NIH/NHLBI/LBC/CBS & FDA/CBER/OVRR/LB

Computational Biophysics Section Laboratory of Biophysics

Joint CBS/LB journal club and group meeting schedule

Meetings are generally held at noon on thursdays in the conference room 2047, building 12A on the NIH campus unless otherwise noted below or via the e-mail list. As per the last discussion on this topic, the journal club meetings now represent short (10-15 minutes + questions) thematic presentations centered on recent literature. At this meeting, the participating individuals gave a guide to topics.

May 1999

May 27: To Be Announced

May 20: To Be Announced

May 13: cancelled

May 7: Guest Speaker Yugal Sharma Spectral Density Functions: Using NMR and MD to probe Dynamics

April 1999

April 29: cancelled

April 22: cancelled

Apr 15: Journal Club Rick Venable


Bernie Brooks

(1) Hydration properties of xylitol: computer simulation. M Carlevaro, ER Caffarena, JR Grigera. Intl. J. Biological Macromolecules 23: 149-155 (1998)
(2) Dynamic exchange between stabilized conformations predicted for hyaluronan tetrasaccharides: comparison of molecular dynamics simulations with available NMR data. A Almond, A Brass, JK Sheehan. Glycobiology 8(10): 973-980 (1998)
(3) Water Binding of Polysaccharides-- NMR and ESR studies. S Ltisse, K Arnold. Macromolecules 31(20): 6891-6897 (1998)

Summary of recent high performance computing for biophysics meeting organized by Klaus Shulten
Apr 8: postponed

Apr 1: Journal Club Rich Pastor


Andre Kajava

Translational Diffusion in Lipid Bilayers:Xiang, T., J. Phys. Chem, 103, 385 (1999).

Molecular Modeling of the A-beta 1-42 peptide from Alzheimer's disease. Protein Eng. 11,761 (1998) Chaney,MO et al.
Amyloid fibrils may be assembled from beta-helical protofibrils Biochemistry 1998 Feb 17;37(7):1731-5 Lazo ND et al.
Past meetings


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Last modified: Fri Apr 23 1999