Seminar of Physics of the Living State
(The Applied Physics Scientific Section)
2011 Academic Year
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Time: 15.30
Oppenheimer Meeting Room, Terrace Level, Leonardo Building
Systems Biology:
Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations (*)
Armen H. Poghosyan (**)
Bioinformatics Group
The International Scientific - Educational Center of N.A.S.,
Armenia
(*) Summary.
During the last decade, with the increase of computational power, the
atomic scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations show excellent results
in modeling various phenomena. The complex surfactant systems, which
can serve as simple models of biological membranes, have a wide range
of applications in almost all fields from drug delivery to oil
industry. By means of the MD method the investigation of
surfactant/polymer complexes have been carried out. The MD simulation
of self-organization phenomena of surfactant systems have been also
completed.
(**) Biodata. Dr. Armen Poghosyan
did his PhD in Physics at the Yerevan State University in 2000 and has
been working in the field of Systems Biology. He has taught courses at
undergraduate and post graduate level related to bioinformatics at the
International Scientific and Educational Center (ISEC) and Yerevan
State University. Currently, Dr. Poghosyan is the Bioinformatics Group
Leader at ISEC as well as Junior Associate of the ICTP since 2005. Dr.
Poghosyan has published numerous scientific papers and conference
proceedings.
He won an INTAS Young
Scientist award and as a fellow he has visited Henry Poincare
University (Nancy, France -2004) and Halle-Wittenberg University
(Germany in the year 2005). Subsequently, he won the President Prize of
Republic of Armenia in the field of Natural Science (Best research on
Natural Science for the year 2007). His research interests are
computational biophysics and molecular dynamics simulation of complex
systems.
