| Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Talk |
| September 1 |
Peter Jarvis
|
U Tasmania
|
Markov invariants and phylogenetic
reconstruction
|
September 8
|
Ruriko Yoshida
|
U Kentucky
|
Optimality
of the neighbor joining algorithm and faces of the balanced minimum
evolution polytope
|
September 15
|
No seminar this week
|
September 22
|
Kelley Harris |
UC Berkeley
|
Using
coalescent theory to infer identity by descent from identity by state
in population sequencing data
|
September 29
|
No
seminar this week
|
October 6
|
Javier Arsuaga |
SFSU
|
Using computational algebraic topology
to characterize chromosome instability in cancer
|
October 13
|
Michael Brudno
|
U Toronto
|
Discovering INDEL and copy number
genomic variation from high-throughput sequencing
|
October 20
|
Robert Guy
|
UC Davis
|
Channeling instabilities in the cytoplasm
of motile amoeboid cells
|
October 27
|
Daniel Zerbino
|
UCSC
|
Velvet, Oases and Columbus: de novo and
assisted assembly of short sequences into genomes and transcriptomes
using de Bruijn graphs
|
November 3
|
Oscar Westesson |
UC Berkeley, UCSF
|
Accurate phylogenetic indel modeling
via sequence transducers
|
November 10
|
Dustin Cartwright
|
UC Berkeley
|
How are
SNPs distributed in genes?
|
November 17
|
Zohar Yakhini
|
Agilent
|
Enrichment statistics for ranked lists
and applications in epigenomics and transcriptomics
|
December 1
|
Tal Pupko
|
Tel Aviv U
|
Evolutionary models accounting for layers
of selection in protein coding genes and their impact on the inference
of positive selection
|
December 8
|
Caroline Uhler
|
UC Berkeley
|
Geometry of
maximum likelihood estimation in Gaussian graphical models
|
