Presentations

Upcoming Presentations

  • "Detecting surface shape complementarity for quick identification of interacting proteins", Roshna Agarwal, Paul Justin Tack, Sael Lee, D. Kihara, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2010
  • "A novel method for protein-protein interaction site prediction with phylogenetic substitution models", David La, D. Kihara, The 24th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society, August 1-5, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA.
  • "Multiple protein docking prediction based on genetic algorithms and physics based scoring", Juan Esquivel-Rodriguez, D. Kihara, 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), July 11-13, 2010, Boston, MA.
  • 3 presentations at 3DSIG 2010 at ISMB 2010, Boston, July 9-10, 2010:
    • (oral) "Real-Time Ligand Binding Pocket Database Search Using Local Surface Zernike Descriptors" R. Chikhi, L. Sael, D. Kihara
    • (oral or poster)"Multiple Protein Docking Prediction Method Which Can Handle Asymmetric Hetero Oligomeric Complexes" J. Esquivel-Rodriquez, Y. Yang, D. Kihara
    • (poster) "Fitting Multimeric Complexes into Cryo-EM Maps Using Protein Docking Procedure and 3D Zernike Descriptors" D. Kihara, J. Esquivel-Rodriguez, L. Sael
  • Invited talk "Protein surface representation for structure-based function prediction and docking" by D. Kihara at Telluride workshop on "Coarse-grained modeling of structure and dynamics of biomacromolecules", July 5-9, 2010, Telluride, CO, USA
  • Invited talk, "Molecular surface representation for protein shape comparison and docking", D. Kihara, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), June 30, 2010, Seoul, Korea.
  • Invited talk "Structure of gene functional space in genomes" by D. Kihara at The First International Conference for Industrial Statistics and Bioinformatics, The Research Center for Data Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, June 29, 2010

Past Presentations

  1. "Scoring Functions for Predicting Protein Structure and Protein-protein Interatcion", Yifeng Yang, Ph.D. thesis defense. Monday, April 19, 2010, 2:00 p.m, LILY 1-117, Purdue University.
  2. 2010 Undergraduate Reserach Poster Symposium, April 7 (Wed), Purdue Memorial Union, 2-6:30pm, Purdue University
    • "Why is there a limited number of protein fold in nature?", Abram Magner, Yifeng D. Yang, D. Kihara
    • "Classification of local surface shape of ligand binding pockets", Gabriele Martinez, Sael Lee, D. Kihara
    • "Structure-basis for protein-DNA interaction", William Hoffmann, D. Kihara
    • "Detecting surface shape complementarity for quick identification of interacting proteins", Paul Justin Tack, Roshna Agarwal, Sael Lee, D. Kihara
    • "Conservation of sequence and atoimc interactions in ligand binding sites of proteins", Sang Wook Lee, Sael Lee, D. Kihara
  3. "Comparative study of protein structure prediction methods" Priyanka Surana, D. Kihara, Sigma, 18th Undergradaute Research Day, Apr 3 (Sat), 10am, Lilly Hall,Dept. of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
  4. "Exploring applications of suboptimal alignments in threading protein structure prediction" Hao Chen, Ph.D. Thesis defense. Apr. 6, 2pm, Lilly 1-117, Purdue University.
  5. Purdue University Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Reception Monday, April 5th 2010, Purdue Memorial Union, South Ballroom
    • "Unified Protein Docking Procedure with a Shape Complementarity Screening Using 3D Zernike Descriptors and Ranking by Physics-Based Scoring", Juan Esquivel-Rodriguez, et al.
    • "Quantification of protein group coherence and pathway assignment in yeast using functional association", M. Chitale et al.
  6. "Comparative study of protein structure prediction methods" Priyanka Surana, D. Kihara, Sigma, 18th Undergradaute Research Day, Apr 3 (Sat), 10am, Lilly Hall,Dept. of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
  7. "Comparative study of protein structure prediction methods", Oral presentation of honors students, Priyanka Surana, D. Kihara, March 30, Lilly 1-117, Dept. of Biological Sci., Purdue University
  8. Sigma Xi Graduate student research presentation, Feb 17 (Wed), 12:30-9pm, Stewart Center, Rm 214/218, Purdue University
    • "A statistical method dor comparing flexible protein tertiary structures", Farrukh Arslan, Yifeng Yang, D. Kihara.
    • Application of 3D Zernike descriptors to shape-based ligand similarity searching", Padmasini Chakravarthy, V. Venkatraman, D. Kihara
    • Quantification of protein group coherence and pathway assignment in yeast using functional association", Meghana Chitale, Shriphani Palakodety, D. Kihara
  9. "A unified protein docking procedure with a shape complementarity screening using 3D Zernike descriptors", D. Kihara, V. Venkatraman, YD Yang, L. Sael, Biophysical Society meeting, San Francisco, CA, Feb 20-24, 2010
  10. "Protein surface representation for fast structure search, docking and function prediction", Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Computer Science, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 28, 2009
  11. "Protein surface representation for fast structure search, docking and function prediction", Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara, Japan, January 7, 2009
  12. "A unified protein docking procedure with a shape complementarity screening using 3D Zernike descriptors and ranking by physics-based scoring" CAPRI Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions 4th Evaluation Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, Dec 9-11, 2009
  13. "Protein Structure Bioinformatics for Predicting Structure, Docking, and Function" Univ. Cincinnati, Nov. 5, 2009
  14. "Protein Representation for Efficient Comparison of Surface Properties" (poster) by Sael Lee, 4th Annual KIST/PU Global Research Laboratory Symposium, Sep. 22 (Tue), 8:30-9:30am, Room 214, Steward Center, Purdue University
  15. PULSe program retreat poster presentation, August 22 (Sat), Beck Agriclutural Center, West Lafayette, IN
    • Local surface shape-based protein function prediction using Zernike descriptors, by D. Kihara, Sael Lee & Rayan Chikhi
    • Protein structure prediction without optimizing weighting factors for scoring function, by Yifeng D. Yang, Changsoon Park, & D. Kihara
  16. D. Kihara, "Global and local protein surface comparison and its applications", at TSRC workshop on "Method development for protein structure prediction and design", Telluride Science Res. Center, Telluride, Colorado, June 15-19, 2009.
  17. Poster presentations at American Society for Microbiology May 17-21, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
    • www.EcoliHub.org: An information resource for experimentation and modeling of E. coli K-12, by BL Wanner, WG Aref, T. Conway, KA Datsenko, SC Ess, MR Gribskov, JC Hu, D Kihara, H Mori, D Siegele, DR Whitaker
    • N terminal Gly224-Gly411 domain in Listeria adhesion protein (LAP) interacts with receptor Hsp60, by B. Jagadessan, D La, D Kihara, AK. Bhunia
  18. D. Kihara, Seminars at Statistics Dept, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, May 14-15, 2009
    • May 14: lectures on "Algorithms for biological sequence analysis"
    • May 15: research presentation on "Protein surface comparison for function prediction and docking"
  19. D. Kihara, "Novel bioinformatics approaches for studying protein sequence, structure, and function in omics era", Division of Bio-Medical Informatics, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Seoul, Korea, May 13, 2009
  20. The 21st Undergraduate Research Conference at Butler University, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, April 17, 2009
    • Gregg Thomas, "Computational protein function prediction"
    • Matt Herron, "Protein Tertiary Structure Universe Viewed from the Perspective of Surface Shape"
    • Priyanka Surana, "Comparative study of tertiary structure prediction methods"
  21. Priyanka Surana, oral presentation on "Computational characterization of proteins having specific cellular localization patterns", Honor thesis oral presentation, Dept. Biological Sciences, Purdue, March 31, 2009.
  22. SIAM@Purdue Student Conference 09, Stewart Center, Purdue, March 30, 2009
    • (oral presentation), Meghana Chitale, 5:30-6pm, Room 313; "ESG: Extended similarity method for automated protein function prediction"
    • (oral presentation), Sael Lee, 6-6:30pm, Room 214C; "Protein representation for efficient comparison of surface properties"
    • (poster) Bin Li, "Predicting organism of a genome based on word frequences for metagenomics research"
    • (poster) David La, "Predicting Protein-Protein Interaction Sites by Computational Modeling of Mutational Patterns"
  23. Poster presentations at Biophysical Society 53nd Annual Meeting February 28-March4, 2008, Boston MA
    • (3358-Pos/B405, March 4)Local surface shape-based protein function prediction using Zernike descriptors, by D. Kihara, Sael Lee & Rayan Chikhi
    • (3371-Pos/B418, March 4)Protein structure prediction without optimizing weighting factors for scoring function, by Yifeng D. Yang, Changsoon Park, & D. Kihara
  24. Seminar at the Biochemistry seminar series "Annotating protein structures by surface shape comparison" by D. Kihara, Feb 27th, 11:30-12:15, WTHR 201
  25. Sigma-Xi graduate students poster presentation, Feb. 18 (Wed) afternooon, Steward Center, Rooms 214/218, Purdue Univ.
    • ESG: Extended similarity group method for automated protein function prediction, by M. Chitale et al.
    • Protein representation for efficient comparison of surface properties, by Sael Lee et al.
    • Improvement of template-based protein structure prediction by suboptimal alignments, by Hao Chen et al.
    • Threading without optimizing weighting factors for scoring function, by Yifeng D Yang et al.
  26. Guest lecture on our research projects in protein bioinformatics at CS 197 Honors Seminar, Feb 16, 9:30-10:20, LWSN B134.
  27. Workshop organizer and oral presentation at e-Bioinformatics Workshop at IEEE e-Science '08, Dec. 12, IUPUI University Conference Center & Hotel, Room 232 "Annotating Protein Structures by Surface Shape Comparison" by D. Kihara
  28. Daisuke Kihara, Depatmental Seminar at Biological Sciences, Purdue Univesity, "Informatics approaches for studying protein sequence, structure, and function in omics era, Oct. 15, 2008
  29. Matt Herron, Brian Denton, David La, D. Kihara, "The protein structure universe viewed from the perspective of surface shape", The 19th Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Argonne National Laboratory, November 7, 2008
  30. "Protein representation for efficient comparison of surface properties" Sael Lee, Bin Li, David La, Raif Rustamov, Daisuke Kihara, (poster presentation), 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Keystone, Colorado, Oct 1, 2008.
  31. Presentations for Graduate student orientations 2008:
    • Biology: Poster presentation by Troy Hawkins, main lobby in Lilly Hall, August 19, 3:30-5:00PM.
    • CS: Two poster presentations by Sael Lee and Meghana Chitale, at Research Showcase, 11am-12:30pm, September 8 (Mon), 2008, Buchanan room, Ross Ade Stadium, 5th floor, Purdue.
    • PULSe: Two poster presentations by Hao Chen and Yifeng Yang, at PULSe retreat, John S. Wright Forestry Center at Martell Forest, West Lafaytte, August 23, 2008,
  32. ISMB 2008, Toronto, Canada, July 19-23, 2008. Two posters:
    • Automated protein function prediction using Extended Similarity Group (ESG) of sequences. M. Chitale, T. Hawkins, C. Park, D. Kihara.
    • EcoliHub: An information resource for experimentalists and modelers. DR Whitaker, WG Aref, KA Datsenko, S Ess, MR Gribskov, D Kihara, S Kim, H Mori, A Roumani, BL Wanner.

  33. Oral presentation at AFP/Biosapiens 2008(Automated Function Prediction special Interesting Group at ISMB2008), July 18-19, Toronto, Canada, "ESG: Extended Similarity Group Method for Improved Automated protein Function Prediction" by Meghana Chitale, Troy Hawkins, Changsoon Park & D. Kihara.

  34. Preston Spratt, Honors research presentation, "Structure modeling of E. coli proteome", March 27, 20008, Lilly 3-418, 5:30pm, Dept. of Biological Sci, Purdue University.

  35. 2008 Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium, 2-7pm, March 31, 2008, Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms.
    • Priyanka Surana, Yifeng Yang, D. Kihara "Computatinal modeling of ABC transporters"
    • Rupal Trivedi, Yifeng Yang, D. Kihara, "Disorder region prediction of E. coli proteins"

  36. Invited talk "Quality assessment of template-based protein structure prediction", Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine West, Room 221, 1853 W Polk St., Chicago, IL, February 26, 2008

  37. Poster presentations at Biophysical Society 52nd Annual Meeting February 2-6, 2008, Long Beach, CA
  38. (3250-Pos/B553)Predicting the error of template-based protein structure modeling by suboptimal alignment stability, by Hao Chen & D. Kihara
  39. (3282-Pos/B585)A fast methodology for high throughput comparison of tertiary structure and physicochemical properties, by D. Kihara, Sael Lee, Bin Li, David La, Raif Rustamov

  40. Invited talk "Template-based protein structure prediction and beyond" at Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), December 26, 2007, Daejeon, Korea

  41. Invited talk "Computational protein structure and function prediction" at Chung-Ang University, December 27, 2007, Seoul, Korea

  42. 7th KIAS-Soongsil Conference, October 4-6, 2007, Soongsil Univ., Seoul, Korea, "Protein function prediction for proteomics era (invited talk) "

  43. Structural Biology Seminar Series, Dept. of Biolgical Sciences, Purdue University, September 19, 2007, 1:30-2:20pm, Lilly Hall, 1-117, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, " Predicting protein function from sequence: theory and applications ", by Troy Hawkins

  44. Structural Biology Seminar Series, Dept. of Biolgical Sciences, Purdue University, September 26, 2007, 1:30-2:20pm, Lilly Hall, 1-117, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, "Error estimation for template-based protein structure prediction ", by Hao Chen

  45. Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, September 26-29, 2007, Los Angeles, CA, "A fast method for high throughput comparison of tertiary structure and physicochemical properties (talk) " in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology track (Session co-chair: Kihara)

  46. The 21st Symposium of the Protein Society, July 21-25, 2007 Boston, MA

    • (poster #268)"Protein surface representation for fast comparison of tertiary structure and physicochemical properties" by S. Lee, B. Li, D. La, R. Rustamov & D. Kihara (July 23)
    • (poster #464)"High-throughput function assignment for proteomics datasets with PFP" by T. Hawkins, M. Chitale & D. Kihara (July 24)

  47. ISMB 2007, July 21-25, 2007 Vienna, Austria

    • (talk)"Enriching functional knowledge in proteomics data using high-throughput PFP prediction", by T. Hawkins, M. Chitale & D. Kihara, AFP/Biosapiens Special Interest Group, July 20, 2007
    • (poster)"Functional enrichment of proteomics datasets with PFP", T. Hawkins, M. Chitale, S. Luban & D. Kihara.

  48. Indy '07: Indy Regional Bioinformatics Conference, May 31-June 2, 2007,

    • (selected talk) H. Chen & D. Kihara, "Estimating quality of template-based protein models by alignment stability"
    • (poster) T. Hawkins, M. Chitale, S. Luban, & D. Kihara, "Function prediction for proteomics datasets using PFP"
    • (poster) M. Chitale, T. Hawkins & D. Kihara, "Development of methods for missing enzyme/gene prediction with PFP"
    • (poster) S. Lee, D. La, B. Li, R. Rustamov, D. Kihara, "A fast methodology for high throughput comparison of tertiary structure and physicochemical properties"
    • (poster) B. Li, S. Turuvekere, M. Agrawal, K. Ramani & D. Kihara, "Local geometry characterization of protein surfaces with the visibility criteria"
    • (poster) P. Spratt, S. Krawczyk, Y.D. Yang & D. Kihara, "EcoliPredict: structure modeling of E. coli proteome"
    • (poster)Y.D. Yang & D. Kihara, "Threading without training weighting factors for scoring functions"
    • (poster)L. Si, D. Yu, D. Kihara & Y. Fang, "Using sequence similarity scores for automatic gene function annotation in the biomedical literature"

  49. Program Committee member and Session Chair at Interface 2007: the 39th Symposium on the interface of statistics, computing science, and applications, May 23-26, 2007, Doubletree Hotel, Philadelphia, "Computational techniques for structural genomics (session title)", "Surface shape-based protein structure classification and search (talk) ", Daisuke Kihara

  50. " Protein function and structure prediction for proteomics analyses " Invisted talk at Indiana University, Informatics Department, May 3, 2007, Bloomington, IN

  51. The Computer Research Insistute Poster Presentation, April 5, 2007, 4-6pm, Atrium of MSEE building, Purdue Univeresity, "Structure modeling of E. coli proteome: Quality Evaluation ", Preston Spratt, Steve Krawczyk, Yifeng Yang & Daisuke Kihara

  52. 2007 Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium, April 4, 2007, College of Science, Agriculture, Engineering, and Technology, Purdue University,

    • "Structure modeling of E. coli proteome: Homology models" by Steve Krawczyk, Preston Spratt, Yifeng Yang & D. Kihara,
    • "Structure modeling of E. coli proteome: Quality Evaluation" by Preston Spratt, Steve Krawczyk, Yifeng Yang & D. Kihara,
    • "Benchmark of new amino acid similarity matrices on recognition of distant protein structures" by Yu-Hsuan Rex Cheng, Hao Chen & D. Kihara

  53. Dept. of Biological Science Undergraduate Reserach Presentation, March 31, 2007, Lilly Hall, Purdue Univeresity, "Structure modeling of E. coli proteome: Quality Evaluation ", Preston Spratt, Steve Krawczyk, Yifeng Yang & Daisuke Kihara

  54. Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, December 28, 2006, "Advanced techniques for protein function prediction and protein tertiary structure search for proteomics analyses", Daisuke Kihara

  55. One-day course on bioinformatics , Graduate program, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan, December 25, 2006, "Bioinformatics: Introduction and advanced topics", Daisuke Kihara

  56. Ajinomoto Life Science Institute, Kawasaki, Japan, December 22, 2006, "Advanced techniques for protein function prediction and protein tertiary structure search for proteomics analyses", Daisuke Kihara

  57. Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP7) November 26-30, 2006, Asilomar Conference Center, CA, Invited talk in Function prediction category, Daisuke Kihara

  58. BMES2006: (Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2006) "Systems Biology and Bioinformatics" Track Oct. 12-14, 2006, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, IL "Computational techniques for genomics, proteomic, structural and pathway data" session, Oct. 12, session co-chair with Dr. Christina Chan, "Enhanced protein function prediction for proteomics analysis", Daisuke Kihara (invited talk)

  59. Center for Comp. Biology & Bioinformatics Seminar Series, October. 6, 2006, Medical Science Building Rm326, 3:30-4:30, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, "Predicting protein function from sequence and structure", Daisuke Kihara (invited talk)

  60. The Second Automated Function Prediction Meeting, August 30 - September 1 2006, Cal-(IT)2 buidling, UC San Diego, CA, "PFP: sequence-based annotation of sequences and local sequence motifs with contextual GO term association", Troy Hawkins, Stan Luban & Daisuke Kihara (poster)

  61. Symposium on "Protein motion for function and folding(temporal title)", September. 28-29, 2006, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan, "Low-resolution and uncertainty in protein function and structure prediction", Daisuke Kihara (invited talk)

  62. TeraGrid '06, June 12-15, 2006, Indianapolis, IN,

      "EMD: an ensemble DNA regulatory motif discovery algortihm for Grid computing.", Yifeng D. Yang, Jianjun Hu & Daisuke Kihara

  63. The Third Annual Indiana Bioinformatics Conference, May 19-20, 2006,Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine,

    • "Bridging geometric protein surface features and phylogenetic information for rapid identification of protein-protein interaction interfaces(invited oral presentation)", David La, Dennis Livesay & Daisuke Kihara
    • "PFP: sequence-based annotation of sequences and local sequence motifs with contextual GO term asssociation(invited oral presentation)", Troy Hawkins, Stan Luban, & Daisuke Kihara
    • "Template-based protein structure prediction with a reliability measure for structural genomics era(poster)", Hao Chen, Yen Hock Tan, & Daisuke Kihara
    • "Ligand binding site prediction with the visibility criteria(poster)", Bin Li, S. Thruvekere, M. Agrawal, K. Ramani & Daisuke Kihara
    • "Multi-resolution protein representation for fact protein structure searching(poster)", Sael Lee, Bin Li, David La, Raiv Rustamov, & Daisuke Kihara
    • "On the effect of long-range interactions on the secondary structure formation of proteins(poster)", Daisuke Kihara
    • "Coiled-coil structures in E. coli interactome (poster)", Stan Luban, Akiyasu Yoshizawa & Daisuke Kihara
    • "Neural network based protein domain prediction (poster)", Yen Hock Tan, Otoniel Venezuela, Evans A. Tapia & Daisuke Kihara
    • "Statistical potential-based amino acid similarity matrices for aligning distantly related protein sequences (poster)", Yen Hock Tan, He Huang & Daisuke Kihara
    • "Accounting for natural flexibility in protein structure prediction comparisons(poster)", Jairav Desai & Daisuke Kihara
    • "EcoliPredict: bioinformatics prediction resource for EcoliHub (poster)", Barry Wanner, Daisuke Kihara, Troy Hawkins & Yifeng D. Yang

  64. American Society for Microbiology ASM-FEMS Conference on Protein Traffic in Prokaryotes, , May 6-10, 2006, Crete, Greece,

      "EcoliPredict: Bioinformatics prediction resource for EcoliHub.", Barry Wanner, Daisuke Kihara, Troy Hawkins & Yifeng D. Yang

  65. Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation, April 11, 2006, College of Science, Purdue Univ.,

    • "Use of Neural Network for Protein Domain Prediction", Yen Hock Tan & Daisuke Kihara
    • "Including Natural Protein Fexibility in Predicted Protein Structure Comparisons", Jairav Desai & Daisuke Kihara

  66. 2006 Sigma Xi Graduate Studnet ReserachPoster Presentation, Feb. 14, 2006, Stewart Center Rm 214, Purdue, Poster presentations:

    • "Protein Structure-Sequence Alignment with a Reliability Measure "(H.Chen, D. Kihara),
    • "A New Perspective on an Old Tool: Extending the Coverage of Sequence Similarity-Based Function Prediction with PFP "(T.B.Hawkins, S.Luban, D.Kihara),
    • "Bridging Geometric Protein Surface Features and Phylogenetic Information for Rapid Indentification of Protein-Protein Interaction Interfaces "(D.La, D. Liversay, D. Kihara),
    • "Multi-Resolution Protein Representation" (S.Lee, B.Li, D. La, R. Rustamov, D.Kihara),
    • "Ligand Binding Sites Prediction with the Visibility Criteria "(B.Li, S.Turuvekere, M.Agrawal, K.Ramani, D.Kihara)
    • "EMD: An ensemble algorithm for discoverying regulatory motifs in DNA sequences. "(Y.D.Yang, J.Hu, D. Kihara)

  67. Bioinformatics Seminar Series, , January 24 (Tue), 2006, Mechanical Engineering Building ME161, 4:30-5:30, Purdue University, "Enhanced Automated Function Prediction for Proteomics Analysis", Daisuke Kihara

  68. The 16th International Conference on Genome Informatics, Dec. 19-21, 2005, Yokohama, Japan, Poster presentations:

    • "Dependence of the Accuracy of Protein Secondary Structure Prediction on Long-Range Interactions "(D. Kihara),
    • "Protein-Protein Docking Algorithm Using Pre-Identified Binding Site Patches" (D.Kihara, S.Lee, K.Ramani, S.Turuvekere, M.Agrawal, B.Li),
    • "Ligand Binding Sites Prediction with the Visibility Criteria "(B.Li, S.Turuvekere, M.Agrawal, K.Ramani, D.Kihara),
    • "A New Perspective on an Old Tool: Extending the Coverage of Sequence Similarity-Based Function Prediction with PFP "(T.B.Hawkins, S.Luban, D.Kihara),

  69. International Symposium "From Genomics to Chemical Genomics: 10th Anniversary of KEGG, Dec. 15-16, 2005, PALULU Plaza, Kyoto, Japan, , "Protein function prediction in the Structural Genomics Era", Daisuke Kihara (invited talk)

  70. International Symposium on Frontiers of Computational Science 2005, Dec. 12-13, 2005, Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University, Japan, , "Protein function prediction in the Proteomics Era", Daisuke Kihara (invited talk)

  71. Structural Biology Seminar, November 16, 2005, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, "Protein function prediction methods beyond BLAST search", Daisuke Kihara

  72. Computer Research Institute Seminar, October 19, 2005, Computing Reserach Institute, Purdue University, "Protein function prediction in Structural Genomics Era", Daisuke Kihara

  73. 16th Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, November 4-5, 2005, Argonne National Laboratory

    • "Evaluation and Development of Protein Function Prediction", Stan Luban

    • "Using Neural Network in Protein Domain Prediction", Yen Hock Tan

  74. Mini-Workshop on Computational Studies on Proteins, September 8, 2005, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Protein function prediction from sequence and structure", Daisuke Kihara (invited talk)

  75. PULSe Retreat, August 20, 2005, John S. Wright Forestry Center at Martell Forest, "Computational Function Prediction", Troy Hawkins, Stan Luban, Daisuke Kihara

  76. Biology Department New Graduate Students Orientation, August 12, 2005, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Purdue University, "Bioinformatics Research in Kihara Lab", Daisuke Kihara

  77. 2005 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Poster Presentation, August 2 2005, MSEE Atrium, Purdue University

    • "Protein-Protein Interaction Data Assessment", Ei Ei Phyu

    • "Comparative Study of Small RNA and Small Peptides in Complete Genome Sequences", Stan Luban

    • "BioQ: A 3D Querying Engine for Proteins", Athurva Goa

    • "Comparison of Distantly Related Protein Sequence Alignments with Multiple Amino Acid Similarity Matrices", Yen Hock Tan

  78. Marc/Aim Research Presentation, July 28 2005, Burton Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, "Protein Structure Prediction with ZDOCK 2.3", Luis Avila, Bin Li, Daisuke Kihara

  79. ISMB, June 25-29 2005, Detroit, Michigan

    • "The use of context-based functional association in automated protein function prediction methods", Troy Hawkins, Daisuke Kihara

    • "PFP: Automatic annotation of protein function by relative GO association in multiple functional contexts", Troy Hawkins, Daisuke Kihara

    ISMB oral presentation program

  80. Midwest Computational Structural Biology Workshop, April 30 – May 1, 2005, Brook Lodge, Michigan State University, Augusta, Michigan

    • "Voxelized Protein Model for Fast Protein Docking and Function Prediction", Srinivasan Turuvekerel, Manish Agrawal, Karthik Ramani, Daisuke Kihara

    • "Protein Structure-Sequence Alignment with a Reliability Measure", Hao Chen, Daisuke Kihara

  81. Guest lecture at BIOL 517 (Molecular Biology: Proteins), April 13 2005, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Purdue University, "Computational Protein Structure Prediction Methods", Daisuke Kihara

  82. Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation, College of Science & College of Agriculture, April 11, 2005, PMU Faculty Lounges, Purdue University

    • "Comparing Tertiary Structures of Protein Active Sites", Yuhao Lin

    • "Comparative Study of Small RNA and Small Peptides in Complete Genome Sequences", Stan Luban

    • "Computer Graphics Program in Foreign Language Instruction", Ei Ei Phyu

    • "Comparison of Distantly Related Protein Sequence Alignments with Multiple Amino Acid Similarity Matrices", Yen Hock Tan

    • "Structure-basis of protein-protein interaction", Brian Trisler

    Department of Computer Science Purdue University news article

  83. The thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Day, Dept of Biological Sciences, April 2, 2005, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Purdue University, "Comparative study of small RNA and small peptides in complete genome sequences", Stan Luban

  84. Biochemistry Division Seminar, April 1 2005, "Toward a better template-based protein structure prediction", Daisuke Kihara

  85. Biology Honors Research (BIOL 497) Presentation, March 31 2005 , Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Purdue University, Stan Luban

  86. PULSe Graduate Students Recruitment, March 5 2005, Hansen Hall, Purdue University, "Protein Sequence-Structure Alignment with a Reliability Measure", Hao Chen

  87. CS department Graduate Student Recruitment, March 5 2005, Computer Science Building, Purdue University, "Bioinformatics Research in Kihara group", Daisuke Kihara

  88. Biology Graduate Students Recruitment, February 26 2005, "Research in Kihara Bioinformatics Lab!", Troy Hawkins

  89. Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Poster Presentation, February 17 2005, Steward Center, Purdue University

    • "Protein Sequence-Structure Alignment with a Reliability Measure", Hao Chen

    • "A structured approach to computational protein function prediction", Troy Hawkins

    • "A novel method for constructing phylogenetic trees based on complete genome sequences", Bin Li

  90. 15th Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, November 5-6, 2004, Argonne National Laboratory, "Improvement of Protein Sequence Alignments for Better Protein Structure Prediction", Yen Hock Tan

Recent News

  • Our work "Real-time ligand binding pocket database search using local surface Zernike descriptors" by R. Chikhi, L. Sael, D. Kihara is selected for oral presentation at 3DSIG 2010 at ISMB 2010!
  • We are awarded a grant entitled "Elucidating genetic pathways for curing retinal degeneration" from Showalter Reserach Trust (PI: YF Leung).
  • "Sub-AQUA: Real-Value Quality Assessment of Protein Structure Models" by Y.D. Yang, P. Spratt, H. CHen, C. Park, D. Kihara accepted for PEDS: protein engineering design & selection. Try the Sub-AQUA server!
  • Chao Yuan joined our lab. Welcome Chao!
  • Our group has moved to Hockmyer Structural Biology building. Rooms are 229 (Kihara), 237, 238 and 161A.

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Kihara Bioinformatics Laboratory is always looking for new people to join the lab. Our current list of openings is available here.