Biomedical Computing Seminar Series

Seminars are at 2:00 in the Tait-Butler room of the Wise Center (CVM), except
as noted. A reception in the foyer follows the seminar.


Wednesday, July 24 
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"The role of high performance computing in genomics, proteomics and simulation 
at the NCI"

Dr. Stanley Burt
Director, Advanced Biomedical Computing Center
NIH National Cancer Institute

www-fbsc.ncifcrf.gov

Dr. Burt received his Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi in Pharmacology, 
but his thesis was a theoretical study on conformational aspects of various 
related opiate compounds. He was a postdoctoral student at Stanford in Josh 
Lederberg's Department of Genetics under Dr. Gilda Loew, a pioneer in the 
application of quantum chemistry to biology. Dr., Burt was later Deputy 
Director of the Molecular Theory Laboratory at the Stanford Research Institute,
and a National Research Council Senior Fellow at Nasa-Ames where he conducted 
research related to early origins of life. In 1982, he joined Abbott Labs as a 
Group Leader in Computational Chemistry, and then joined Sandoz to become Head 
of Computational Chemistry. In 1992, realizing that his real interest was 
academic research, Dr. Burt joined the Structural Biology Program at the 
National Cancer Institute as Head of Computational Chemistry. Dr. Burt was 
appointed Deputy Director of the Advanced Biomedical Computing Center in 1996 
and Director in 1997. He is also a Principal Investigator in the NCI's Center 
for Cancer Research and a Smithsonian Science laureate. His primary research 
interest is enzyme reaction mechanism and the role of metals in chemical 
reactions. His research group is also focusing on the application of high 
performance computing to genomics and proteomics research, especially the 
detection of polymorphisms in genes related to cancer. Along with the late 
Glenn Bryant of Mississippi State, he helped build the last turbine race car to 
run at Indianapolis, and he has played trumpet for Gladys Knight and the Pips 
and numerous shows.


Tuesday, October 15
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"Biological Information Processing in a Simple Mechanosensory System"

Dr. John Miller
Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Center for Computational Biology
Montana State University

www.nervana.montana.edu

Dr. Miller: cns.montana.edu/people/index.php?fileName=jpmbio.html


Wednesday, October 23 (VIDEOCAST - Room 10, ERC) 2:00 pm
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"Computational Biology: The Contributions of Engineering, Mathematics, and
Biology in the Analysis and Modeling of Complex Systems"

Douglas Laufenberger, Garret Odell and Lucille Shapiro, NIGMS (NIH)

NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series