MSU INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINARS
2003-2004
September 22, 2003
Steve Heidemann, Department of Physiology
Mechanical Tension as the Proximate Stimulus for Axonal Growth and Development
December 1, 2003
Honggao Yan, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Structure and Mechanism of Folate Biosynthetic Enzymes
January 19, 2004
George Garrity, Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Truth in Labeling
April 19, 2004
Babak Borhan, Department of Chemistry
Exploring the Underlying Chemical Basis for Color Vision. Designing a Protein Mimic of Rhodopsin
Spring 2003
February 14, 2003
Stepan Sklenak, Center for Biological Modeling
Introduction to the Center for Biological Modeling Computer Cluster
March 10, 2003
Warren Beck, Department of Chemistry
Surfing the Energy Landscape: New Ultrafast Spectroscopic Probes of Protein Dynamics
March 31, 2003
Ramakrishna Mukkamala, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng.
Cardiovascular System Identification
April 21, 2003
Marianne Huebner, Department of Statistics & Probability
Statistical Methods in Genetics and Ecology
June 30, 2003
Julius Jackson, Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Limits to Coding Space or When is an ORF a Gene?
July 14, 2003
Christina Chan, Dept. of Chemical Eng. & Materials Science
A Systems Approach to Tissue Engineering
August 4, 2003
Moxun Tang, Department of Mathematics
Turing Patterns in the CIMA Reaction Diffusion System
Fall 2001
November 26, 2001
Jim Cole, Center for Microbial Ecology
Trees, Alignments and Labor Saving Automata
2000-2001
July 20, 2000
Mike Raymer, Depts. of Computer Science & Eng./Biochemistry
Predicting Protein-Solvent Interactions
August 9, 2000
Bob Cukier, Department of Chemistry
Modeling Electron-Proton Transfer in Proteins
September 1, 2000
Wenjiang Fu, Department of Epidemiology
Statistical Modeling
September 15, 2000
Charles Ofria, Center for Microbiol Ecology/Computer Sci & Eng.
Digital Evolution
October 6, 2000
Erik Altman, Department of Psychology
Modeling Human memory
October 20, 2000
Janos Grantner, Department of Electrical Engineering, Western Michigan University
Fuzzy Logic
November 10, 2000
Tom Schmidt, Department of Microbiology
Models of Microbial Evolution and Ecology Based on Ribosomal RNA Sequences
November 17, 2000
William Hartmann, Department of Physics and Astronomy
On the Physical Impossibility of Localizing a Sound in a Room and How Human Listeners Do It Anyway
December 8, 2000
Tom Getty, Kellogg Biological Station
Some Signaling, Recognition & Discrimination Problems in Evolutionary Biology and Medicine
April 6, 2001
Bill Punch, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Data Mining Using Genetic Algorithms
April 27, 2001
Richard Lenski, Depts. of Crop & Soil Science, Zoology, and Microbiology
Evolutionary Research Overview and Developing CBM Training
May 18, 2001
Michael Thorpe, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Proteins and Rigidity Theory
May 30, 2001
Roy Day, Department of Physics, Marquette University
Algorithms in Materials Research