SPRING RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2008, NCI-Frederick Campus, Frederick, MD. (May 14-15, 2008)
Posters:
1)(Poster Award)
Kasprzak, W., Bindewald, E., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Characterization of Building Blocks for RNA-based Nanostructure Design"
2) Bindewald, E., Boyle, B., O'Connor, M., Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A.: "A Computational Pipeline for the Automated Design of RNA Nanostructures."
3) (Poster Award)
O'Connor, M., Bindewald, E., Kasprzak, W., Maher, J., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Computer-Aided Design of an RNA Nanostructure Bridging two NF-kappaB(p50) Aptamers"
NANOBIOLOGY THINK TANK 2008, NCI-Frederick Campus, Frederick, MD. (May 13, 2008)
Posters: (see posters 1) and 2) above)
BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY MEETING 2008, Long Beach, CA. (Feb., 2008)
Posters:
1) Kasprzak, W., Bindewald, E., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Characterization of Structural Elements for RNA Nano Design"
2) Bindewald, E., O'Connor, M., Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Systematic Design of RNA Nanostructures."
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, IMA WORKSHOP:
RNA in Biology, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology,
Minneapolis, MN. (Oct., 2007)
Posters:
1) Kasprzak, W., Linnstaedt, S. D., Casey, J.L., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Determining Functional Conformations of Two HDV III Strains"
2) Bindewald, E., Kasprzak, W., O’Connor, M., Boyle, B., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Utilizing the RNAJunction Database for the design of RNA Nanostructures"
NIH RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2007, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD. (September 2007)
Poster:
Kasprzak, W., Linnstaedt, S. D., Casey, J.L., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Comparison of the Secondary Structure Folding Dynamics of Two HDV III Strains."
SPRING RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2007, NCI-Frederick Campus, Frederick, MD. (May, 2007)
Poster (Poster Award):
Kasprzak, W., Linstaedt, S.D., Casey, J.L., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Determination of Hepatitis Delta Virus Type III Functional Conformations."
NANOBIOLOGY THINK TANK 2007, NCI-Frederick Campus, Frederick, MD. (May, 2007)
Poster:
Yingling, Y.G., Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Formation of Nanoparticle Building Blocks."
BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY MEETING, Baltimore, MD. (March, 2007)
Poster:
Kasprzak, W., Linnstaedt, S. D., Casey, J.L., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Computational Modeling of the HDV III Secondary Structure Folding Dynamics."
NIH RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2005, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD.
Presented a poster:
Kasprzak, W., Bindewald, E., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Folding Pathways of Multiple Strains of the HIV-1 Leader Region explored with the
Massively Parallel Genetic Algorithm MPGAfold."
SPRING RESEARCH FESTIVAL 2005, NCI-Frederick Campus, Frederick, MD.
Poster (Poster Award):
Kasprzak, W., Bindewald, E., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Computational Exploration of the Structural Polymorphism of the HIV-1 Leader Region."
SAIC's Basic Research Program (BRP) RETREAT 2004, Annapolis, MD.,
(September 7-8, 2004)
Poster:
Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Comparison of the Folding Pathways
of Multiple Strains of the HIV-1 Leader Region predicted by the
Massively Parallel Genetic Algorithm and Visual Data Mining Tools."
INTERFACE 2004 Conference - Baltimore, MD. (May 26-29, 2004)
Contributed to the presentation by Dr. Bruce A. Shapiro.
SAIC's Basic Research Program (BRP) RETREAT 2003, St. Michaels, MD.
(May 11-13, 2003)
Poster (First Place Poster Prize):
Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Alternate Conformations of the HIV-1 Dimer Initiation Site Explored by the
Massively Parallel Genetic Algorithm and the StructureLab Computer Workbench."
Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Computational Biology Faculty meeting,
Gaithersburg, MD. (Nov. 6, 2002)
Presented a poster:
Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A. in collaboration with Atha, D.H., and
O'Connell, C.D.: "Computer Prediction of Single-Stranded DNA Secondary Structures
Constrained by Capillary Electrophoresis Results."
Contributed to the second poster:
Shapiro, B.A., Kasprzak, W., and Li, W.: "Macro and Micro Structural Analysis
of Nucleic Acids."
International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and
Biological Sciences - METMBS '02, Las Vegas, NV., June 2002.
Co-authored, with Dr. B. Shapiro, a paper on HIV-1 Dimer Initiation Site structures
(see publications for a full reference).
KDD-2001: Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining; San Francisco, CA., August 26-29, 2001.
The Sixth Johns Hopkins Folding Meeting, Berkeley Springs, W.V., March 17-20, 2001
Novel Approaches in RNA Informatics (NARI 2000), Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
(May 18-19, 2000)
Poster:
Kasprzak, W., and Shapiro, B.A.: "Stem Trace: A GUI-based Tool for an Exploratory RNA Structure Analysis."
Prepared a demo CD of the STRUCTURELAB, featuring various uses of the Stem Trace
tool, installed and demonstrated the system at the conference on an available
SGI workstation.
SPRING RESEARCH FESTIVAL '99
Contributed to a poster presentation.
RNA '98 - The Third Annual Meeting of the RNA Society. Madison, WI., May 1998.
Participated in Dr. Bruce Shapiro's presentation by giving a live demo
of StructureLab tools available at the time.
BIOINFORMATICS '97 - San Diego, California., Sept. 1997.
Presented poster featuring work done with Dr. Bruce Shapiro: "Stem Trace: An Interactive Visual Tool for Comparative RNA Structure Analysis"
SPRING RESEARCH FESTIVAL '97
Contributed to a poster presentation.
TOOLS USA '96 (Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems), Santa Barbara, CA.
Tutorials:
[ OO Technology for Scientific Computing ]
[ OO Distributed Computing ]
[ Testing OO Software (The Firesmith Method) ]
Lisp Users and Vendors Conference (LUV) '95 Boston, MA.
Presented a paper on the RNA Analysis software under development (StructureLab)
(see publications for a full reference).
Tutorials:
[ Emacs Lisp (emacs editor & Lisp interface) ]
[ Lisp Optimization ]
[ CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager - OO GUI)]
Lisp Users and Vendors Conference (LUV) '94 Berkeley, CA.
Tutorials:
[ Advanced CLOS (Common Lisp Object System - OO lisp)]
[ Performing Lisp (code optimization) ]
[ DB: Relational DB interface, OODB ]
Lisp Users and Vendors Conference (LUV) '93 Boston, MA.
Tutorials:
[ CLOS I & CLOS II (Common Lisp Object System - OO lisp) ]
[ CLIM I (Common Lisp Interface Manager - OO GUI) ]
[ Code optimization ]
Lisp Users and Vendors Conference (LUV) '91 Gaithersburg, MD.