Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BiComB) seminars

2009

Date/Time Speaker Location
June 23 (Tuesday) 11am

Chinnappa Dilip Kodira
Director of Genomics, Roche 454, Branford, CT
"Collaborations and Challenges in Application of Next Generation Sequencing Technologies towards Biological Discovery"
Abstract

ES&T L1205
June 15 (Monday) 11am

Remy Bruggmann
Waksman Institute - Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey
"Analysis of the Sorghum Genome - a next generation crop?"
Abstract

ES&T L1205
June 9 (Tuesday),
11 AM

J. Todd Streelman
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Mosaic Genomes, Development and the Evolution of Diversity"
Abstract

ES&T L1205
May 26 (Tuesday),
11 AM

Tatiana Tatarinova
Department of Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
"Selection in the Wobble Position of Codons in Plant and Animal Protein-Coding Genes"
Abstract

ES&T L1205
May 12 (Tuesday),
11 AM

Alexei Fedorov
Head of Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Medicine, The University of Toledo Toledo, OH
"A Bioinformatic Analysis of Complexity in the Human Genome: The Symbiotic Introns Doctrine"
Abstract

ES&T L1205
April 21 (Tuesday),
430 PM

King Jordan
School of Biology, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Tech
"Epigenetic Regulation of the Human Genome by Transposable Elements"
Abstract

MSE 1201A
April 14 (Tuesday),
430 PM

Vladimir Shulaev
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
"Metabolomics for Systems Biology: Biomarker Discovery and Gene Function Elucidation"
Abstract

MSE 1201A
April 7 (Tuesday),
430 PM

Melissa Kemp
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory University
"Oxidative thiol regulation in T cells"
Abstract

MSE 1201A
March 31 (Tuesday),
130 PM

Fred G. Gmitter Jr.
University of Florida-Citrus Research and Education Center
"Sequencing a Citrus Genome (or two…)"
Abstract

MSE 3201A
March 24 (Tuesday),
430 PM

John McDonald
Professor and Chair of the School of Biology, Georgia Tech
CSO, Ovarian Cancer Institute
"Micro RNAs and ovarian cancer : new and emerging paradigms"
Abstract

MSE 1201A
March 10 (Tuesday),
430 PM

Eva Lee
Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
"Machine Learning Framework for Classification in Medicine and Biology"
Abstract

MSE 1201A
March 3 (Tuesday),
430 PM

Brani Vidakovic
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems Institute Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine
"Wavelets in Biomedical Data Analysis: Scaling and Functional Anova in Applications"
Abstract

MSE 1201A
February 24 (Tuesday),
430 PM

Kostas Konstantinidis
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
School of Biology (By courtesy)
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
"Dissecting natural microbial assemblages with metagenomics: Examples from the Seas"
Abstract

MSE 1201A
February 17 (Tuesday),
430 PM

Gregory Livshits
Human Population Biology Research Unit, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel  and Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College, London School of Medicine, London, UK
"Quantitative genetics and functional genomics of chronic degenerative disease and fragility"
Abstract

MSE 1201A
February 10 (Tuesday),
430 PM

Frank E. Loeffler
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and School of Biology
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
"Environmental Microbiology: From Genomes to Solutions"
Abstract

MSE 1201A
February 3 (Tuesday),
430 PM

Soojin Yi
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
"DNA methylation and animal genome evolution"

 MSE 1201A
January 27 (Tuesday),
430 PM

Mark Borodovsky
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering Division at CoC, School of Biology, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
"Machine Learning Accelerates Eukaryotic Genome Interpretation"
Abstract

MSE 1201A

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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