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Fridays at 11am.

Seminars hosted by Carnegie Mellon are in the Mellon Institute conference room
Seminars hosted by Pitt are in BST3 room 6014

2006-2007 Seminar Series schedule
Date/LocationSpeakerAffiliationhomepageTitle of TalkHost
Aug. 31, 2007 @ BST3Nir Friedman Hebrew University homepage Natural history and evolutionary principles of gene duplication in fungi Naftali Kaminski
Sep. 7, 2007 @ MIShlomo Ta'asan Carnegie Mellon University homepageMathematical modeling approaches for systems biology
Sep. 17, 2007 @ MIPratul K. Agarwal Oak Ridge National Laboratory homepage Enzymes: an integrated view of structure, dynamics and function Maria Kurnikova
Sep. 21, 2007 @ BST3James Faeder University of Pittsburgh Rule-based modeling of signal-transduction systems
Sep. 28, 2007 @ BST3Adrian ElcockUniversity of IowahomepageMolecular simulations of bacterial cytoplasmLillian Chong
Oct. 5, 2007 @ MIDmitri Chklovskii HHMI - Janelia Farmshomepage High-throughput reconstruction of brain circuits: How machine vision will revolutionize neuroscienceJustin Crowley
Oct. 12, 2007 @ MIMing Li University of Waterloo homepage Modern homology search Chris Langmead
Oct. 19, 2007 @ MIBud Mishra New York University homepage SMASH: Single Molecule Approach to Sequencing by HybridizationChris Langmead
Oct. 26, 2007 @ MIUwe Ohler Duke University homepage Motifs and patterns: Using sequence and image data to understand gene regulation in eukaryotesEric Xing
Nov. 2, 2007 @ MIOlga Troyanskaya Princeton University homepage Combining genomic data, computation, and experiments to discover novel biologyEric Xing
Nov. 9, 2007 @ MIJeffrey Skolnick Georgia Institute of Technology homepage Prediction of protein structure and function on a proteomic scale Chris Langmead
Nov. 16, 2007 @ BST3Gary An Northwestern University homepage Dynamic Knowledge Representation using Agent Based Modeling: A Multi-scale Modeling Architecture for Acute InflammationYoram Vodovotz
Nov. 30, 2007 @ MITom Mitchell Carnegie Mellon University homepage Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics
Dec. 7, 2007Gregory VothUniversity of Utah homepage The Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: A Systematic ApproachHagai Meirovitch
Jan. 18, 2008 @ MINancy Zhang Stanford University homepage A multisample change-point model for DNA copy number analysis Eric Xing
Jan. 25, 2008 @ MIOlga Troyanskaya Princeton University homepage Combining genomic data, computation, and experiments to discover novel biology Eric Xing
Feb. 1, 2008 @ Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)Ivet Bahar University of Pittsburgh homepage Supramolecular Machinery: Insights from Elastic Network Models
Feb. 8, 2008 @ BST3Harmen Bussemaker Columbia University homepage Data-driven biophysical modeling of (post-)transcriptional networks James Faeder
Feb. 15, 2008 @ BST3 Bruce Tidor Massachusets Inst. of Technology homepage Electrostatics in ligand binding and designCarlos Camacho
Feb. 22, 2008 @ BST3 Takis Benos University of Pittsburgh homepage What can evolution say about gene regulation? From DNA signals to gene networks
Feb. 29, 2008 @ BST3 Thomas E. Cheatham, III University of Utah homepage Promise and peril in the simulation of nucleic acids and protein structure, dynamics and interactions Carlos Camacho
Mar. 7, 2008 @ MISridhar Hannenhalli University of Pennsylvania homepage Computational analysis of eukaryotic transcriptional regulation and its evolution Russell Schwartz
Mar. 21, 2008 @ MI Mark Gerstein Yale University homepage Human Genome Annotation Eric Xing
Mar. 28, 2008 @ BST3 Marcelo Magnasco Rockefeller University homepage Sparse time-frequency representations and the neural coding of sound. Bino John
Apr. 4, 2008 @ BST3 Marti Head GlaxoSmithKline Structure-Based Design at GSK Lillian Chong
May 13, 2008 @ MI Trey Ideker University of California, San Diego homepage Mapping gene regulatory pathways by assembly of physical and genetic interactions Ziv Bar-Joseph