Fall 2006

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"The NIH National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI): First Year Progress Report and Future Directions"

• Brian D. Athey, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Principal Investigator, NCIBI
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Windows Room (Palmer Commons)
"Cell-Based Molecular Transport Simulators: Pharmacokinetic Prediction and Cheminformatics Exploration"

• Gus Rosania, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Windows Room (Palmer Commons)
"Integrating Models and Experiments: Molecular Switches and Synthetic Ecosystems"

• Xiaoxia (Nina) Lin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Wednesday, October 4, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Computational Pathogen-Host Interactions"

• Yongqun (Oliver) He, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Windows Room (Palmer Commons)
"Adaptively Inferring Human Transcriptional Subnetworks"

• Michael Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor of Computational Genomics, Statistical Pattern Recognition, and Gene Expression and Regulation
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Host: Anuj Kumar, Ph.D.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Protein Subfamily Classification Methods for NCBI's Conserved Database"

• Stephen H. Bryant, Ph.D.

Senior Investigator, Computational Biology Branch
National Center for the Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM)

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Algorithms for Mass Spectrometry"

• Vineet Bafna, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
University of California, San Diego
Host: Jignesh Patel, Ph.D.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Bayesian Shadows of DNA Clamp Loader Molecular Mechanisms Cast in the Light of Evolution"

• Andrew Neuwald, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Classification and Modeling of Protein Domains, Predicting Protein
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Host: Zhoahui (Steve) Qin, Ph.D.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Emergence of Protein Universe in Organismal Evolution."

• Eugene Shakhnovich, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Host: Ioan Andricioaei, Ph.D.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Form Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Protein-ligand binding: Mining structural databases for physicochemical properties"

• Heather Carlson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Modeling molecular mechanisms of gene regulation and repair"

• Aaron Dinner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
The University of Chicago

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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 EST
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)

• Jason Lieb, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biology
Universit of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Host: Anuj Kumar, Ph.D.

Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Data mining, pathway inference and mathematical modeling: the tools of systems biology"

• Gustavo Alejandro Stolovitzky, Ph.D.

Manager, IBM Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Group
IBM research, TJ Watson Research Center

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Winter 2007

4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Extracting Biological Meaning from High-Dimensional Datasets"

• John Quackenbush, Ph.D.

Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
School of Public Health, Harvard University
Host: Jignesh Patel, Ph.D.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"High content analysis of macrophage morphology"

• James Evans, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Computational and Systems Biology Initiative
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Mining a mine field: Drosophila protein interaction networks"

• Russell L. Finley, Jr., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Division Director of Basic Sciences Research
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Host: Phil Andrews, Ph.D.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Molecular simulations of the folding/unfolding of small proteins and RNA oligomers"

• Angel E. Garcia, Ph.D.

Senior Constellation Chaired Professor of Biocomputation and Bioinformatics, Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Professor of Biology
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Host: Ioan Andricioaei, Ph.D.
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes Room - North (Palmer Commons)
"Understanding and exploiting the evolution of eukaryotic regulatory sequences"

• Michael Eisen, Ph.D.

Sciensist, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Univeristy of California at Berkeley
Host: Jianzhi (George) Zhang, Ph.D., and Trisha Wittkopp, Ph.D.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Molecular Interactions: From Transcriptional Regulation to Protein-protein Docking"

• Zhiping Weng, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Boston University
Host: Zhaohui (Steve) Qin, Ph.D.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Aspects of Genome-Wide Association Studies: Population Structure and Copy Number Variation"

• Jun Li, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist and Project Leader, Stanford Human Genome Center Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine
Host: Margit Burmeister, Ph.D.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Developing LIMS and Analysis Software for Genetics and Metabolomics Data in Two Systems Biology Projects"

• Curtis G. Wilkerson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Director of Proteomics Core
Michigan State University

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Forum Hall (Palmer Commons)
"Cell Motility and the Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) at MIT"

• Paul T. Matsudaira, Ph.D.

Member, Whitehead institute for Biomedical Research
Professor of Biology and Bioengineering
MIT
Director, CSBi and WI-MIT BioImaging Center

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Computational and Statistical Methods for Large-Scale Parentage Inference with Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms"

• Eric C. Anderson, Ph.D.

Southwest Fisheries Science Center

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"Predictive Inference in Spatio-Temporal Networks"

• Alfred Hero, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Statistics

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM EDT
Great Lakes Room - South
"Smart Mining of Drug Discovery Information"

• David J. Wild, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Informatics
Indiana University School of Informatics
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Engineering

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Great Lakes Room - South (Palmer Commons)
"mRNA-miRNA Correlations Arising from a New Functional Model"

• Inhan Lee, Ph.D.
  

Research Investigator
Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor