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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:to be announced

 
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:to be announced

 
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:to be announced

 
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:to be announced

 
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:to be announced

 
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:to be announced

 
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:to be announced

 
Gary Stormo

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

 
Michael Q. Zhang

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Title:Searching for Protein Coding in the Human Genome (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, December 3, 1997
Time:to be announced
Location:to be announced

 
Michael Liebman

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

 
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:to be announced

 
Ewan Birney

Sanger Centre
Title:Dynamite: A language for alignment algorithms (abstract)
Date:Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Time:to be announced
Location:to be announced