Homepage of Michael Tolstorukov

·        “Analysis of the primary structure of chromatin with next generation sequencing,” The Rutgers Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, March 2010 (seminar)

·        “Comparative analysis of nucleosome sequence organization in human and yeast genomes,” Nucleosome positioning workshop at 16th Conversation on Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, NY, June 2009 (platform presentation)

·          “Role of base-pair sliding in superhelical folding of nucleosomal DNA: Implications for sequence-directed nucleosome positioning,” Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, July 2006; Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NCI, NIH, January 2006 (seminar)

·         “Formation of superhelical trajectory of DNA in nucleosomes,” Kiev Branch of Ukrainian Biophysical Society, Kiev, Ukraine, December 2005 (seminar)

·         “A-tract clustering, DNA looping and bacterial genome packaging,” 14^th Conversations on Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, NY, June 2005 (invited presentation)

·         “Nonrandom distribution of A-tracts assists DNA packaging in bacterial nucleoid,” Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NIH, February 2004 (seminar)

·         “Periodic distribution of A-tracts may facilitate bacterial genome packaging,” Gordon Research Conference: Nucleic acids, Salve Regina Univ. RI, June 2003 (poster presentation)

·         “DNA deformability in nucleoprotein complexes: Local B-to-A transition facilitates protein-DNA recognition in the minor groove,” “Chocolate talk,” NICHD, NIH, May 2002 (seminar)

·         Poster presentations at Biophysical Society Meetings, Boston, MA, 2001; San Francisco, CA, February 2002

·         Poster presentations at the 12^th and 13^th Conversations on Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, NY, June 2001 and June 2003

·         “Non-sequence dependent interactions in DNA minor groove,” Kharkov Branch of Ukrainian Biophysical Society, Kharkov, Ukraine, November 2001 (seminar)

·         “Protein-DNA interactions in the minor groove,” Laboratory of Prof. Wilma Olson, Department of Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, May 2000 (seminar)

·         “Influence of hydration on DNA conformational dynamics,” Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine, December 1998 (seminar)

·         “Mathematical model of the conformational transitions and nonlinear dynamics of the nucleic acid – water system,” 2nd Int. Symp.: Algorithms for Macromolecular Modelling, Berlin, Germany, May 1997 (oral presentation)