Duke University Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

Computational Biology Seminar

The Computational Biology Seminar is a weekly series of seminars on topics in computational biology presented by invited speakers, Duke faculty and CBB doctoral and certificate graduate students.

Spring 2012 Schedule

Time: 11am - 12pm
Place: 4233 French

 

Date Speaker Institution Title of Presentation
1/23 Barbara Engelhardt Duke University Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Analysis of complex phenotypes for genome-wide association studies
1/30 Raluca Gordan Duke University Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics "Plasticity in TF-DNA recognition"
2/6 Helen Wearing University of New Mexico Department of Mathematics "Conserved scaling relations in the population dynamics of infectious disease"
2/13 Sunduz Keles University of Wisconsin Departments of Statistics, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Statistical and computational aspects of ChIP-seq data analysis:  From design to biological discovery
2/20 Blanche Capel Duke University CBB Faculty & Department of Cell Biology "Beneath the Battle of the Sexes:  A systems view of mammalian sex determination"
2/27 Ali Shojaie University of Washington Department of Statistics Inferring Regulatory Networks by Combining Perturbation Screens and Steady State Gene Expression Profiles
3/5 No Seminar Spring Break  
3/12 Edo Airoldi Harvard University Department of Statistics   (Cancelled) Edo's lecture cancelled for March 12th
3/19 Diana Fusco Duke University CBB PhD Student Charbonneau Group TBA
3/26 Alexander van Oudenaarden MIT Departments of Physics & Biology  Joint seminar with CSB  ***New Time & Location**  1:00p 2231 French Science Auditorium TBA
4/2 Parawee (Nicky) Lekprasert Duke University CBB PhD Student Ohler Group TBA
4/9 TBA    
4/16 Brian Bennett Duke University CBB PhD Student Muhkerjee Group TBA
4/23 No Seminar    
 

 

Fall 2011 Schedule

Time: 11am - 12pm
Place: 4233 French

 

Date Speaker Institution Title of Presentation
9/12 Andres Pfenning Duke Unv. CBB Student
Erich Jarvis Group		 Signatures of convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song learning birds
9/19 Sandeep Dave Duke Unv. CBB Faculty Unraveling the genetics of lymphoma through deep sequencing DNA, RNA and chromatin
9/26 Arthur Moseley Duke University IGSP The Essential Roles of Bioinformatics in Proteomics
10/3 Philip Bradley Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Program in Computational Biology Molecular modeling of protein-DNA and protein-peptide interactions
10/10 No Seminar Fall Break  
10/17 Debbie Winter Duke University CBB PhD Student Greg Crawford Group Analyzing high-resolution nucleosome architecture from DNase-seq data
10/24 Michael Hagan Brandeis Unv. Dept of Physics Self-assembly of viruses and self-organization of active filaments
10/31 Molly Megraw Duke University IGSP  Postdoc in Ohler Lab
***Location 2237 French ***   **New Time 10:45a***		 Identifying Overrepresented Transcription Factor-miRNA Subcircuits in Large Genomes
11/7 Swati Jain   ***Rescheduled to Nov 21st 2011****  
11/14 Joe Pomerening Indiana University Dept of Biology CDK1 Delimits Cyclin Synthesis During Early Embryonic Cell Cycle Oscillations
11/21 Swati Jain Duke University CBB PhD Student Richardson Group "Towards better RNA Structures: Understanding Structrual features and Structure Correction
11/28 Tom Mitchell-Olds Duke University Depart of Biology "Analyzing complex traits in complex environments"
12/5 Greg Crawford Duke University Dept of Pediatrics,IGSP & CBB Faculty Towards a comprehensive atlas of open chromatin
12/12 Stas Shvartsman Princeton University Dept of Molecular Biology Diffusion, kinetics and thermodynamics in the Drosophila embryo