Speaker: Leonid Teytelman, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Silent but Not Static: Accelerated Base-pair Substitution in Silenced Chromatin of Budding Yeasts

Speaker: Dr. Su Yeon Kim, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Adaptive Evolution of Conserved Non-coding Elements

Speaker: Houston N. Gilbert, Graduate Group in Biostatistics, UC Berkeley, and Intern, Early & Business Development, Genentech, Inc.
Title: Applications of Statistics in Examining Patient SNP Data

Speaker: Professor Ian Holmes, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Title: Beyond Jurassic Park: Remixing the Primordial Soup

Speaker: Dr. Devin Scannell, Eisen Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Comparative genome assembly and genome-scale comparison of regulatory networks between Saccharomyces and Zygosaccharomyces yeasts

Speaker: Professor Nancy R. Zhang, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Title: A Simultaneous Change-point Model for Cross Sample Analysis of DNA Copy Number

Speaker: Professor Rafael Irizarry, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Hidden Markov Model-based CpG islands definition substantially increases overlap with functional elements in the genome

Speaker: Dr. Xiaoyue Zhao, Bionovo
Title: Joint analysis of ChIP-seq and expression data to understand the regulatory mechanism of estrogen receptors

Speaker: Professor Antoine Chambaz, MAP5, Universite Paris Descartes, and Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Studying high-throughput short read sequences with hidden Markov models for multiple processes: First results

Speaker: Dr. Pierre Neuvial, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Defining true recurrences among ipsilateral breast tumor recurrences using DNA copy number data

Speaker: Wei-Chun Kao, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Title: BayesCall: A model-based basecalling algorithm for high-throughput short-read sequencing

Speaker: Laurent Jacob, Center for Computational Biology, Mines ParisTech
Title: Virtual screening, a chemogenomics approach

Speaker: Professor Abby Dernburg, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Recognizing the right partner: Chromosome dynamics during meiosis

Thanksgiving Holiday

Speaker: Charles Denby, Brem Lab, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Screening Yeast Transcription Factors for Feedback on Gene Expression

Speaker: Professor Alan Hubbard, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Some Genomic Studies of Aging: from why exercising makes you younger to finding biomarkers of aging (using worms) to homologous patterns of aging among humans and invertebrates