CCMB/Bioinformatics Seminar: October 15
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Bioinformatics Seminars
Fall 2008
For information regarding upcoming seminars, please e-mail: jtroy@umich.edu.
Bioinformatics Seminar Series are held on Wednesdays from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Palmer Commons until otherwise noted.
Please e-mail jtroy@umich.edu to receive advance reading materials.
Next Seminar
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT PLEASE NOTE: TIME CHANGE
Great Lakes South - Palmer Commons
"Interpreting Cellular Heterogeneity"
- Steven Altschuler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
Recommended Reading:
- Image-based multivariate profiling of drug responses from single cells Loo, L.H., Wu, L., Altschuler, S.J. Nature Methods, 2007 May; 4(5):445-53.
- Multi-dimensional Drug Profiling By Automated Microscopy Perlman, Z.E., Slack, M.D., Feng, Y., Mitchison, T.J., Wu, L.F., Altschuler, S.J. Science, 2004 Nov 12; 306(5699):1194-8.
- LinksChang HH, Hemberg M, Barahona M, Ingber DE, Huang S. Transcriptome-wide noise controls lineage choice in mammalian progenitor cells. Nature. 2008 May 22;453(7194):544-7.
Upcoming Seminars
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Co-Sponsored by CCMB and Next-Generation Sequencing Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes South - Palmer Commons
"Next generation transcriptome analysis: Shattering the glass ceiling of prior knowledge"
- Thomas Werner, Ph.D.
CEO & CSO, Genomatix Software
Ann Arbor, MI
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
- Daniel Segrè Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, and Biology
Boston University, Boston, MA
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
- Kevin Coombes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Biomathematics
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
- Jeremy Taylor, Ph.D.
Pharmacia Research Professor of Biostatistics, Director of Biostatistics Core, U of M Cancer Center, Professor of Biostatistics, Research Professor, Computational Medicine & Biology & Professor of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
"Modeling and computations of soft tissue growth"
- Krishna Garikipati, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
- NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING RECESS
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
- Paul Blower, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Pharmacology
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
- Shaomeng Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine, Pharmacology,, and Medicinal Chemistry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Past Seminars
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Patterning Neurogenesis: A dynamical model of ommatidial crystal formation"
- David Lubensky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Recommended reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11880339
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Voter Fraud in the SCN: Detecting the Crimes of Biological Timekeeping"
Joint work with Richard Yamada and (BioI Graduate Student) Casey Diekman
- Daniel Forger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Recommended reading:
Beyond Intuitive Modeling: Combining Biophysical Models with Innovative Experiments to Move the Circadian Clock Field Forward
Daniel Forger, Didier Gonze, David Virshup, and David K. Welsh
Journal of Biological Rhythms, Jun 2007; vol. 22: pp. 200 - 210.
Modeling the Behavior of Coupled Cellular Circadian Oscillators in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
Premananda Indic, William J. Schwartz, Erik D. Herzog, Nicholas C. Foley, and Michael C. Antle
Journal of Biological Rhythms, Jun 2007; vol. 22: pp. 211 - 219.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall - Palmer Commons
"A two-way trip from clinics to the lab"
- Sofia Merajver, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine, Director, Breast Cancer Risk Evaluations Program, and Director, Breast Cancer Research Program
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- van Golen KL, Wu ZF, Qiao XT, Bao LW, Merajver SD: RhoC GTPase, a Novel Transforming Oncogene for Human Mammary Epithelial Cells that Partially Recapitulates the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Phenotype. Cancer Research 60(20):5832-5838, 2000.
- Kleer CG, Zhang Y, Pan Q, van Golen KL, Wu ZF, Livant DL, Merajver SD: WISP3 Is a Novel Angiogenesis Inhibitor and Tumor Suppressor Gene of Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Oncogene 21(20):3172-3180, 2002.
- Kleer CG, van Golen KL, Zhang Y, Wu ZF, Rubin MA, Merajver SD: Characterization of RhoC Expression in Benign and Malignant Breast Disease: A Potential New Marker for Small Breast Carcinomas with Metastatic Ability. American Journal of Pathology 160(2):579-584, 2002.
- Pan Q, Bao LW, Teknos TN, Merajver SD: Targeted Disruption of Protein Kinase C Inactives and Alters the Phosphorylation Status of RhoA, Rac2, and Cdc42 GTPases in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Research, 66(19):9379-9384, 2006.
- Wu M, Merajver SD: Molecular Biology of Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Applications to Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy. Breast Disease, 22:25-34, 2006.
- Ventura AC, and Merajver SD: Genetic Determinants of Aggressive Breast Cancer, Annual Reviews, 59:341-354, 2008.
- Ventura AC, Sepulchre JA, Merajver SD: A Hidden Feedback in Signaling Cascades is Revealed. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(3): e1000041, 2008.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes South - Palmer Commons
"Computational predictive modeling of the impact of screening and treatment on population trends in cancer"
- Alexander Tsodikov, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Form Hall (Palmer Commons)
"System Biology of Mitosis"
- James E. Ferrell Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Chemical and Systems Biology, Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Is there any future for evolutionary genomics?"
- Alexey Kondrashov, Ph.D.
Andrei R Skovoroda Collegiate Professor, Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
