Biomachina Participation at Meetings and Events

• Talks and Seminars
• Poster Presentations
• Other Meetings Attended / Organized

Talks and Seminars

• Probing the Functional Dynamics of Supramolecular Structures by Hybrid Computational Strategies. Willy Wriggers.
1. BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology. Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. May 02, 2007 (host R. Levy).
2. Department of Biology. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. February 8, 2007 (host J. Koretz).
3. Zentrum für Bioinformatik. University of Hamburg, Germany. October 27, 2006 (host A. Torda).
4. Solution Scattering from Biological Macromolecules. Workshop at EMBL Hamburg, Germany, October 10, 2006.
5. Department of Physics. Technische Universität München, Germany. October 19, 2006 (host W. Zwerger).
6. D.E. Shaw & Co., LLC. September 27, 2006 (host D. Shaw).
7. Department of Biomedical Engineering. Texas A & M University. September 11, 2006 (host W. Hwang).
8. Department of Physiology & Biophysics. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City. August 7, 2006 (host H. Weinstein).
9. Cryo Electron Microscopy and Image Processing. Workshop at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, August 19, 2006.
10. Department of Biosciences. INSA de Lyon, France. May 19, 2006 (host J.-M. Fayard).
11. Structural Characterization of Macromolecular Complexes. Workshop at EMBL Grenoble, France, May 18, 2006.
12. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. University of Texas-Houston Medical School. January 30, 2006 (host P. Penczek).
13. Advances in X-ray Scattering/Diffraction Studies on Non-Crystalline Biological Systems. Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University, October 14-15, 2005.
14. Department of Computer Science. University of Houston. August 26, 2005 (host I. Pavlidis).
15. Machine Shop Seminar. Wadworth Center, Albany, New York. August 3, 2005. (hosts J. Jaeger and J. Frank).
16. Modeling Protein Interactions in Genomes. Lawrence, Kansas, June 26-28, 2005.
17. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. University of Texas-Houston Medical School. May 2, 2005 (host J. Putkey).
18. Department of Physics. University of Houston. April 12, 2005 (host W.-P. Su).
19. Workshop, Single Particle Reconstructions and Visualization. Houston, Texas. March 19, 2005.
    
20. 49th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Long Beach, California. February 13, 2005.
    
21. Dept. of Chemistry, Rice University Houston. January 19, 2005 (host C. Clementi).
22. Research Day, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, November 18, 2004.
23. W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology / HAMBP Annual Research Conference, Clear Lake, Texas, October 8, 2004.
24. Symposium on Molecular Approaches in Molecular Biophysics, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany. July 2, 2004.
• Workshop: Innovations in Nanoscale Modeling and Imaging of Biological Systems. April 17-23, 2006, Houston. Biomachina Lab Members, 21 Invited Speakers.
• Local Dynamic Domain Analysis of Protein Dynamics. Zhiyong Zhang.
  1. 62nd Southwest Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, October 19-22, 2006.
  2. Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah. May 23, 2006 (host Gregory A. Voth).

• Visuo-Haptic Rendering and Anchor-Point Matching for Hybrid Modeling of Macromolecular Assemblies. Stefan Birmanns.
  1. 51st Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Baltimore, MD. March 4, 2007.
  2. 62nd Southwest Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, October 19-22, 2006.
  3. Biological Small Angle Scattering Group, EMBL Hamburg, Germany. November 21th, 2005 (host D. Svergun).
  4. Geometrica Group, INRIA Sophia, France. November 10th, 2005.
  5. Visualization of Large Biomolecular Complexes, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA. September 11 - 13, 2005.
  6. Visual Computing Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, June 14, 2005 (host I. Kakadiaris).
  7. Mechatronics and Robotics, Aachen, Germany, September 15, 2004.
  8. The 21st Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston Society for Engineering for Medicine and Biology, February 12, 2004.

• Tau paired helical filament assembly in Alzheimer's Diseases. Michael DeTure. IMM Seminar Series, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, December 15, 2004.

• Scientific Applications of High Performance Computing. Stefan Birmanns.
  1. Supercomputer Open House, School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, December 16, 2003.
  2. Biostatistics Seminar, UT School of Public Health, March 1, 2004.

• Reconciling Shape with Structure: Strategies for Multi-Resolution Fitting of Biophysical Data. Willy Wriggers.
  1. Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. September 8, 2004 (host T. Wensel).
  2. Non-Crystalline Systems Group, EMBL Hamburg Outstation, Hamburg, Germany. July 16, 2004 (host D. Svergun).
  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia. April 28, 2004 (host I. Kosztin).
  4. John P. McGovern Townmeeting on Molecular Imaging, Houston, Texas. April 7, 2004.
  5. 227th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, California. March 28, 2004.
  6. International Workshop on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods, Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, California. March 19, 1004.
  7. Department of Biology and Biochemistry. University of Houston. January 28, 2004 (host J. Briggs).
  8. Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany. December 18, 2003 (host K. Holmes).
  9. Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, University of Texas-Houston, December 5, 2003 (host P. Doris).
  10. Center for Computational Visualization, University of Texas - Austin, November 11, 2003 (host C. Bajaj).
  11. Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, October 3, 2003 (host W. Olson).
  12. Gulf Coast Consortia Seminar, W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Houston, Texas, September 19, 2003.
  13. 2nd conference Protein Interactions in Genomes, Stony Brook University, New York, June 29, 2003.
  14. The 30th NIPS International Symposium "Frontiers of Biological Electron Microscopy", Okazaki, Japan, March 15, 2003.
  15. School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, August 26, 2002 (host Jack Smith).
  16. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, June 14, 2002 (host U. Skoglund).
  17. Biophysical Society Discussions, Asilomar, California, April 21, 2002. Online Presentation.
  18. Gordon Research Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. Bristol, Rhode Island, June 28, 2001.
  19. Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. October 18, 2001 (host K. Schulten).

• Situs User and Modeling Workshop. February 3-5, 2003, San Diego. Julio Kovacs, Pablo Chacón, Yao Cong, Florence Tama, Stefan Birmanns, Willy Wriggers.
• Workshop: Using Situs for Docking Atomic Structures into Electron Microscopy Maps.
  1. EMBO Practical Course, Structural Characterization of Macromolecular Complexes: Modern Techniques and Strategies, Grenoble, France, May 3-8, 2004. Willy Wriggers.
  2. The 8th European Commission Summer School on Electron Crystallography, Tampere, Finland, June 12, 2002. Willy Wriggers.

• Fast 6D Matching of Multi-Resolution Structures using Fourier Correlation and Spherical Harmonics. Willy Wriggers.
  1. 225th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. March 24, 2003.
  2. 2002 Annual Meeting, American Crystallographic Association, San Antonio, Texas, May 28, 2002.

• Structure and Dynamics of Proteins and Macromolecular Assemblies Revealed by Signal-Processing of Multi-Resolution Data. Willy Wriggers.
  1. Electrostatics Interest Group, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. April 20, 1999 (host V. Tsui).
  2. Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. June 7, 1999 (host K. Schulten).
  3. Gordon Research Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. Henniker, New Hampshire, June 24, 1999.
  4. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles. October 1, 1999 (host E. Reisler).
  5. Core Facility for Protein Crystallography, University of California, San Diego. December 3, 1999 (host N.-H. Xuong).
  6. Dept. of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego. April 3, 2000 (host S. Subramaniam).
  7. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, California. October 25, 2000 (host D. Jacobs).
  8. Rockefeller University, New York City. February 21, 2001 (host S. Darst).
  9. Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Institute for Applied Mathematics, Germany. April 4, 2001 (host S. Birmanns).

• Single-Molecule Optical Studies. Quantitative Challenges in the Post-Genomic Sequence Era. San Diego, California, January 12, 2000. (La Jolla Interfaces in Science Program). Willy Wriggers.
• Situs: A Package for Docking Crystal Structures into Low-Resolution Maps from Electron Microscopy. Willy Wriggers.
  1. 17th International Meeting, Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society. San Diego, California. December 6, 1998.
  2. 43rd Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Baltimore, Maryland. February 13, 1999. 

• Nucleotide-Dependent Movements of the Kinesin Motor Domain Predicted by Simulated Annealing. 42nd Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Kansas City, Missouri. February 25, 1998. Willy Wriggers. 
• Opening Actin's Back Door by Simulated Micromanipulation. "Molecular Interactions of Actin", April 1-5, 1997, Maui, Hawaii. (Australian Society for Biophysics, U.S. Biophysical Society, Biophysical Society of Japan). Willy Wriggers.
• Actin in Simulation: Structure and Function of a Back-Door Enzyme. Willy Wriggers.
  1. Laboratoire d'Enzymologie, C.N.R.S., Gif-sur-Yvette, France. December 18, 1996 (host M.-F. Carlier).
  2. La Jolla Actin Club, La Jolla, CA. March 21, 2000.
  3. International Workshop Actin Filament: From Structure to Mechanism, SPring-8 Synchrotron, Hyogo, Japan, November 15-18, 2001.
     

• Structure-Function Relationships in Cell Motility Proteins. Willy Wriggers.
  1. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Saclay, France. December 18, 1996 (host Jeremy Smith).
  2. Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany. December 20, 1996 (host J. Howard).
  3. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. May 27, 1997 (host J. A. McCammon).
  4. Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VM. April 28, 1997 (host D. Maughan).
  5. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles. April 27, 1998 (host E. Reisler).
• A Novel Algorithm to Investigate Domain Movements in Proteins. ASBMB Fall Symposium "Computational Biology - Methods in Biomolecular Imaging". Whistler, BC, Canada. October 25-28, 1996. Willy Wriggers.
• Domain and Substrate Movements in Cell Motility Proteins. Willy Wriggers.
  1. Dept. of Biophysics and Physiology, U Washington at Seattle. July 19, 1996 (host J. Howard).
  2. Division of Experimental Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard U, Boston, MA. August 2, 1996 (host P. Janmey).
  3. Dept. of Cell and Structural Biology, UIUC. August 13, 1996 (host V. Gelfand).
• Three Nanoseconds in the (Virtual) Life of Calmodulin. Dept. of Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY, New York. October 9, 1996. Willy Wriggers (host H. Weinstein).
• Structural Control of G-actin. Workshop "Computational / Experimental Approaches in Structural Biology", Beckman Institute, UIUC. Urbana, Illinois. November 8, 1995. Willy Wriggers (host K. Schulten).
• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of G-actin: Effect of Nucleotide and Ions. Dept. of Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY, New York. November 2, 1994 Willy Wriggers (host H. Weinstein).

Poster Presentations

• Biomolecular Pleiomorphism Probed by Spatial Interpolation. Mirabela Rusu, Stefan Birmanns, and Willy Wriggers.
  
1. The Twelfth Annual Structural Biology Symposium. Galveston, Texas, May 18-19, 2007.
2. 51st Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Baltimore, MD. March 3-7, 2007.

• Novel Filters for Multi_resolution Template Convolution of Molecular Structures. Jochen Heyd and Willy Wriggers.
  
1. 51st Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Baltimore, MD. March 3-7, 2007.

• Conformational Stability of Human Epidermal Growth Factor: Amplified Collective Motions and Disulfide Scrambling. Zhiyong Zhang, Paul Boyle, Bao-Yuan Lu, Jui-Yoa Chang, and Willy Wriggers.
  
1. The Eleventh Annual Structural Biology Symposium. Galveston, Texas, May 19-20, 2006.
2. 50th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Salt Lake City, Utah. February 18-22, 2006.

• Feature-Based Shape Description for Multi-Resolution Modeling of Macromolecular Assemblies. Stefan Birmanns and Willy Wriggers.
  
1. The Eleventh Annual Structural Biology Symposium. Galveston, Texas, May 19-20, 2006.
2. 50th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Salt Lake City, Utah. February 18-22, 2006.

• Conformational Heterogeneity of Macromolecular Assemblies. Willy Wriggers, Zhiyong Zhang, Yao Cong, and Stefan Birmanns. Gordon Research Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. Colby Sawyer College, New Hampshire, June 12-17, 2005.

• Adaptive Visuo-Haptic Rendering for Hybrid Modeling of Macromolecular Assemblies. Stefan Birmanns, Oliver Passon, Maik Boltes, and Willy Wriggers.
  
1. Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2005, Erlangen, Germany. November 16 - 18, 2005.
2. W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology / HAMBP Annual Research Conference, Houston, Texas, October 6-7, 2005.
3. Modeling Protein Interactions in Genomes. Lawrence, Kansas, June 26-28, 2005.
4. The Tenth Annual Structural Biology Symposium. Galveston, Texas, May 20-21, 2005.
5. 49th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Long Beach, California. February 12-15, 2005.
6. W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology / HAMBP Annual Research Conference, Clear Lake, Texas, October 8, 2004.

• Mechanism of Apoptotic Inhibition Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Char Hu, Zhiyong Zhang, Yao Cong, Michael Andreeff, and Willy Wriggers.
1. 49th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Long Beach, California. February 12-15, 2005.
   
2. W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology / HAMBP Annual Research Conference, Clear Lake, Texas, October 8, 2004.

• Fitting Atomic Structures Of Monomers Into EM Maps Of Symmetric Homo-Oligomers. Valerio Mariani, Salvatore Lanzavecchia, and Willy Wriggers. 49th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Long Beach, California. February 12-15, 2005.

• Local Dynamic Domain Analysis of Protein Dynamics. Zhiyong Zhang and Willy Wriggers.
  
1. W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology / HAMBP Annual Research Conference, Houston, Texas, October 6-7, 2005.
2. 230th National Meeting, American Chemical Society. Washington, DC, August 28 - September 1, 2005.
3. Modeling Protein Interactions in Genomes. Lawrence, Kansas, June 26-28, 2005.
4. The Tenth Annual Structural Biology Symposium. Galveston, Texas, May 20-21, 2005.
5. 49th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Long Beach, California. February 12-15, 2005.

• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Peptides and Proteins with Amplified Collective Motions. Zhiyong Zhang, Yunyu Shi, Haiyan Liu, and Willy Wriggers. W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology / HAMBP Annual Research Conference, Clear Lake, Texas, October 8, 2004.

• Fast Rotational Matching for Image Processing of Biophysical Data. Yao Cong, Julio Kovacs, Wah Chiu, and Willy Wriggers.
  1. Gordon Research Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. Colby Sawyer College, New Hampshire, June 12-17, 2005.
  2. 49th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Long Beach, California. February 12-15, 2005.
  3. W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology / HAMBP Annual Research Conference, Clear Lake, Texas, October 8, 2004.
  4. The Ninth Annual Structural Biology Symposium. Galveston, Texas, April 30 - May 1, 2004.
  5. Gordon Research Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. Colby Sawyer College, New Hampshire, June 22-27, 2003.
     
  6. W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology /HAMBP Annual Research Conference,  Clear Lake, Texas, October 3, 2003.

• SenSitus - Force Feedback for Fitting EM and X-tal Data. Stefan Birmanns and Willy Wriggers.
  
  1. Biophysical Society Discussions, Asilomar, California, April 19-22, 2002.
     
  2. Career EXPO 2003, Erwin Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, September 22, 2003.
     
  3. W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology / HAMBPAnnual Research Conference, Clear Lake, Texas, October 3, 2003.

• EMotion: Electron Microscopy in Motion. Essam Metwally, Pablo Chacón, and Willy Wriggers. 47th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. San Antonio, Texas. March 1-5, 2003. 
• Fast Rotational Matching. Julio Kovacs, Pablo Chacón, Yao Cong, and Willy Wriggers.
  1. Biophysical Society Discussions, Asilomar, California, April 19-22, 2002.
     
  2. Mathematics and Molecular Biology VII: Modeling Across the Scales - Atoms to Organisms. Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 5-10, 2002 (Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology).

• Flexible Registration of Atomic Structures with Low-Resolution Biophysical Data. Willy Wriggers.
  1. 45th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Boston, Massachusetts. February 17-21, 2001. 
  2. Gordon Research Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. Bristol, Rhode Island, June 28, 2001.
• Atomic Model of Cofilin/F-actin Constructed from a Trussed Network of Resolution-Invariant Landmarks. Willy Wriggers, Vitold Galkin, Albina Orlova, and Edward H. Egelman. 45th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Boston, Massachusetts. February 17-21, 2001. 
• Fitting Multi-Resolution Macromolecular Structures by Fourier Template Convolution. Pablo Chacón and Willy Wriggers.
  1. Biophysical Society Discussions, Asilomar, California, April 19-22, 2002.
     
  2. 45th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society  Boston, Massachusetts. February 17-21, 2001. 
  3. Gordon Research Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. Bristol, Rhode Island, June 28, 2001.
• His73, Often Methylated, is an Important Structural Determinant for Actin - A Mutagenic Analysis of H73 of Yeast Actin. Xiaoyi Yao, Stephanie Grade, Willy Wriggers, and Peter A. Rubenstein. 44th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. New Orleans, Louisiana. February 12-16, 2000.
• Signal-Processing of Multi-Resolution Structural Data. Willy Wriggers. Quantitative Challenges in the Post-Genomic Sequence Era. San Diego, California, January 11-15, 2000. (La Jolla Interfaces in Science Program).
• Docking of Flexible Elements of F-actin Structure using Intermolecular Cross-Linking. Eldar Kim, Willy Wriggers, K. Kokabi, Peter Rubenstein, and Emil Reisler. Gordon Research Conference Muscle: Contractile Proteins. New London, New Hampshire, June 6-11, 1999.
• Situs: A Package for Docking Crystal Structures into Low-Resolution Maps from Electron Microscopy. Willy Wriggers, Ronald A. Milligan, and J. Andrew McCammon.
  1. Mathematics and Molecular Biology VI: Understanding Structure. Santa Fe, New Mexico. January 9-14, 1999 (Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology).
  2. Gordon Research Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. Henniker, New Hampshire, June 20-25, 1999.
• Structural and Functional Similarities Between Cofilin and Gelsolin Segment-1: Prediction of the Actin-Cofilin Complex. Willy Wriggers, Jay X. Tang, and Paul Janmey. 42nd Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Kansas City, Missouri. February 22-26, 1998. 
• Predicting the Structure of Apolipoprotein A-1 in Complex with Lipids (rHDL Disk). James C. Phillips, Willy Wriggers, Zhigang Li, Ana Jonas, and Klaus Schulten. 42nd Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Kansas City, Missouri. February 22-26, 1998. 
• Atomic Resolution Model of the Kinesin Power Stroke. Willy Wriggers and Klaus Schulten. 41st Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society . New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2-6, 1997. 
• Opening Actin's Back Door by Simulated Micromanipulation. Willy Wriggers and Klaus Schulten.
  1. 41st Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2-6, 1997. 
  2. "Molecular Interactions of Actin", April 1-5, Maui, Hawaii. (Australian Society for Biophysics, U.S. Biophysical Society,  Biophysical Society of Japan).

• A Novel Algorithm to Investigate Domain Movements in Proteins. Willy Wriggers and Klaus Schulten.
  1. 40th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society . Baltimore, Maryland. 17-21 February 1996. 
  2. Pfizer, Inc.-Beckman Institute Symposium, Pfizer, Inc.-Beckman Institute Symposium, Beckman Institute , UIUC. Urbana, Illinois. June 6-9, 1996.
  3. ASBMB Fall Symposium "Computational Biology - Methods in Biomolecular Imaging". Whistler, BC, Canada. October 25-28, 1996.

• Dynamics and Stability of G-actin. Willy Wriggers and Klaus Schulten.
  1. 40th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society . Baltimore, Maryland. 17-21 February 1996. 
  2. Pfizer, Inc.-Beckman Institute Symposium, Pfizer, Inc.-Beckman Institute Symposium, Beckman Institute, UIUC. Urbana, Illinois. June 6-9, 1996.
  3. Gordon Research Conference "Muscle, Contractile Proteins", New Hampshire. July 28 - Aug. 2, 1996.

• Structure and Dynamics of Calmodulin in Solution. Willy Wriggers, Klaus Schulten, Ernest Mehler, and Harel Weinstein.
  1. 40th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Baltimore, Maryland. 17-21 February 1996. 
  2. Pfizer, Inc.-Beckman Institute Symposium, Pfizer, Inc.-Beckman Institute Symposium, Beckman Institute, UIUC. Urbana, Illinois. June 6-9, 1996.

• Conformational Differences in ATP- and ADP-bound G-actin: A Molecular Dynamics Study. Willy Wriggers, Robert Jones, Klaus Schulten, and David Keller.
  1. Seventh Biophysical Discussions - Molecular Motors: Structure, Mechanics and Energy Transduction. Airlie House, Airlie, Virginia. October 21-23, 1994. 
  2. 39th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. San Francisco, California. February 12-16, 1995. 
  3. Pfizer, Inc.-Beckman Institute Symposium, Beckman Institute, UIUC. Urbana, Illinois. June 1-4, 1995.

Other Meetings Attended / Organized

• The Eleventh Annual Structural Biology Symposium. Galveston, Texas, May 19-20, 2006 (John Robinson, Jun Wan, Tanmay Sachan).
• Frontiers in Macromolecular Simulations, Birmingham, AL, April 7-8, 2006 (John Robinson).
  
• 50th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society. Salt Lake City, Utah. February 18-22, 2006 (John Robinson, Jun Wan).
• Texas Life Science Conference, Houston November 15-17, 2004 (Paul Boyle).
  
• Tutorial of Cryo Specimen Preparation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. November 16, 2004 (Hilary Wriggers, Michael DeTure).
• Cryo-Microtomy Workshop, organized with Boeckeler Instruments and Atomic Spectroscopy Instruments, at our Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, November 10-11, 2004 (Michael DeTure, Hilary Wriggers, Willy Wriggers).
• The 2004 CMB and SCBMB Research Conference. Galveston, Texas, November 5-6, 2004 (Char Hu, Willy Wriggers).
• Texas Branch Meeting of The American Society for Microbiology. Houston, Texas, November 4-6, 2004 (Hilary Wriggers).
• Workshop on Cryo-Electron Microscopy Structure Deposition. Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, October 23-24, 2004 (Willy Wriggers).
• Tutorial of TEM for Biological Cryo-Specimens, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. October 11, 2004 (Michael DeTure).
• Presenting Data and Information: A One-Day Course Taught by Edward Tufte, Houston, Texas, October 5, 2004 (Paul Boyle, Zhiyong Zhang, Char Hu, Valerio Mariani, Chance Coble).
  
• Workshop on the Future of Imaging. Max Planck Society and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Munich, Germany, July 12-15, 2004 (Willy Wriggers).
• The Ninth Annual Structural Biology Symposium. Galveston, Texas, April 30 - May 1, 2004 (Stefan Birmanns).
• Human Frontier Science Program Fourth Annual Awardees Meeting, Hakone, Japan. May 15-18, 2004 (Willy Wriggers).
• Workshop Signal Transduction II: Muscles and Synapse, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus, Ohio, March 8-12, 2004 (Paul Boyle).
• Tutorial on CryoEM, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. October 18, 2003 (Hilary and Willy Wriggers, Wendy Xiong).
• Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Summer School, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. June 2-13, 2003 (Surendra Negi).
• Automatic Particle Selection for Cryo-electron Microscopy, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. April 24-25, 2003 (Yao Cong).
• IEEE Visualization 2001. San Diego, California. October 21-26, 2001 (Julio Kovacs, Stefan Birmanns, Pablo Chacon, Willy Wriggers).