Computational Biology Seminar

Organized by Niko Beerenwinkel and Lior Pachter, Fall 2005

Mondays 3-4pm in 939 Evans, CC# 55212.


Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
August 29 no seminar
September 5 no seminar (Labor Day)
September 12 Lior PachterUC Berkeley Parametric inference and Drosophila alignments
September 19 Nicholas Eriksson UC Berkeley Discrete stochastic spatial models
September 26 Alex Mogilner UC Davis Self-organizing microtubule asters in mitosis
October 3 Doron Levy Stanford University Post-transplantation dynamics of the immune response to chronic myelogenous leukemia
October 10 no seminar
October 17 Ian Korf UC Davis Investigating the rules of gene structure
October 22 Bay Area Discrete math day
October 24 Christine Heitsch University of Wisconsin From Nucleotide Sequences to Secondary Structures, and Back Again
October 31 Surya Ganguli UCSF The Information Geometry of Survey Propagation
November 7 Javier Arsuaga San Francisco State University DNA knots reveal a chiral organization of DNA in phage capsids
November 14 no seminar
November 21 Joshua Weitz Princeton Modelling the Evolutionary Ecology of Bacteriophage
November 28 Niko Beerenwinkel UC Berkeley Modeling longitudinal clonal HIV mutation data related to drug resistance
December 3 Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area
December 5 Mark Alber University of Notre Dame On multiscale approaches to three-dimensional modelling of morphogenesis

The seminar is followed by the combinatorics seminar