Speaker: Dr. Sach Mukherjee, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Bayesian network analysis of MAPK connectivity in cancer

Speaker: Professor John P. Huelsenbeck, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Bayesian phylogenetics and chinese restaurants

Speaker: Dr. Derek Chiang, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
Title: Reproducibility & sensitivity of Affymetrix exon arrays

Speaker: Professor Fitnat Yildiz, Department of Environmental Toxicology, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Molecular basis and consequences of phase variation in Vibrio cholerae
CANCELLED

No seminar

Speaker: Professor Hua Tang, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
Title: Reconstructing ancestry blocks in admixed individuals using high density genotype data

Speaker: Dr. Yun S. Song, Department of Computer Science, UC Davis
Title: Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Meiotic Recombination
N.B. Computational Biology Initiative Faculty Search
Location: 306 Soda Hall

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Dalevi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Estimating a variable length Markov model from biological sequence data

Speaker: Dr. Benoit Simon-Bouhet, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Range expansion and biological introductions in marine ecosystems: the example of Cyclope neritea (Nassariidae) along the French coasts

Speaker: Cyrus Harmon, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: An Atlas of Spatial Patterns of Gene Expression in Drosophila melanogaster Imaginal Discs

Speaker: Dr. Anand Chokkalingam, Division of Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
Title: Genetic Epidemiology Initiatives in the Northern California Childhood Leukemia Study

Spring recess

Speaker: Benjamin Blum, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley
Title: Resampling Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction using Rosetta

No seminar

Speaker: Professor Katherine S. Pollard, Genome Center and Department of Statistics, UC Davis
Title: Nucleotide bias among recent substitutions in the human genome

Speaker: Dr. Jun Yu, Professor and Associate Director, Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Title: The Pendulum Model: Compositional Dynamics of the Eubacterial Genomes

Speaker: Professor Terry Speed, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Evolutionary analysis of the relaxin peptide family and their receptors