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.
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 15 | Liana Lareau (University of California, Berkeley) |
Identifying cell state associated alternative splicing events and their co-regulation | |
| Sep. 22 | Ben Raphael (Princeton University) |
Quantifying Tumor Heterogeneity across Time and Space | |
| Sep. 29 | Lenore Cowen Tufts University |
Diffusion-Based Methods for Biological Network Analysis | |
| Oct. 6 | Xuegong Zhang (Tsinghua University) |
Toward a Unified Information Framework for Cell Atlas Assembly | |
| Oct. 13 | Christina Leslie (Sloan Kettering Institute) |
Advances in predictive models for regulatory genomics | |
| Oct. 20 | Jean Fan (Johns Hopkins University) |
Multi-scale computational analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomic imaging data | |
| Oct. 27 | Stacey Finley (University of Southern California) |
Mechanistic modeling of immune cell activation in cancer | |
| Nov. 3 | Aaron Streets (University of California, Berkeley) |
Single-cell multimodal analysis of thymocyte development reveals drivers of CD4/CD8 lineage commitment | |
| Nov. 10 | Nima Aghaeepour (Stanford) |
Multiomics Analysis of the Immunome, Transcriptome, Microbiome, Proteome, and Metabolome in Term Pregnancy | |
| Nov. 17 | Charlotte Deane (Oxford) |
Machine learning for early stage drug discovery | |
| Nov. 24 | Janet Thornton (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) |
Computational Enzymology: Towards using knowledge of structure and function to predict enzyme transformations and mechanisms. | |
| Dec. 1 | Elodie Ghedin (NIH) |
Shedding light in a dark place: Microbial ecology of the airways in respiratory infections | |
| Dec. 8 | Arjun Raj (University of Pennsylvania) |
Emergent cellular ecosystems in melanoma revealed by single cell analysis |
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.