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) evolution and computational approaches to modeling and understanding it, (2) generative AI for biology/biomedicine, and (3) algorithms for computational biology/genomics.
Time and location
(Please note the new schedule! In previous years, the seminar was held on Wednesdays.)
Meeting time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 AM (Eastern Time) virtually on Mondays, unless otherwise specified.
The seminar meets over Zoom (link here).
More information coming soon!
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 12 | Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University |
Integration, modularity and network analysis for understanding disease | |
| Sep. 19 | Jian Peng UIUC |
High-resolution de novo structure prediction from primary sequence | |
| Oct. 3 | Zhiping Weng UMass Medical |
Evolutionary Landscapes of Human cis-regulatory Elements and Transcription Factor Binding Sites in the Mammalian Lineage | |
| Oct. 10 | HOLIDAY | ||
| Oct. 17 | Teresa Przytycka NIH |
Delineating the Interactions Between Mutagenic Signatures, Cellular Processes, and Environment Through Computational Approaches | |
| Oct. 24 | Lenore Cowen Tufts |
Topsy-Turvy: integrating a global view into sequence-based PPI prediction | |
| Oct. 31 | Xihong Lin Harvard |
Scalable Integrative Analysis of Large Biobank and Population-Based Whole Genome Sequencing Studies With Variant Functional Annotations | |
| Nov. 7 | William NobleUniversity of Washington | Two machine learning models for translating between modalities of single-cell sequencing data and from mass spectra to peptide sequences | |
| Nov. 14 | Vikram Khurana Brigham and Women's Hospital |
CANCELLED |
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| Nov. 21 | Burkhard Rost TUM |
Recent Advancements in Protein Langauge Models for Prediction
[Note: Deborah Marks' talk cancelled] |
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| Nov. 28 | Martin Vingron Max Planck Institute |
Association Plots and Joint Clustering and Embedding of Genes and Cells | |
| Dec. 5 | Barry Honig Columbia |
Structure-based proteome wide prediction of protein-protein and protein-compound interactions | |
| Dec. 12 | Haixu Tang Indiana University |
Deep learning approaches to computational mass spectrometry | |
Past Terms
A listing of the Bioinformatics Seminar series home pages from prior terms.
- Fall 2024
- Fall 2023
- 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
Anna Sappington (TA): asapp@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 and cc TA Anna Sappington (asapp@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 Anna Sappington (asapp@mit.edu) for more information.