This tutorial will be divided into two parts. In the first part
Wilma K. Olson will start with an introduction to sequence-dependent information content in known three-dimensional structures of nucleic acids and the implications of this information on larger-scale genetic control.
In the second part of the tutorial David
Swigon will be present the main concepts, ideas, and results used in the research on DNA topology, elasticity and statistical mechanics. The topics will include, for example, the notion of the linking number, writhe, and twist of closed DNA, the Calugareanu-White theorem, discussions of the elastic rod model, base-pair level model, and worm-like chain model. Emphasis will be placed on the underlying principles that give rise to sequence-dependent fine structure, deformability, and recognition, and how one can use this information in low-resolution modeling of polymeric properties such as ease of spontaneous loop closure or the positioning of nucleosomes.
Both lecturers will discuss experimental results that lead to the development of models and the implications of models for the understanding of the behavior of biological systems.
| Name | Department | Affiliation |
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| Pranav Agarwal | Department of Electrical Engineering | University of Minnesota |
| Tanuj Aggarwal | Department of Electrical Engineering | University of Minnesota |
| Ramzi Alsallaq | Institute of Molecular Biophysics | Florida State University |
| Douglas N. Arnold | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| F. Javier Arsuaga | Department of Mathematics | San Francisco State University |
| Nathan A. Baker | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics | Washington University School of Medicine |
| Daniel J. Bates | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| John Baxter | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Yermal Sujeet Bhat | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Victor Bloomfield | Department of Biochemistry | University of Minnesota |
| Richard J. Braun | Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware |
| Hannah Callender | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Larry Carson | | 3M |
| Brandon Chabaud | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Shi-Jie Chen | Department of Physics | University of Missouri |
| Gregory S. Chirikjian | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Johns Hopkins University |
| Bernard D. Coleman | School of Engineering | Rutgers University |
| Jeremy Curuksu | School of Engineering and Science | Jacobs University |
| Luke Czapla | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Rutgers University |
| Isabel K. Darcy | Department of Mathematics | University of Iowa |
| Melanie DeVries | Mathematics Department | University of Iowa |
| Marcia O. Fenley | Department of Physics | Florida State University |
| Efi Foufoula-Georgiou | Civil Engineering Department | University of Minnesota |
| Andrew Gastineau | Mathematics and Engineering Department | University of Minnesota |
| Anant Godbole | Department of Mathematics | East Tennessee State University |
| Jack Goldfeather | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | Carleton College |
| Jason E. Gower | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Christine E. Heitsch | School of Mathematics | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Milena Hering | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Peter Hinow | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Tiefeng Jiang | Department of Statistics | University of Minnesota |
| Dan Jung | Biomedical Engineering Department | University of Minnesota |
| Alex Kasman | Department of Mathematics | College of Charleston |
| Christopher Kauffman | Department of Computer Science | University of Minnesota |
| Christine A Kelley | Department of Mathematics | Ohio State University |
| Soojeong Kim | Department of Mathematics | University of Iowa |
| Debra Knisley | Department of Mathematics | East Tennessee State University |
| Christian E. Laing | Department of Mathematics, Chemistry | New York University |
| Ham Ching Lam | | University of Minnesota |
| Jörg Langowski | Division of Biophysics of Macromolecules | Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (Cancer Research)(DKFZ) |
| Anton Leykin | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Sookkyung Lim | Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Cincinnati |
| Chun-Chi Lin | Department of Mathematics | National Taiwan Normal University |
| Maggie Linak | CEMS | University of Minnesota |
| Roger Lui | Department of Mathematical Sciences | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Laura Lurati | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Jennifer Mann | Department of Mathematics | University of Texas |
| Kyle McQuisten | Department of Mathematics | University of Iowa |
| Catherine (Katy) A. Micek | Department of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Ezra Miller | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Kenneth C. Millett | Department of Mathematics | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Hyeyoung Moon | Department of Mathematics | University of Iowa |
| David Morrissey | Mathematics and Physics Department | University of Minnesota |
| Timothy Newman | Department of Physics | Arizona State University |
| Olalla Nieto Faza | Department of Chemistry | University of Minnesota |
| Duane Nykamp | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Wilma K. Olson | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Rutgers University |
| John Oprea | Department of Mathematics | Cleveland State University |
| Daniel Osei-Kuffuor | Scientific Computation | University of Minnesota |
| Hans G. Othmer | Department of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Teresita Ramirez-Rosas | Department of Mathematics | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Huzefa Rangwala | Department of Computer Science | University of Minnesota |
| Dale Rolfsen | Department of Mathematics | University of British Columbia |
| Luca Rondi | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| George Rublein | Department of Mathematics | College of William and Mary |
| Murti Salapaka | Electrical and Computer Engineering Department | University of Minnesota |
| Deena Schmidt | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Tamara Schmidt-Hegge | | University of Minnesota |
| Hullas Sehcal | Department of Electrical Engineering | University of Minnesota |
| Chehrzad Shakiban | Institute of Mathematics and its Application | University of Minnesota |
| Koya Shimokawa | Department of Mathematics | Saitama University |
| Sushmita Singh | Genomics | University of Minnesota |
| Andrzej Stasiak | Laboratoire d'Analyse Ultrastructurale | University of Lausanne |
| Andrew M. Stein | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| De Witt L. Sumners | Department of Mathematics | Florida State University |
| Vladimir Sverak | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| David Swigon | Department of Mathematics | University of Pittsburgh |
| Andrew Travers | Department of Cell Biology | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
| Erkan Tüzel | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Tanya Vassilevska | Center for Applied Scientific Computing | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Mariel Vazquez | Department of Mathematics | San Francisco State University |
| Haiyan Wang | Department of Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing | Arizona State University |
| Zhian Wang | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Peng Wu | | Rockefeller University |
| Zhijun Wu | Department of Mathematics | Iowa State University |
| Yanji Xu | | Minnesota Supercomputing Institute |
| Hongchao Zhang | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Guohui Zheng | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Rutgers University |
