Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk
September 3	Noah Rosenberg	University of Michigan	Gene tree discordance, phylogenetic inference, and the multispecies coalescent
September 10	Robert Bradley	UC Berkeley	Finding the trees in Darwin's forest
September 17	Aaron King	University of Michigan	Inapparent infections hold the key to cholera dynamics
September 24	Radu Mihaescu	UC Berkeley	Combinatorics of least squares trees
October 1	Cécile Ané	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Geneaological concordance: a framework for analyzing multi-locus and genome-wide alignments
October 8	Jian Ma	University of California, Santa Cruz	The inifnite sites model of genome evolution
October 15	Cole Trapnell	University of Maryland	The Tuxedo tools: ultra high-throughput mapping of short sequencing reads
October 22	Dustin Cartwright	UC Berkeley	From Arabidopsis roots to bilinear equations
October 29	Laxmi Parida	IBM/Courant	Combinatorial statistics of gene clusters
November 5	Erick Matsen	Miller fellow, UC Berkeley	Distance based phylogeny in the presence of recombination
November 18	Natalia Komarova	UC Irvine	Stochastic modeling of cancer
November 19	Dorothy Buck	Imperial College, London	The topology of DNA-protein interactions
November 26	Anne Shiu	UC Berkeley
December 3	Marcus Roper	Miller Fellow, UC Berkeley	Measuring biomechanical optimality