PB HLTH 295, Section 003
Statistics and Genomics Seminar

Fall 2016



[Practical Matters] [Schedule] [Abstracts]


Practical Matters

Time
Thursday, 16:10-17:00

Location
1011 Evans Hall (Campus map)

Organizer
Professor Sandrine Dudoit

E-mailing list
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Course registration information
PB HLTH 295, Section 003
Class number: 29936
N.B. SF grade option only, maximum of 2 units
E-mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/forum/#!forum/ph295
Department of Statistics Calendar.

Program from previous semesters.

Center for Computational Biology.

E-mailing list genomics_compbio

Schedule

Thursday, August 25th
Speaker: Dr. William M. B. Edmands, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley
Title: CompMS2miner an R Package for Total Metabolome Identification, Facile Data-Visualization and Sharing Applied to the CASMI Challenge

Thursday, September 1st
Speaker: Drs. Ash Alizadeh and David Matthew Kurtz, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title: Precision Tumor Monitoring and Outcome Prediction from Mathematical Model of Circulating Tumor DNA

Thursday, September 8th
Speaker: Dr. Erin LeDell, H2O.ai
Title: Fast and Scalable Machine Learning in R & Python with H2O

Thursday, September 15th
No seminar

Thursday, September 22nd
Speaker: Professor Sean Bendall, Department of Pathology, Stanford University
Title: Massively Multiplexed Single Cell Analysis Revels Predictive Signatures in Human Disease

Thursday, September 29th
Speaker: Dr. Paul Joseph (Joey) McMurdie, Whole Biome
Title: Some Improvements in Microbiome Analysis Techniques

Thursday, October 6th
Speaker: Dr. Joshua Ladau, Gladstone Institutes, GICD
Title: Estimating the Global Diversity of Bacteria Using Metagenomics

Thursday, October 13th
Speaker: Valentine Svensson, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) - European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, UK
Title: Non-Parametric Modelling of Gene Expression during Cellular Development from Single-Cell RNA-Seq

Thursday, October 20th
Speaker: Professor Sanjay Kumar, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Title: Towards Systems and Synthetic (Mechano)Biology

Thursday, October 27th
Speaker:
Title:

Thursday, November 3rd
Speaker: Professor John Kornak, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Title: Bayesian Image Analysis in Fourier Space, with Applications in Medical Imaging

Thursday, November 10th
Speaker: Dr. Rachel Wang, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Title: Network Modeling of Topological Domains Using Hi-C Data

Thursday, November 17th
Speaker: Professor Noah Zaitlen, Department of Medicine, UC San Francisco
Title: Methods for Genetic Studies across Multiple Phenotypes

Thursday, November 24th
Thanksgiving Holiday

Thursday, December 1st
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Purdom, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Robust Strategies for Analysis of Single Cell mRNA-Seq Data

Thursday, December 8th
Speaker: Professor Uri Keich, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia
Title: Controlling the Rate of False Discoveries in Tandem Mass Spectrum Identifications