Subgroup meetings and supergroup meetings are held in the New Media Classroom (Caltech, map) or Kane Hall Room 019 (UW) at 3:00pm unless otherwise noted.
2014
- Jan, Feb, March: Peter Clote (web page) visiting Niles Pierce’s lab.
- Feb, March: Yannick Rondelez (web page) visiting Erik Winfree’s lab.
- June 23–26: Workshop on TX-TL Prototyping and Debugging, California Institute of Technology
2013
- December 13-15: MPP Workshop Retreat, Mandalay Beach Resort, Oxnard, CA. (Friday morning to Sunday afternoon)
- September 30: Visit by Ralf Jungmann, seminar at 2pm (location TBA), Caltech, “DNA probes for super-resolution bioimaging”
- He will be here, with Mingjie Dai and Jo Woehrstein also from Peng Yin’s lab, from 9/30 through 10/4.
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September 18: Visit by Petr Sulc (Oxford), seminar at 4pm in Moore 070, Caltech, “Coarse grained modelling of nucleic acids”
- August 26–30: Workshop on TX-TL Prototyping and Debugging, California Institute of Technology
- April 19: Supergroup meeting, New Media Classroom (Caltech) and Kane Hall Room 019 (UW), 2-3pm. Speakers:
- Gourab Chatterjee and Richard Muscat (Seelig lab), “DNA-based Molecular Architecture with Spatially Localized Components”.
- April 4 - April 12: Visit by Jack and Robyn Lutz (Iowa State U)
- April 3: Visit by Patrick Cai (Johns Hopkins and Edinburgh) and Carlos Olguin (Autodesk)
- 10am – Carlos’s talk in room 070 Moore: “Design software for programming matter across scales and domains”
- 4pm – Patrick’s talk in the Beckman Institute Auditorium: “Synthetic yeast genomes”
- March 15: Visiting speaker, New Media Classroom (Caltech) and Kane Hall Room 019 (UW), 2-3pm:
- Dongran Han (Hao Yan’s group, ASU): “Novel design strategies in structural DNA nanotechnology”
- January 2 - July 23: Sabbatical visit by Craig Martin (U Mass)
2012
- November 2: Supergroup meeting, New Media Classroom (Caltech) and Kane Hall Room 019 (UW), 3-5pm. Speakers:
- Sherry Chen, “High Specificity Molecular Probes for Double-stranded DNA”, 30 minutes
- Shinnosuke Seki, “Combinatorial Optimization in Pattern Assembly”, 50 minutes
- October 23 - November 2: MPP visitor Shinnosuke Seki (Host David Doty)
- August 19-21: MPP Workshop Retreat, Mandalay Beach Resort, Oxnard, CA. (Sunday afternoon to Tuesday afternoon)
- June 15: Supergroup meeting, Moore 239 (Caltech), 3:30-5pm. Speaker:
- Andrew Winslow, “The power of seeds in tile self-assembly”
- May 25: Supergroup meeting, New Media Classroom (Caltech) and Kane Hall Room 019 (UW), 3-5pm. Speakers:
- Shelly Jang, “A single parameter captures the auxin-induced IAA degradation dynamics”
- Dave Doty, “Deterministic Function Computation with Chemical Reaction Networks”
- May 18: MPP Outreach :: Visit Day :: Pasadena High School
- April 27: Supergroup meeting, New Media Classroom (Caltech) and Kane Hall Room 019 (UW), 3-5pm. Speakers:
- Zach Sun, “Developing an biomolecular breadboard for fast circuit design using in-vitro cell free systems”
- Niranjan Srinivas, “Engineering kinetic control over biochemical systems”.
- March 23: Supergroup meeting, New Media Classroom (Caltech) and Kane Hall Room 019 (UW), 3:30-5pm. Speaker:
- Constantine Evans, “AFM Movies and DNA Tile Self-Assembly”.
- January 27: Supergroup meeting, New Media Classroom (Caltech) and Kane Hall Room 019 (UW), 3-5pm. Speaker:
- Jongmin Kim, “A synthetic transcriptional network for exact adaptation”.
2011
- December 2: Supergroup meeting – Speaker: Dan Siegal-Gaskins on “Emergence of Switch-Like Behavior in a Large Family of Simple Biochemical Networks”. New Media Classroom (Caltech) and Kane Hall Room 019 (UW), 3-5pm.
- June 16-18: MPP Workshop Retreat, Friday Harbor, WA
- June 3: Supergroup meeting – Speakers: Ashwin Gopanath on “DNA origami microarrays: integrating top-down and bottom-up nanofabrication”, Sungwook Woo on “Beyond Watson and Crick: programming molecular recognition using bits and shapes”.
- April 1: Supergroup meeting – Speaker: Yuan-Jyue Chen on “Implementation of a reaction network for approximate majority determination with nicked double stranded DNA gates”. New Media Classroom, 3-5pm.
- February 25: Supergroup meeting – Speakers: Hongchao Zhao on “Generating random bits from weak random sources” and Brian Wolfe on “Test Tube Design”. New Media Classroom, 4-6pm. Please note the non-standard time.
- January 21: Supergroup meeting – Speaker: Kevin Oishi on “Using See-Saw Gates and Linear Systems to Implement an Oscillator”. New Media Classroom, 3-5pm.
2010
- December 10: Supergroup meeting – Speakers: Damien Woods on “Self-replication of DNA nanotubes using bubbles”, and David Doty on “The Power of Nondeterminism in Self-Assembly”. New Media Classroom, 3-5pm.
- November 18-19: MPP visitor Luca Cardelli
- November 15-19: MPP visitors Andrew Phillips and Matt Lakin
- November 12: Supergroup meeting – Speaker: Seung Woo Shin on “Logical Verification of DNA-Based Chemical Reaction Network Implementations”. New Media Classroom, 4-5pm.
- October 12-16: MPP visitor Anthony Genot
- October 4-7 : Eric Klavins & co in town
- October 4-6: NSF site visit. Poster session 10am-noon.
- September 21: Six-talk mini-retreat, from 10am to 3pm, New Media Classroom @ Caltech
- 10:00am Welcome
- 10:15am David Lee (Bruck Group) — “Stochastic Flow, Random Walks, and Biology”
- 10:45am Nadine Dabby (Winfree Group) — “The Kinetics of Toehold-Mediated 4-Way Branch Migration”
- 11:15am Victor Beck (Pierce Group) — “Elucidation and Control of the Hybridization Chain Reaction”
- 11:45am LUNCH BREAK
- 1:00pm Richard Murray — “An Experimental Framework for Design and Validation of Robust Biochemical Circuits”
- 1:30pm Rob Egbert (Klavins Group) — “Tuning Genetic Regulatory Networks with Slip-Strand Mis-Pairing”
- 2:00pm Town Hall Meeting
- 3:00pm Adjourn
- September 12-30: MPP visitor Bernie Yurke
- September 7: Supergroup meeting – Speaker: Lulu Qian on “Building a DNA brain”. New Media Classroom, 3-5pm.
- August 26-27: MPP visitor Nils Napp
- August 24: Supergroup meeting – Speaker: Elisa Franco on “Programming molecular clocks.” New Media Classroom, 3-5pm.
- May 28: MPP Outreach :: Visit Day :: Marshall Fundamental Secondary School
- May 15: PhD thesis defense – Dave Zhang (Winfree group) on “Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits.” Moore 070, 10am.
- January 8-10 : MPP workshop retreat, Oxnard, CA.
2009
- December 11: Informal seminar – Jongmin Kim (visiting), Title: “In vitro Transcriptional Network,” Location: Broad 300, Time: 1:30pm.
- December 10 : Supergroup meeting – Dionysios Barmpoutis (Murray group) on “Modeling Crosstalk with Stochastic Graphs”.
- December 8 : PhD thesis defense – Joe Zadeh (Pierce group) on “Algorithms for Nucleic Acid Sequence Design.” Noyes 147, 9am.
- November 13 : Supergroup meeting – David Thorsley (Klavins group).
- August 3: PhD thesis defense – Harry Choi (Pierce group) on “Programmable In Situ Amplification for Multiplexed Bioimaging.” 147 Noyes, 4pm.
- July 30: PhD thesis defense – Suvir Venkataraman (Pierce group) on”Engineering Mechanical Nucleic Acid Systems.” 147 Noyes, 4pm.
- July 10 : Supergroup meeting – Eric Klavins on “A robust and tunable auto-regulatory genelet” and Erik Winfree on “A DNA stack machine for efficient Turing-universal molecular computation”.
- June 5 : Subgroup meeting – compiler languages and abstractions (lead by Peng Yin)
- May 1 : Supergroup meeting – Po-Ling Loh (Bruck group) on “The Robustness of Stochastic Switching Networks” and Elisa Franco (Murray group) on “Design of insulating devices for in vitro synthetic circuits”.
- April 3 : Subgroup meeting – nonlinear systems and analysis of biochemical circuits (lead by Eric Klavins).
- March 6 : Subgroup meeting – stochastic behavior, design, analysis, computation.
- February 6 : Subgroup meeting – genelets & in vitro transcriptional circuits (lead by Erik Winfree). 4-5pm, Moore 239.
- January 8-10 : MPP workshop retreat, Oxnard, CA.
2008
- December 5 : Supergroup meeting – Ho-Lin Chen (Winfree group) and Josh Bishop (Klavins group).
- November 7 : Supergroup meeting – Elisa Franco (Murray group) on “Flow regulation for transcriptional circuits” and Peng Yin & Joe Zadeh (Pierce group) on “Towards a compiler for dynamic nucleic acid systems”.
- October 3 : Supergroup meeting – Kevin Oishi (Klavins group) and David Soloveichik (Winfree group).
