo, Alberto Pascual Montano. Biocomputing Unit, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Campus Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain. August 4, 2000.
• Eldar Kim. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA. Seminar Actin Filament Structure and Dynamics. July 30, 1999.

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