MIT Department of Mathematics & Theory of Computation Group at CSAIL: Bioinformatics Seminar

Bioinformatics Seminar

The seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Theory of Computation group at the MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The seminar series focuses on highlighting areas of research in the field of Computational Biology. This is the seminar's fifth year.

Time & Location

Refreshments: 11 am MIT's Building 32, The Stata Center, The TOC Lab Room G575

Talk: Mondays, 11:30 am to 1 pm MIT's Building 32, The Stata Center, The TOC Lab Room G575

General Directions to MIT: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?section=directions
Location of Building 32: http://www.csail.mit.edu/contact/contact.html

Please be advised that this location & schedule are subject to change.

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Schedule

The Fall seminar series is scheduled to run Monday the 11th of September until the 20th of November. Please note that the schedule of speakers is tentative & subject to change.

A list of Spring 2006 abstracts and speaker information is available here.

Date	Speaker	Title	Abstract

Sep 11	David Sankoff, Univ of Ottawa	Genome rearrangement algorithms in statistical and biological perspectives	PDF
Sep 18	Teresa Przytycka, National Center of Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH	Delineating dynamics of biological processes from static biological networks	PDF
Sep 25	MIT Holiday
Oct 2	TBA	TBA	TBA
Oct 9	Columbus Day
Oct 16	Grégory Batt, BU	Combining discrete abstraction and model checking for the analysis of partially-known models of natural and synthetic gene networks	PDF
Oct 23	Russell Schwartz, CMU	Near-perfect Phylogeny Construction from Genetic Variation Data	PDF
Oct 30	W. Andrew Lorenz, BC	A Self-adaptive Random Walk Algorithm to Identify Genetic Epistatic Effects	PDF
Nov 6	Ken Dill, UCSF	Protein folding: Is it still a problem?	PDF
Nov 13	Aviv Regev, MIT Biology/Broad Institute	Natural history and evolutionary principles of gene duplication in fungi	PDF
Nov 20	Shamil Sunyaev, Harvard	How bad is the human genome or what can we learn from sequencing many humans?	PDF

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Organizers & Questions

The seminar is co-hosted by Professor Peter Clote of Boston College's Biology and Computer Science Departments and MIT Professor of Applied Math Bonnie Berger. Professor Berger is also affiliated with CSAIL & HST.

The seminar is announced weekly via email to members of the seminar's mailing list and to those on CSAIL's event calendar list. It is, also, posted in BioWeek.

For general questions or to be added to the seminar's email announcement list, please mail bioinfo@theory.csail.mit.edu

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