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.
Time and Location
Meeting Time: 11:30 - 1:00 virtually on Wednesdays unless otherwise specified.
Zoom Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175 Please access Zoom with your institutional account (mit.edu)
More information coming soon
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
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| 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) |
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| Nov. 10 | Nima Aghaeepour (Stanford) |
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| Nov. 17 | Charlotte Deane (Oxford) |
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| Nov. 24 | Janet Thronton (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) |
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| Dec. 1 | Elodie Ghedin (NIH) |
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| Dec. 8 | Arjun Raj (University of Pennsylvania) |
Past Terms
A listing of the Bioinformatics Seminar series home pages from prior terms.
- 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 Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 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
Sarah Nyquist (TA): nyquist@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 Sarah Nyquist (nyquist@mit.edu) for more information