The Topology of Nucleic Acids: Research at the Interface of Low-Dimensional Topology, Polymer Physics and Molecular Biology
Videos from BIRS Workshop
De Witte Sumners, Florida State University
Monday Mar 25, 2019 09:02 - 09:28
Scientific Applications of Topology
Alice Pyne, University College London
Monday Mar 25, 2019 09:31 - 09:54
Untangling twisted DNA, one molecule at a time
Esaias Janse van Rensburg, York University
Monday Mar 25, 2019 10:31 - 10:56
Thoughts on lattice knot statistics
Harrison Chapman,
Monday Mar 25, 2019 14:02 - 14:28
New questions for knot diagrams
Wilma Olson, Rutgers University
Monday Mar 25, 2019 14:33 - 15:02
Contributions of nucleotide sequence and Lac repressor geometry to DNA looping events
Rasika Harshey, University of Texas at Austin
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019 09:01 - 09:29
A Dynamic E. coli Genome: Widespread DNA Contacts Revealed by Monitoring Mu Transposition.
Nathan Clisby, Swinburne University of Technology
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019 09:37 - 10:06
Recent advances in the Monte Carlo sampling of polymer configurations
Mario Nicodemi, Università di Napoli "Federico II"
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019 10:33 - 11:04
Models of Polymer Physics for the 3D Structure of Chromosomes
Uta Ziegler, Western Kentucky University
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019 11:09 - 11:35
Geometric measures of knots in extreme confinement
Nicholas Beaton, University of Melbourne
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019 11:38 - 12:08
Knotting statistics for polygons in lattice tubes
Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019 13:35 - 14:00
TDA and machine learning approaches to the colored Jones polynomial
Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019 14:06 - 14:36
Braid Index Bounds Ropelength From Below
Koya Shimokawa, Saitama University
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019 20:08 - 20:31
3-dimensional topology and polycontinuous pattern
Makkuni Jayaram, University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019 09:01 - 09:30
Role of DNA Topology in Biological Machines and Evolutionarily Related Biological Functions: Chemical Chirality in Site-Specific DNA Recombination
Allison Moore, University of California Davis
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019 09:35 - 10:03
Site-specific recombination and the band surgery along knots
Kai Ishihara, Yamaguchi university
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019 10:33 - 11:03
First steps of unlinking pathways
Carolina Medina Graciano, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí Inicio
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019 11:08 - 11:25
When can a link be obtained from another using crossing exchanges and smoothings?
Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019 11:30 - 12:02
Topological modeling of reconnections
Stephen Levene, University of Texas at Dallas
Thursday Mar 28, 2019 09:01 - 09:36
Kinetic Pathways of Topology Simplification by Type-II Topoisomerases in Knotted Supercoiled DNA
Agnes Noy, University of York
Thursday Mar 28, 2019 09:39 - 10:01
Modelling DNA under protein-binding, stretching and torsional stress
Tetsuo Deguchi, Ochanomizu University
Thursday Mar 28, 2019 10:32 - 11:00
Rouse Dynamics of Topological Polymers through Gaussian Random Embeddings and Comparison with Experiments
Eleni Panagiotou, University of California Santa Barbara
Thursday Mar 28, 2019 11:05 - 11:23
A study of the effects of entanglement and chain architecture in polymers
Natasha Jonoska, University of South Florida
Thursday Mar 28, 2019 11:30 - 11:59
Algebraic structures related to DNA origami
Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
Thursday Mar 28, 2019 13:31 - 14:02
Gordian Knotted Structures
Erica Flapan, Pomona College
Thursday Mar 28, 2019 14:12 - 14:40
Possible pathways for protein knot folding
Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
Thursday Mar 28, 2019 14:40 - 15:02
Computing the braid index using only a knot diagram and knots where the braid index equals the bridge index
Javier Arsuaga, University of California, Davis
Friday Mar 29, 2019 09:00 - 09:31
A liquid crystal model for DNA packing in bacteriophages
Andrew Rechnitzer, Ubc
Friday Mar 29, 2019 09:34 - 10:05
Collapsing Hopf links and Wang-Landau simulations
Sarah Harris, University of Leeds
Friday Mar 29, 2019 10:08 - 10:38
TORC : A computational language for designing supercoiling-driven gene control in synthetic DNA circuits
