Invited Oral Presentations (since 1990)

1. The Use of Single-Wavelength Anomalous Scattering Data in the Structure Determination of a Neurophysin-Dipeptide Complex from an Incorporated Iodine Atom, Birmingham Crystallographic Workshop, Birmingham, Alabama, February 27, 1990.
   
   
2. Structure of Neurophysin-Dipeptide Complex Determined by a Novel Single-Wavelength Anomalous Scattering Method, Johns Hopkins University, March 26, 1990.
   
   
3. T7 RNA Polymerase: Crystal Structure and Functional Homologies to other Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases. Johns Hopkins University, March 27, 1990.
   
   
4. The Use of Single-Wavelength Anomalous Scattering Data in the Structure Determination of a Neurophysin-Dipeptide Complex from an Incorporated Iodine Atom, Frontiers in Crystallographic Methods, American Crystallographic Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6, 1990.
   
   
5. Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase, Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology, Colby-Sawyer College, June 11, 1990.
   
   
6. Crystal Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase, The 3rd International Symposium and Workshop of the Society of Bioscientists in America, Hong Kong, June 25, 1990.
   
   
7. Toward a Better Understanding of the Structure-function Relationship of RNA Polymerase, International Symposium of Structural Biology, Taipei, Taiwan, June 27, 1990.
   
   
8. Resolution of Phase Ambiguity in Macromolecular Crystallography by a Noise Filtering Process, Albany Conferences on Converging Approaches in Computational Biology, Albany, New York, September 14, 1990.
   
   
9. Macromolecules, Nucleic Acids and Chromosomes, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, October 2, 1990.
   
   
10. Structure Determination by the ISIR/ISAS Program Package, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Workshop on Crystallographic Phasing and Refinement, NIH campus, Bethesda, MD, October 22, 1990.
    
    
11. Study of Structure-Function of Neurophysin-Hormone System by X-ray Crystallography, Institute of Molecular Biology, Taiwan, December 11, 1990.
    
    
12. Crystal Structure of a Neurophysin-Dipeptide Complex Determined by the Use of Single-Wavelength Anomalous Scattering Method, Taiwan Crystallographic Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, April 8, 1991.
    
    
13. T7 RNA Polymerase: Crystal Structure and Functional Homologies to Other Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, April 14, 1991.
    
    
14. T7 RNA Polymerase: Crystal Structure and Functional Homologies to Other Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases. Seventh Conversation in the Discipline Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, NY, June 22, 1991.
    
    
15. Resolving the Controversy Surrounding the Structure of the Octameric Histone Core of the Nucleosome: The Crystal Structure at 3Å Resolution, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, September 19, 1991.
    
    
16. T7 RNA Polymerase: Low Resolution Structure and Its Biological Implications, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, September 23, 1991.
    
    
17. T7 RNA Polymerase: Low Resolution Structure and Its Biological Implications, The 49th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Columbus, Ohio, November 7, 1991.
    
    
18. T7 RNA Polymerase: Low Resolution Structure and Its Biological Implications, International Symposium on Molecular Structure and Life - Molecular Recognition of Nucleic Acids, Yokohama, Japan, December 12, 1991.
    
    
19. Crystal Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, December 16, 1991.
    
    
20. Crystal Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, March 27, 1992.
    
    
21. Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase, Keystone Symposium on Fundamental Mechanisms of Transcription, Copper Mountain, Colorado, April 1, 1992.
    
    
22. Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase, Symposium on Structural Tools for the Analysis of Protein-Nucleic Acid Complexes, Wildbad Kreuth, Germany, May 6, 1992.
    
    
23. Structure Determination of Glutamine-Binding Protein of E. coli With and Without Bound L-Glutamine by X-ray Diffraction, The 4th International Symposium and Workshop of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, University of Singapore, Singapore, June 15, 1992.
    
    
24. Crystal Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, September 22, 1992.
    
    
25. Structural Studies of Neurophysin-Hormone Complexes, The 2nd China-Japan Joint Seminar on Crystallography, Taipei, Taiwan, November 9-10, 1992.
    
    
26. Crystal Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase at 3.3Å Resolution, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, March 4, 1993.
    
    
27. Structure Determination of Octameric Histone Core of Nucleosome, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, March 5, 1993.
    
    
28. Crystal Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase at 3.3Å Resolution, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, April 1, 1993.
    
    
29. The Octameric Histone Core of Nucleosome: What We Learn From the Structure Determination. American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 24, 1993.
    
    
30. Structure of Bacteriophage T7 RNA Polymerase at 3.3Å Resolution. The 5th International Symposium and Workshop of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, Baltimore, MD, June 17, 1993.
    
    
31. Structure of Bacteriophage T7 RNA Polymerase at 3.3Å Resolution. The XVI Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, Beijing, China, August 22, 1993.
    
    
32. T7 RNA Polymerase: Structural Aspects and Relationships to Other Nucleic Acid Polymerases. University of Missouri-Kansas City, MI, October 14, 1993.
    
    
33. The Cuddle Compound and Its Cradle, The Department of Biological Sciences Annual Retreat, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 1993.
    
    
34. Crystal Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase, Agouron Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, CA, November 11, 1993.
    
    
35. T7 RNA Polymerase: Structural Aspects and Relationship to Other Nucleic Acid Polymerases, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, November 15, 1993.
    
    
36. T7 RNA Polymerase: Structural Aspects and Relationship to Other Nucleic Acid Polymerases, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, November 16, 1993.
    
    
37. T7 RNA Polymerase: Structural Aspects and Relationship to Other Nucleic Acid Polymerases, Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, December 7, 1993.
    
    
38. T7 RNA Polymerase: Crystal Structure and Biological Implications "The 10th Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists Symposium on Protein Research," Taipei, Taiwan, December 8-10, 1993.
    
    
39. Phase Refinement and Extension by Density Modification, Asian Region Seminar on Crystallography in Molecular Biology, December 9-14, 1993.
    
    
40. Structures of Nucleic Acid Polymerases, Asian Region Seminar on Crystallography in Molecular Biology, December 9-14, 1993.
    
    
41. Structural Studies of Neurophysin and its Hormone Complexes. Recent Developments in Macromolecular Crystallography, XXV National Seminar on Crystallography, Madras, India, December 15-17, 1993.
    
    
42. Development of the Solvent Flattening Methods for Macromolecular Structure Determination. Ohio State University, OH, October 31, 1994.
    
    
43. Crystal Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase. Ohio State University, OH, November 1, 1994.
    
    
44. A Unified Mechanism for the Modular Architecture of Nucleic Acid Polymerases. Structural Biology/Biophysics Society Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, May 11, 1995.
    
    
45. Crystal Structure of T7 RNA Polymerase. National Institute of Genetics, Japan, May 15, 1995.
    
    
46. Structure of an Oxytocin-Neurophysin Complex and its Implication on the Hormone Storage in the Neurosecretory granules. The 6th International Symposium and Workshop of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, Vancouver, June 25, 1995.
    
    
47. Heavy Atom Handedness and Protein Structure Determination using Single-wavelength Anomalous Scattering Data. American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, July 25, 1995.
    
    
48. Crystallography: a Window into the World of Molecules. Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, April 17, 1996.
    
    
49. Structure of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase. Suddath Memorial Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 20, 1996.
    
    
50. Crystallography: a Window into the World of Molecules - Part II. Symposium series on Computational and Experimental Approaches to Molecular Structure, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, May 10, 1996.
    
    
51. Structure of an Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Complex with Co-enzyme NAD. 8th International Symposium on Enzymology and Molecular Biology of Carbonyl Metabolism, Deadwood, South Dakota, June 30, 1996.
    
    
52. How Does Solvent Flattening Remove the Phase Ambiguity. XVII Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, Seattle, WA, August 12, 1996.
    
    
53. How Does Solvent Flattening Remove the Phase Ambiguity. 54th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 7-9, 1996.
    
    
54. Hormone Packaging in Posterior Pituitary Revealed by X-Ray Crystallographic Studies. Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia, February 25, 1997.
    
    
55. Crystallographic programs at the University of Georgia. University of Arkansas, March 23, 1998.
    
    
56. University of Georgia. July 26, 1998.
    
    
57. XVIIIth International Congress of Crystallography, Glasgow, Scotland, August, 1999.
    
    
58. Protein Structure Determination from Native Crystals Using Single-wavelength Anomalous Scattering Data. Utah State University, November 10, 1999.
    
    
59. Protein Structure Determination from Native Crystals Using Single-wavelength Anomalous Scattering Data. Argonne National Laboratory, November 17, 1999.
    
    
60. Protein Crystallography in the Next Decade: A personal Observation. BMB, UGA. March 23, 2000.
    
    
61. ISAS Method. ISAS Workshop, GA Center for Continuing Education, April 6-7, 2000.
    
    
62. Protein Structure Determination from Native Crystals Using Single-wavelength Anomalous Scattering Data. Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, California, April 22, 2000.
    
    
63. Protein Structure Determination from Native Crystals Using Single-wavelength Anomalous Scattering Data. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, April 24, 2000.
    
    
64. Towards Increased Data Collection Efficiency through Automation and Time-Sharing. Stanford Synchrotron Research Facility, Stanford, California, May 11, 2000.
    
    
65. SAS Phasing a Powerful Tool for Protein Crystal Structure Determination is Maturing. ACA Annual Meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 2000.
    
    
66. Direct Crystallography and The Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Senica, Taiwan, October 30, 2000.
    
    
67. Development of Biological Beamlines for the Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team at the Advanced Photon Source. Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan, October 26, 2000.
    
    
68. Meeting the Challenges of High-throughput Structure Determination for Structural Genomics. International Conference on Structural Genomics 2000, Yokohama, Japan, November 2, 2000.
    
    
69. Comments on Automation, Harima Workshop on High-throughput Crystallography, Spring-8, Harima, Japan, November 7, 2000.
    
    
70. Protein Structure Determination from Native Crystals Using Single-wavelength Anomalous Scattering Data. Harima Workshop on High-throughout Crystallography, Spring-8, Harima, Japan, November 7, 2000.
    
    
71. The Crystal Structure and Functional Implications of Yeast Mitochondrial Transcription Factor sc-mtTFB & Structural Genomics Projects at the University of Georgia. University of Toronto, Canada, November 9, 2000.
    
    
72. Protein Structure Determination from Native Crystals Using Single-wavelength Anomalous Scattering Data. McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, November 10, 2000.
    
    
73. Recovery of Non-productive Beamtime. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France, February 2001.
    
    
74. Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. Second International Conference of Structural Genomics, Warrenton, VA, April 4, 2001.
    
    
75. Methodology and Technology Development for Structural Genomics. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Microbiology, Waterloo, Canada, June 13, 2001.
    
    
76. Lecturer, American Crystallographic Association Summer School, GA Center for Continuing Education, June 7-19, 2001.
    
    
77. Direct Crystallography and Sulfur Phasing. Crystallography Workshop, European Synchrotron Research Facility, Grenoble, France. June, 23, 2001.
    
    
78. Sulfur Phasing. Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova De Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, June 26, 2001.
    
    
79. Methodology and Technology Development for Structural Genomics at the South East Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. Georgia State University, October 5, 2001.
    
    
80. Methodology and Technology Development for Structural Genomics at the South East Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. Emory University, October 8, 2001.
    
    
81. Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. NIH, Bethesda, MD, October 21-23, 2001.
    
    
82. Crystal Structure Determination from Native Crystals. Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Cincinnati, OH, October 24-26, 2001.
    
    
83. Direct Crystallography and the Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. Keystone Symposium, Brekenridge, CO, January 7, 2002.
    
    
84. Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics: Methodology and Technology Development. University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, February 15, 2002.
    
    
85. Computational Methods to Extract Phase Information from Single Wavelength Data: Theory and Practice. ACA Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, May 26, 2002.
    
    
86. Direct Crystallography and the Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. Second Tsinghua International Conference of Protein Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June 4, 2002.
    
    
87. The Iterative Single-wavelength Anomalous Scattering method for Phasing Macromolecular Structures. The ISAS Workshop, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June 6, 2002.
    
    
88. Methodology and Technology Development for Structural Genomics At the Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 14, 2002.
    
    
89. Automation in Protein Crystallography Data Collection - An Overview. 2002 Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology, New London, Connecticut, July 15, 2002.
    
    
90. Direct Crystallography: Phasing from Native Crystals. 2002 Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology, New London, Connecticut, July 15, 2002.
    
    
91. Sulfur Phasing and Direct Crystallography. International Union of Crystallography Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, August 5, 2002.
    
    
92. Meeting the Challenges of High-throughput Structure Determination for Structural Genomics. Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 5, 2002.
    
    
93. Progress Towards Direct Macromolecular Crystallography. Workshop on Automated Structure Determination, International Structural Genomics Organization meeting, Berlin, Germany, October 8, 2002.
    
    
94. The Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. NIH Joint meeting of PSI Research Center PIs and the PSI Advisory Committee, NIGMS/NIH Bethesda, MD, November 14, 2002.
    
    
95. Meeting the Challenges of High-throughput Structure Determination for Structural Genomics. National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, November 15, 2002.
    
    
96. Direct Crystallography. 31th Annual Mid-Atlantic Protein Crystallography Meeting, Durham, North Carolina, May 23, 2003.
    
    
97. Structural Genomics and Direct Crystallography. Biotech Symposium 2003 In Honor of Dr. Ahmed Abdelal, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16, 2003.
    
    
98. Structural Genomics and Their Impact to Protein Crystallography. Bruker Biocrystallography Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, October 1, 2003.
    
    
99. Integration of Multiple Genomics and Multiple Technologies. Target Selection Workshop, NIH, November 13, 2003.
    
    
100. Progress in the Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics. NIH Joint meeting of PSI Research Center PIs and the PSI Advisory Committee, NIGMS/NIH Bethesda, MD, December 2, 2003.
     
     
101. SECSG Protein-to-Structure Pipeline: Potential and Limitations. Sandia National Laboratory, Sandia, CA, March 22, 2004.
     
     
102. SECSG Protein-to-Structure Pipeline : Potential and Limitations. ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, April 12, 2004.
     
     
103. Structural Genomics and Protein Crystallography at SECSG. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, April 16, 2004.
     
     
104. Integration of Technology for Structural Genomics. The 1st Pacific-Rim International Conference on Protein Science, Yokohama, Japan, April 18, 2004.
     
     
105. SECSG Protein-to-Structure Pipeline. Mayo Clinic, May 14, 2004.
     
     
106. Integration of Technology for Structural Genomics. Symposium on Biomedical Computing, Georgia State University, May 25, 2004.
     
     
107. Production of Better Quality Crystals. International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, Beijing, China, July 7, 2004.
     
     
108. Building SAS Phasing Tools for Unlabelled Native Crystals. Gordon Research Conference, Lewiston, MN, July 12, 2004.
     
     
109. SECSG Year 4 Progress Report. NIH Joint meeting of PSI Research Center PIs and the PSI Advisory Committee, NIGMS/NIH Bethesda, MD, October 28, 2004.
     
     
110. Light When You Need It: SER-CAT’s Synchrotron at the Advanced Photon Source. Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 30, 2004.
     
     
111. Technology Development at SECSG Applicable to High-Throughput Structural Genomics. 2004 International Conference on Structural Genomics, Washington DC, November 19, 2004.
     
     
112. High-Throughput, High-Quality, Cost-Effective Structure Determination Using Both In-House and Synchrotron X-rays, Protein Crystallography in Drug Discovery 2005, South San Francisco, Jan. 18, 2005.
     
     
113. From Adolescence to Maturity at SECSG: What, Why and Where We Stand in Technology Development. Protein Purification and Crystallization Workshop 2005, NIH, Feb. 2-3, 2005.
     
     
114. Structural Genomics and Neutron Diffraction: Potential, leveraging Investments and Timing. Application of Neutrons in Biomedical Research – A presentation to the Program Directors of NSF, NIH/NIBIB, NIH/NCI, NIH/NCRR, NIH/NIGMS, NIH/NICHD, NIST, DOE. Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, Maryland, Feb. 15, 2005.
     
     
115. Progress on Cost-Effective High-Quality Structure Determination, 2 nd Bilateral Japan-UK Symposium on Structural Genomics and Proteomics, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan, May 28-30, 2005.
     
     
116. Structural Genomics Tools Applicable to Structural Biology – Science at the Interface, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, June 20, 2005.
     
     
117. If You Build It “We” Will Come – Past Experiences and Predictions, Conference on New Frontier in Neutron Macromolecular Crystallography, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, July 12-13, 2005.
     
     
118. HT Structure Determination at SER-CAT: Five Structures in 23 Hours. IUCr2005, Florence, Italy, August 23-31, 2005.
     
     
119. Progress on Cost-Effective High-Quality Structure Determination, Structural Proteomics in Europe (SPINE) Congress 2005, Montecatini Terme, Italy, September 1-2, 2005.
     
     
120. Structural Genomics and Proteomics – An Introduction and Overview, 1 st UK-Southeast USA Symposium on Structural Genomics and Proteomics in Membrane and Metalloproteins, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, October 14, 2005.
     
     
121. Progress in Sulfur Phasing and Direct Crystallography, International Conference on High-throughput Phasing,, Peking University, Beijing, China, October 31, 2005.
     
     
122. Sulfur Phasing and Direct Crystallography, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, November 1, 2005.
     
     
123. Structural Genomics Efforts at the University of Georgia, Tainjin Medical University, Taijing, China, November 4, 2005.
     
     
124. Sulfur Phasing and Direct Crystallography, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo, New York, November 16, 2005.
     
     
125. Progress on Cost-Effective High-Quality Structure Determination, Memorial Symposium, Japan Pharmaceutical Consortium, Osaka, Japan, December 1, 2005.