Wednesdays at 4:00 PM except where noted. Location: Gonda Conference room, 3:45 pm refreshments, seminar 4:00 – 5:00 PM

March 12, 2003	Igor M. Rouzine, Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor, Molecular Microbiology Department Tufts University, Boston	The Solitary Wave of Asexual Evolution: Theory and Applications to Virology
March 13, 2003 (noon, Gonda)	Igor M. Rouzine, Ph.D. irouzine@tufts.edu	Tight Regulation of Primary Cytotoxic Immune Response by "Innate Helper" Cells and its Impairment by Persisting Viruses (HIV)
April 2, 2003	Thomas R. Powers, Ph.D. James R. Rice Assistant Professor of Solid Mechanics and Assistant Professor of Engineering Division of Engineering, Brown University Thomas_Powers@Brown.EDU	Mechanics of Bacterial Flagella: Bundling, Hydrodynamic Interactions, and Polymorphism
April 9, 2003	Andrew T. Sornborger, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Applied Math, Biomathematics Department Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York ats@camelot.mssm.edu	Estimating Dynamical Response in Multivariate Stimulus-Response Data
April 16, 2003	George F. Oster, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Division of Insect Biology University of California, Berkeley goster@nature.berkeley.edu	How the World’s Smallest Rotary Motor Works
April 23, 2003	Simon D.W. Frost, M.A., D.Phil. Assistant Research Professor, Department of Pathology University of California, San Diego Antiviral Research Center sdfrost@ucsd.edu	Evolution of Drug Resistance in Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Absence of Therapy
April 30, 2003	Francisco J. Solis, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Physics Department University of Texas at El Paso fjsolis@utep.edu	Statistical Mechanics of Chromatin
May 7, 2003	Joseph Rudnick, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA jrudnick@physics.ucla.edu	Structure of Icosahedral Viruses; the Role of Physics
May 14, 2003	Noah Rosenberg, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar, Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California noahr@usc.edu	The Shapes of Gene Genealogies
May 21, 2003	Frederic Y.M. Wan, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Mathematics University of California, Irvine fwan@math.uci.edu	Do Morphogen Gradients Arise by Diffusion?
May 28, 2003	Greg Lakatos Graduate Student Researcher, Physics Department University of British Columbia, Canada glakatos@stanfordalumni.org	Stochastic models of One-Dimensional Biological Transport
June 4, 2003	Craig Benham, Ph.D. Professor, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics; Associate Director, UC Davis Genome Center, University of California, Davis cjbenham@ucdavis.edu	Stress-Induced Transitions in DNA - Their Statistical Mechanical Analysis and Roles in Regulation
June 11, 2003	Kevin Klapstein Graduate Student Researcher UCLA Department of Biomathematics kklap@biomath.medsch.ucla.edu	RecA and the Long, Hard Road to Homology Recognition