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Seminar - Spring 2002

Time: Thursday 4-5pm
Location: 334 Evans Hall

Thursday, January 17th

Speaker: Dr. Ian Holmes, Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
Title: Maximum likelihood substitution rates using the EM algorithm

Thursday, January 24th

Speaker: Changxuan Mao, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: A Poisson model for the coverage problem with a genomic application

Thursday, January 31st

Speaker: Professor Kimmen Sjölander, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Title: Computational modeling of protein superfamily evolution

Thursday, February 7th

Speaker: Von Bing Yap, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Modeling Molecular Substitution

Thursday, February 14th

Speaker: Katherine Pollard, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: A new method to identify significant clusters in gene expression data.

Thursday, February 21st

Speaker: Dr. Uwe Ohler, Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
Title: Recognition of Core Promoters in the Drosophila Genome

Thursday, February 28th

Speaker: Dr. Julia Brettschneider, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Life in the cDNA and the Affymetrix worlds - two studies on gene expression measurement

Thursday, March 7th

Speaker: Dr. Wynn L. Walker, Abgenix
Title: DNA hybridization modeling and its application to the design of microarrays

Thursday, March 14th

Speaker: Dr. Michael Y. Galperin, National Center for Biotechnology Information
Title: Comparative Microbial Genomics: What Are We Learning?

Thursday, March 21st

Speaker: Xiaoyue Zhao, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: An introduction to stochastic context-free grammars

Thursday, March 28th

Spring Recess

Thursday, April 4th

Speaker: Dr. Melissa Cline, Bioinfocus Consulting
Title: Predicting reliable regions in protein sequence alignments

Thursday, April 11th

Speaker: Professor Karl W. Broman, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Human crossover interference

Thursday, April 18th

Speaker: Dr. Ru-Fang Yeh, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Predicting homologous gene structures and exonic splicing enhancers in the human genome

Thursday, April 25th

Speaker: Blythe Durbin, Department of Statistics, UC Davis.
Title: A Variance-Stabilizing Transformation for Microarray Data

Thursday, May 2nd

Speaker: Professor Daniel M. Gusfield, Department of Computer Science, UC Davis.
Title: Combinatorial Approaches to Haplotyping

Thursday, May 9th

Speaker: Dr. Justin Fay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Assessing genetic differences in gene expression among natural isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae