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 2011
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9 | Stefan Washietl
MIT, CSAIL |
Discriminating coding and non-coding RNAs using comparative sequence analysis | |
| Feb 16 | Corina Tarnita
Harvard University |
The Evolution of Eusociality | |
| Feb 23 | Jinbo Xu
|
Probabilistic Graphical Model for Protein Structure Prediction | |
| March 2 | Jerome Waldispuhl
McGill University |
Ensemble Predictions of beta-sheet Protein Structures | |
| March 9 | Franziska Michor
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health |
Evolutionary dynamics of cancer | |
| March 16 | Leonid Chindelevitch
Pfizer |
Information from Networks | |
| March 23 | -- | Spring Break | -- |
| March 30 | Leonid Mirny | How do cells pack their DNA, and why do we care about it | |
| April 6 | Irwin Jungreis
MIT |
Evidence of abundant stop codon readthrough in Drosophila and other metazoa | |
| April 13 | Nick Patterson | Techniques for the analysis of ancient DNA | |
| April 20 | Petros Drineas
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Dimensionality reduction in the analysis of human genetics data | |
| April 27 | Collin Stultz
MIT |
Modeling Intrinsically Disordered Proteins | |
| May 4 | Alkes Price
Harvard |
Liability threshold modeling increases power in case-control association studies | |
| May 11 | Mona Singh
Princeton University |
Sequence- and structure-based approaches for annotating protein sequences | |
| May 18th | Ned Wingreen
Princeton University |
Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors aren't? |
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.