Computational Biology Seminar

Organized by Bernd Sturmfels and Lior Pachter, Spring 2006

Wednesdays 3-4pm in 939 Evans, CC# 55161.


Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
January 18 Rick Durrett Cornell University Genomic Midpoints: Computation and Evolutionary Implications
[Papers and supplementary material]
January 25 Joyce Macabea Molecular Sciences Institute Modeling Biological Systems with Dynamical Systems Theory
February 1 Olivier Pourquié Stowers Institute for Medical Research TBA
February 8 Serkan Hosten SFSU Polynomial equations from Mass Action Kinetics
February 15 No Seminar
February 22 Claire Tomlin UC Berkeley Mathematical modeling of planar cell polarity in the Drosophila Wing
March 1 Informal discussion Mathematics of Population Genomics
March 8 Seth Sullivant Harvard University Sequential Importance Sampling for Multiway Tables
March 15 No Seminar
March 22 No Seminar
March 29 No Seminar - Spring Break
April 5 No Seminar
April 12 Niko Beerenwinkel UC Berkeley Epistasis and Shapes of Fitness Landscapes
April 19 Radu Mihaescu UC Berkeley Why Neighbor Joining Works
April 26 Joshua Leonard UC Berkeley Designing Gene Therapy Strategies that Suppress HIV
May 3 Tobias Sing Max Planck Institute for Informatics Genetic, Clinical and Structural Covariates in Predictive and Interpretable Models of HIV-1 Coreceptor Usage
May 9 @4pm (Note date and time change) Erick Matsen Harvard University New Approaches to Phylogenetic Tree Shape


Fall 2005 Computational Biology Seminar