Winter 2008

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

January 10, 2008
"Lost In Translation -- A proposed role for the 5'-UTR in miRNA-mediated gene expression regulation"
Shankar Subramanian, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Brian Athey, Dr. Inhan Lee

January 17, 2008
"Development and Application of a Risk Index to Predict the Risk of Developing Chronic Disease"
Reagan Kelly, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Sharon Kardia

January 31, 2008
"Identifying downstream targets of the Shh signaling pathway using Bayesian Network methods"
Abhik Shah, Bioinformatics PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Peter Woolf

February 7, 2008
"Analysis of cis regulation of gene expression in human brain"
Viktoriya Strumba, PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Margit Burmeister

Friday, February 15, 2008
*** SPECIAL BISTRO - Recruiting Weekend Presentation ***
"Fundamental differences between high- and low-affinity complexes of enzymes and non-enzymes"
Mark Benson, PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Heather Carlson

Friday, March 14, 2008
*** SPECIAL BISTRO - Public Dissertation Defense ***
"Aggregation, dissemination, and analysis of high-throughput scientific data sets in the field of proteomics"
Jayson Falkner, PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Philip C. Andrews

April 11, 2008
"Generally Applicable Gene Set Enrichment (GAGE) and Pathway Inference on Lung Cancer and MSC Differentiation"
Weijun Luo, Bioinformatics MS, Biomedical Engineering PhD Candidate
Mentor: Dr. Peter Woolf