MIT
Department of Mathematics
& The Theory of
Computation Group
at CSAIL

 
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 is subject to change.

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Schedule

 

The Spring seminar series is scheduled to run Monday the 13th of February until the 22nd of May. Please note that the schedule of speakers is tentative & subject to change.

A list of Fall 2005 abstracts and speaker information is available here.

Date Speaker Title Abstract
       
Feb 13

Joachim Theilhaber, Aventis

 GECKO: a complete large-scale gene expression analysis platform  PDF
Feb 20 Holiday (President's Day)
 No Meeting  
Feb 27 Paul de Bakker, MGH-Molecular Biology Human Genome Variation and Risk to Common Disease PDF
Mar 6 William M. Gelbart, Harvard The Comparative Analysis of Insect Genomes PDF
Mar 13 Jacques Cohen, Brandeis Towards a comprehensive view of computational approaches in systems biology PDF
Mar 20 Karen Sachs, MIT Bayesian network models of biological signaling pathways PDF
Mar 27 Julien Gagneur, EMBL Molecular Networks Decomposition and the Computation of Elementary Modes PDF
Apr 3 Michael Zuker, RPI Predicting nucleic acid hybridization and melting profiles. PDF
Apr 10 Amy Keating, MIT Computational Strategies for Predicting and Designing Protein Structure and Interactions PDF
Apr 17 Holiday (Patriot's Day) No Meeting  
Apr 24 Manolis Kellis, MIT Whole-genome comparative genomics in the fly. PDF
 May 1 Serafim Batzoglou, Stanford Models and algorithms for genomic sequences, proteins, and networks of protein interactions. PDF
May 8 Mona Singh, Princeton Analyzing and interrogating protein interaction maps using network schemas PDF
May 15 Jinbo Xu, TTI A Parameterized Algorithm for Protein Structure Alignment PDF
May 22 Pierre Nicodeme, (CNRS)
Laboratoire d'Informatique, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, and
Algorithms Group of INRIA-Rocquencourt
Palaiseau (FRANCE)		 Asymptotic Average Profiles, from Tries to Suffix-trees 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 Kathleen Dickey

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