Speaker: Dr. Wu Wei, Stanford Genome Technology Center
Title: The Landscape of Complex Transcriptome

Speaker: Dr. Reuben Thomas, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: A Systems Biology Approach to Inform Human Health Risk Assessment of Benzene

Speaker: Meromit Singer, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley
Title: Analysis of DNA Methylation in the High-Throughput Sequencing Era

Speaker: Professor Jean-Philippe Vert, Mines ParisTech and Institut Curie
Title: Group Lasso for Genomic Data

Speaker: Professor Mark Gerstein, Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Computer Science, Yale University
Title: Approaches to Genome Annotation
N.B. Exceptionally held in 334 Evans Hall.

Speaker: Dr. Or Zuk, Broad Institute
Title: Reconstructing Sparse Genomical Signals

Speaker: Dr. Philipp Messer, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Title: Heterozygote Advantage as a Natural Consequence of Adaptation in Diploids

Speaker: Professor Lior Pachter, Departments of Mathematics, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Title: Transcript-Level Differential Analysis of RNA-Seq Experiments

Cancelled

Speaker: Dr. Madhavan Ganesh, Director, QB3 - Computational Genomics Resource Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Title: Galaxy Project: Bringing Computation Closer to Biologists

Spring Recess

Speaker: Professor Terry Speed, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley, and Division of Bioinformatics, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Title: Relating microRNA and mRNA Expression in Cancer Genomics

Speaker: Professor Thomas Hoffmann, Division of Biostatistics, UCSF
Title: Design and Coverage of Genotyping Arrays Using Imputation and a Hybrid SNP Selection Algorithm

Speaker: Dr. Hao Xiong, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: A Flexible Estimating Equations Approach for Mapping Function-Valued Traits

Speaker: Dr. Samantha Riesenfeld, Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco
Title: Optimized Oligomer Libraries to Screen Short Synthetic Enhancers in Vivo

Speaker: Dr. Sharon Aviran, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
Title: Automated RNA Structure Characterization from High-Throughput Chemical Mapping Experiments

Speaker: Dr. Alicia Ohslack, Bioinformatics, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia
Title: Analyzing Human Illumina 450k Methylation Arrays