Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BiComB) seminars

2004

Date/Time Speaker Location
February 23 (Monday), 12 pm Russel Clark and Cynthia Morneweck, Georgia Tech, College of Computing, "Georgia Collaborative Research Initiatives in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Using High Speed Networks" ES&T L1205
March 15 (Monday), 3 pm Marie Csete, Emory University, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, "Stem Cell Regulation by Gases" ES&T L1205
March 18 (Thursday), 11 am Zhaolei Zhang, Yale University, Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, "Gene Fossils: A Comprehensive Survey of Pseudogenes in the Human Genome" ES&T L1205
March 25 (Thursday), 11 am Yun Song, University of Oxford, "Detecting recombination events and constructing minimal evolutionary histories" ES&T L1205
March 26 (Friday), 3 pm Carlos Moreno, Emory University, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, "Mining the Genome for Cancer Therapeutic Targets" BME 1103
April 1 (Thursday), 11 am Yong Kong, Curagen Corporation, "New theoretical results of runs statistics and their applications to the proteome of Mycoplasma genitalium" ES&T L1205
April 8 (Thursday), 11 am Will Fairbrother, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Identification and evolution of gene processing signals" ES&T L1205
April 12 (Monday), 12 pm Ying Xu, University of Georgia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, "Computational Inference of Transcription Regulation and Response Networks in Synechococcus sp. WH8102" ES&T L1205
April 13 (Tuesday), 11 am Mark Schreiber, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD), "Computer assisted drug development for tropical diseases" ES&T L1205
May 26 (Wednesday), 12 pm Benedikt Kessler, Harvard University, Department of Pathology ES&T L1205
September 20 (Monday), 12pm Eva K. Lee, Georgia Tech, Associate Professor & Director, Center for Operations Research in Medicine, Industrial & Systems Engineering, "Large-Scale Genomic Pattern Recognition and Classification of CpG Loci in Human Cancer" ES&T
L1205
September 27 (Monday), 12pm Eberhard Voit, Georgia Tech, Department of Biomedical Engineering, "Metabolic Modeling with Time Series Data" ES&T
L1205
October 4 (Monday), 12pm Luke Ulrich, Georgia Tech, School of Biology, "The MIST database: an integrative genomic resource on microbial signal transduction" ES&T
L1205
October 11 (Monday), 12pm Eugene Thacker, Georgia Tech, School of Literature, Communication & Culture, "Bioinformatics: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences" ES&T
L1205
October 25 (Monday), 12pm David Uhlinger, Principal Scientist, Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, "Functional Genomics and Proteomics in Drug Discovery and Development" ES&T
L1205
November 1 (Monday), 12pm May Dongmei Wang, Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar; Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Hematology and Oncology, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University ES&T
L1205
November 8 (Monday), 12pm Andrzej M. Kierzek, Lecturer in Bioinformatics, School of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK, "Stochastic Effects in Biochemical Reaction Networks" ES&T
L1205
November 15 (Monday), 12pm Sun Kim, Indiana University, School of Informatics, Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, "BAG: A Graph Theoretic Sequence Clustering Algorithm" ES&T
L1205
November 22 (Monday), 12pm Ali Mokdad, Bowling Green State University, Chemistry Department, Center for Biomolecular Sciences, "Isostericity Matrices and their Usage in rRNA Structural Alignment" ES&T
L1205
November 29 (Monday), 12pm John Kirby, Georgia Tech, School of Biology, "Chemosensory Signal Transduction and Regulation of Behavior in Bacteria" ES&T
L1205

2003

Date/Time Speaker Location
November, 27th (Wednesday)
2:00 PM
Dr. Cheng Zhu,School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Biophysics at the level of single cells and single molecules" Cherry Emerson 320
December, 4th (Wednesday)
2:00 PM
Dr. May Dongmai Wang,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Medical Informatics and Bioimaging" Cherry Emerson 320
December, 5th (Thursday)
2:00 PM
John Besemer,Dr. Borodovsky Lab, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Heuristic and Self-Training Methods for Improving Gene Prediction in Prokaryotes" Cherry Emerson 301A
December, 16th (Monday)
11:00 AM
Ryan E. Mills,Dr. Borodovsky Lab, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Improving Gene Annotation of Complete Viral Genomes" Cherry Emerson 320
January, 7th (Tuesday)
1:00 PM
Dr. Edy S. Liongosari,Accenture Technology Labs - Chicago, "Finding the Right Questions: Supporting Early Research and Investigation Tasks" IBB 1128
January, 8th (Wednesday)
3:00 PM
Dr. Igor Zhulin, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Comparative Genomics of Signal Transduction: from Microbes to Man" Cherry Emerson 320
January, 15th (Wednesday)
3:00 PM
Dr. William Ribarsky, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Developing the Integrated Interactive Bioinformatics Visualization System" IBB 1128
January, 22nd (Wednesday)
3:00 PM
Dr. Gang Bao, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, "Detection of Cancer Markers Using a Biomolecular Methodology" Cherry Emerson 320
January, 29th (Wednesday)
3:00 PM
Dr. Nikolai Ivanov, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Hidden coding potential of Epstein-Barr virus and its lymphocryptoviral relatives" IBB 1128
January, 30th (Wednesday)
11:00 AM
Dr. Kirill Lobachev, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "Human DNA sequence motifs as sources of double-strand breaks and genome instability" Cherry Emerson 320
February, 3rd (Monday)
12:00 PM
Dr. Yinhe Cao, Chief Technology Officer at BioSieve, "A microarray data analysis and visualization package ExpressionSieve" Cherry Emerson 320
February, 5th (Wednesday)
12:00 PM
Dr. Xianghong Zhou, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, "Computational Analysis of Cellular Systems: Functional Annotation of the Transcriptome and Cell Classification with the Proteome" Cherry Emerson 320
February, 17th (Monday)
3:00 PM
Dr. Alexander Vologodskii, New York University, "Topological Conversions in Circular DNA" Cherry Emerson 320
February, 19th (Wednesday)
3:00 PM
Dr. Alexander Z. Zelikovsky, Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, "Probe Placement for DNA Arrays" Cherry Emerson 320
February, 20th (Thursday)
11:00 AM
Dr. Irene Gabashvili, Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University, "Understanding the Ribosome: From Structure to Dynamics to Function" Cherry Emerson 320
February, 26th (Wednesday)
3:00 PM
Dr. Christopher Klausmeier, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Theoretical Approaches to Plankton Community Ecology" IBB 1128
February, 27th (Thursday)
11:00 AM
Dr. Alexei Fedorov, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, "Introns in gene evolution" Cherry Emerson 320
March, 18th (Tuesday)
11:00 AM
Dr. Paul Harrison, Dept. of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, "Investigation of proteome evolution through genome-scale analysis of gene and pseudogene populations" Cherry Emerson 320
March, 21st (Friday)
12:00 PM
Dr. Jason Xiang, Columbia University & HHMI, "Bridging Biophysics and Bioinformatics in the era of Structural Genomics" Cherry Emerson 320
April, 17th (Thursday)
4:00 PM
Dr. Paul Harrison, Dept. of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, "Analysis of prions using simple protein folding models" Cherry Emerson 320
April, 30th (Wednesday)
3:00 PM
Dr. Eli Hershkovitz, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, TBA Cherry Emerson 320
May, 12th (Monday)
12:00 PM
Dr. Derek R. Lovley, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Cleaning up with Genomics: Applying Molecular Biology to Environmental Restoration and Energy Harvesting" IBB 1128
May, 16th (Friday)
12:00 PM
Dr. Vsevolod Makeev, The State Scientific Center 'GosVNIIGenetika', Moscow, Russia "Computational Segmentation of Full Genomes into Homogeneous Regions and Selection of Optimal Models" Cherry Emerson 320
May, 23rd (Friday)
12:00 PM
Dr. Justin Thomas Reese, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, "Simulation of Proteome Evolution" Cherry Emerson 320
May, 30th (Friday)
12:00 PM
Dr. Rajeev K. Azad, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, "May interpolation techniques of model training improve accuracy of gene identification?" Cherry Emerson 320
June, 13th (Friday)
12:00 PM
Dr. Dmitri Papatsenko, Department of Biology, New York University, "Extraction of transcriptional signals from Drosophila developmental enhancers" Cherry Emerson 320
July, 11th (Friday)
9:30 AM
Ryan Mills, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Improving Gene Annotation in Complete Viral Genomes" Cherry Emerson 320



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