PB HLTH 292, Section 008
Statistics and Genomics Seminar

Fall 2009

Time: Thursday, 16:00-17:00
Location: 1011 Evans Hall
Organizer: Professor Sandrine Dudoit

Please e-mail sandrine@stat.berkeley.edu to be added to the seminar e-mail list.

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PB HLTH 292, Section 008
Course control number: 76304
N.B. SU grade option only, maximum of 2 units
Thursday, September 3rd
Speaker: Professor Ingo Ruczinski, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Title: SNP Association Studies with Case-Parent Trios

Thursday, September 10th
Speaker: Professor Daniel Yekutieli, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University
Title: Adjusted Bayesian inference for selected parameters

Thursday, September 17th CANCELED
Speaker: Dr. Holger Schwender, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Detection and Improved Ranking of Disease-Associated SNPs and SNP Interactions Using Logic Regression

Thursday, September 24th CANCELED

 Thursday, October 1st
Speaker: Dr. Pierre Neuvial, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: TumorBoost: Normalization of allele-specifc tumor copy numbers in paired tumor/normal designs for genotyping microarrays

Thursday, October 8th
Speaker: Dr. Dennis Kostka, Gladstone Institutes, UCSF
Title: Non-coding sequences near duplicated genes evolve rapidly

Thursday, October 15th POSTPONED to October 29
Speaker: Angela N. Brooks, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Using RNA-Seq for a global analysis of alternative splicing regulation in Drosophila melanogaster

Thursday, October 22nd
Speaker: Professor Jason D. Lieb, Department of Biology, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: An atlas of open chromatin spanning diverse human cell types in health and disease

Thursday, October 29th
Speaker: Angela N. Brooks, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Using RNA-Seq for a global analysis of alternative splicing regulation in Drosophila melanogaster

Thursday, November 5th
Speaker: Dr. Robert Gentleman, Genentech
Title: Combining data using Bayes factors

Thursday, November 12th
Speaker: Nathan Boley, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Statmap: A utility for the principled mapping of short reads to a reference genome

Thursday, November 19th
Speaker: Dr. Wenyi Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Genome Technology Center, and Visiting Scholar, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Detecting Rare Variants in Candidate Genes for Mitochondrial Diseases using Resequencing Microarrays

Thursday, November 26th
Thanksgiving Holiday

Thursday, December 3rd
Speaker: Oleg Mayba, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: A shape-based approach to signal-noise deconvolution in transcription factor ChIP-Seq Data