Bioinformatics Seminar
The Bioinformatics Seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Theory of Computation group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The seminar series focuses on highlighting areas of research in the field of computational biology.
Time and Location
Meeting Time: 11:30 - 1:00 in The Theory of Computation Lab Room Building 32, Room G575.
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9 | Stefan Washietl MIT, CSAIL |
Discriminating coding and non-coding RNAs using comparative sequence analysis | |
| Feb 16 | Corina Tarnita Harvard University |
The Evolution of Eusociality | |
| Feb 23 | Jinbo Xu |
Probabilistic Graphical Model for Protein Structure Prediction | |
| March 2 | Jerome Waldispuhl
McGill University |
Ensemble Predictions of beta-sheet Protein Structures | |
| March 9 | Franziska Michor Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health |
Evolutionary dynamics of cancer | |
| March 16 | Leonid Chindelevitch Pfizer |
Information from Networks | |
| March 23 | -- | Spring Break | -- |
| March 30 | Leonid Mirny | How do cells pack their DNA, and why do we care about it | |
| April 6 | Irwin Jungreis MIT |
Evidence of abundant stop codon readthrough in Drosophila and other metazoa | |
| April 13 | Nick Patterson | Techniques for the analysis of ancient DNA | |
| April 20 | Petros Drineas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Dimensionality reduction in the analysis of human genetics data | |
| April 27 | Collin Stultz MIT |
Modeling Intrinsically Disordered Proteins | |
| May 4 | Alkes Price Harvard |
Liability threshold modeling increases power in case-control association studies | |
| May 11 | Mona Singh Princeton University |
Sequence- and structure-based approaches for annotating protein sequences | |
| May 18th | Ned Wingreen Princeton University |
Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors aren't? |
Past Terms
A listing of the Bioinformatics Seminar series home pages from prior terms.
Organizers and Information
The Bioinformatics Seminar is co-hosted by Professor Peter Clote of Boston College's Biology and Computer Science Departments and MIT Professor of Applied Mathematics Bonnie Berger. Professor Berger is also affiliated with CSAIL & HST.
The seminar is announced weekly via email to members of the seminar's mailing list and to those on CSAIL's event calendar list. It is also posted in the BioWeek calendar.To be added to the seminar's email announcement list or for any questions you have about the seminar, please mail bioinfo@csail.mit.edu.