Speaker: Dr. Emidio Capriotti, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Title: Computational Methods for the Prediction of the Impact of Missense Variants

Speaker: Dr. James Bullard, Pacific Biosciences
Title: Working with Pacific Biosciences Data

Speaker: Dr. Laurent Jacob, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Unsupervised Unwanted Variation Removal for Expression Data

Speaker: Dr. Yu Chuan Tai, Roche Molecular Diagnostics
Title: BMCP: A Segmentation Algorithm for SNP Microarray Copy Number Data from Cancer Studies

Speaker: Dr. Robert Bradley, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title: Alternative Splicing of Single Codons is Regulated and Conserved

Speaker: Dr. Simon Cawley, Ion Torrent
Title: Statistical Challenges for Ion Torrent Semiconductor Sequencing

Cancelled

Speaker: Professor Jie Peng, Department of Statistics, UC Davis
Title: High-Dimension Gaussian Graphical Model Building with Re-Sampling Based Methods

Cancelled

Speaker: Dr. Hector Garcia Martin, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Berkeley, CA
Title: Measuring and Predicting Metabolic Fluxes through 13C Carbon Labeling Experiments for Pure Cultures and Microbial Communities

Speaker: Dr. Peter Ralph, Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
Title: Recent Shared Ancestry within Large Populations

Speaker: Professor Sandrine Dudoit, Division of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Normalization and Differential Expression in RNA-Seq
Seminar of the San Franscico Chapter of the American Statistical Association

Thanksgiving Holiday

Speaker: Professor Kimmen Sjolander, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Title: Challenges in Statistics in (Meta)genome Analysis

Speaker: Dr. Antonio Piccolboni, Revolution Analytics
Title: RHadoop, the Marriage of R and Hadoop