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.
Schedule - Spring 2021
| Date | Guest Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 24 | Po-Ru Loh Harvard Medical School |
Uncovering hidden genetic variants and their effects on human traits | |
| Mar. 3 | Trey Ideker University of California San Diego |
Predicting drug response and synergy using deep learning models of human cancer | |
| Mar. 10 | Katie Pollard University of California San Francisco |
Sequence-structure-function modeling for DNA | |
| Mar. 17 | Melissa Gymrek University of California San Diego |
Dissecting the role of tandem repeats in complex human phenotypes | |
| Mar. 24 | Chris Sander Harvard Medical School |
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| Mar. 31 | Sarah Teichmann Welcome Sanger Institute |
Multi-modal data integration for cell atlas-ing | |
| Apr. 7 | Alexis Komor University of California San Diego |
Enabling the functional genomics field with base editors | |
| Apr. 14 | David Jones University College London |
AlphaFold2 - the end of the protein folding problem or the end of the beginning? | |
| Apr. 21 | Fabian Theis TU Munich |
Latent space learning in single cell genomics | |
| Apr. 28 | Vineet Bafna University of California San Diego |
Extrachromosomal and other mechanisms of oncogene amplification in cancer | |
| May 5 | Evan Eichler University of Washington |
Structural variation and the assembly of more complete human genomes | |
| May 12 | Cole Trapnell University of Washington |
Massively multiplexed, whole-embryo developmental genetics at single-cell resolution | |
| May 19 | Serena Nik-Zainal University of Cambridge |
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.