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 2020
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 5 | Bonnie Berger MIT |
Compressive genomics: leveraging the geometry of biological data | |
| Feb. 12 | Domitilla Del Vecchio MIT |
Context dependence of biological circuits: Predictive models and engineering solutions | |
| Feb. 19 | Lior Pachter Caltech |
Some solved and unsolved problems in computational genomics | |
| Feb. 26 | Joshua Welch Univ Michigan |
Quantitative Definition of Cellular Identity by Single-Cell Multi-Omic Integration | |
| Mar. 4 | Marinka Zitnik Harvard |
Learning actionable representations of biomedical data | |
| Mar. 9 | Yang Yang CMU |
New probabilistic models for comparing genome organization and function | |
| Mar. 11 Rescheduled to Apr. 29 |
Peter Karchenko Harvard |
Comparative analysis of disease-oriented single-cell transcriptional dataset collections | |
| Mar. 18 Cancelled |
Steven Salzberg Johns Hopkins University |
Assembling the transcriptome and re-assessing the human gene catalog: How many genes do we have? | |
| Apr. 1 | Bryan Bryson MIT |
TBA | |
| Apr. 8 Rescheduled to Apr. 22 |
Simon Kasif Boston University |
Should Machines Understand Nature to Pass the Turing Test? Co-evolving AI and Systems/Synthetic Biology | |
| Apr. 15 | Alex Shalek MIT |
Identifying and rationally modulating cellular drivers of enhanced and diminished immunity | |
| Apr. 22 | Simon Kasif Boston University |
Should Machines Understand Nature to Pass the Turing Test? Co-evolving AI and Systems/Synthetic Biology | |
| Apr. 29 |
Peter Karchenko Harvard |
Comparative analysis of disease-oriented single-cell transcriptional dataset collections | |
| May 6 | Ziv Bar-Joseph CMU |
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.