MIT
Department of Mathematics
& The Theory of
Computation Group
at CSAIL

 
Bioinformatics Seminar

 

The seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Theory of Computation group at the MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The seminar series focuses on highlighting areas of research in the field of Computational Biology. This is the seminar's fifth year.

 

 
Time & Location

 

Refreshments: 11 am MIT's Building 32, The Stata Center, The TOC Lab Room G575

Talk: Wednesdays, 11:30 am to 1 pm MIT's Building 32, The Stata Center, The TOC Lab Room G575

General Directions to MIT: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions
Location of Building 32: http://www.csail.mit.edu/contact/contact.html

Please be advised that this location & schedule are subject to change.

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Schedule

 

The Spring seminar series is scheduled to run Wednesday the 13th of February until the 14th of May. Please note that the schedule of speakers is tentative & subject to change.

A list of Spring 2007 abstracts and speaker information is available here.

Date Speaker Title Abstract
       
Jan 11 (Fri) at 3pm Prof. Dr. Rolf Backofen (Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik Institut für Informatik)
 Motif Detection under RNA Structural Constraints PDF
Jan 23 Claire Herrbach Pairwise RNA secondary structures alignment PDF
Feb 6 Bonnie Berger (MIT)
 Comparative Genomics: Sequence, Structure and Networks TBA
Feb 13

Peter Clote (BC)

 Riboswitches, RNA conformational switches and prokaryotic gene regulation PDF
Feb 20 Jinbo Xu (TTI-C)
 Protein conformation sampling using conditional random fields PDF
Feb 27

Liise Holm (Univ of Helsinki/Radcliffe)

Sequence space graph and some applications

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Mar 5 Arjun Bhutkar (BU, Harvard)
 Comparative Genomics: Synteny and genome rearrangements PDF
Mar 12

Jerome Waldispuhl

 Algorithms for exploring the mutation landscape of RNA molecules PDF
Mar 19 Dr. Shobha Polturi (Pfizer)
 Predictive Models for Toxicity using rat in-vivo Gene Expression Data (ToxExpress) PDF
Mar 26

Spring Vacation

    
Apr 2 Yann Ponty (BC)
 Statistical sampling of RNA structures: Analysis and algorithmic improvements PDF
Apr 9 Eric Xing (CMU)
 Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Genetic Inference PDF
Apr 16

Jadwiga Bienskowska (Biogen/CSAIL)

 Convergent Random Forest Predictor: A new method for designing predictors of drug response. Predicting response to anti-TNFs in Rheumatoid Arthritis using whole blood gene expression. PDF
Apr 23 Leonid Mirney (Harvard, MIT)
 How gene order is influenced by the biophysics of transcription regulation PDF
Apr 30

Joseph Lehar (CombinatoRx)

 Systems Biomedicine and the Multi-Node Drug Target PDF
May 7 Yoel Shkolnisky (Yale) Reference Free Cryo-EM Structure Determination through Eigenvectors of Sparse Matrices PDF
May 14

Lenore Cowen (Tufts)

 Comparative Modeling for Protein Structure Prediction PDF
 

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Organizers & Questions

 

The seminar is co-hosted by Professor Peter Clote of Boston College's Biology and Computer Science Departments and MIT Professor of Applied Math 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 BioWeek.

For general questions or to be added to the seminar's email announcement list, please mail bioinfo@theory.csail.mit.edu

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