AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 22, 2005 02:16:47

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2005 Fall Southeast Section Meeting
Johnson City, TN, October 15-16, 2005
Meeting #1010

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Special Session on Discrete Models in Biology

• Saturday October 15, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Models in Biology, I
  Room 124, Rogers-Stout Hall
  Organizers:
  Debra Knisley, East Tennessee State University knisley@etsu.edu
  Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, Knoxville mlangsto@utk.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Graphs and DNA rearrangements.
    Mariel Vazquez*, San Francisco State University
    (1010-92-79)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Random De Bruijn Sequences and the Design of DNA Codewords.
    Christine E Heitsch*, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
    (1010-05-129)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Choral Graphs and Evolution of Hard to Gain and Hard Lose Character Traits.
    Teresa Maria Przytycka*, NIH / NLM / NCBI
    (1010-05-21)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discovering Novel Functional RNAs using Graph Theory.
    Namhee Kim*, Computational Biology IGERT Doctoral Program New York University
    Hin Hark Gan, Chemistry Department New York University
    Tamar Schlick, Chemistry/Computational Biology/Mathematics New York University
    (1010-92-62)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Using graphical invariants to quantify secondary RNA structure.
    Teresa Haynes, East Tennessee State University
    Debra Knisley*, East Tennessee State University
    Jeff Knisley, East Tennessee State University
    Yue Zou, East Tennessee State University
    (1010-92-74)
• Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Models in Biology, II
  Room 124, Rogers-Stout Hall
  Organizers:
  Debra Knisley, East Tennessee State University knisley@etsu.edu
  Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, Knoxville mlangsto@utk.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Graph Applications in Systems Genetics.
    Elissa J Chesler*, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    M A Langston, Computer Sciences Department, University of Tennessee
    (1010-92-96)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Graphs for indexing coordinates specifying molecular shape in 3D space and some applications.
    Daniel B. Dix*, University of South Carolina
    (1010-53-78)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Geometric Theorem on Producible Polygonal Protein Chains.
    Joseph O'Rourke*, Smith College
    (1010-51-72)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Polynomial Dynamical Models for Biological Systems.
    Abdul Salam Jarrah*, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
    (1010-12-136)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks.
    Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf*, University of Illinois at Chicago and DIMACS
    Jared Saia, University of New Mexico
    (1010-92-26)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Cellular Automata Modeling of Signaling and Metabolic Pathways.
    Danail G Bonchev*, Department of Mathematics & Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Lemont B Kier, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwelath University
    Sterling Thomas, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1010-92-105)
• Sunday October 16, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Models in Biology, III
  Room 124, Rogers-Stout Hall
  Organizers:
  Debra Knisley, East Tennessee State University knisley@etsu.edu
  Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, Knoxville mlangsto@utk.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multi-Scale Hierarchical Structure Prediction of Helical Transmembrane Proteins.
    Zhong Chen*, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
    Ying Xu, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
    (1010-82-111)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Molecular Seismology: A nanoscale assay to capture time and space resolved biopolymer interactions.
    Erik Miklos Boczko*, Vanderbilt University
    (1010-92-82)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prediction of Functional Modules Based on Genes Distribution in Various Microbial Genomes.
    Hongwei Wu*, Computational Biology Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Fenglou Mao, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
    Victor Olman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
    Ying Xu, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia
    (1010-92-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling Division of Labor: Top-down versus Bottom-up.
    Michael D. Phillips*, East Tennessee State University
    Istvan Karsai, East Tennessee State University--Dept. of Biological Sciences
    Jeff Knisley, East Tennessee State University--Dept. of Mathematics
    (1010-92-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fixed-Parameter Tractability: Background, Recent Progress, and Applications in Computational Biology.
    Michael A. Langston*, University of Tennessee
    (1010-92-154)

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