Wednesday, May 21, 2008: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Medical Arts Building, Rm M-146 (Queensborough Community College)
Computational Chemistry for the Health of Humanity and the Planet, III - Complexity and Accuracy
Computational chemistry has become an essential tool for biomedical research (health of the humanity) and renewable energy research (health of the planet). This session discusses recent advances in how the issues of complexity and accuracy can be overcome in these research areas.
Sponsor:	Healthcare & Life Sciences Department, Dell, Inc.; Chemistry Department Brookhaven National Laboratory
Organizers:	Daqing Gao Seogjoo Jang
8:30 AM	558		Desulfurization Reactions on Metal Carbides and Phosphides: Complex Role of C and P Sites Jose A. Rodriguez, Ping Liu, James T. Muckerman
9:10 AM	559		Effect of Hydrogen-Bonding Strengths in Various Foldamer Building Blocks on the Conformational Distributions of Aromatic Oligomers Jhenny F. Galan, Zhiwei Liu, Jodian Brown, Whelton A Miller, Vojislava Pophristic
9:30 AM	560		Ab-Initio Density Matrix Renormalization Group and Tensor Network Wavefunctions Garnet K. Chan
10:10 AM			Break
10:20 AM	561		Towards Computational Simulation of Receptor-Mediated Transmembrane Signaling Events in Realistic Environments Marco Ceruso
10:50 AM	562		Computational Design of Structured RNA Pools for in Vitro Selection of RNAs Hin Hark Gan, Namhee Kim, Shereef Elmetwaly, Tamar Schlick
11:10 AM	563		Computational Design of Small Molecular Inhibitors to Promote Induction of Bone Growth by BMPs Boojala Vijay B. Reddy, Sreedhara Sangadala, Raghu Prasad Rao Metpally, Shaila Ahmed, Pooja Makkar
11:40 AM	564		Network Approach for Analysis of Residue Packing in Helical Membrane Proteins and Its Application in Membrane Protein Structure Prediction Vagmita Pabuwal, Zhijun Li

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