PB HLTH 295, Section 001
Statistics and Genomics Seminar

Spring 2017


[Practical Matters] [Schedule] [Abstracts]

Practical Matters

Time
Thursday, 16:10-17:00

Location
1011 Evans Hall (Campus map)

Organizer
Professor Sandrine Dudoit

E-mailing list
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Course registration information
PB HLTH 295, Section 001
Class number: 32526
N.B. ESU grading basis only, maximum of 2 units
E-mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/forum/#!forum/ph295
Department of Statistics Calendar.

Program from previous semesters.

Center for Computational Biology.

E-mailing list genomics_compbio.

Schedule

Thursday, January 19th
Speaker: Professor Julia Palacios, Department of Statistics and Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
Title: Quantifying and Mitigating the Effect of Preferential Sampling on Phylodynamic Inference

Thursday, January 26th
Speaker: Dr. David Benkeser, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Optimally Combining Outcomes to Improve Prediction

Thursday, February 2nd
Cancelled

Thursday, February 9th
Speaker: Professor Aaron Streets, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Title: Imaging and Sequencing Single Cells

Thursday, February 16th
Speaker: Dr. James Bentley (Ben) Brown, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Statistical Machine Learning in Molecular Biology and Ecotoxicology

Thursday, February 23rd
Speaker: Professor Kin Fai Au, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa
Title: Transcriptome Analysis at the Gene Isoform Level Using Hybrid Sequencing

Thursday, March 2nd
Speaker: Professor John Marshall, Divisions of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
Title: Gene Drive: What is Possible at the Population Level with Currently-Available Molecular Components?

Thursday, March 9th
Speaker: Professor Jimmie Ye, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Title: Multiplexing Droplet-Based Single Cell RNA-Sequencing Using "Genetic Barcodes"

Thursday, March 16th
Cancelled

Thursday, March 23rd
peaker: Jeffrey Spence, Gradute Group in Computational Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Fast Inference of Fine-Scale Recombination Rates from Phased or Unphased Data

Thursday, March 30th
Spring Recess

Thursday, April 6th
Speaker: Dr. Eilon Sharon, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
Title: Fine Mapping Associations between Multi-Allelic Genetic Variability in the HLA Locus and Expression of T Cell Receptor Genes

Thursday, April 13th
Speaker: Professor Purvesh Khatri, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title: Data Re-Use is Not Parasitism: Translational Medicine Using Public Data

Thursday, April 20th
Speaker: Professor Lu Tian, Department of Statistics and Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
Title: Meta Analysis with Very Small Number of Studies

Thursday, April 27th
Speaker: Professor Ian Holmes, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Title: Web Visualization, Gene Set Analysis, and Workflow Management

Thursday, May 4th
Cancelled

Thursday, May 11th
Speaker: Geno Guerra, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Coalescent-Based Species Tree Inference Using Covariance Matrices