MIF Series

Past Talks: 2024/25 Session

Date Speaker Title
30 Sep 2024
Erica L. Flapan

Pomona College, USA
A tile model of entangled proteins
07 Oct 2024
Miloslav Torda

MIF
Geometric Modeling in the Prediction of Molecular Crystal Structures: The Close-Packing Principle Revisited.
28 Oct 2024
Sidney Lisanza

Prescient Design, USA
Multistate and functional protein design using RoseTTAFold sequence space diffusion
11 Nov 2024
Soledad Villar

Johns Hopkins University, USA
Learning functions on symmetric matrices and point clouds via lightweight invariant features.
18 Nov 2024
Alex Wlodawer

National Cancer Institute, USA
How not to publish structural results.
25 Nov 2024
Gregory McColm

University of South Florida, USA
The Crystal Net Isomorphism Problem.
02 Dec 2024
Abbie Trewin

Lancaster University, UK
Mesoscale artificial synthesis of conjugated microporous polymers
09 Dec 2024
Elspeth F. Garman

Oxford University, UK
Two different challenges in biological structure determination: radiation damage and metal identification
06 Feb 2025
Cesar A. Ramirez-Sarmiento

Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Metamorphic proteins and how to find them
13 Feb 2025
Louis H Kauffman

University of Illinois at Chicago, US
Knots, Vortices and Reconnection
13 Feb 2025
Marjorie Senechal / Elspeth Garman / Esther García-Tuñón

/ Oxford, UK / Liverpool, UK
Women in interdisciplinary sciences
20 Feb 2025
Steve Scheiner

Utah State University, US
Origins of and Contributing Factors to H-Bonding. Implications for Protein Structure
27 Feb 2025
Tonio Buonassisi / Raul Ortega-Ochoa

MIT, US / Technical University of Denmark
Implicit Properties: Exploring Materials Representations in Machine Learning for Inorganic Crystalline Solids
27 Feb 2025
Tonio Buonassisi / Raul Ortega-Ochoa

MIT, US / Technical University of Denmark
Implicit Properties: Exploring Materials Representations in Machine Learning for Inorganic Crystalline Solids
06 Mar 2025
Zygmunt Derewenda

University of Virginia, US
Hydrogen-bonds in protein secondary and tertiary structures
06 Mar 2025
Zygmunt Derewenda

University of Virginia, US
Hydrogen-bonds in protein secondary and tertiary structures
27 Mar 2025
L. Ridgway Scott

University of Chicago, US
Data Deserts and Drug Design.
27 Mar 2025
L. Ridgway Scott

University of Chicago, US
Data Deserts and Drug Design.
03 Apr 2025
Dan Widdowson

MIF
Crystal Geomap: a visualisation and comparison tool for crystals based on ultra-fast isometry invariants.
03 Apr 2025
Will Jeffcott

Computer Science
Complete and Bi-Continuous Invariant of Protein Backbones under Rigid Motion
24 Apr 2025
Marjorie Senechal

Smith College, US
Ducks, Crystals, and Nobel Prizes.
01 May 2025
Herbert Edelsbrunner

IST Austria
The Intrinsic Volumes of Space Filling Diagrams and their Derivatives
15 May 2025
Manuel Muller

King's College London, UK
Spontaneous protein backbone rearrangements: Molecular wear-and-tear vs beneficial maturation.
22 May 2025
Robert Palgrave

University College London, UK
Challenges for AI in Discovery of new Crystalline Materials.
19 Jun 2025
Joe Marsh

University of Edinburgh, UK
Leveraging protein structural information to improve variant effect prediction.
26 Jun 2025
Jonathan (Teddy) McManus

Computer Science
Computing the bridge length: the key ingredient in a continuous isometry classification of periodic point sets.

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