BME 280B - Spring 2008

General Class Information

Lecture times:

Tuesday & Thursday - 12pm-1pm

           Please note: Friday Lectures: May 9 and May 23

Location:

599 Engineering 2

Instructor:

Name: David Haussler - haussler@soe.ucsc.edu

Instructor Office Hours:

By Appointment

BME 280B Speakers

April 1, 2008        David Haussler

Tuesday

April 8, 2008        Julia Pak, Stanford University

Tuesday              TITLE: Small RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans

April 15, 2008      Kaiming Ye 12-1:00PM,

Tuesday              TITLE: Toward Cell Therapy for Diabetes—Directing the

                          Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells into Mature Insulin-

                          Producing B Cells in 3DCultures

                          David Liberles 1-2:00PM, University of Wyoming

April 22, 2008      Katie Pollard, University of California, Davis

Tuesday

April 29, 2008      Gerard Marriott, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday              TITLE: Optical Switches: New Molecular Tools for Multiscale

                          Analysis of Protein Function

*May 9, 2008       Su-In Lee, Stanford University

Friday                 TITLE: Machine learning approaches for understanding

                          the genetic basis of complex traits

May 13, 2008       Lior Pachter, University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday              TITLE: Phylogenetic oranges

*May 23, 2008     Ilan Wapinski, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Friday                 TITLE: Trees and forests: Automatic genomic-wide

                        reconstruction of phylogenetic gene trees

May 29, 2008       Arend Sidow, Stanford University

Thursday

June 3, 2008        Michael Jordan, University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday