Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar

Organized by Valerie Hower, Fall 2009

Wednesdays 2-3pm in 939 Evans.


Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Talk
July 16, 3-4pm
special day/time
Evans 740
Itsik Pe'er
Columbia
Genetic segments shared within and between human populations
August 24, 3-4pm
special day/time
Baker Board room, MSRI
Megan Owen
N.C. State
A fast algorithm for computing geodesic distances in tree space
August 26
Paul Jenkins
U.C. Berkeley
An asymptotic sampling formula for the coalescent with recombination
September 2
Sebastian Schreiber U.C. Davis
Dispersal mediated persistence: Two tales from the ecological crypt
September 9
Peter Kim
U. of Utah
Questioning the T cell proliferation program
September 16
Alexander Schönhuth
U.C. Berkeley
A statistical framework for improved prediction of true indels in pair HMM based alignments
September 23
John Kececioglu
U. of Arizona
Learning models for aligning protein sequences with predicted secondary structure
September 30
Kristina Crona 
U.C. Merced Bayesian networks and resistance conferring mutations
October 7
Kevin Lin
U. of Arizona
Spike-time reliability of layered neural oscillator networks
October 14
Vijay Pande
Stanford
Folding@home: Pushing the boundaries of molecular simulation orders of magnitude using a combination of Bayesian statistics and large-scale distributed computing
October 21
Filip Cools
K.U. Leuven
Tropical geometry and dissimilarity vectors of trees
October 28
Ben Raphael
Brown
Structural variation in human and cancer genomes
November 4
Luay Nakhleh Rice
Techniques for inferring phylogenetic relationships of species from multi-locus data
November 18
Max Alekseyev U. of South Carolina
Genome rearrangements: From models to predictions
December 2
Ruchira Datta
U.C. Berkeley

December 9
Chand John
Stanford



See the Center for Computational Biology Calendar for other related talks around campus.