Bioinformatics Seminar
The Bioinformatics Seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Theory of Computation group at 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 year, we are hoping to highlight three topics: (1) language models and their uses in biology and biomedicine, (2) ethical and societal issues in biomedical data (e.g. privacy, fairness), and (3) single-cell biology.
Spring 2013
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13 | Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida | Uncertainity in biological networks: Challenges, Solutions and Opportunities | |
| Feb 20 | Bree Aldridge, Tufts | Understanding the richness of single cell phenotype through measurement and modeling | |
| Feb 27 | Peter Clote, BU | RNA conformational switches and the Fast Fourier Transform | |
| Mar 6 | Jerome Waldispühl, McGill | Exploring the RNA mutational landscape | |
| Mar 13 | Leonid Chindelevitch, Harvard | MONGOOSE - a new approach to metabolic network analysis | |
| Mar 20 | Lenore Cowen | Genecentric: Uncovering Graph-theoretic Structure in High-throughput Epistasis Data | |
| Mar 27 | Spring Break | No Meeting | |
| Apr 3 | Alkes Price, Harvard | Dangerous Adventures with Mixed Models | |
| Apr 10 | Cristian Tomasetti, Harvard | Stochastic Modeling of the Accumulation of Passenger and Driver Mutations in Cancer | |
| Apr 15 | Holiday (Patriots Day) | No Meeting | |
| Apr 17 | Teresa Przytycka | Towards uncovering phenotype/genotype relationships and systems level modeling of tumor heterogeneity | |
| Apr 25 | Julius Lucks, Cornell | Towards A Platform for Engineering RNA Regulatory Networks Using High Throughput RNA Structure Characterization | |
| May 1 | Seyoung Kim, CMU | Sparse Learning Methods for Dissecting the Genetic Control of Biological Systems | |
| May 8 | Gevorg Grigoryan, Dartmouth | Learning from Nature to Engineer Proteins | |
| May 15 | Sohini Ramachandran | Signatures of the great human expansion | |
| May 20 | Final Exams | No Meeting |
Past Terms
A listing of the Bioinformatics Seminar series home pages from prior terms.
- Fall 2023 (Current)
- Fall 2022
- Spring 2022
- Fall 2021
- Spring 2021
- Spring 2020
- Spring 2019
- Spring 2018
- Spring 2017
- Spring 2016
- Spring 2015
- Spring 2013
- Spring 2011
- Spring 2010
- Spring 2009
- Fall 2008
- Fall 2007
- Spring 2007
- Fall 2006
- Spring 2006
- Fall 2005
- Spring 2005
- Fall 2004
- Spring 2004
- Fall 2003
- Spring 2003
- Spring 2001
Organizers and Information
The Bioinformatics Seminar is hosted by MIT Simons Professor of Mathematics and head of the Computation and Biology group at CSAIL Bonnie Berger. Professor Berger is also Faculty of Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology, Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Faculty of MIT CSB, and Affiliated Faculty of Harvard Medical School.
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 the BioWeek calendar.
Bonnie Berger: bab@mit.edu
Shuvom Sadhuka (TA): ssadhuka@mit.edu
To be added to the seminar's email announcement list or for any questions you have about the seminar, please mail bioinfo@csail.mit.edu.
If you plan to enroll in the associated course, 18.418/HST.504: Topics in Computational Molecular Biology, please contact Professor Berger (bab@mit.edu) and cc TA Shuvom Sadhuka (ssadhuka@mit.edu) for more information.