Statistics and Genomics Seminar
Fall 2003
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