Fall 2007

Location: 2036 Palmer Commons
Time: Thursdays at 4:00 PM ET

August 30, 2007
Casey Diekman

September 13, 2007
"Bayesian network reconstruction and hidden factor determination of the B cell receptor signaling pathway."
Andrew Hodges, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Co-mentors: Drs. Oliver He and Peter Woolf

September 20, 2007
"Exact Low-Force Kinetics from High-Force Single-Molecule Unfolding Events"
Jeremiah Nummela, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Ioan Andricioaei

September 27, 2007
"Motif Identification in Regulatory Elements Using Random Forests"
Arvind Rao, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Co-Mentors: Drs. Alfred Hero, David States, and Douglas Engel

October 4, 2007
"JCVI Pathema BRC: Engineering an Integrative Bioinformatics Resource Center"
James Sweeney, Bioinformatics Professional MS Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Tanja Davidsen (J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD)

October 11, 2007
"A gene-based concept mapping and corpus summarization system for the biomedical literature"
Carlos Santos, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. David States

October 18, 2007
"Methods for Utilizing MS3 Data in Peptide Identification Strategies"
Pete Ulintz, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Mentors: Drs. Philip Andrews and Alexey Nesvizhskii

October 25, 2007
"Proteome Analysis of Two Cell Lines Derived from Ovarian Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma"
Lan (Nancy) Dai, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. David Lubman

November 1, 2007
"Using Microarrays and Bioinformatics to Unravel Signaling Pathways in the Developing Intestine"
Xing Li, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Mentors: Drs. Deborah Gumucio and David States

November 8, 2007
"Analyzing the Human Genome Diversity Panel: SNPs, CNVs, and applications to disease detection"
Jenna van Liere, Bioinformatics PhD Precandidate, MSTP Fellow
Mentor: Dr. Noah Rosenberg

November 15, 2007
"Integrative analysis of genomic aberrations associated with prostate cancer progression"
Julie Kim, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan

November 29, 2007
"Computational Chromatin Modeling"
Satwikeshwar Reddy, Bioinformatics MS Candidate
Rotation Mentor: Dr. Dan Burns

Monday, December 3, 2007 (SPECIAL TIME)
4:00 PM, 2036 Palmer Commons
"Transcriptional profiling of Calcineurin -- NFAT signalling in pancreatic growth"
Greg Gurda (Department of Physiology)

December 6, 2007
"Amino-acid propensities in protein-ligand binding sites"
Nickolay Khazanov, PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Heather Carlson