Bridging the Gap from Research Bench to Patient Bedside

In addition to their contribution in scientific publications our multidisciplinary team of associates has participated extensively in sharing their insight and expertise at meetings and conference around the globe.  Below is a listing of meetings/conferences where our Biotechnology Core associates have participated (highlighted).

• Fletcher, C.M., International Congress on Infectious Diseases, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008. Presentation
• Fletcher, C.M., FASEB Microbial Polysaccharides Conference, Tucson, AZ, 2006. Presentation
• Fletcher, C.M., Translational Control Conference, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2000. Presentation
• Fletcher, C.M., Translational Control Conference, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1998. Presentation
• Heifets, R. Lilien, “Automated Ligand-based Active Site Alignment: A Freely Available Extension to PyMOL” Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB), Toronto, Canada 2008. Poster
• Wallach, G. Musso, A. Emili, R. Lilien, “Efficient Identification of Active Ligands Using Synthetic Genetic Array Data.” Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB), Toronto, Canada 2008. Poster
• L. Wang, R. Mettu, R.H. Lilien, A. Yan, B.R. Donald, “Algorithm for Determining Protein Backbone Structure.” Computational Aspects – Biomolecular NMR (Gordon Research Conference), Ventura CA 2004. Poster
• L. Wang, R. Mettu, R.H. Lilien, B.R. Donald. “An Exact Algorithm For Determining Protein Backbone Structure From NH Residual Dipolar Couplings”.,  Proc. IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference (CSB), Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, pp 611-612, 2003. Poster
• A.C. Anderson, R.H. Lilien, V. Popov, B.R. Donald., “Ensembles of active site conformations allow structure-based redesign and drug design”, 225th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans LA, 2003. Poster
• R.H. Lilien, A.C. Anderson, B.R. Donald., “Modeling Protein Flexibility for Structure-Based Active Site Redesign”., The Sixth Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB),Washington DC. In Currents in Computational Molecular Biology, (ed. L. Florea et al.) pp 122-123 (2002). Poster
• R. Lilien, M. Sridharan, X. Huang, J. Bushweller, B.R. Donald., “Computational Screening Studies for Core Binding Factor Beta: Use of Multiple Conformations to Model Receptor Flexibility.” The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB-2000), San Diego CA, 2000. Poster
• R.H. Lilien., “Playing with Molecular Structures: Protein Design”, University of Massachusetts, Amherst – Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering., 2008. Presentation
• R.H. Lilien., “Computational Biology and Structure Based Drug Design”, University of Toronto – Computing Insights Summer Program, 2007. Presentation
• R.H. Lilien., “Computational Algorithms for Protein Design, Exploring Large Search Spaces”, University of Toronto – Genome Biology and Bioinformatics Retreat, 2007. Presentation
• R.H. Lilien., “Ensemble Based Protein Redesign and Exploitation of Non-Crystallographic Symmetry in Molecular Replacement for X-Ray Crystallography”., Carnegie Mellon University – Dept. of Computer Science, 2006. Presentation
• R.H. Lilien., “Algorithmic and Biological Results in Computational and Structural Biology”, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006. Presentation
• R.H. Lilien.,”A Novel Ensemble-Based Scoring and Search Algorithm for Protein Redesign, and its Application to Modify the Substrate Specificity of the Gramicidin Synthetase A Phenylalanine Adenylation Enzyme”, Eighth Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), San Diego, California, USA, 2004. Presentation