PH 292, Section 013

Statistics and Genomics Seminar

Fall 2005


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

Program from previous semesters

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

Graduate Group in Computational and Genomic Biology


Registration information:

PB HLTH 292, Section 013
Course control number: 76442.
2 units, register with the SF grade option.


Thursday, September 8th

Speaker: Dr. Marco Blanchette, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley.
Title: Monitoring the level of alternatively spliced mRNA trough genome wide micro-arrays.
Thursday, September 15th

Speaker: Professor Torsten Hothorn, Institut fuer Medizininformatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie Fiedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg.
Title: A Computational Framework for Conditional Inference with an Application to Unbiased Recursive Partitioning.

Thursday, September 22nd

Speaker: Qing Zhou (Wong Lab), Department of Statistics, Stanford University.
Title: Detecting Cis-Regulatory Modules by Modeling Correlated Structures in Genomic Sequences.

Thursday, September 29th

Speaker: Professor Mark J. van der Laan, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley.
Title: Multiple Testing Procedures for Control of Tail Probability of Proportion of False Positives.

Thursday, October 6th

Speaker: Dr. Katherine S. Pollard, Department of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz.
Title: New methods for detecting lineage-specific evolution of DNA.

Thursday, October 13th

Speaker: Cyrus Harmon, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley.
Title: Generation and Analysis of Spatial Patterns of Gene Expression in Imaginal Discs.

Thursday, October 20th

Speaker: Kasper D. Hansen, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley.
Title: Locating transcription factor binding sites using ChIP on chip.

Thursday, October 27th

Speaker: Ben Brown, Graduate Group in Applied Science and Technology, UC Berkeley.
Title: Multiply Conserved Non-Coding Elements: In search of functional classifications.

Thursday, November 3rd

Speaker: Richard Bourgon, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley.
Title: Localization of transcription factor binding sites via chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and high-density tiling arrays: an assay model, and its implications for analysis and interpretation.

Thursday, November 10th

Speaker: Professor David C. Kulp, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts.
Title: Regulatory network dependencies from genetic variation and quantitative expression profiling.

Thursday, November 17th

Speaker: Maya Petersen, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley.
Title: History-Adjusted Marginal Structural Models and Time-Dependent Causal Effect Modification.

Thursday, November 24th

Thanksgiving Holiday.

Thursday, December 1st

Speaker: Professor Ru-Fang Yeh, Division of Biostatistics, UCSF.
Title: Analysis issues of oligonucleotide tiling array data.

Thursday, December 8th

Speaker: Elizabeth Purdom, Department of Statistics, Stanford University.
Title: Analysis of Ecological Data: Use of Phylogenetic Trees with Diversity Measurements.