BME 280B, Fall 2007

Biomolecular Engineering Seminar Series


The Biomolecular Engineering sseminar series assumes students have a background in biology, chemistry, computer science, or statistics. Please contact Josh Stuart if you have any questions.

Place: Physical Sciences Building, Room 305 (map).
Time:
Tuesdays 12-1:50 (break 12:50-1).

Upcoming Seminars:

Date

Speaker #1
12-12:50

Speaker #2
1-1:50
Food
Bearer
Drink
Bearer

* - NOTE that the last seminar is on Monday (not Tuesday) since that is our day assigned for finals.

Past Seminars:

Date

Speaker #1
12-12:50

Speaker #2
1-1:50
Food
Bearer
Drink
Bearer
12/10*
David Matthews,
Univ Rochester Med Ctr
RNA Secondary Structure Prediction and Applications to
Non-coding RNA Discovery
Jesus Izaguirre, Notre Dame
Prediction and validation of protein and domain interactions using Bayesian inference
Abstract [html]
Pinal Kanabar
Pinal Kanabar
12/4
(no talk scheduled)
Nader Pourmand, BME
Sequencing technologies for improved clinical research and diagnostics
Pinal Kanabar
Tim Sterne-Weiler
11/27
Susan Strome, MCDB
Genetic and genomic studies of chromatin regulation in C. elegans
(no talk scheduled)
Daniel Sam
Daniel Sam
11/20
Camilla Forsberg, BME
Hematopoietic stem cell fate decisions
(no talk scheduled)
Chris Wong
Zack Sanborn
11/13

David Haussler, BME
Evolutionary signatures in the
human genome

(no talk scheduled)
Lauren Lui
Jonathan Magasin
11/6
Phil Berman, BME
Challenges in Developing an HIV Vaccine
Todd Lowe, BME
Genome Dynamics Across Five Hyperthermophile Archaea
and Their Novel Non-coding RNA Features
James Durbin
Steve Benz
10/30
Dana Pe'er, Columbia Univ
Genetics meets Genomics: Genetic Variation and Regulatory Networks
Karen Ottomon, ETOX
Sensing and Signal Transduction in the ulcer-causing pathogen H. pylori
Andy Nguyen
Andrew Uzilov

10/23

William Scott, Chemistry
RNA structure, catalysis and the origin of life
Dietlind Gerloff, BME
Bioinformatics research in protein interactions applying
a (predominantly) structural perspective
David Ng
Shyamini Vasili
10/16
Mark Akeson, BME
High-throughput single molecule sequencing with a molecular nanopore
Manel Camps, ETOX
Analysis of protein evolution:
implications for rational design and for disease
Marcos Woehrmann
Sam Boyarsky
10/9
Melissa Cline, MCDB
The power of genomic conservation in cross-species alternative splicing analysis
Josh Stuart, BME
A genome-wide signaling map for animals
Grant Thiltgen
Herbert Lee
10/2
Jim Kent, BME
Creating and analyzing the UCSC human gene set

Kevin Karplus, BME
Origami with Strings:
Protein Structure Prediction

Greg Dougherty
Greg Dougherty