Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar

Organized by Sharon Aviran, Spring 2012

Wednesdays 2-3pm in 939 Evans.


Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Talk
January 18
Eliana Hechter
The Broad Inst.
The Mystery of Missing Heritability
January 25
Julia Salzman
Stanford
Discovering Novel and Extensive RNA Rearrangements in Human Cells
February 1
Ngoc Tran
UC Berkeley
Hopfield networks and the implanted clique problem
February 8 Murat Arcak
UC Berkeley
Synchrony and Pattern Formation in Spatially Distributed Networks
February 15
Yuriy Mileyko
Duke
Hierarchical ordering of reticular networks
February 22
Chris Hillar
UC Berkeley
Retinal Sensor Spike Modeling with Applications to Biology
February 29 Todd Lowe
UC Santa Cruz
Comparative RNA Sequencing Across the Domain Archaea Suggests Rapid Evolution of RNA-based Gene Regulation
March 7 Guy Bresler
UC Berkeley
Information Theory of DNA Sequencing
March 14
Marisa Eisenberg
Ohio State Univ.
Algebraic Methods in Identifiability with Applications to Disease Dynamics
March 21
Aaron Kleinman
UC Berkeley
Neighbor-joining and balanced minimum evolution
April 4 David Mathews Univ. of Rochester RNA Partition Functions: Structure Prediction Beyond a Single Lowest Free Energy Structure
April 11 Brian Walton
James Madison University
Evolution of phenotypic plasticity thresholds in male dimorphism of dung beetles
April 18 Lior Pachter
UC Berkeley
Latent allocation models and applications to high-throughput genomics
April 25
Kelley Harris
UC Berkeley
Reconstructing admixture histories from long tracts of DNA sequence identity
May 2


Cancelled


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