Speaker: Dr. Steffen Durinck, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title:Database mining with biomaRt
N.B. Seminar to be held exceptionally in 332 Evans Hall

Speaker: Peter Huggins, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
Title: The geometry of neighbor joining and minimum evolution trees

Speaker: Dr. Henrik Bengtsson, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Estimating chromosomal copy numbers from Affymetrix SNP & CN chips

Speaker: Liana Lareau, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Ultraconserved nonsense and unproductive mRNA splicing

Speaker: Professor Gavin Sherlock, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
Title: Evolution and Speciation in Saccharomyces yeasts - Insights Yielded By Genomic Approaches

Speaker: Professor Ingo Ruczinski, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Hidden Markov Models for the Assessment of Chromosomal Alterations using High-throughput SNP Arrays

Speaker: Dr. Şerban Nacu, Genentech Inc.
Title: Gene Expression Network Analysis

Speaker: Dr. Isaac Cohen, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Bionovo
Title: Statistics in drug development - from instruments, bench sciences and clinical data analysis

Speaker: Professor Andrej Sali, Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF -- Sponsored by DE in Computational and Genomic Biology
Title: The architecture of the Nuclear Pore Complex determined by integrating spatial restraints from proteomic data

Speaker: Dr. Yun S. Song, Section of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis -- Sponsored by DE in Computational and Genomic Biology
Title: A Genealogical Approach to Studying Asexuality

Speaker: Dr. Martin G. Reese, CEO, President, and Co-Founder, Omicia
Title: Assessing disease predisposition from the genome: Implications and challenges for clinical applications

Speaker: Markus Fischer, Entelechon
Title: Towards an automated screening of biorisk-associated DNA and protein sequences

Thanksgiving Holiday

Speaker: Professor Jeff Wall, Division of Biostatistics, UCSF
Title: Detecting Neanderthal admixture from DNA sequence data

Speaker: Professor Mark Segal, Division of Biostatistics, UCSF
Title: Re-Cracking the Second Genetic Code

Speaker: Professor Rob Knight, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: To Tree or Not To Tree: Phylogeny and Microbial Community Comparisons