Fall 2005

Wednesday, September 14, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
"Understanding Gene Essentiality and Duplicate Gene Evolution through Network Analysis"
Jianzhi George Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Host: Dr. David States

Wednesday, September 21, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
"Regulatory Complexity of Yeast Transcription Networks"
Hao Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
Hosts: Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan and Dr. Steve Qin

Wednesday, September 28, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
"Genome Based Discovery of Prostate Cancer Biomarkers and Novel Drug Targets"
Colin C. Collins, Ph.D.
Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Urology and Cancer Research Institute
University of California, San Francisco
Host: Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
"Multiple Sequence Alignment Using Partial Order Graphs"
Catie Grasso, Ph.D.
Consultant, Soar Technology, Inc.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Host: Dr. Daniel Burns

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
"Metabolomics"
Chris Beecher, Ph.D.
Vice President, Biochemistry and Technology
Metabolon Inc.
Host: Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
NO SEMINAR

Wednesday, October 26, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
"Modeling and Systems Biology of Circadian Clocks"
Daniel Forger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Host: Dr. Daniel Burns

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
"Large-scale Phylogenetics Reconstruction and the Tree of Life"
Bernard Moret, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of New Mexico
Host: Dr. Jignesh Patel

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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
"Functional Analysis of Small Open Reading Frames (sORFs) in S. cerevisae"
Munira Basrai, Ph.D.
Head, Yeast Genome Stability Section
NIH-NCI-Center for Cancer Research, Genetics Branch
Host: Dr. Anuj Kumar

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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
"Assembly of Polymorphic Genomes: Algorithms and Application to Ciona savignyi"
Jade Vinson, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist, Broad Institute
Host: Dr. Noah Rosenberg

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
*** No Seminar, Thanksgiving Holiday ***

Wednesday, November 30, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
"Epigenetic Regulation of Human Spermatogenesis by Chromatin Structure: a MAR Perspective"
Stephen A. Krawetz, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Institute for Scientific Computing
Director, WSU Bioinformatics Node Michigan Life Sciences Corridor
Director, Center of Excellence: Paternal Impact of Toxicological Exposure
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Host: Dr. Dan Burns

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Wednesday, December 7, 2005
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
"Mass Spectrometry Based Approaches to Biomarker Discovery"
O. John Semmes, Ph.D.
Scientific Director, Virginia Prostate Center
Director, Center for Biomedical Proteomics
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Host: Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan

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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
NO SEMINAR

Winter 2006

Wednesday, January 11, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
TBD
Host:

Wednesday, January 18, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
"Engineering Synthetic Biological Systems"
Drew Endy, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Host: Dr. Domitilla Del Vecchio

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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Cancelled

Wednesday, February 1, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
ROOM CHANGE: This seminar will be in Great Lakes CENTRAL, 4th Floor, Palmer Commons Building
"The Digital Human Project: Integrative Human Systems Biology for Research and Instruction"
Brian D. Athey, Ph.D.
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
"Computer Simulation Studies of Structure and Dynamics and Biomolecular Interfaces"
Douglas J. Tobias, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
Host: Dr. Ioan Andricioaei

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
Charles L. Brooks III, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA
Host: Dr. Ioan Andricioaei

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
William Jorgensen, Ph.D.
Dept of Chemistry, Yale University New Haven, CT
Host: Dr. Ioan Andricioaei

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Wednesday, March 1, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
Edward Marcotte, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
The University of Texas, Austin, TX
Host: Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
Lauren Ancel Meyers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
The University of Texas, Austin, TX
Host: Dr. Noah Rosenberg

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
Ravensara Travillisn, Ph.D.
University of Washington Seattle, WA
Host: Dr. Brian Athey

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
Harold Scheraga, Ph.D.
George W. and Grace L. Todd Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus Baker Laboratory of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Host: Dr. Ioan Andricioaei

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EST
Jose Onuchic, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
University of California at San Diego
Host: Dr. Ioan Andricioaei

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Wednesday, April 5, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
Charlie Boone, Ph.D.
Professor, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology
Univerisity of Toronto
Host: Dr. Anuj Kumar

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
Luay Nakhleh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Rice University
Host: Dr. Noah Rosenberg

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
Peter D. Karp, Ph.D.
Director, Bioinformatics Research Group
Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International
Host:

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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT
Philip N. Benfey, Ph.D.
Professor, Biology Department
Duke University
Host: Dr. Anuj Kumar

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