Bioinformatics Past Seminar
The Seminars will be held Bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm in room 457 in the Blocker Building. Unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2008
January 30 – Sing-Hoi Sze
Multiple Sequence Alignment Based on Profile Alignment of Intermediate Sequences
Department of computer Science
Texas A&M University
shsze@cs.tamu.edu
Web Page
February 13 – Byung-Jun Yoon
Profile context-sensitive HMMs
Department of Electrical Engineering
Texas A&M University
bjyoon@ece.tamu.edu
Web Page
February 27 – Fengzhu Sun
An Integrated Approach for Protein Function Prediction
University of Southern California
fsun@usc.edu
Web Page
March 5 – Ann Chen
Song-like vocalizations of false killer whales
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
annchen@stat.tamu.edu
Web Page
March 19 – Jianhua Hu
Estimation equation based causality analysis with application to microarray time series data
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
jhu@mdanderson.org
Web Page
March 26 – Christopher Amos
Issues in Design and Analysis for Genome-Wide Association Studies
Department of Epidemiology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
camos@mdanderson.org
Web Page
April 2 – Sujay Datta
Statistical Models for Count-Based Transcripton Profiling
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
sdatta@stat.tamu.edu
Web Page
April 9 – Xiaofeng Zhu
Genetic association analysis and population structure
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
xzhu1@darwin.case.edu
Web Page
April 16 – Muneesh Tewari
MicroRNA discovery and characterization in embryonic stem cells and cancer
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
University of Michigan
mtewari@fhcrc.org
April 23 – Lan Zhou
Quantification of Protein Lysate Arrays with Nonparametric Curves
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
zhou@stat.tamu.edu
Web Page
Fall 2008
September 24 – Nicoleta Serban
Multiple-component Analysis in Multivariate Additive Regression Modeling Applied to NMR biomolecular Studies
Industrial Systems and Engineering School
Georgia Institute of Technology
nserban@isye.gatech.edu
Web Page
Host: Raymond Carroll
October 4 – 2nd Bi-Annual Bioinformatics Workshop
Schedule of Events
Keynote Speakers, Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin and Monnie McGee,Southern Methodist University
October 8 – Yidong Chen
Statistical Methods for Genome-wide Tiling Microarray and its Application to ChIP-chip Experiments
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Texas Health Science Center @ San Antonio
cheny8@uthscsa.edu
Host: Xiaoning Qian
October 22 – Kai Yu
A partially linear tree-based regression model for multivariate outcomes
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
National Cancer Institute
yuka@mail.nih.gov
Web Page
Host: Ruzong Fan
November 5 – Ananth Grama
Comparative Analysis of Molecular Interaction Networks
Computer Science
Purdue University
ayg@cs.purdue.edu
Web Page
Host: Xiaoning Qian
November 19 – Ashoka Politiya
High Throughput Proteomics Using Mass Spectrometry
Scientiest
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
ashoka.polpitiya@pnl.gov
Web Page
Host: Alan Dabney
Spring 2009
January 21 –Vincent Van Buren
New visual data mining tools for systems biology
Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine
Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine
Temple, Texas
Host: Raymond Carroll
February 4 – Ilya Shmulevich
Modeling and Inference of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
Institute for Systems Biology
ilya.shmulevich@gmail.com
Web Page
Host: Xiaoning Qian
February 18 – Xiaoning Qian
Analysis and Control for Gene Regulatory Networks
Texas A&M University
xqian@tamu.edu
March 4 – Christina Kendziorski
Statistical Methods for Gene Set Co-Expression Analysis
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
kendzior@biostat.wisc.edu
Web Page
March 25 – Cliff Spiegelman
Statistical Issues in Proteomics
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
cliff@stat.tamu.edu
Web Page
April 8 – Zhao-Bang Zeng
Use score statistic to aid model selection for mapping multiple QTL
Department of Statistics and Department of Genetics Bioinformatics Research
zeng@statgen.ncsu.edu
Web Page
April 15 – Martin Dickman
Fungal genomics, death and next generation sequencing
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Texas A&M University
mbdickman.tamu.edu
Web Page
April 22 – Open
May 6 – Tom Taverner
Collaborations in statistical proteomics between PNNL and Texas A&M
Bio Separations and Mass Spect
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
thomas.taverner@pnl.gov
Web Page
Fall 2009
September 2 – Open
September 16 – Yuliya Karpievitch
Statistical Approaches to Protein Quantitation in Botton-Up MS-based Proteomics
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
yuliya@stat.tamu.edu
Web Page
September 30 – Scott Schmidler
Bayesian Shape Analysis and Protein Structure Alignment
Statistical Science
Duke University
schmidler@stat.duke.edu
Web Page
Host: David Dahl
October 14 – Olga Vitek
Protein Quantiication in Label-free LC-MS Experiments
Department of Statistics
Purdue University
ovitek@stat.purdue.edu
Web Page
Host: Yuliya Karpievitch
October 28 – Josue Martinez
Use of Multiple Singular Value Decompositions to Analyze Complex Calcium Ion Signals
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
jgmartinez@stat.tamu.edu
Web Page
November 11 – Guanghua Xiao
Modeling Three-dimensional Chromosome Structures Using Gene Expression Data
Biostatistics
UT Southwestern Medical Center
guanghua.xiao@utsouthwestern.edu
Web Page
Host: Raymond Carroll
December 2 – Kristin Lennox
Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Protein Structure Prediction
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Spring 2010
January 20 – Open
February 3 – Renata Ivanek-Miojevic
Extreme Value Theory in Analysis of Microarrays
Vet Intergrative Biosciences
Texas A&M University
rivanek@.tamu.edu
Host: Raymond Carroll
February 17 – Open
March 3 – Open
March 31 – Abel Rodriguez
Host: David Dahl
April 14 – Open
April 28 – Vadim Zipunnikov
Multilevel analysis of fMRI data
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Department of Biostatistics
Web Page
vzipunni@jhsph.edu
Host: Nikolay Bliznyuk
May 5 – Qing Zhou
Discriminative learning and background modeling for motif discouvery
Univeristy of California Los Angeles
Departmennt of Statistics
Web Page
zhou@stat.ucla.edu
Host: Faming Liang
3rd Bi-Annual Workshop
on Nutrition Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Friday, February 17, 2012 and Saturday, February 18, 2012
Agenda
Workshop Flyer