PB HLTH 292, Section 020
Statistics and Genomics Seminar

Spring 2013

Speaker: Dr. Lee H. Chae, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA
Title: Metabolic Reconstruction and the Evolution of Plant Metabolism

Speaker: Dr. Julia Brettscheider, Department of Statistics, The University of Warwick, UK
Title: Subset Based Assessment of High-Throughput Gene Expression Data Quality in Time Course Experiments

Speaker: Professor Javier Arsuaga, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University
Title: Mitochondrial DNA Organization in Trypanosomatid Parasites

Speaker: Stephen Francis, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Title: Applications of Metagenomic Epidemiology: From Social Networks to Childhood Leukemia

Speaker: Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline, CEA-Neurospin and UC Berkeley
Title: An Introduction to Brain Imaging Genetics: Bioinformatics and Biostatistical Challenges

Speaker: Dr. Joe Pickrell, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Title: Functional and Evolutionary Analysis of Human Genetic Variation
Time: 15:00-16:00
Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Cancelled

Speaker: Dr. William Forrest, Genentech
Title: Detecting Substrates of Proteolysis via SILAC Assays

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Listgarten, Microsoft
Title: Robust and Fast Linear Mixed Models for Genome-wide Association Studies

Spring recess

Speaker: Professor Chiara Sabatti, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Title: Statistical Challenges in the Analysis of Resequencing Data

Speaker: Dr. Terry Neeman, Statistical Consulting Unit, Australian National University
Title: Can One Increase the Power of a GWAS Study Using a Combination of Resampling DNA Samples and Pooled DNA Genotyping?

Speaker: Lorenzo Maragoni, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy
Title: Bringing out New Information from Microarray Data: Quantile Inference for Differential Expression

Speaker: Dr. Laurent Jacob, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Efficient RNA Isoform Identification and Quantification from RNA-Seq Data with Network Flows

Speaker: Professor Joseph F. Costello, Department of Neurological Surgery, UC San Francisco
Title: Genetic Divergence and Therapy-Driven Evolution between Primary and Recurrent Glioma

Speaker: Dr. Steffen Durinck, Genentech
Title: Integrative Cancer Genomics

Speaker: Professor Olga Vitek, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Title: Statistical Methods and Tools for Quantitative Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics