Past Events
RES Scientific Seminar of Parallel Simulations in the Network...
Date: January 31st, 2011
The RES (Spanish Supercomputing Network), coordinated by BSC, in collaboration with UZ (Zaragoza University) and BIFI (Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems) will organize the RES Scientific Seminar of Parallel Simulations in the Network.
Child Language Acquisition: Child-directed Speech and Developing Semantic Networks...
Date: December 13th, 2010 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Hills
Recent developments in network analysis represent a valuable tool for investigating the structure and acquisition of language.
Development of force fields for atomistic simulation...
Date: November 25th, 2010 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Jorge Kohanoff
Since first proposed in 1985 by Car and Parrinello, first-principles molecular dynamics simulations have become increasingly popular as a tool for studying structural, dynamical and thermodynamic properties of a wide range of materials, from molecules to solids and especially liquids.
[Coloquio BIFI] Modelling ligand-protein interaction...
Date: November 18th, 2010 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Claudio N. Cavasotto
Computer-based simulations of biomolecular systems are playing an
increasingly important role in structural biology and drug lead discovery.
Jarifa: aprovechando recursos institucionales...
Date: November 16th, 2010 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Daniel Lombraña González
En la actualidad instituciones como universidades, centros de
investigación, escuelas, institutos, ayuntamientos, etc.
HOW ENVIRONMENT CONTROLS ELECTRONIC ENERGY TRANSFER AND LIGHT HARVESTING...
Date: November 3rd, 2010 - 05:15 PM
Speaker: Carles Curutchet
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INFLUENCIA DE LA CONECTIVIDAD EN EL COMPORTAMIENTO DE CAOS COLECTIVO...
Date: September 23rd, 2010 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Javier González-Estévez
Empleando el mapa de Politi-Livi-Oppo-Kapral (mapa PLOK) y empleando
sistemas globalmente acoplados, se ha encontrado un resultado
interesante, en cual el caos colectivo que emerge en sistemas
unidimensionales y bidimensionales, desaparece mediante acoplamiento
global.
[Coloquio BIFI] Playing billiards with electrons...
Date: June 10th, 2010 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Stefan Rotter
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Divorciarse del indeseable: una explicación de la evolución de la cooperación...
Date: May 13th, 2010 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Luis R. Izquierdo
¿Cómo puede emerger la cooperación entre individuos que tienen la libertad de
aprovecharse del grupo para su propio beneficio? Multitud de especies
animales, desde hormigas hasta seres humanos, forman grupos sociales en los
que muchos individuos trabajan por el bien común.
[Coloquio BIFI] Cell differentiation and patterning: a Systems Biology approach...
Date: April 15th, 2010 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Marta Ibañes
Recent examples in the literature show that
interdisciplinary approaches that make use of molecular and cell
biology experimental techniques, on the one hand, and of computational
and theoretical tools borrowed from statistical and nonlinear physics,
on the other hand, can help advancing our knowledge of muticellular
organism development.
Aplicación de modelos fisicos al empaquetamiento del genoma en virus de ADN de doble hebra...
Date: March 30th, 2010 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Javier Arsuaga
La organización tridimensional del genoma tiene un papel esencial en
múltiples procesos biológicos.
[Coloquio BIFI] Challenges in Molecular Dynamics Simulations...
Date: January 14th, 2010 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Giovanni Ciccotti
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Generalized thermodynamics underlying the laws of Zipf and Benford...
Date: October 29th, 2009 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Alberto Robledo
We demonstrate that the laws of Zipf and Benford, that govern scores of data generated by many natural phenomena and diverse kinds of human activity, are the centerpiece expressions of a generalized thermodynamic structure.
Presentation of Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Mathematics of Genoma LBMG and discussion...
Date: September 21st, 2009 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Alejandro Maass
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Energy transport and heat production in driven quantum systems...
Date: July 10th, 2009 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Liliana Arrachea
A quantum system driven by ac potentials may be regarded as a quantum engine
where energy is transported and dissipated in the form of heat.
Dps/Dpr miniferritins in oxidative stress: Mechanisms of iron entry, oxidation and deposition...
Date: June 16th, 2009 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Tassos Papageorgiou
Iron is a key element of life.
Diseño asistido por ordenador de nuevos catalizadores biológicos...
Date: May 19th, 2009 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Juan Andrés
En este seminario haremos una presentación de nuestros resultados recientes sobre la utilización de los métodos y técnicas de la química teórica y computacional, como una herramienta fundamental para entender el fenómeno de la catálisis enzimática.
Hard Combinatorial Spaces and Their Networks...
Date: March 9th, 2009 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Prof. Marco Tomassini
Combinatorial optimization problems are those problems in which there is a finite number
of possible solutions among which one wants to find the best one in terms
of a cost measure called objective function.
Glicosiltransferasas: novedosas dianas terapeúticas...
Date: March 3rd, 2009 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Ramón Hurtado-Guerrero
Las glicosiltransferasas son una gran familia de enzimas involucradas en la
transferencia de carbohidratos a moléculas de glicoproteínas, glicolípidos y
glicosaminoglicanos.
Intrinsic disorder as a key regulatory factor in protein complexes...
Date: February 23rd, 2009 - 04:30 PM
Speaker: Francisco Enguita
Many proteins have the characteristic of lacking a stable tertiary
structure under physiological conditions, being designated as
“Intrinsically Unfolded” or “Intrinsically Disordered” proteins (IUPs or
IDPs).
Structure and Regulation of Focal Adhesion Kinase...
Date: February 18th, 2009 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Daniel Lietha
Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) is a key signaling molecule in focal
adhesions that integrates signals from integrin and growth factor receptors
to control cell migration, proliferation and survival.
Siete años de Resonancia Magnética Nuclear en una pequeña Universidad Española: una visión personal...
Date: February 12th, 2009 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. José Luis Neira
La Resonancia Magnetica Nuclear (RMN) es una tecnica aplicada en al biologia estructural a la resolucion de estructuras de alta resolucion.
Elastic properties and defects of lipid bilayers...
Date: December 9th, 2008 - 10:15 AM
Speaker: Michel Mareschal
The basic constituents of a biological membrane are known to be made of lipid bilayers.
Sistema de multivideoconferencias basado en web...
Date: October 28th, 2008 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Carlos Matesanz Rodríguez
Desarrollo y despliegue de un sistema de multivideoconferencias desarrollado mediante herramientas Open Source: una aplicación web para gestionar las salas de videoconferencia y la aplicación propiamente utilizando el servidor de Código Abierto Red5.
Quantitative Modeling of Passive Permeation through the Blood Brain Barrier...
Date: October 1st, 2008 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Maria João Moreno
In the last few years, this research group has obtained the rate constants and equilibrium binding constants for the interaction of several amphiphiles with the blood protein albumin, with lipoproteins and with lipid bilayers in the liquid ordered and liquid disordered phase [1-6].
The challenge of predicting optical properties of biomolecules: what can we learn from time-dependent density-functional theory?...
Date: July 9th, 2008 - 05:00 PM
Speaker: Alberto Castro
Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) has repeatedly
demonstrated in the last decades its usefulness when attempting the
challenge of predicting the optical properties of molecules, in
particular those, generally complex, systems of molecular relevance
(biomolecules).
Transport in thin ferromagnetic films...
Date: July 8th, 2008 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Prof. Muttalib
A recent series of low temperature transport measurements
on ultra thin ferromagnetic films have shown some unexpected
temperature as well as disorder dependence of the longitudinal and
anomalous Hall conductances, some of which seem to contradict the
results of an earlier experiment.
Función y estabilidad de la Nucleoplasmina, un chaperón de histonas...
Date: June 20th, 2008 - 11:00 AM
Speaker: María Ángeles Urbaneja
La nucleoplasmina (NP) es un chaperon nuclear que facilita el ensamblaje de los nucleosomas durante la fertilización y primeras fases del desarrollo embrionario.
Generalized Statistical Complexity Measure: A new tool for Dynamical Systems...
Date: June 12th, 2008 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Osvaldo A. Rosso
López-Ruiz, Mancini and Calbet have proposed a statistical complexity measure, based on the notion of “disequilibrium”, as a quantifier of the degree of physical structure in a time series.
Una mecánica estadística inusual en el borde del caos...
Date: May 8th, 2008 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Alberto Robledo
En este seminario exponemos cómo se combinan las dos piezas complementarias
en la dinámica asociada al atractor de Feigenbaum, adentro y hacia el
atractor, para formar una estructura mecánico estadística que difiere de la
forma acostumbrada [1].
Using Complexity Theory to Understand the Innovation Process: from Stylized facts to stylized models...
Date: April 24th, 2008 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Gerald Silverberg
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CyanoBIKE, a web based biology-specific environment for comparative genomics and integration of cyanobacterial knowledge...
Date: March 12th, 2008 - 10:00 AM
Speaker: Arnaud Taton
The most basic changes in our understanding of the world comes when someone perceives a mismatch between theory and reality.
Interacción del regulador maestro E2 con su ADN diana en 73 tipos del virus del papiloma humano...
Date: February 4th, 2008 - 01:00 PM
Speaker: Ignacio Enrique Sánchez
Los tipos mucosotrópicos del virus del papiloma humano (HPV) son
agentes causales de cáncer oral, anal y genital.
Comportamientos de tipos Pareto Y Boltzmann-Gibbs e indice de Gini en un modelo determinista de mapas acoplados...
Date: October 9th, 2007 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Javier González-Estévez
Se propone un modelo determinista de mapas acoplados para la actividad
económica de muchos agentes.
Synchronization in complex networks: motifs and community structures...
Date: September 14th, 2007 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Vito Latora
We consider the emergence of collective synchronized dynamics in complex
networks,from the point of view of relating the propensity for synchronization of a network to the interplay between topology and local properties of the coupled dynamical systems.
Intercellular channels in neuronal networks of the mammalian brain...
Date: September 13th, 2007 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Daniele F. Condorelli
Gap junctions are specialized membrane regions composed of aggregates of transmembrane channels that directly connect the cytoplasm of adjacent cells.
Protein Modelling and Computer-aided Drug Discovery...
Date: September 6th, 2007 - 12:15 PM
Speaker: Claudio N. Cavasotto
Computer-based simulations of biomolecular systems are playing an increasingly important role in structural biology and drug discovery.
Computer modelling of enzymes. Challenges and perspectives....
Date: June 14th, 2007 - 12:15 PM
Speaker: Frank Jensen
The advent of large amounts of structural data for proteins by means of x-ray diffraction opens the possibility of providing an atomistic understanding of enzyme mechanisms, and the possibility of designing artificial enzymes.
Explorando (cristalográficamente) la pared bacteriana: mecanismos de infección del neumococo...
Date: June 7th, 2007 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Juan Hermoso
Neumococo es un patógeno humano causante de algunos de los procesos infecciosos con tasas más altas de mortalidad en el mundo.
Networks in epidemiology...
Date: June 5th, 2007 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Dr Jonathan M. Read
Dr. Ken Eames
The use of networks has strong roots in studies of infectious disease spread within populations of hosts.
Topology and dynamics of complex biological systems...
Date: May 18th, 2007 - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Marta Sales-Pardo
The myriad of high-throughput methods available for probing biological samples has drastically boosted our ability to gather comprehensive molecular-level information on an increasing number of organisms.
Excited State Properties Of Biomolecules: A TDDFT Study...
Date: May 11th, 2007 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Angel Rubio
We will review the recent implementations of TDDFT to study the optical absorption of biological chromophores, one-dimensional polymers and layered materials.
Venómica y Disintegrinas...
Date: May 4th, 2007 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Juan J. Calvete
Las serpientes evolucionaron en la era Mesozoica, hace más de 65 millones de años, a partir de un ancestro común a las lagartijas.
Molecular motor proteins as electrostatic machines...
Date: April 26th, 2007 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: G.P. Tsironis
Kinesin and related motor proteins utilize ATP fuel to propel themelves along the external surface of microtubules in a processive and directional fashion.
Molecular and structural basis of polo-like kinase 1 substrate recognition. Implictions in centrosomal localization...
Date: April 13th, 2007 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: Guillermo Montoya
Cellular growth and division are regulated by an integrated protein network, which ensures the genomic integrity of all eukaryotic cells during mitosis.
PSAS/Mtch1, una proteína proapoptótica de la membrana externa mitocondrial relacionada con transportadores de la membrana interna...
Date: March 30th, 2007 - 12:00 PM
Speaker: José Alberto Carrodeguas Villar
La proteína asociada a la presenilina 1, PSAP, se identificó mediante un screening de dos híbridos usando un fragmento de la presenilina 1, proteasa implicada en la enfermedad de Alzheimer, como cebo.