Fall 2004

Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Jignesh M. Patel, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
4:00 PM
North Lecture Hall
"Towards Declarative and Efficient Querying on Biological Data Sets"

Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Noah Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Program in Molecular and Computational Biology
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
4:00 PM
North Lecture Hall
"Genome-wide analysis of human variation and population structure"

Tuesday, October 12, 2004
David G. Beer, Ph.D.
Departments of Thoracic Surgery and Radiation Oncology
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Gene Identification and Translational Opportunities in Esophageal Adenocarcinomas"

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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Brett Phinney, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Using informatics and state of the art mass spectrometry to gain insights into biological problems"

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Thursday, November 11, 2004
Jerzy Jurka, Ph.D.
Genetic Information Research Institute, Mountain View, CA
4:00 PM
North Lecture Hall
"Evolutionary impact of mammalian short interspersed repetitive elements (SINEs)"

Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Kyle Furge, Ph.D.
Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Cytogenetic profiling of using regional expression biases"

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Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Gus Rosania, Ph.D.
College of Pharmacy
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
4:00 PM
North Lecture Hall
"Cellular System Analysis of Small Molecule Transport"

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Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Robert Murphy, Ph.D.
Departments of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Location Proteomics: Protein Tagging, High-Throughput Fluorescence Microscopy and Machine Learning"

Tuesday, December 14, 2004
*** HUMAN GENETICS SEMINAR ***
David J. Lipman, M.D.
Director of NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD
2004 ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award Winner
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Message & Meaning in Sequence Comparison"

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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
William R. Sellers, M.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institure, Boston, MA
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Cancer Genome Analysis Using High-Density SNP Arrays and Exon Resequencing"

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Winter 2005

As of February 16, 2005, all seminars will be held in Palmer Commons, Great Lakes Room South on the 4th floor unless otherwise indicated. 

Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Kenneth Pienta, M.D.
Departments of Internal Medicine, Urology
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Modeling the Complex System of Prostate Cancer Migration"

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Dannie Durand, Ph.D.
Departments of Biological Sciences and Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Evaluating Genome Evolution"

Tuesday, January 25, 2005
William R. Pearson, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"From Sequences To Science - New Perspectives on Protein Sequences and Structure"

Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Jason Weber, Ph.D.
Departments of Medicine and Cell Biology & Physiology
Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Proteomic Analysis of Tumor Suppressor Pathways"

Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Claus J. Fimmel, M.D.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
4:00 PM
5915 Buhl
"Proteomics versus serendipity in the discovery of new cancer markers"

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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Peter J. Woolf, Ph.D.
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
4:00 PM
***LOCATION CHANGE***
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building
"Systems biology approaches to drug target identification"

Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Mark Craven, Ph.D.
Departments of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
4:00 PM
***LOCATION CHANGE***
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building
"Machine learning applied to uncovering bacterial gene regulation"

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Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Robert L. Camp, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
4:00 PM
***LOCATION CHANGE***
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building
"Quantitative analysis of tissue microarrays: An embarassment of riches?"

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**Special Seminar**
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Alexey Nesvizhskii., Ph.D.
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle Washington
4:00 PM
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building
"Computational Challenges in Proteomics: From Protein Identification to Biological Interpretation"

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Shuk-Mei Ho, Ph.D.
Departments of Physiology and Surgery
University of Massachusetts, North Worcester, MA
4:00 P
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building
"Profiling of Faslodex-induced gene expression in a prostate cancer cell line"

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Jeremy Miller, Ph.D.
Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI
4:00 PM
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building
"XenoBase: A System for Integrated Management and Analysis of Biomedical and Molecular Data"

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Bing Ren, Ph.D.
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA
4:00 PM
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building
"Mapping Genome's Second Code"

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Eric Phizicky, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemisty and Biophysics
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY
4:00 PM
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building

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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Shankar Subramaniam, Ph.D.
Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California at San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA
4:00 PM 
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building

Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Timothy Hughes, Ph.D.
Banting and Best Department of Medical Research
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
4:00 PM
Great Lakes Room-South, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building