Computational Biology Seminar, Department of Mathematics

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

Speaker: Professor Saunak Sen, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF.
Title: Quantitative trait mapping study designs from an information perspective.

Speaker: Todd Z. DeSantis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Title: Hybridization Efficiency Analysis Of Probes Targeting 16S rRNA Genes Using The Affymetrix Genechip Format.

Speaker: Professor Matthew Stephens, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle.
Title: Automatically Detecting and Genotyping Genetic Variants (SNPs) by Sequencing of Diploid Samples.
N.B. Seminar held in 306 Soda Hall.

Speaker:Dr. Nancy Zhang, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley.
Title: Modified BIC for Change-point Problems with Applications to Array-CGH Data.

Speaker: Professor Irmtraud Meyer, University of British Columbia.
Title: Novel Algorithms for Investigating New RNA Features.
N.B. Seminar held in 306 Soda Hall.

Seminar cancelled.

Speaker: Barbara Engelhardt, Department of Computer Science, UC Berkeley.
Title: SIFTER: A statistical graphical model for predicting protein molecular function.

Speaker: Dr. Sach Mukherjee, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley.
Title: Data-adaptive test statistics for genomics.

Speaker: Professor Martyn T. Smith, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley.
Title: Application of 'omics' to the study of chemically-exposed humans.

Spring Recess.

Speaker: Colin Dewey, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley.
Title: Whole-genome alignments and polytopes for comparative genomics.

Speaker: Professor Hao Li, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, UCSF.
Title: Combinatorial Regulation in Yeast Transcription Networks.

Speaker: Anton Valouev, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California.
Title: Optical Mapping and its applications to discovering structural variations in genomes.

Speaker: Professor Jane Fridlyand, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF.
Title: Some issues in the analysis of high dimensional cancer data.

Speaker: Professor William Jagust, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley.
Title: Analysis of Brain Images: Methods and Models.

Speaker: Dr. Debopriya Das, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Title: Inferring Transcriptional Subnetworks from Microarray Expression Data using Regression Splines.