Topology in biology and chemistry

Special session as part of Knots in Washington, XIX

Organizers: Jozef Przytycki, Yongwu Rong, George Washington U.

Paul C. Kainen, Georgetown University

List of all abstracts for this conference at Atlas Conf Abstracts

All talks in Reiss 103 at Georgetown University.

To get to campus, I have a page of directions.

A pdf version of the announcement is available.

A schedule for this conference, including also the schedule for the knot theory only day (Sunday) at GWU is available at

Knots in Washington XIX.

Conference Schedule

Friday Nov. 12, 2004


3:15 to 4:05  The Topology of Evolutionary Biology,  Peter F. Stadler , 
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science.
University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

coffee break

4:30 to 5:20  Topological Approaches to the Analysis of Spatiotemporal Organization 
in Chemical and Biological Systems, Leon Glass, Department of Physiology, McGill 
University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

coffee break

5:45 to 6:35  Topological questions related to DNA self-assembly of graph structures,
 Natasha Jonoska, Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida 
Coauthors: Masahico Saito

Saturday Nov. 13, 2004

coffee from 10 am to 10:30 am
 
10:30 to 11:20 am  Topological analysis of enzymatic actions: DNA link formation by 
Xer recombination and DNA unknotting by type II topoisomerase,
Mariel Vazquez, Mathematics Department, U.C. Berkeley 
Coauthors: De Witt Sumners, Sean D. Colloms and Javier Arsuaga

11:25 am to 11:55 am  Javier Arsuaga, DNA knots reveal a chiral organization of DNA 
in phage capsids,

12:00 to 12:30 pm  Junalyn Navarra-Madsen, Analyzing Mu Transposase's Mechanism 
Using Tangle Coloring.

12:30 to 2:00 pm   LUNCH

(tentative schedule for afternoon session)

2:00 to 2:30  Raja Jothi, The Effects of Topology of Evolutionary Tree on 
Predicting Protein Interaction Specificity. Coauthor: Teresa M. Przytycka

2:35 to 3:05  Elena Zotenko, Knot Invariants in Protein Structure Comparison.
Coauthor: Teresa M. Przytycka

3:10 to 3:40  Paul Kainen, Topological constancy in the perception of Lissajous figures

There may be one or two more half-hour talks.

All of the above talks are in Reiss 103 on the Georgetown University campus.

Additional talks on Sunday will be pure knot theory and held at GW, not at Georgetown. Schedule to be determined.

Back to Paul Kainen's classroom page

Nov. 21, 2004; pck