Talks & presentations

Here are some of the talks and presentations we have given. Only the most recent ones are listed.

	Mikko: Is giving an invited talk at PacifiChem 2025 - “Crossing the Biological Membrane: Frontiers in the Computational Study of Membrane Transport” , Honolulu (HI), USA, Dec 15-20, 2025.
	Mikko: Is giving an invited talk at the 7th Conference on Frontiers in Water Biophysics (FWB), XXVII Course of the International School of Statistical Physics, Erice, ITA, July 2-7, 2025.
	Mikko: Is giving a keynote talk in the symposium “New Advances in Molecular Biophysics from Experiments and Computations” in the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2025), Ottawa, CAN, June 15–19, 2025.
	Mikko: Is giving an invited talk at Bio-photonics international workshop, Nice, April 2-4, 2025.
	Mikko: Is giving an invited talk at Journal of Biological Physics Seminar Series, Dec. 12, 2024.
	Mikko: An invited talk at the Foster Colloquium series at SUNY Buffalo, USA, Nov 8, 2024. AI-based determination of structural properties at the molecular level
	Mikko: Is giving an invited talk at CECAM/CCPBioSim workshop Modelling the Biomolecular Mesoscale, Trento, Aug 26-29, 2024. Coarse-graining using machine learning approaches for structure and dynamics
	Suvi: Is presenting at the Annual Meeting and Expo of the Controlled Release Society, Bologna, Italy, July 8-12, 2024. Investigating the stereochemistry-related propensity for interdigitation in synthetic monomycoloyl analogues with molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning
	Mikko: An invited talk at the School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, Aug 20, 2024. Different machine learning approaches for structural and dynamic properties (of soft matter)
	Suvi: Is presenting at the European Joint Theory/Experiment Meeting on Membranes (EJTEMM), June 12-14, 2024, Debrecen, Hungary. The influence of cholesterol on lipid conformations in mixed saturated lipid membranes
	Mikko: Is giving an invited talk at Deciphering complex energy landscapes and kinetic networks from single molecules to cells, Dijon, June 8-14, 2024. Machine learning approaches for identifying dynamics and structure
	Artyom is giving an invited talk at the 2024 Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, Western University, London (ON), May 27-31, 2024. Evaluation of glass transition temperatures based on machine learning of computer simulations: Polymers as the pilot cas
	Michael, Farshad, Yasamin and Steven: Are presenting at the 2024 Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, Western University, London (ON), May 27-31, 2024. Michael: A Computational Study on the Structural Dependence of Cell Penetrating Peptide Pathways Farshad: Towards a Unifying Model for Droplet Spreading Using an Exponential Law: A Molecular Dynamics Study Yasamin: The effect of area distribution of benign tissues on metastasis Steven: SymPhas: A general purpose C++ software for phase-field simulations
	Michael is presenting at the 9th annual meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada (BSC), Université de Montréal, Montréal (QC), May 21-24, 2024. Initial Stage Interaction of Penetratin With Various Bilayer Compositions
	Suvi: Is presenting at CSC Spring School on Computational Chemistry, April 17-19, 2024, Espoo, Finland. Stereochemistry-specific tendency for interdigitation in synthetic monomycoloyl glycerol analogs
	Mikko: An invited talk at the Tomasz Róg Memorial Symposium, Helsinki, Nov. 23-24, 2023.
	Mikko: An invited talk at Dept. of Physics, Oakland University, USA, November 9, 2023. Cell division, physics and mechanobiology: From Robert Hooke to radiation therapy
	Mikko: An invited talk at the Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS), Warsaw, Poland, September 18-21, 2023 Molecular modeling of eumelanin aggregation and drug binding
	Mikko: An invited talk at META 2023 - 13th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Paris, 18-21 July, 2023. Electromagnetic responses of composite and semiconductor nanoparticles
	Mikko: A presentation at the CECAM Workshop Challenges in the Physics of Active and Biological Matter, Espoo, 16-18 August, 2023. Modelling dynamics of cellular systems using CellSim3D Workshop photo gallery and participant experiences
	Mikko: An invited talk at the CECAM workshop Mainz Materials Simulation Days 2023 - Current and upcoming challenges posed by biology in soft matter, Mainz, Germany, June 5-7, 2023. “Ripple me this: Machine learning to identify the structure of the lipid bilayer ripple phase”
	Michael: A presentation at the 8th Annual meeting of the Biophysical Society of Canada, University of Calgary, Alberta, May 23-26, 2023. Insights into the Interactions of Penetratin and Lipid Bilayers
	Terttu: A talk at Finnish Computational Chemistry Days, Oulu, May 11-12, 2023. Molecular dynamics simulations of water in poly(L-lactic acid) matrix
	Matt: A talk at the Carbon to Metal Coating Institute Annual Meeting, Kingston, Ontario, May 9-10, 2023.
	Mikko: An invited talk at Biocenter Oulu, Dec. 14, 2022 Materials for health care: Can we use computer simulations to design them from first principles?
	Mikko: An invited talk at Aalto University Chemistry, Dec. 7, 2022 How well can computer simulations be used for predicting and designing soft materials’ properties?
	Mikko: An invited talk at University of Helsinki Physics, Nov 30, 2022 Cell division, physics and mechanobiology: From Robert Hooke to radiation therapy
	Carter: A talk at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany, November 17, 2022. Accurately computing protein pKa values using non-equilibrium alchemy
	David: A talk in the V Congreso Internacional Adventista de Tecnología: Convergencia Tecnológica 2022 at the Universidad de Montemorelos, November 15, 2022, Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico De la enfermedad de Alzheimer a la identificación de poblaciones de lípidos: Entendiendo la naturaleza de la fase ondulada, A. David Reyes-Figueroa, Matthew Davies, Daniel Frankel, Mikko Karttunen
	David: A talk in BioPhys Mex 2022, November 10-11, 2022, Casa del Tiempo (UAM), Mexico City From Alzheimer’s disease to the identification of new conformational populations of lipids: Understanding the nature of the ripple phase through molecular dynamics simulations and unsupervised machine learning, A. David Reyes-Figueroa, Matthew Davies, Daniel Frankel, Mikko Karttunen
	Mikko: A plenary talk in the International Conference on Polymers and Advanced Materials “Polymat 2022“, October 16-21, 2022, Huatulco, Mexico How well can computer simulations be used for predicting and designing soft materials’ properties?
	Elham: A talk at the Centro de Investigacion en Mathematicas (CIMAT), Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, August 26, 2022. Image classification in machine learning
	Elham: A talk at the 1st Annual Symposium of the Research Group in Basic Sciences of the Department of Sciences and Engineering of the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, San Andres Cholula, Puebla, November 11, 2021. Learning partial differential equations from data using Machine Learning