Speaker: Dr. Abha S. Bais, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Identifying subtypes of pairs of motifs to elucidate transcription factor subtype-cofactor associations

Speaker: Caroline Uhler, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Detecting epistasis via Markov bases

Speaker: Dr. Richard Bourgon, Genentech
Title: Independent filtering increases detection power for high-throughput experiments

Speaker: Professor Chiara Sabatti, Division of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Title: Reconstructing DNA copy number by penalized estimation and imputation

Speaker: Dr. Houston Gilbert, Genentech
Title: Statistical applications in the analysis of reverse-phase protein microarray data: Results from a cross-platform evaluation study

Speaker: Dr. Sean Mooney, Director of Bioinformatics, Buck Institute
Title: Beyond the genomes: understanding the molecular functions of genetic variants

Speaker: Dr. Laurent Jacob, Genentech Innovation Fellow, Center for Computational Biology and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Two-sample tests of differential expression on gene networks

Speaker: Dr. Zemin Zhang, Genentech
Title: Whole-genome sequencing of lung cancer samples

Speaker: Dr. Su Yeon Kim, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Estimation of allele frequency and association mapping using next-generation sequencing data

Veterans' Day

Speaker: Dr. Thomas J. Sharpton, J. David Gladstone Institute for Cardiovascular Disease, UCSF
Title: Characterizing microbial diversity from metagenomic data

Thanksgiving Holiday

Speaker: Dr. Steffen Durinck, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Data mining with biomaRt