These invited talks and poster presentations were given at various national and international conferences as well to other labs. The list does not include any given at my home institution.

    - 2013 -

  1. (Poster) Assembly and architecture of Gram-positive and -negative cell walls. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2013. Philadelphia, PA.
  2. (Poster) Reconciling the roles of kinetic and thermodynamic factors in membrane-protein insertion. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2013. Philadelphia, PA.

    3. - 2012 -

  3. (Talk) Stalling of the ribosome by SecM. Mankin Lab group meeting, UIC, 2012. Chicago, IL.
  4. (Talk) Bringing physics to life or: How I learned to stop worrying and love biology. Graduate student seminar series, Georgia Tech, 2012. Atlanta, GA.
  5. (Talk) Engineering the bacterial cell wall. CPLC Symposium, 2012. Urbana, IL.
  6. (Talk) Application of free-energy methods in NAMD to complex biological systems. CECAM Workshop on free energy calculations: from theory to applications, 2012. Champs-sur-Marne, France.
  7. (Talk) Glimpsing the inner workings of living cells with the computational microscope. Argonne National Laboratory, 2012. Argonne, IL.
  8. (Talk) Membrane-protein insertion: One helix and one amino acid at a time. Physics Dept. seminar, IUPUI, 2012. Indianapolis, IN.
  9. (Talk) Membrane-protein insertion: One helix and one amino acid at a time. Physics Dept. seminar, Georgia Tech, 2012. Atlanta, GA.
  10. (Talk) Spontaneous movement of transmembrane segments from SecY into the membrane. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2012. San Diego, CA.
  11. (Talk) Membrane-protein insertion: One helix and one residue at a time. Chemistry Dept. seminar, Washington University, 2012. St. Louis, MO.

    12. - 2011 -

  12. (Talk) Membrane protein folding and insertion mediated by the Sec translocon. Beckmann Lab group meeting, U. Munich, 2011. Munich, Germany.
  13. (Talk) Determining structures of membrane proteins through combined cryo-electron microscopy and molecular dynamics. Synthetic Biology International Workshop, UC Berkeley 2011. Berkeley, CA.
  14. (Talk) Development and function of proteins in the inner and outer membranes. Jensen Lab group meeting, Caltech 2011. Pasadena, CA.
  15. (Talk) Protein localization and folding mechanisms revealed by molecular dynamics simulations. James Gumbart, Christophe Chipot, and Klaus Schulten. South African Institute of Physics Conference, 2011. Pretoria, South Africa.
  16. (Talk) Computational microscopy using molecular dynamics. James Gumbart. Biophysics Workshop, South African Institute of Physics Conference, 2011. Pretoria, South Africa.
  17. (Talk) Reproduction of experimental free energies of membrane insertion using molecular dynamics. James Gumbart. Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins Conference, 2011. Snowmass, CO.
  18. (Talk) Realizing Feynman's dream with the computational microscope. James Gumbart. Western Illinois Univ. Physics Dept. colloquium, 2011. Macomb, IL.
  19. (Talk) Directing protein traffic across, and into, membranes. Buchanan Lab group meeting, NIH 2011. Bethesda, MD.
  20. (Poster) Protein folding and membrane insertion via the protein translocon. James Gumbart, Christophe Chipot, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2011. Baltimore, MD.

    21. - 2010 -

  21. (Talk) The role of the protein-conducting channel in the membrane insertion of transmembrane segments. James Gumbart, Christophe Chipot, and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2010. San Francisco, CA.

    22. - 2009 -

  22. (Talk) Regulation of the protein-conducting channel by a bound ribosome. James Gumbart, Leonardo G. Trabuco, Elizabeth Villa, Eduard Schreiner, Christopher B. Harrison, Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2009. Boston, MA.
  23. (Poster) Coupling of Ca2+ and substrate binding in the outer membrane transporter BtuB. James Gumbart, Michael C. Wiener, and Emad Tajkhorshid. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2009. Boston, MA.

    24. - 2008 -

  24. (Talk) Membrane protein insertion in the translocon. James Gumbart and Klaus Schulten. CECAM Workshop on Membrane Protein Insertion: Theory and Experiment, 2008. Lausanne, Switzerland.
  25. (Talk) Bringing physics to life: Biological insights from computer simulations. James Gumbart. Western Illinois Univ. Physics Dept. colloquium, 2008. Macomb, IL.
  26. (Poster) The roles of the pore ring and the plug in the SecY protein-conducting channel. James Gumbart and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2008. Long Beach, CA.
  27. (Poster) Computational studies of substrate-dependent behavior of the E. coli cobalamin transporter BtuB. James Gumbart, Christian Banchs, Michael C. Wiener, and Emad Tajkhorshid. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2008. Long Beach, CA.

    28. - 2007 -

  28. (Talk) Mechanics of force propagation in TonB-dependent outer membrane transporters. James Gumbart, Michael C. Wiener, and Emad Tajkhorshid. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2007. Baltimore, MD.
  29. (Poster) Opening of the lateral gate of the translocon SecY. James Gumbart and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2007. Baltimore, MD.

    30. - 2006 -

  30. (Poster) Dynamics of the translocon SecY investigated through MD. James Gumbart and Klaus Schulten. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, 2006. Salt Lake City, UT.