Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: February 27, 2009
TITLE: WHERE DO MOLECULAR MODELS COME FROM? DATE: Friday, February 27th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Tom Huxford, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Many areas of both experimental and computational biology rely heavily on molecular models. √É¬Ç The workhorse of experimental macromolecular structure determination is x-ray crystallography. […]
Date of the Event: February 20, 2009
TITLE: WIRELESS NETWORK TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS DATE: Friday, February 20th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sunil Kumar, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Pine Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will give an overview of the advances in wireless network technology and challenges […]
Date of the Event: February 13, 2009
TITLE: SYMMETRY IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS DATE: Friday, February 13th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Professor, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Many sensory systems in animals are controlled by clusters of neuron cells physically interconnected to produce, somehow, an optimal response, which […]
Date of the Event: February 6, 2009
TITLE: NMDA RECEPTORS AND THE COMPUTATIONAL PRIMITIVES OF NEURONS DATE: Friday, February 6th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Patrick Shoemaker, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Tanner Research, Inc. ABSTRACT: I discuss the neural computational primitives that are afforded by the class of common excitatory synaptic receptors identified with the agonist N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA). The macroscopic […]
Date of the Event: January 30, 2009
TITLE: HIGH-THROUGHPUT GENE PROFILING IN NEUROBIOLOGY DATE: Friday, January 30th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Pietro Paolo Sanna, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences, The Scripps Research Institute ABSTRACT: High-throughput strategies have become indispensable tools in neurobiology as well as in experimental and clinical biomedical science in general. The seminar […]