Oral Presentations
Mark C. Williams. "Single molecule DNA-protein interactions: From retroviral restriction to nucleosome stability." Soft Condensed Matter and Physics of Living Systems Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, November 21, 2017. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. "Controlling enzyme and polymerase activity on single DNA molecules." Discussion Meeting: Collective Dynamics of, on, and around filaments in living cells: motors, maps, tips, and tricks. International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India. October 28 - November 2, 2017. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. "Biophysics of DNA-protein interactions" Physics Department Seminar, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 25, 2017. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. "Single molecule DNA-protein interactions: From retroviral restriction to nucleosome stability." Biochemistry Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, April 13, 2017. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Single molecule studies of HIV-1 replication interactions.” 10th International Retroviral Nucleocapsid and Assembly Symposium, Montpellier, France, September 18-21, 2016. Invited.Mark C. Williams. Mechanisms of nucleosome destabilization by architectural DNA binding proteins.” Venice meeting on Fluctuations in small complex systems III, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy, October 3-6, 2016. Invited.
Divakaran Murugesapillai, Maria F. Lodeiro, L. James Maher III, Craig E. Cameron, and Mark C. Williams."Sequence-specific DNA looping by mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM)" 60th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, February 27 - March 2 2016.
Micah J. McCauley, Ioulia Rouzina, Kelly A. Manthei, Caitlin J. Cain, Leah Furman, Catherine A. Dietrich, Sally Ruderman, Diana Seminario, Grace Ferris, Robert J. Gorelick, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Megan E. Núñez, Mark C. Williams. “Targeting the folding landscape of HIV-1 TAR RNA and DNA hairpin constructs” 10th International Retroviral NucleoCapsid and Assembly Symposium (IRNCAS) 2016 Meeting, Montpellier, France, September 19, 2016.
Mark C. Williams. "Single molecule DNA-protein interactions: From polymer elasticity to retroviral replication" Summer Science Seminar, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, June 4, 2015.
Mark C. Williams and M. Nabuan Naufer. "Oligomerization Transforms the Functions of the Viral Restriction Factor APOBEC3G and Retrotransposon Replication Protein L1 ORF1p" Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology Research Seminar, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, February 11, 2015.
M. Nabuan Naufer, Anthony V. Furano, and Mark C. Williams. "Oligomerization kinetics of ORF1p is correlated with LINE1 retrotransposition" Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, February 7-11, 2015.
Mark C. Williams. "Single DNA molecule interactions with the viral restriction factor APOBEC3G" Symposium in honor of Judith G. Levin on the occasion of her retirement, The Cloisters, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, November 19, 2014.
Mark C. Williams. "Single molecule DNA-protein interactions: From chromatin architectural proteins to viral restriction factors" Biological Sciences Department Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, NY, October 24, 2014. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. "Single molecule DNA-protein interactions: From chromatin architectural proteins to viral restriction factors" Structural and Computational Biology Program Seminar, Barcelona Biomed Seminars, Barcelona Science Park, Barcelona, Spain, June 18, 2014. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. "Oligomerization transforms the viral restriction factor APOBEC3G from a fast enzyme to a slow DNA binding protein" 1st Symposium on Current Topics in Molecular Biophysics, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 21-23, 2014. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. "Mechanochemistry of DNA binding: A view with optical tweezers" Research Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, December 1, 2013. Invited.
Mark C. Williams "Single molecule DNA biophysics" Public Lecture to ~400 high school and undergraduate students, DNA in Nanotechnology - Exploring the Molecules of Life. Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 28-29, 2013. Invited.
Mark C. Williams "Distinguishing microscopic and macroscopic mechanisms of DNA binding" DNA in Nanotechnology - Exploring the Molecules of Life. Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 28-29, 2013. Invited.
Mark C. Williams "'Force-induced DNA interactions: From polymer elasticity to protein dynamics" Fall 2013 Meeting of the New England Section of the American Physical Society. Bridgewater State University Bridgewater, MA, October 11-12, 2013. Invited.
Hao Wu, Mithun Mitra, Micah J. McCauley, Robert J. Gorelick, Ioulia Rouzina, Karin Musier-Forsyth and Mark C. Williams "Differential contribution of basic residues to HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein’s nucleic acid binding, aggregation, and chaperone function and retroviral replication" 9th International Retroviral Nucleocapsid Protein and Assembly Symposium, Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada, August 25-28, 2013. Invited.
Kathy R. Chaurasiya, Micah J. McCauley, Wei Wang, Dominic F. Qualley, Tiyun Wu, Shingo Kitamura, Hylkje Geertsema, Denise Chan, Amber Hertz, Yasumasa Iwatani, Judith G. Levin, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Ioulia Rouzina, and Mark C. Williams "Oligomerization transforms human APOBEC3G from a fast enzyme to a slow nucleic acid binding protein" 9th International Retroviral Nucleocapsid Protein and Assembly Symposium, Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada, August 25-28, 2013.
Mark C. Williams "Force-induced DNA interactions: From polymer elasticity to protein dynamics" Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium, Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 29, 2012. Invited.
Mark C. Williams "Quantifying DNA interactions with optical tweezers" Workshop on the Mechanobiology of Chromatin and Transcription, National University of Singapore, Singapore, November 7-10, 2012. Invited.
Mark C. Williams "Distinguishing microscopic and macroscopic mechanisms of DNA binding" Venice Meeting on Fluctuations in Small Complex Systems, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy, October 22-24, 2012. Invited.
Mark C. Williams "Retroviral NC interactions with single DNA or RNA molecules" 8th International Retroviral NC Symposium, Caixa Forum and Catalonia Plaza Hotel, Barcelona, Spain, September 18-21, 2011. Invited.
Kathy Chaurasiya, Hylkje Geertsema, Dominic F. Qualley, Tiyun Wu, Yasumasa Iwatani, Denise Chan, Amber Hertz, Judith G. Levin, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Ioulia Rouzina, and Mark C. Williams. Single molecule DNA interactions of APOBEC3G. 8th International Retroviral NC Symposium, Caixa Forum and Catalonia Plaza Hotel, Barcelona, Spain, September 18-21, 2011.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From small molecules to proteins” Soft Matter Physics Approaches to Biology, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, May 23-27, 2011. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Mechanochemistry of DNA binding: From small molecules to proteins” Biophysics of DNA-protein interactions, The 13th Annual Bollum Symposium, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics,University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May 13, 2011. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Mechanochemistry of DNA binding: A view with optical tweezers” Research Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, April 28, 2011. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From phase transitions to viral replication” Research Seminar, Departments of Biology and Physics, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, October 8, 2010. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From small molecules to viral replication” MRSEC Seminar, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, June 10, 2010. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Single molecule DNA interaction kinetics of retroviral nucleic acid chaperone proteins: From single molecules to viral replication” in the session "Single Chain Experiments: From Polymers to Biophysics", March Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 15-20, 2010. Invited.
Fei Wang, Hao Wu, Jialin Li, Micah J. McCauley, Chris Jones, SA Datta, Alan Rein, Robert J. Gorelick, Ioulia Rouzina, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Mark C. Williams “Nucleic Acid Interaction Kinetics Modulate the Chaperone Activity of Retroviral Nucleocapsid and Gag Proteins” Materials Research Society fall meeting, November 30 - Dec. 4, 2009. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From phase transitions to viral replication” Physics Department Colloquium, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, MA, Oct. 14, 2009. Invited.
Fei Wang, Hao Wu, Jialin Li, Micah J. McCauley, Chris Jones, SA Datta, Alan Rein, Robert J. Gorelick, Ioulia Rouzina, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Mark C. Williams “Nucleic Acid Interaction Kinetics Modulate the Chaperone Activity of Retroviral Nucleocapsid and Gag Proteins” 7th International Retroviral NC Symposium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Sept. 14-16, 2009.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From small molecules to viral replication” Physics Goes DNA: From base-pairs to chromatin, Lorentz Center, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, Sept. 7-11, 2009. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Nucleic Acid Interaction Kinetics Modulate the Chaperone Activity of Retroviral Nucleocapsid Proteins” Albany 2009: The 16th Conversation, University at Albany, Albany, NY, June 16-20, 2009. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Modulation of T4 gene 32 protein DNA binding activity on single DNA molecules by the recombination mediator protein UvsY” American Society for Microbiology,
109th General Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA,
May 17-21, 2009. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From small molecule binding to retroviral replication” Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology Seminar, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, May 14, 2009. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Single molecule DNA interactions of nucleic acid chaperone proteins from retroviruses and retrotransposons” Retrovirus Research Program Seminar, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH , Apr. 30, 2009. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From phase transitions to viral replication” Biophysics Seminar, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Apr. 29, 2009. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From phase transitions to viral replication” Departmental Colloquium, Department of Physics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 10, 2008. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Interaction of bacteriophage T4 and T7 single-stranded DNA binding proteins with DNA” Research Seminar, Department of Physics, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 27, 2008. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From small molecule binding to HIV replication” Biophysics Seminar, Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, Apr. 18, 2008. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Biophysics of single molecule DNA interactions” Biophysics Discussion, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Apr. 10, 2008. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From small molecule binding to HIV replication” Departmental Colloquium, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, Feb. 22, 2008. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From small molecule binding to HIV replication” Departmental Colloquium, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, Feb. 12, 2008. Invited.
Mark C. Williams, Leila Shokri, Boriana Marintcheva, Andreas Hanke, Charles C. Richardson, and Ioulia Rouzina “Kinetics and thermodynamics of salt‐dependent T7 gene 2.5 protein binding to ssDNA and dsDNA: Multiple proteins sliding on DNA” Platform Presentation, Biophysical Society 2008 Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 3, 2008. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Force-induced DNA interactions: From small molecule binding to HIV replication” Departmental Seminar, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Dec. 12, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Thermodynamics of force-induced single molecule DNA interactions” Research Seminar, Fall 2007 Seminar Series on Novel Physical Methods and New Insights into Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, Nov. 28, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Thermodynamics of force-induced single molecule DNA interactions” Research Seminar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Sept. 28, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Thermodynamics of force-induced single molecule DNA interactions” Nano-Science Seminar, Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 27, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Thermodynamics of force-induced single molecule DNA interactions” MPS Biophysics-Biochemistry Symposium - DNA and Viruses: Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Meet, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Sept. 26, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Thermodynamics and kinetics of force-induced DNA melting and intercalation” Research Seminar, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, Sept. 24, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams, Margareta Cruceanu, Fei Wang, Robert J. Gorelick, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Ioulia Rouzina. “Nucleic acid chaperone activity investigated through force-induced DNA melting” Sixth International Retroviral NC Symposium, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sept. 20-21, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Thermodynamics of force-induced single molecule DNA interactions” Physics Department Colloquium, Vreije Universiteit Amsterdam, Sept. 19, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA interactions: 1. DNA melting and small molecule interactions” Biocomplex Taiwan: Taiwan International Workshop on Biological Physics and Complex Systems, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 6-11, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA interactions: 2. DNA helix-destabilization by single-stranded DNA binding proteins” Biocomplex Taiwan: Taiwan International Workshop on Biological Physics and Complex Systems, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 6-11, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA interactions: 3. Nucleic acid chaperone activity of retroviral nucleocapsid proteins” Biocomplex Taiwan: Taiwan International Workshop on Biological Physics and Complex Systems, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 6-11, 2007. Invited.
Mark C. Williams “Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA interactions” Research Seminar, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana Farber / Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, May 17, 2007. Invited.
Leila Shokri, Boriana Marintcheva, Charles C. Richardson, Ioulia Rouzina, and Mark C. Williams. “Single Molecule Studies of Salt Dependent Binding of Bacteriophage T7 Gene 2.5 Protein to Single-stranded DNA and Double-stranded DNA” 2007 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 3-7, 2007.
Micah J. McCauley, Jeff Zimmerman , L. James Maher III , Mark C. Williams. “HMGB binding to DNA: comparisons between single and double box motifs” 2007 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Denver, CO, March 5-9, 2007.
Thayaparan Paramanathan, Micah J. McCauley, Fredrik Westerlund, Ioulia Rouzina, Mark C. Williams. “Exploring Threaded Intercalation Using Optical Tweezers” 2007 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Denver, CO, March 5-9, 2007.
Mark C. Williams. “Thermodynamics of force-induced DNA-ligand interactions” Physics Department Colloquium, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Oct. 5, 2006. Invited.
Leila Shokri, Boriana Marintcheva, Charles C. Richardson, Ioulia Rouzina, and Mark C. Williams. “Salt Dependent Binding of T7 Gene 2.5 Protein to DNA from Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy” 6th International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, MA, June 25-30, 2006.
Mark C. Williams. “Quantifying force-induced DNA-ligand interactions”, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Research Retreat: “Chemistry at the Interface of Science and Engineering”, Northeastern University Henderson House, Weston, MA, May 26, 2006. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Thermodynamics of force-induced DNA-ligand interactions”, MEMPHYS Biophysics Seminar, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, May 12, 2006. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Thermodynamics of force-induced DNA-ligand interactions”,SoftBio 2006, a Conference on Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 8-11, 2006. Invited.
Ioana Vladescu, Micah McCauley, Megan Nunez, Ioulia Rouzina, and Mark C. Williams. “Mapping the phase diagram of DNA force-induced melting in the presence of DNA intercalators” 2006 APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13-17, 2006
Leila Shokri, Boriana Marintcheva, Charles C. Richardson, and Mark C. Williams. “Binding Study of T7 Gene 2.5 Protein to Single- and Double--Stranded DNA from Single Molecule Stretching” 2006 APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13-17, 2006
Ioulia Rouzina, My-Nuong Vo, Kristen Stewart, Karin Musier-Forsyth, Margareta Cruceanu, Mark C. Williams. “Mechanism of Nucleic Acid Chaperone Function of Retroviral Nucleocapsid (NC) Proteins” 2006 APS March Meeting, March 13-17, 2006.
Mark C. Williams. “Quantifying single-stranded DNA binding protein interactions by DNA stretching” Biophysics Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Feb. 10, 2006. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Quantifying single-stranded DNA binding protein interactions by DNA stretching” Single Molecule Discussion Club Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 30, 2005. Invited.
M Cruceanu, CV Hixson, DG Johnson, SA Datta, RJ Gorelick, A Rein, I Rouzina, and MC Williams, “Single DNA molecule stretching studies of the nucleic acid binding and chaperone properties of HIV-1 Gag and nucleocapsid proteins” 5th International Retroviral NC Symposium, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 18-20, 2005.
K Musier-Forsyth, MN Vo, I Rouzina, K Stewart, M Mitra, M Cruceanu, G Barany, R Gorelick and MC Williams, “Mechanism of NC’s chaperone activity in reverse transcription” 5th International Retroviral NC Symposium, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 18-20, 2005.
Mark C. Williams. “Mechanism for DNA binding by T4 gene 32 protein from single molecule stretching” Biology Department Colloquium, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Sept. 12, 2005. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Thermodynamics and kinetics of single molecule DNA-protein interactions” Research Seminar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug. 29, 2005. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “1. Thermodynamics and kinetics of single molecule DNA-ligand interactions”, “2. Mechanism for T4 gene 32 protein binding to DNA from single molecule stretching experiments” Physics of Life: From Single Molecules to Networks, a workshop in biological physics, Krogerup Højskole, Denmark, August 21-27, 2005. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA-protein interactions” Research Seminar, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania, Aug. 17, 2005. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Thermodynamics and kinetics of single molecule DNA-ligand interactions” National Institutes of Health Lecture, sponsored by NICHD and LPSB, Bethesda, MD, July 13, 2005. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Mechanical measurements of the thermodynamics and kinetics of single molecule DNA-ligand interactions” Physical Chemistry Seminar, Boston College, Boston, MA, April 15, 2005. Invited.
Ioana D. Vladescu, Micah J. McCauley, Ioulia Rouzina, and Mark C.Williams. “DNA Intercalation by Ethidium Bromide: A Quantitative Binding Study using DNA Stretching and Force-Induced Melting” American Physical Society March Meeting 2005, Los Angeles, CA, March 21-25, 2005.
Mark C. Williams. “Using optical tweezers to force single DNA molecules to interact with proteins” Bioengineering Department Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, March 22, 2005. Invited.
Miriam Diamond, Terry Beadle, and Mark C. Williams. “Engaging Students Through Interactive Classroom Response Systems” Beyond Books and Whiteboards, A conference organized by the Northeastern University Center for Innovative Course Design, Boston, MA, March 17, 2005.
Kiran Pant, Ioulia Rouzina, Richard L. Karpel, and Mark C. Williams “Salt dependent binding of T4 gene 32 protein to single- and double-stranded DNA: Implications for kinetics and thermodynamics of DNA duplex destabilization” Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, Feb. 12-16, 2005.
Mark C. Williams. “Using optical tweezers to force single DNA molecules to interact with proteins” Joint Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Department Seminar, College of St. Olaf, Northfield, MN, October 28, 2004. Invited.
Micah J. McCauley and Mark C. Williams. “Single Molecule RNA Unzipping” 2004 Retroviral NC Mini-Symposium, Minneapolis, MN. October 8, 2004. Invited.
Margareta Cruceanu*, Robert J. Gorelick, Ioulia Rouzina, and Mark C. Williams. “Single DNA molecule stretching studies of retroviral NC proteins.” 2004 Retroviral NC Mini-Symposium, Minneapolis, MN. October 8, 2004. Invited.
Mark C. Williams, “Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA-protein interactions” Physics Department Colloquium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. September 2, 2004. Invited.
Mark C. Williams, “Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA-protein interactions: Kinetics and thermodynamics of DNA helix-destabilization by T4 gene 32 protein” Research Group Seminar, Charles Richardson and Tom Ellenberger, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. June 24, 2004. Invited.
Mark C. Williams, “Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA-protein interactions” Physics Department Colloquium, University of Maine, Orono, ME. April 30, 2004. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Mechanical measurements of single molecule DNA-protein interactions” Keynote Speaker, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 3-Laboratory Retreat: Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics. (A Laboratory at NIH is equivalent to a department at a research university.) Harpers Ferry, WV. April 22-23, 2004. Invited.
Micah McCauley, Philip R, Hardwidge, L. James Maher III, and Mark C. Williams. “HMGB1 proteins strongly alter the flexibility of single DNA molecules” March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.
Ioulia Rouzina, Richard L. Karpel, Kiran Pant, and Mark C. Williams. “Kinetics of DNA Helix-Destabilization by T4 Gene 32 Protein Studied by Single DNA Molecule Stretching” March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.
Margareta Cruceanu*, Maria Urbaneja, Dan Branciforte, Robert J. Gorelick, Jose R. Casas-Finet, Sandra L. Martin, and Mark C. Williams “Single molecule DNA stretching studies of nucleic acid chaperone proteins with and without zinc fingers” Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, February 14-18, 2004.
Mark C. Williams. “Mechanical Measurements of Single Molecule DNA-Protein Interactions” Mathematical aspects of material science: Discrete and continuum descriptions of matter, Castle Ringberg, Rottach-Egern, Germany, Feb. 1-7, 2004. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Single Molecule DNA-Protein Interactions” Biochemistry Department Seminar, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, Nov. 14, 2003. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Mechanical Measurements of Single Molecule DNA-Protein Interactions” Physics Department Colloquium, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Oct. 29, 2003. Invited.
Margareta Cruceanu, Dan Branciforte, Robert J. Gorelick, Jose R. Casas-Finet, Sandra L. Martin, and Mark C. Williams. “Single molecule DNA stretching studies of nucleic acid chaperone proteins with and without zinc fingers” Fourth International Retroviral NC Symposium, Faculté de Pharmacie, Strasbourg, France, September 14-17, 2003.
Mark C. Williams. “Mechanical measurements of single DNA molecule denaturation by proteins” Hairy Interfaces and Stringy Molecules – Summer School and Workshop on Colloids and Biophysics, Odense, Denmark, August 13-17, 2003. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Single molecule force spectroscopy studies of DNA denaturation by T4 gene 32 protein” Second International Conference on Biomedical Spectroscopy, King’s College, London, United Kingdom, July 5-8, 2003. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Mechanical Measurement of Single Molecule Binding Rates: Kinetics of DNA Helix-Destabilization by T4 Gene 32 Protein” 2003 Nucleic Acids Gordon Conference, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, June 1-6, 2003. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Mechanical Measurements of Single Molecule DNA-protein interactions” Microfluidics Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Boston, MA, Apr. 8, 2003. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “Force Spectroscopy of Single Molecule DNA-Protein Interactions” 14th Quarterly New England Complex Fluids Workshop, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA, Mar. 21, 2003. Invited.
Kiran Pant*, Ioulia Rouzina, Richard L. Karpel, and Mark C. Williams. “Kinetics of Single DNA Molecule Denaturation by T4 Gene 32 Protein” APS March Meeting, Austin, TX, Mar. 3-7, 2003.Margareta Cruceanu*, Robert J. Gorelick, and Mark C. Williams. “Interaction of HIV-1 Gag protein components with single DNA molecules” APS March Meeting, Austin, TX, Mar. 3-7, 2003.
Kiran Pant, Ioulia Rouzina, Richard L. Karpel, and Mark C. Williams. “Kinetic Regulation of Single DNA Molecule Denaturation by T4 Gene 32 Protein Structural Domains” 47th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. San Antonio, TX, Mar. 1-5, 2003.
Mark C. Williams. “Single Molecule Studies of DNA-Protein Interactions” Physics Department Colloquium, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, Nov. 13, 2002. Invited.
Mark C. Williams. “DNA Binding Protein Kinetics and Thermodynamics from Single Molecule Stretching Measurements” Invited. Departmental Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 5, 2002.
Mark C. Williams. “Single Molecule DNA-Protein Interactions” Invited. Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Oct. 2, 2002.
Mark C. Williams. Invited panelist for “How to Work in the Physics/Biology Interface and Survive” at the American Physical Society’s “Topical Conference on Opportunities in Biology for Physicists.” September 27-29, 2002, Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. This conference was featured in an article entitled “Bio Envy,” which ran in the Boston Globe on Aug. 13, 2002.
Mark C. Williams. “DNA Binding Protein Kinetics and Thermodynamics from Single Molecule Stretching Measurements” Invited. Chemical Biology, A Single Molecule Perspective: Molecular Biophysics, Biotechnology, and Chemistry-Biology Interface Joint Training Grant Symposium, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, May 30, 2002.
Mark C. Williams. “DNA Binding Protein Kinetics and Thermodynamics from Single Molecule Stretching Measurements” Invited. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Colloquium, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, May 23, 2002.
Mark C. Williams, Robert J. Gorelick, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Victor A. Bloomfield. “Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of HIV-1 NC Proteins Investigated by Single Molecule DNA Stretching” APS March Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 18 - 22, 2002.
Mark C. Williams, Robert J. Gorelick, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Victor A. Bloomfield. “Role of Zinc Finger Structures in the Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity of HIV-1 NC Proteins Investigated by Single Molecule DNA Stretching” 46th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. San Francisco, CA, Feb. 23-27, 2002.
Mark C. Williams. “HIV NC Protein Nucleic Acid Chaperone Activity Studied by Single Molecule DNA Stretching” Invited. National Institutes of Health Lecture, sponsored by NICHD and LPSB, Bethesda, MD, December 12, 2001.
Mark C. Williams. “HIV Nucleocapsid Protein and the Helix-Coil Transition of Single DNA Molecules” Invited. Brandeis University, Chemistry Department Physical Chemistry Seminar. Waltham, MA, December 4, 2001.
Mark C. Williams. “How HIV nucleocapsid protein aids the folding of nucleic acids” Invited. Northeastern University Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems (CIRCS). Boston, MA, October 16, 2001.
Mark C. Williams. “Nucleocapsid Protein and the Helix-Coil Transition of Single DNA Molecules” Invited. Boston University, Physics Department Biophysics Seminar. Boston, MA, October 15, 2001.
Mark C. Williams. “Nucleic acid chaperone activity of HIV-1 NC proteins investigated by single molecule DNA stretching” 3rd International Retroviral NC Symposium. Annapolis, MD, Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2001.
Mark C. Williams. “HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein Alters the Helix-Coil Transition of Single DNA Molecules” Invited. Adriatico Research Conference on Interaction and Assembly of Biomolecules. Trieste, Italy, Aug. 27-31, 2001.
*Graduate Student Presenter