Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BiComB) seminars

2008

Date/Time Speaker Location
February 25 (Monday),
1 PM
James Taylor, New York University
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
"Making sense of genome-scale data"
KACB
1116W
February 20 (Wednesday),
3 PM
Konstantinos Mavrommatis
Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
Walnut Creek, California
"Efficient processing of genomic and metagenomic datasets"
IBB
1128
February 6 (Wednesday),
12 PM
Martin Tompa, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
"What Can We Do With A Multitude Of Genome Sequences?"
KACB
1116E

2007

Date/Time Speaker Location
June 25 (Monday),
10 AM
Jeff Hasty, Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
"Engineered Gene Circuits"
BME
1103
March 1 (Thursday),
2 PM
Olga Troyanskaya, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
"From microarrays to networks: integrated analysis and visualization of functional genomics data"
IBB
1128
February 26 (Monday),
4 PM
Mustafa Khammash, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Noise in Gene Regulatory Networks: Biological Function and Mathematical Analysis"
IBB
1128
January 22 (Monday),
4pm
Christine E. Heitsch, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Deciphering the coding of secondary structure in RNA viral genomes: a combinatorial analysis of local versus global constraints"
ES&T
L1205

Fall 2006

Date/Time Speaker Location
November 20
(Monday), 3pm
Claus Wilke, Assistant Professor, Section of Integrative Biology,
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
University of Texas at Austin
"Determinants of evolutionary rate in yeast"
BME
1103
November 13
(Monday), 3pm
Eberhard Voit, Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology
Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Speculations on a New Approach to Modeling Biological Systems"
BME
1103
November 6
(Monday), 3pm
Eugene I. Shakhnovich, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
"Learning Nature's lessons: what thermal adaptation tells us about principles of protein structure and evolution"
BME
1103
October 30
(Monday), 3pm
Allen Tannenbaum, Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Julian Hightower Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Mildly Interesting Results in Medical Imaging"
BME
1103
October 23
(Monday), 3pm
Nikolay Dokholyan, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
UNC Chapel Hill Medical School
"Studies of Folding and Misfolding Using Simplified Models"
BME
1103
October 9
(Monday), 3pm
Stephen Harvey, Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Beyond Bioinformatics: Structure-Function Relationships"
BME
1103
September 25
(Monday), 3pm
Jose Fontanari, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
"Genetic redundancy and the origin of chromosomes"
BME
1103
October 2
(Monday), 3pm
Fenglou Mao, Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Georgia, Athens
"Characterization of microbial genome structure and application to biological pathway prediction"
BME
1103

Fall 2005 and Spring/Summer 2006

Date/Time Speaker Location
October 10 (Monday), 3pm Eugene Koonin, Senior Investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), "Evolutionary Systems Biology" ES&T
L1255
October 26 (Wednesday), 12pm Helen Skaletsky, Whitehead Institute, MIT, Cambridge MA, "Do Human Males Have Future?" ES&T
L1205
November 4 (Friday), 2pm Rajeev Azad, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, "A Chimeric Artificial Genome Platform for Assessing the Parametric Methods of Horizontal Gene Transfer Detection" BME
1103
May 2 (Tuesday), 11am Adam Eyre-Walker, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Center for the Study of Evolution, University of Sussex, UK, "The Rates and Effects of Mutations in Humans: How and will we survive?" ES&T
L1175
August 7 (Monday), 11am Vitaly V. Ganusov, University of Utrecht (Netherlands), "Quantifying the Turnover of Lymphocytes Using CFSE" ES&T
L1205

Spring 2005

Date/Time Speaker Location
January 7 (Friday), 12pm Distinguished Lecture
Pavel Pevzner, Department of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego, "Transforming Men into Mice"
ES&T
L1205
February 2 (Wednesday), 12pm William Fairbrother, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Identification and Evolution of Gene Control Elements" Cherry Emerson
320
February 9 (Wednesday), 12pm Alexander Zelikovsky, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Georgia State Univesity, "Population Haplotyping: Phasing, Tagging and Disease Association" IBB
1128
February 16 (Wednesday), 12pm Lee Pratt, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, "A MAGIC Approach to Gene Discovery and Transcriptome Expression" IBB
1128
February 21 (Monday), 11am Yang Zhang, Assistant Professor, Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University at Buffalo, "Protein Structure Prediction on a Genome Scale" ES&T
L1205
February 28 (Monday), 11am Emmanuel Tannenbaum, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, "Evolutionary Dynamics of DNA Genomes: Extension of the Quasispecies Model to Living Systems" IBB
1128
March 9 (Wednesday), 12pm Jonas S. Almeida, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, "Models of Data for Hypothesis Generation -- A Cautionary Tale" IBB
1128
March 16 (Wednesday), 12pm Jianpeng Ma, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine and Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, "Simulating, Refining and Modeling Supramolecular Complexes at Multi-resolution and Multi-length Scales" ES&T
L1116
March 22 (Tuesday), 11am Sandie Baldauf, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, University of York (U.K.), "The Eukaryotic Tree of Life" BME
1103
March 30 (Wednesday), 12pm Kristin Wuichet, Graduate Student, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Comparative Sequence Analysis for the Elucidation of Structure--Function Relationships at Protein--Protein Interfaces" IBB
1128
April 6 (Wednesday), 12pm Leonid A. Bunimovich, Regents' Professor, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, "A New Class of Models for Evolution and Transport in Networks" Cherry Emerson
320
April 13 (Wednesday), 12pm Sergey Gavrilets, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, "Modeling the Dynamics of Adaptive Radiation" ES&T L1116
April 20 (Wednesday), 12pm Shawn M. Gomez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Unite de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire des Insectes, Institut Pasteur (France), "Searching for Function: Prediction and Application of Protein Interaction Networks" IBB 1128
April 27 (Wednesday), 12pm Susmita Datta, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biology, Georgia State University, "Statistical Techniques to Analyze Microarray Data: A Partial Overview" IBB 1128
June 22 (Wednesday), 2pm Mikhail A. Roytberg, Head of Research Group "Algorithms and Models in Molecular Biology", Institute of Mathematical Problems in Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushchino, Russia), "Algorithmic vs. 3D-Based Protein Sequence Alignment: Observations and Suggestions" LS&T L1205

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