PB HLTH 295, Section 003
Statistics and Genomics Seminar

Fall 2015


[Practical Matters] [Schedule] [Abstracts]

Practical Matters

Time
Thursday, 16:10-17:00
N.B. Starting September 24th, the seminar will be held 16:40-17:30.

Location
1011 Evans Hall (Campus map)

Organizer
Professor Sandrine Dudoit

E-mailing list
To subscribe to the seminar e-mailing list: https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/statgensem@stat.berkeley.edu

Course registration information
PB HLTH 295, Section 003
Course control number: 76217
N.B. SF grade option only, maximum of 2 units
E-mailing list: https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/ph295@lists.berkeley.edu
Program from previous semesters.

Center for Computational Biology.

Schedule

Thursday, August 27th
Speaker: Dr. Djalel-Eddine Meskaldji, Medical Image Processing Lab (MIPLab), Ecole Polythechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Title: Multiple Testing Procedures for Large and Complex Dependent Data with Application to Study Human Brain Complex Network Properties

Thursday, September 3rd
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Nelson, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA
Title: Genome-Wide Association Methods: Searching Through Individual Genomes for Association with Health and Lifespan Variation in Drosophila

Thursday, September 10th
Speaker: Professor Howard Y. Chang, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title: Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs

Thursday, September 17th
Speaker: Dr. Kwame Okrah, Genentech
Title: Shape Analysis of High-Throughput Transcriptomics Experiment Data

Thursday, September 24th
Speaker: Dr. Angel Rubio, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Tecnicas (CEIT), University of Navarra, San Sebastian, Spain
Title: Improving the Quality of miRNA-mRNA Interaction Predictions

Thursday, October 1st
Cancelled

Thursday, October 8th
Speaker: Professor Aaron Diaz, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
Title: Assessing the Effect of Tumor Heterogeneity on Local Immunosuppression Via Single-Cell Transcriptomics and Genomics

Thursday, October 15th
Speaker: Dr. Sean Ruddy, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Shrinkage of Dispersion Parameters in the Binomial Family, with Application to Differential Exon Skipping

Thursday, October 22nd
Speaker: Nelle Varoquaux, Center for Computational Biology, Mines ParisTech and Institut Curie, Paris, France
Title: Statistical Approaches for Inferring the 3D Structure of the Genome

Thursday, October 29th
Cancelled

Thursday, November 5th
Cancelled

Thursday, November 12th
Speaker: Professor Mark R. Segal, Division of Bioinformatics and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
Title: 3D Genome Reconstruction and Functional Hotspot Identification

Thursday, November 19th
Speaker: Dr. Tom Bartlett, Department of Statistical Science, University College, London
Title: Uni- and Bi-Partite Stochastic Network Models with Applications to 'Omics Data

Thursday, November 26th
Thanksgiving Holiday

Thursday, December 3rd
Speaker: Kelly Street, Graduate Group in Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Mapping Cell Differentiation Patterns by Single-Cell Transcriptomics