PH 296

Statistics and Genomics Seminar

Spring 2003

Time: Thursday 4-5pm
Location: 334 Evans Hall
Organizer: Professor Mark J. van der Laan

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

Berkeley Program in Computational and Genomic Biology: Seminars

Thursday, January 23rd

Speaker: Katherina Kechris, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Detecting DNA regulatory motifs by incorporating positional trends in information content

Thursday, January 30th

Speaker: Professor Nina T. Holland, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley
Title: Functional Genomics and Pesticide Exposure in Children and Pregnant Woman

Thursday, February 6th

Speaker: Sunduz Keles, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Binding site detection by incorporating structural information and Model selection for regression on censored outcomes

Thursday, February 13th

Speaker: Dr. Eric C. Anderson, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Finding haplotype block boundaries using the minimum description length (MDL) principle

Thursday, February 20th

Speaker: Dr. Haiyan Huang, Department of Biostatistical Science, Harvard School of Public Health, and Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Title: Statistical Methods for Identifying Transcription Factor Binding Sites
Job candidate for Statistics Department
Please note room change: 1011 Evans.

Thursday, February 27th

Speaker: Mayetri Gupta, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Title: Sequence Pattern Discovery under a Stochastic Dictionary Framework
Job candidate for Statistics Department
Please note room change: 1011 Evans.

Thursday, March 6th

Speaker: Professor Niels Richard Hansen, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Currently visiting Department of Statistics, Stanford University.
Title: Folding of Random Sequences with Application to RNA-gene Finding

Thursday, March 13th

Speaker: Professor Steven E. Brenner, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Alternative splicing and gene regulation

Thursday, March 20th

Speaker: Katherine Pollard, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Multiple testing procedures for gene expression data

Thursday, March 27th

Spring recess - no seminar

Thursday, April 3rd

Speaker: Professor Michael B. Eisen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: The cis-regulatory code

Thursday, April 10th

Speaker: Professor Sandrine Dudoit, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Unified Cross-validation Methodology for Estimator Selection and Applications to Genomics

Thursday, April 17th

Speaker:Professor Leo Breiman, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Multiple Output Analysis

Thursday, April 24th

Speaker: Professor Terence P. Speed, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: To pool or not to pool: an experience with GeneChips

Thursday, May 1st

Speaker: Professor David O. Siegmund, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Title: Gene Mapping and Model Selection

Thursday, May 8th

Speaker: Professor Trevor Hastie, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Title: Least Angle Regression, Forward Stagewise and the Lasso

Thursday, May 15th

Speaker: Professor Todd M. Lowe, Department of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Title: The Hunt for Non-coding RNAs