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 2009
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4 | TBA | ||
| Feb 11 | Lenore Cowen
Tufts |
Fault Tolerance in Protein Interaction Networks: Stable Bipartite Subgraphs and Redundant Pathways | |
| Feb 18 | Shuba Gopal
formerly at Rochester Institute of Technology |
Genetic Algorithm Learning: A New Approach for the Discovery of Small, Diffuse Patterns in Genomic Sequences | |
| Feb 25 | Francois-Major
University of Montreal |
The Discovery of Nucleotide Cyclic Motifs, the Implementation of the MC-Fold and MC-Sym Pipeline, and the Prediction of Small and Large RNA 3-D Structures | |
| Mar 4 | Amy Keating
MIT |
Designing Protein-Protein Interaction Specificity | |
| Mar 11 | Rolf Backofen
Universitat Freiburg |
Non-Coding RNAs: How to Find Them and How to Find Targets | |
| Mar 18 | Tobias Bollenbach
Harvard University |
Non-optimal Microbial Response to Antibiotics Underlies Drug Interactions | |
| Mar 30 | Jinbo Xu
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago |
Protein Threading by Nonlinearly Combining Evolutionary and Non-evolutionary Information | |
| Apr 1 | David Reich
Harvard University |
Reconstructing Indian Population History | |
| Apr 8 | Samuel Kou
Harvard University |
Exploring Global Energy Landscape of Lattice Protein Models Via Monte Carlo Methods | |
| Apr 15 | Austin Che
MIT, Ginkgo BioWorks |
Engineering Synthetic Splicing Ribozyme Systems | |
| Apr 22 | Charles W. O'Donnell
MIT |
Modeling Ensembles of Beta-Sheet Folds | |
| Apr 29 | Ivan Dotu
Brown |
Combinatorial Optimization Applications in Computational Biology | |
| May 6 | Jim Collins
BU |
Bacterial Network Biology | |
| May 13 | Jin Liu
Harvard |
A Bayesian Partition Model for Detecting eQTL Modules |
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.