Oct 4, 2008: Invited talk of P. Clote at 1st Digiteo Annual Forum October 2, 08 - Supélec (Paris).
July 28-Aug 3, 2008: P. Clote and J. Waldispühl present papers at RNA 2008, annual meeting of the RNA Society, Berlin.
July 28, 2008: Jazz Quartet performance at Reception of RNA 2008 in Berlin. Peter Clote (alto sax and flute), Robin Draganic (contrebasse), Tony Hurdle (trombone), and Larry Porter (piano).
July 19-23, 2008: W.A. Lorenz presents 2 poster papers at ISMB 2008, Toronto.
July 7, 2008: P. Clote presents invited talk at Bionumero, Paris.
June 30 - July 2, 2008: Poster and demonstration of RNAmutants: Exploring RNA mutational landscape by P. Clote at JOBIM 2008 (Journées Ouvertes de Biologie, Informatique et Mathematique), Lille.
June 1, 2008: Peter Clote receives Digiteo Foundation Chair of Excellence for research in computer science at Ecole Polytechnique and Universite Paris-Sud (Orsay). In collaboration with J.-M Steyaert (LIX,Polytechnique) and A. Denise (LRI, Orsay), during the next four years, Dr. Clote will build a research group for work in computational biology on RNA structure, gene-finders, and molecular design.
May 20, 2008: Sharp Eleventh jazz trio at Annual Banquet of Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Tom Appleman (contrebass), Ned Rosen (piano), Peter Clote (alto and soprano sax).
May 20, 2008: Sharp Eleventh jazz trio at Annual Banquet of Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Tom Appleman (contrebass), Ned Rosen (piano), Peter Clote (alto and soprano sax).
May 4, 2008: Dr. Ivan Dotu, Computer Science, Brown University, joins our group as a Visiting Scientist, thus strenthening collaborations with the Brown University Computer Science group of Prof. Pascal van Hentenryck, including Dr. Ivan Dotu, Dr. Manuel Cebrian. Collaborations have generated two papers, concerning the application of local search (TABU) and constraint programming (COMET) to protein structure for HP-model on the face-centered cubic lattice.
Apr 3, 2008: Sharp Eleventh jazz performance for 50th anniversary of Carroll School of Management, BC Club, 100 Federal St., Boston. Ned Rosen (piano), Peter Clote (alto and soprano sax).
Apr 2, 2008: "Statistical sampling of RNA structures: Analysis and algorithmic improvements", Talk of Yann Ponty at MIT Bioinformatics Seminar.
Mar 15, 2008: Yann Ponty leaves Clote Lab to join Lab of Alessandra Carbone, at l'Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) for work on genomic analysis.
Mar 12, 2008: "Algorithms for exploring the mutation landscape of RNA molecules", Talk of Jerome Waldispühl at MIT Bioinformatics Seminar.
Feb 13, 2008: "Riboswitches, RNA conformational switches and prokaryotic gene regulation", Talk of Peter Clote at MIT Bioinformatics Seminar.
Oct 29 - Nov 2, 2007: IMA Annual Program Year Workshop on RNA in Biology, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, 2 poster papers: i J. Waldispuhl, P. Clote, "Riboswitches, RNA conformational switches and prokaryotic gene regulation", ii Y. Ponty, P. Clote, "LocalMove: A web server to compute best on-lattice fits for biopolymers".
Oct 11-13, 2007: Recomb Satellite on Regulatory Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT, 4 poster papers: i Y. Ponty, P. Clote, "LocalMove: A web server to compute best on-lattice fits for biopolymers", ii F. Ferre, Y. Ponty, W.A. Lorenz, P. Clote, "DIAL: Dihedral alignment of RNA structures', iii J. Waldispuhl, P. Clote, "Riboswitches, RNA conformational switches and prokaryotic gene regulation", iv J. v. Eichborn, J Duarte, H. Stehr, M. Lappe "A network approach to literature management".
July 23-24, 2007: Two tutorials on RNA biology, structure and algorithms, at Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore. Tutorial I: "RNA: biology and secondary structure", Tutorial II: "RNA: algorithms".
June 28, 2007: Talk of P. Clote in Vingron Group, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics. Talk entitled "Structural Bioinformatics: Recent tools for protein and RNA".
May 24, 2007: Talk of P. Clote in the Department of Mathematics of Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen Talk entitled "RNA: Asymptotics of minimum free energy and number of shapes".
May 23, 2007: Talk of P. Clote at Lehrstuhl fuer Genomorientierte Bioinformatik of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen. Talk entitled "Structural Bioinformatics: Recent tools for protein and RNA".
Apr 11, 2007: Talk of P. Clote at the Lehrstuhl fuer Bioinformatik of the Universitaet Leipzig. Talk entitled "Exploring RNA secondary structure landscape". Apr 3, 2007: Talk of P. Clote at Institut Pasteur. Talk entitled "Structural Bioinformatics Tools".
Apr 2, 2007: Talk of P. Clote at the Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX) of Ecole Polytechnique. Talk entitled "New structural algorithms for proteins and RNA".
Mar 30, 2007: Talk of P. Clote in the Steyaert Bioinformatics Lab at the Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX) of Ecole Polytechnique. Talk entitled "RNA: asymptotics and algorithms".
Mar 27, 2007: Talk of P. Clote at RNA meeting ARENA , organized by Helene Touzet. Talk entitled "Des algorithmes parametrises de l'ARN".
Mar 26, 2007: Talk of Y. Ponty at RNA meeting ARENA , organized by Helene Touzet. Talk entitled "Generation aleatoire de structures d'ARN".
Feb 9, 2007: Talk of W.A. Lorenz and Y. Ponty in Mathematics Department of Boston College. Talk entitled "Asymptotics of RNA shapes".
Nov 13, 2006: After more than 3 years as a co-worker in the Structural Bioinformatics Lab, Dr. Fabrizio Ferre begins new bioinformatics position at Harvard University/Children's Hospital in Boston.
Nov 7, 2006: Colloqium talk of Prof. Ken Dill, invited speaker in Biology Department colloquium.
Oct 20, 2006: Talk of P. Clote entitled "Some new aspects of protein and RNA structure", at Brenner Lab, Biology Department, University of California at Berkeley, P. Clote.
Nov 2, 2006: Talk of P. Clote entitled "Some new aspects of protein and RNA structure", at Bioinformatics Institute of Iowa State University, Ames IA.
Oct 30, 2006: Talk of William A. Lorenz entitled "A Self-adaptive Random Walk Algorithm to Identify Genetic Epistatic Effects" at the MIT Bioinformatics Seminar.
Oct 1, 2006: Yann Ponty joins our Structural Bioinformatics Lab. Doctoral dissertation (submitted) in Computer Science from University of Paris-Sud (Orsay) concerns combinatorial asysmptotics for RNA structures and novel algorithms to sample RNA secondary structures.
Sep 1, 2006: William A. Lorenz PhD. joins our Structural Bioinformatics Lab. Doctoral dissertation in Mathematics from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor concerns computational methods to determine epistasis, a topic in computational genomics.
Sep 1, 2006: Jerome Waldispühl takes position as Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with positions at MIT's Computational and Systems Biology (CSBI) and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Jerome remains affiliated with our Structural Bioinformatics Lab as a Visiting Scientist.
June 2, 2006: Talk entitled "Some new aspects of RNA structure and gene finders", P. Clote, in Department of Biology, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
May 18, 2006: Talk entitled "Some new aspects of protein and RNA structure", P. Clote, at the Genome Center, University of California at Davis.
April 28, 2006: Friday from 1:15 - 1:45 in O'Neill Plaza at Boston College, Sharp Eleventh plays jazz. Ned Rosen (piano), Peter Clote (sax - alto and soprano).
April 13, 2006: Talk of P. Clote at Carleton University, Ottawa, entitled "RNA: k-locally optimal structures and k-point mutants".
March 14 2006: Sharp Eleventh played for banquet of Boston College Biology Landmark Seminar. Inaugural seminar given by Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., Professor of Biology at MIT.
February 13, 2006: Invited talk of P. Clote at conference BIFI 2006 in Zaragoza (Spain). Conference title: "From Physics to Biology: the interface between experiment and computation". Title of talk: "RNA secondary structure: energetic study of kinetic traps and k-point mutants".
January 16, 2006: The new website is online.
January 13, 2006: Renovation and extension of the Structural Bioinformatics Lab space in Higgins 581.
December 14, 2005: Invited talk of P. Clote at the 2005 LIX Worshop. Conference title: "Bioinformatics: algorithms, structures and statistics". Title of talk: "Aspects of the energy landscape for RNA secondary structures".
December 14, 2005: Invited talk of J. Waldispühl at the 2005 LIX Worshop. Conference title: "Bioinformatics: algorithms, structures and statistics". Title of talk: "Fast In-Silico Folding of Transmembrane beta-barrel Proteins"
December 9, 2005: Talk of J. Waldispühl at the Boston College Biology department Data Club.
October 31, 2005: Talk of P. Clote and J. Waldispühl at the M.I.T. Bioinformatics Seminar.