Fall 2007

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Data Mining Methods for Neuroinformatics"

• K.P. Unnikrishnan, Ph.D.

General Motors Research

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"A Systems Biology Approach for Pathway Level Analysis"

• Sorin Draghici, Ph.D.
  

Director of the Bioinformatics Core, Karmanos Cancer Institute
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science at Wayne State University

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"Turning a flood of data into a deluge: "in silico" genotyping for genome-wide association scans"

• Goncalo Abecasis, Ph.D.
  

Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics Center for Statistical Genetics

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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"Hippocampal place cell firing in waking and sleep:
Implications for learning and memory and data analysis challenges"

• Victoria Booth, Ph.D.
  

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Research Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology,
Medical School and Research Fellow
Mathematics, College of Literature, Science, and the Art
University of Michigan

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
BSRB, first floor conference rooms, 1130 A-C
PLEASE NOTE:  Different location for this week only.
"Indexing for Success: Effective Index-based Methods for Querying Biological Sequences"

• Jignesh Patel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
College of Engineering
University of Michigan

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Catching up with DNA Sequencing Technology: Steps towards automated and community genome annotation"

• Volker Brendel
  

Bergdahl Professor of Bioinformatics; Iowa State University; Department of Genetics; Development and Cell Biology

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes North (Palmer Commons)
"Integrative Translational Research via Decision Modeling"

• James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
  

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"The modulation of hydrophobicity in protein-ligand interactions"

• L. Ridgway Scott, Ph.D.
  

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"Predicting the course of evolution"

• Eric D. Siggia, Ph.D.
  

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"Proteolytic Moulding of the Cancer Microenvironment Proteome: Degradomics Cuts to the Answer"

• Chris Overall, Ph.D.
  

4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"Quantatative Modeling of Transcriptional Elongation"

• Richard Yamada, Ph.D.
  

Winter 2008

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes North (Palmer Commons)
"Protein Networks for Disease Diagnosis and Interpretation of Genotypes"

• Trey Ideker, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of California at San Diego

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"The Cancer Genome Atlas Project: Informatics and Computational Aspects"

• Jun Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Research Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Biology, University of Michigan

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"Genotype, Haplotype, and Copy Number Variation in Worldwide Human Populations"

• Noah Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"Towards the Goal of Real-time Content-Based Image Retrieval for Diagnostic Imaging"

• Ulysses Balis, Ph.D.
  

Associate Professor of Pathology, Director of Clinical Informatics and Co-Director, Division of Pathology Informatics, University of Michigan

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• Todd Reynolds, Ph.D.
  

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
2062 Palmer Commons
"Elucidating Protein Function via Fast Molecular Dynamics Simulations"

• Ron O. Dror, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist
D. E. Shaw Research

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall, Fourth Floor - Palmer Commons
"Graphical models and neural basis of visual inference"

• Tai Sing Lee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"Combining gene set enrichment analysis and gene shaving for predicting low variation biological pathways"

• Dongxiao Zhu, Ph.D.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes South (Palmer Commons)
"Connecting the Network of Yeast Information"

• J. Michael Cherry, Ph.D.