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 7th of February until the 9th of May. Please note that the schedule of speakers is tentative & subject to change.

A list of Fall 2006 abstracts and speaker information is available here.

Date Speaker Title Abstract
       
Feb 7

TBA

 TBA TBA
Feb 14 Jadwiga Bienkowska, BU
 Gene expression analysis and patient stratification: Prioritization of genes relevant in BrCa PDF
Feb 21

Vladimer Kuznetsov, Genome Institute of Singapore

Computational identification of genetic patterns and essential risk factors associated with clinical heterogeneity of aggressiveness of breast cancer

PDF
Feb 28 Vincent Danos, CNRS
 kappa and programmable self-assembly PDF
Mar 7

Aedin Culhane, Harvard

 Putting microarray data in context: Multivariate approaches for exploratory analysis of multiple biological datasets PDF
Mar 14 Chris Bakal, Broad Institute
 Defining the Components Of Local Signaling Networks That Regulate Cell Morphology Using Quantitative Morphological Signatures PDF
Mar 21

Alex Stark, Broad Institute

 Small RNAs: computational challenges and global role in gene regulation PDF
Mar 28 Spring Vacation
    
Monday, Apr 2 Nancy Amato, Texas A&M
 Using Motion Planning to Study Molecular Motions PDF
Apr 4

Marco Ramoni, HMS/HST

 Genomewide Dissection and Predictive Modeling of Complex Traits PDF
Apr 11 Boris Shakhnovich, Broad Institute
 Selective Constraints in Evolution of Gene Families and TBP-Dependent Promoters PDF
Apr 18

Dana Peer, Columbia

 Genetic Variation and Regulatory Networks: Mechanisms and Complexity PDF
Apr 25 Alexandre Morozov, Rockefeller University
 Using biophysical models to understand eukaryotic chromatin structure and regulation of gene transcription PDF
May 2

Yann Ponty, BC

 Asymptotics of RNA Shapes: A precise study of an alternative representation for the RNA secondary structure PDF
May 9 Yi-Kuo Yu, NIH/NLM/NCBI
 Mass Spectrometry and its modern evolution -- from Atomic Bomb to Proteomics and Beyond 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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