Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 25 MARCH 2004

17:30 X8.001 An Interdisciplinary Graduate Laboratory for Biological Physics

Raymond Goldstein (University of Arizona)

18:06 X8.002 A first-year physics course with a biophysical emphasis

Robijn Bruinsma (UCLA)

18:42 X8.003 BIO2010 and beyond: What undergraduate physics does the next generation of molecular biology researchers need?

Jonathon Howard (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

19:18 X8.004 Teaching biological physics to non-physics majors via comparative biomechanics

Steven Vogel (Duke University)

19:54 X8.005 An intermediate-level course on Biological Physics

Phil Nelson (University of Pensylvania)

17:30 X9.001 Modeling of DNA microarray data using physical properties of hybridization

G. A. Held (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)

18:06 X9.002 Molecular Models Underlying the Sensitive and Specific Determination of Copy Number Changes in the Human Genome and Transcriptome

Stephen Laderman (Agilent Laboratories)

18:42 X9.003 Use of Langmuir Adsorption Isotherms to Predict Probe Response in Oligonucleotide Microarrays

Stefan Bekiranov (Affymetrix)

19:18 X9.004 Progress toward 3D structure prediction of DNA and RNA

John SantaLucia Jr. (Dept. of Chemistry, Wayne State University)

19:54 X9.005 Simple physical models for accurate oligonucleotide arrays

Felix Naef (ISREC, Switzerland)