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The Penn Bioinformatics Forum (formerly Philadelphia Bioinformatics Forum) is a monthly seminar series whose purpose is to provide the opportunity for people involved in bioinformatics in the greater Philadelphia region to learn about recent advances in the different areas of this field from experts coming from academia as well as industry. If you would like to be notified of future PBF seminars by e-mail, please send a message to forum@pcbi.upenn.edu stating that you would like to subscribe. All names will be kept confidential. To unsubscribe from the list simply send a request to the same address, stating that you wish to unsubscribe.

Upcoming Speakers
 
Laura Landweber |
Title:TBA
Date:Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time:4:00 pm; Reception at 3:45 pm
Location:BRB Auditorium, 421 Curie Boulevard



Past Speakers
 
Xiaole Shirley Liu | Dept of Biostats and Comp Bio, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health
Title:Nucleosome Dynamics Defines Transcriptional Enhancers (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Time:4:00 pm; Reception at 3:45 pm
Location:BRB Auditorium, 421 Curie Boulevard

 
Miklos Csuros, Ph.D. | University of Montreal
Title:Inference of homolog gene family evolution from phylogenetic profiles (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:BRB Auditorium, 421 Curie Boulevard

 
PCBI/GCB retreat |
Title:PCBI/GCB retreat will be held instead
Date:Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Time:
Location:

 
David Burke, Ph.D. | University of Michigan | (Home Page Link)
Title:Genome-wide analysis of complex traits in a synthetic population (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:CRB Austrian Auditorium

 
Itsik Pe'er, Ph.D. | Columbia University | (Home Page Link)
Title:Identity by descent within and between human populations (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:CRB Austrian Auditorium

 
Ysi-Hsiang Hsu, Sc.D. | Harvard University | (Home Page Link)
Title:Genome-Wide Association Study: Is Larger Always Better? (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:BRB Auditorium

 
Cathy Wu, Ph.D. | Department of Oncology; Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, GUMC | (Home Page Link)
Title:Integrated Protein Bioinformatics for Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:BRB Auditorium

 
Walter Fontana, Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School
Title:Programs as models - a framework for molecular signaling (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:BRB Auditorium

 
Steven Kleinstein, Ph.D | Dept. of Pathology, Yale Univ. School of Medicine
Title:To be announced
Date:Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:BRB Auditorium

 
Robert Knight, Ph.D | Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
Title:To be announced
Date:Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:CRB Austrian Auditorium
Host:Frederic Bushman

 
Dana Pe'er, Ph.D | Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
Title:To be announced
Date:Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:BRB Auditorium
Host:Dr. Lyle Ungar

 
Dr. John Storey | Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University
Title:Rethinking Experimental Design in High-dimensional Biology (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Time:4:45 pm; Reception at 4:30 pm
Location:CRB Austrian Auditorium
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:GCB Students

 
Noah Rosenberg | Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan
Title:Genomic Analyses of Population-Genetic Variation in Native Americans (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:CRB Auditorium
Host:Junhyong Kim

 
Daniel Huson | Center for Bioinformatics, Tuebingen University, Germany
Title:Methods for Metagenome Analysis (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:CRB Auditorium
Host:Li-San Wang

 
Jeffrey Townsend | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Title:Power and resolution in comparative and functional evolutionary genomics (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:BRB II/III Auditorium
Host:GCB Students

 
Stephanie Forrest | Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
Title:Agent-based models of evolutionary diseases (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:BRB II/III Auditorium
Host:Carlo Maley

 
Aviv Regev | Department of Biology, MIT / Broad Institute
Title:From modules to mechanisms: Lessons from yeast to mammals
Date:Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:BRB II/III Auditorium
Host:GCB Students

 
Mark Boguski, M.D.,Ph.D. | Former Vice President and Global Head, Genome and Proteome Sciences, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Title:Proteomics, Systems Biology and Knowledge-mining in Drug and Biomarker Discovery (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:CRB Auditorium

 
Dr. Justin Fay | Washington University School of Medicine
Title:Identifying functional changes in transcription factor binding (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Ronald Taylor, Ph.D. | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US Department of Energy)
Title:Network Inference and Analysis using the Software Environment for Biological Network Inference (SEBINI) and Collective Analysis of Biological Interaction Networks (CABIN) (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building (CRB), 415 Curie Blvd
Host:Chris Stoeckert

 
John Yin | University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title:From Genome to Organism to Population: Insights from Simulations and Experiments of Virus Growth (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Host:Junhyong Kim

 
Saeed Tavazoie | Princeton University
Title:Post-genomic approaches for understanding cellular behavior (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:GCB Students

 
Constantin Aliferis | Vanderbilt University
Title:Methodological rigor of "omics" data analysis: efficiency, stability, guidelines, and sensationalism (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:Peter Davies

 
Anton Nekrutenko | Penn State University
Title:Control of Key Cellular Processes by Rapidly Evolving Dual Coding Genes (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Dunlop Auditorium, Stemmler Hall, 3450 Hamilton Walk
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:Maja Bucan

 
Andrey Rzhetsky | Columbia University
Title:Combining mathematical modeling and text-mining to aid real-life biological research (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building (CRB), 415 Curie Blvd
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:Pete White
Note:co-sponsored by PCBI and the CHOP Center for Biomedical Informatics

 
Anja Sturm | University of Delaware
Title:Recent developments in the theory of coalescents for modeling gene genealogies (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Host:Warren Ewens

 
Uwe Ohler | Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Title:Motifs and images - Computational investigations of transcription regulation in eukaryotes (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:Sridhar Hannenhalli

 
Hanlee Ji | Stanford University
Title:The Genetics of Colorectal Carcinoma Prognosis: Development of a Gene Identification Strategy using Novel Technologies (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Host:Greg Grant

 
Martha Bulyk | Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Title:Genomic Analyses of Transcription Factors and Cis Regulatory Elements (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Time:5:15 pm; Reception at 5:00 pm
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:Chris Stoeckert

 
Jill Mesirov | Broad Institute
Title:Gene expression analysis: A knowledge-based approach (abstract)
Date:Thursday, September 14, 2006
Time:5:30 pm; Reception at 5:15 pm
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:Elisabetta Manduchi

 
Seth Sullivant | Harvard University
Title:Phylogenetic Invariants (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Time:5:30 p.m.; Reception at 5:15 p.m.
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:Junhyong Kim

 
Joseph Chang | Yale University
Title:On Learning and Doing Statistical Inference, Bayes, and Monte Carlo (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Time:5:30 p.m.; Reception at 5:15 p.m.
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:Junhyong Kim

 
Lior Pachter | University of California Berkeley
Title:Alignment and Annotation of the Drosophila Genomes (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Time:5:30 p.m.; Reception at 5:15 p.m.
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Video:Download a video of this talk.
Host:Junhyong Kim

 
Mathieu Blanchette | McGill University, McGill Center for Bioinformatics
Title:Genome-wide Computational Prediction of Cis-Regulatory Modules Reveal New Insights into Human Gene Expression Regulation. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Time:5:30 p.m.; Reception at 5:15 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Host:Sridhar Hannenhalli

 
Michael R. Brent | Washington University, Laboratory for Computational Genomics and Department of Computer Science
Title:TBA
Date:Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Time:5:30 p.m.; Reception at 5:15 p.m.
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
William Stafford Noble | University of Washington
Title:Classifying biological data using the support vector machine algorithm. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Time:5:30 p.m.; Reception at 5:15 p.m.
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
Manuel Llinas | Princeton University
Title:Dissecting the malaria transcriptome. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Time:5:30 p.m.; Reception at 5:15 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
L. Aravind | NCBI, NLM, NIH
Title:Reconstructing the major transitions in evolution. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Time:5:30 p.m.; Reception at 5:15 p.m.
Location:Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
Temple Smith | Boston University
Title:What is System Biology? (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
Timothy Hughes | University of Toronto
Title:The functional landscape of gene expression in yeast and mouse (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
Ross Hardison | Penn State University, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics
Title:Gene regulatory elements discovered by vertebrate genome comparisons (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Bernard Moret | The University of New Mexico
Title:Phylogenetic reconstruction from gene-order and gene-content data (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
Mona Singh | Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science and Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics
Title:Computational Methods Towards Predicting Aspects of Protein Structure (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
Suzanna Lewis | University of California, Berkeley
Title:The sequencing of a genome, a retrospective. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Deanna Church | NCBI
Title:Genome Assembly, Assessment and Resources at NCBI (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Time:3:30 p.m.; Reception at 3:15 p.m.
Location:Reunion Hall, John Morgan Building

 
Jerzy Jurka | Genetic Information Research Institute
Title:Evolutionary impact of mammalian short interspersed repetitive elements (SINEs) (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Reunion Hall, John Morgan Building

 
Jeffery G. Saven | University of Pennsylvania
Title:Physical approaches to protein sequence variability with applications to protein design. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Dunlop Auditorium, Stemmler Hall

 
Michael Zhang | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Title:Prediction, Extraction and Analysis of Mammalian Promoters (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Wyeth Wasserman | University of British Columbia, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
Title:Identification and analysis of regulatory control sequences in the human genome. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Andreas Wagner | University of New Mexico, Department of Biology
Title:On the causes of mutational robustness (and other stories). (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Peter Karp | SRI International
Title:Bioinformatics Pathway Databases and Algorithms (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Blvd.

 
Pavel Pevzner | Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science, University of California at San Diego
Title:Transforming Men into Mice: Lessons from Human and Mouse Genomic Sequences (abstract)
Date:Thursday, March 4, 2004
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception following in BRB auditorium lobby.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
Vincent Carey | Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Title:Annotation and ontology for statistical genomics. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Class of '62 Lecture Hall, John Morgan Building
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
Russ B. Altman, M.D. | Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program, Stanford University Medical Center, Deptartment of Genetics
Title:Pharmacogenetics Knowledge base: challenges in building geno-pheno databases. (abstract)
Date:Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception following in Austrian auditorium lobby
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Blvd. Talk will also be broadcast to the Conference Center at the Penn State Great Valley campus in Malvern, PA.
Video:Download a video of this talk.

 
Saurabh Sinha | Rockefeller University, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology
Title:Computational detection of cis-regulatory modules in the Drosophila genome. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Class of 62 Lecture Room, John Morgan Building, 3260 Hamilton Walk

 
Stephen Sherry | NCBI
Title:Haplotypes in dbSNP as a resource for population genetics and molecular epidemiology. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Serafim Batzoglou | Stanford University
Title:Multiple alignment algorithms and comparative genomics (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building (BRB II/III), 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Edward N. Trifonov | University of Haifa, Genome Diversity Center
Title:Species-specific sequence determinants of chromatin structure (abstract)
Date:Thursday, July 3, 2003
Time:12:30 p.m.
Location:Biomedical Research Building
421 Curie Blvd.

 
Tandy Warnow | University of Texas
Title:Progress on Reconstructing Very Large Complex Phylogenies (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, May 7, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Dr. Edward M. Marcotte | Asst. Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Inst. of Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Texas
Title:Global Analysis of Yeast Protein Pathways, Systems, and Interactions (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Mark Gerstein | Yale University
Title:Computational Proteomics: Genome-scale Analysis of Protein Structure, Function, & Evolution (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Inna Dubchak | Life Sciences Division, LBNL
Title:Comparative Genomics Tools for Biological Discovery (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Sridhar S. Hannenhalli | Celera Genomics
Title:Transcriptional Regulation : Signals, Interactions and modules (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Time:11:00am - 12:30pm
Location:Room 252, BRB II/III, 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Gregory Gonye | Department of Pathology,
Thomas Jefferson University
Title:Integration of Functional and Structural Genomic Data to Derive Models of Transcriptional Regulation During Neuromodulation (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium

 
Isaac S. Kohane, MD | Director, Children's Hospital Informatics Program
Harvard Medical School
Title:Missing the Forest for the Dendrograms (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, December 4, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Dr Guna Rajagopal | Acting Director, Bioinformatics Institute (Singapore)
Title:TBA
Date:Thursday, November 14, 2002
Time:4:00 p.m.
Location:Room 0251 (Mezzanine), BRB II/III, 421 Curie Blvd.

 
Isidore Rigoutsos | IBM Computational Biology Center
Title:Tools for the Elucidation of Associations, Gene Discovery and Protein Functional Annotation (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Reunion Hall
John Morgan Building
3620 Hamilton Walk

 
Helen Berman | Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Director, Protein Data Bank
Title:The Protein Data Bank and Structural Genomics. (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Mike Sanderson | U.C. Davis
Professor of Ecology and Evolution
Title:Exploiting large sequence databases to build the phylogenetic tree of life: problems, strategies, and algorithms (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Susan Geller | Mathematics Department
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Title:Variance Stabilization, Normalization, and Power Calculations of Microarray Data with Application to Autism (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Ivo Grosse | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Title:Computational Identification of Promoters and First Exons in the Human Genome (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Aimee M. Dudley | Harvard Medical School
Title:Measuring absolute expression levels with spotted-glass microarrays (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
John Reinitz | SUNY Stony Brook
Title:Bioinformatics of Drosophila segmentation (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 27, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Michael O. Krauthammer, M.D. | Department of Medical Informatics
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Title:Knowledge Extraction from the Molecular Biology Literature for the Generation of Signal Transduction Networks (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Nikos Kyrpides | Integrated Genomics
Title:Comparative Analysis: the Key to Interpreting Genomes (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 23, 2002
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
David Finkelstein | Affymetrix
Title:Normalization and measurement error in 2 color cDNA microarrays (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2001
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Class of '62 Lecture Hall
John Morgan Building

 
Sante Gnerre | Whitehead Institute, MIT
Title:Arachne - A Whole Genome Shotgun Assembly (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, November 14, 2001
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Michael Stanhope and James Brown | GlaxoSmithKline
Title:Debugging the human genome and reconstructing the universal tree of life (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 24, 2001
Time:5:15p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Nikolay A. Kolchanov | Institute of Cytology and Genetics
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Title:Databases on gene expression regulation: TRRD and GeneNet (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Gary Benson | Department of Biomathematical Sciences
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Title:Detection and Analysis of Repetitive Features in Nucleotide Sequences (abstract)
Date:Monday, April 16, 2001
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Kevin Coombes | University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
Title:Detecting subtle differences in gene expression using microarrays (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Sandrine Dudoit | Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University
Title:Statistical methods for identifying differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 21, 2001
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Carol Bult | Associate Staff Scientist
The Jackson Laboratory
Title:Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI): Toward an integrated view of the mouse genome (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 24, 2001
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Stephen Bryant | NCBI
Title:A Conserved Domain Database
Date:Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:BRB II/III, First Floor Auditorium

 
Webb Miller | Penn State University
Title:Mouse-Human Genomic Sequence Comparison (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, November 15, 2000
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Yidong Chen | NHGRI
Title:Informatics and Statistics of cDNA Microarray Analysis (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 18, 2000
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Eugene V. Koonin | Senior Investigator, NCBI
Title:Comparative genomics: Is it changing the paradigm of evolutionary biology? (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 20, 2000
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Class of '62 Lecture Hall
John Morgan Building

 
Thomas Wiehe | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Genetics and Evolution
Title:Comparative Genomics: Homology Based Gene Prediction (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, May 10, 2000
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Laura Landweber | Princeton University
Title:From Scrambled Genes to Chess: The evolution of DNA and RNA computing (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 22, 2000
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Andrea Califano | Program Director, IBM Computational Biology Center
Title:Functional Genomics Applications of Pattern Discovery Algorithms (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Time:12 noon (please note the change in time); Reception at 11:45 a.m.
Location:BRB II/III, First Floor Auditorium

 
John Quackenbush | The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
Title:Analysis of Microarray Expression Data (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:

 
Eric Siggia | Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Rockefeller University & Department of Physics Cornell University
Title:Building a Dictionary for Genomes: Statistical Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, December 1, 1999
Time:2:30 p.m.; Reception at 2:15 p.m.
Location:

 
Temple F. Smith | Director, BioMolecular Engineering Research Center College of Engineering Boston University
Title:Nature's Legos Protein Domains: Functional versus structural (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 15, 1999
Time:5:10 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:

 
Mark Boguski | NCBI/ NIH
Title:Closing the Gap Between Sequence and Function: the Frontier of Computational Biology and Functional Genomics
Date:Monday, April 12, 1999
Time:2 p.m.
Location:

 
John Aach | Lecturer, Dept. of Genetics Harvard Medical School
Title:Databases for functional genomics (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 17, 1999
Time:5:15 p.m.; Reception at 5:00 p.m.
Location:Leidy Labs Room 10

 
James W. Fickett | Director of Bioinformatics Research SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
Title:Forming the Human Gene Catalog (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 20, 1999
Time:5:15 p.m.
Location:Robert Austrian Auditorium
Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Blvd.

 
Charles Lawrence | Chief, Biometrics Laboratory, Wadsworth Center
Title:A Bayesian MCMC Algorithm for Mining Protein Databases: Structural Prediction of Human Glutamate Decarboxylase (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, November 18, 1998
Time:5:10 p.m.
Location:

 
Nathan Goodman | Sr. Staff Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory
Title:LabBase and LabFlow: Data and Workflow Management for Large Scale Biology Research Laboratories (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 15, 1998
Time:5:10 p.m.
Location:

 
Lawrence Hunter | National Library of Medicine, NIH
Title:Machine Learning in Molecular Biology: Outlook and Lessons Learned (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, April 1, 1998
Time:5:10 p.m.
Location:IRCS Large Seminar Room

 
Steven Salzberg | Assistant Professor The Institute for Genomic Research and Johns Hopkins University
Title:Microbial Gene Finding with Interpolated Markov Models (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, March 4, 1998
Time:5:00 p.m.
Location:IRCS Large Seminar Room

 
David States M.D. | Associate Professor and Director Institute for Biomedical Computing Washington University in St. Louis
Title:Structure Based Sequence Comparison; Identifying Functional Regions of the Genome (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, February 4, 1998
Time:5:00 p.m.
Location:

 
Gary Stormo | University of Colorado
Title:Specificity in Protein-DNA Interactions: Experimental and Computational Approaches (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, January 14, 1998
Time:
Location:

 
Michael Q. Zhang | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Title:Searching for Protein Coding in the Human Genome (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, December 3, 1997
Time:
Location:

 
Michael Liebman | Director of Bioinformatics, Wyeth-Ayerst Research
Title:Clinical Bioinformatics- where are we headed? (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, November 19, 1997
Time:
Location:

 
Michael Kohn | Laboratory of Computational Biology and Risk Analysis National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Title:Use of "MetaNet" Graph Theoretical Models to Identify Sites of Feedback Regulation in Metabolic Pathways (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, October 15, 1997
Time:5:00 p.m.
Location:

 
Ewan Birney | Sanger Centre
Title:Dynamite: A language for alignment algorithms (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Time:
Location: