Time: Thursday 4-5pm
Location: 334 Evans Hall
Organizer: Professor Sandrine Dudoit

For directions to Evans Hall, please consult the campus map.

UC Berkeley Graduate Group in Computational and Genomic Biology: Seminars

Thursday, September 11th

Speaker: Dr. Jane Fridlyand, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Title: Understanding Array CGH Data

Thursday, September 18th

Speaker: Professor Haiyan Huang, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley.
Title: Poisson-based clustering methods for studying SAGE data

Thursday, September 25th

Speaker: Dr. Blythe Durbin, Division of Biostatistic, UC Berkeley.
Title: Data Transformations for Gene-Expression Microarrays

Thursday, October 2nd

Speaker: Dr. Javier Arsuaga, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Title: New insights on nuclear architecture and DNA repair gained from quantitative analysis of mFISH data

Thursday, October 9th

Speaker: Francois Collin, GeneLogic.
Title: Assessing gene expression data quality for Affymetrix GeneChip microarrays

Thursday, October 16th

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Altschul, National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Title: The Compositional Adjustment of Amino Acid Substitution Matrices

Thursday, October 23rd

Speaker: Professor Susan Holmes, Department of Statistics, Stanford University.
Title: Analysing Agilent arrays for Gene Expression in T-Cells

Thursday, October 30th

Speaker: NO SEMINAR.
Title:

Thursday, November 6th

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey P. Townsend, Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley.
Title: Bayesian analysis of gene expression levels for spotted DNA microarrays: Quantification of relative mRNA level across multiple strains or treatments

Thursday, November 13th

Speaker: Professor Lisa Barcellos, Division of Epidemiology, UC Berkeley.
Title: Searching for genetic factors in complex traits: Multiple sclerosis as an example

Thursday, November 20th

Speaker: Professor Michael I. Jordan, Department of Statistics and Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley.
Title: Kernel methods, graphical models and bioinformatics

Thursday, November 27th

Thanksgiving holiday

Thursday, December 4th

Speaker: Dr. David O. Nelson, Biology and Biotechnology Research Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
Title: Into the woods: discovering genotype-phenotype relationships in modest sized data sets

Thursday, December 11th

Speaker: Professor Peter Bühlmann, Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zurich.
Title: Supervised Grouping of Genes