Speaker: Dr. Peter M. Haverty, Genentech

Title: Mutation, Copy Number and LOH in Cancer Genomes via Next Generation Sequencing

Speaker: Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley

Title: Using Control Genes to Correct for Unwanted Variation in Microarray Data

Speaker: Professor Kathleen Collins, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

Title: Genome Surveillance by Small RNAs

Speaker: Professor Niels Richard Hansen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Title: Correlations of ChIP-Seq Peaks and Other Genomic Signals

Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Purdom, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley

Title: Simple Gene Estimates from RNA-Seq

Speaker: Professor Rick Durrett, Department of Mathematics, Duke University

Title: Modeling Diversity in Tumor Populations

Speaker: Professor Su Guo, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF

Title: Functional Genomics Employing the Vertebrate Model Organism Zebrafish Danio rerio

Speaker: Dr. Lorenza Mittempergher, Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCSF

Title: Gene Expression Profiles from Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded Breast Cancer Tissue Are Largely Comparable to Fresh Frozen Matched Tissue

Speaker: Dr. Franck Rapaport, Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Title: Characterizing cancer progression from the tumor cells and their microenvironment

Speaker: Professor Doris Bachtrog, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

Title: Evolutionary genomics of sex chromosomes in Drosophila

Speaker: Dr. Barry S. Taylor, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Visiting Scientist, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF

Title: Concurrent sequencing of human cancers

Speaker: Professor Hongkai Ji, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Integrative Analysis of Many ChIP-seq and ChIP-chip Experiments