Seminars

FALL QUARTER SPEAKERS

Mondays at 4 pm, Gonda First Floor Conference Room

 

Monday, November 9, 2009

Jason Stajich, Ph.D.

Department of Plant Biology, Microbiology, and Bioinformatics, UC Riverside

http://www.plantpathology.ucr.edu/new/index.php?page=faculty&i=106&p=1

Host: John Novembre, x54065

 

Monday, November 16, 2009

Jamie Lloyd-Smith, Ph.D.

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA

http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/Faculty/lloydsmith/

Host: John Novembre, x54065

 

Monday, November 23, 2009

Sebastien Roch, Ph.D.

Department of Mathematics,  UCLA

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~roch/

Host: Matteo Pellegrini, x50012

 

Monday, November 30, 2009

Michael Brudno, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~brudno

Host: Matteo Pellegrini, x50012

 

Monday, December 7, 2009

Dan Gusfield, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, UC Davis

http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~gusfield/

Host: Matteo Pellegrini, x50012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DATE Name AFFIL HOST
28-Sep-09 Stan Nelson UCLA Chris Lee
5-Oct-09 Luay Nakhleh Rice Univ. Sebastien Roch
12-Oct-09 Parag Mallick USC Matteo Pellegrini
26-Oct-09 Wing Wong Stanford Matteo Pellegrini
23-Nov-09 Sebastien Roch UCLA Matteo Pellegrini
30-Nov-09 Michael Brudno Univ. of Toronto Matteo Pellegrini
7-Dec-09 Dan Gusfield UC Davis Matteo Pellegrini

Note: during Fall, the UCLA Bioinformatics faculty are also giving seminars describing their research, on Thursdays 2 - 4 pm, Young 2033.  See the speaker schedule.

WINTER QTR

DATE Name AFFIL HOST
25-Jan-10 Adam Siepel Cornell Matteo Pelegrini
22-Feb-10 Orly Alter UT Austin Matteo Pellegrini
8-Mar-10 Pierre Baldi UC Irvine Matteo Pellegrini
15-Mar-10 Gabor Marth Boston College Matteo Pellegrini

SPRING QTR

DATE Name AFFIL HOST
5-Apr-10 Gene Yeo UC San Diego Matteo Pellegrini
26-April Patrice Koehl UC Davis Matteo Pellegrini
7-Jun Xiaohui Xieg UC Irvine Matteo Pellegrini
       

Past Events

Winter Quarter Symposium on Ultrahigh Throughput Biology

Feb. 19-20, 2009, at IPAM, UCLA.  You can view the talks online by clicking the link to the program here.

2008-2009 Bioinformatics Seminars

Seminars are held on Mondays at 4pm in the CNSI Auditorium.

FALL QTR

DATE Name AFFIL HOST
29-Sep-08 Chris Lee UCLA Matteo Pellegrini
06-Oct-08 Grace Xiao UCLA Matteo Pellegrini
20-Oct-08 Andrey Rzhetsky U of Chicago Daniel H. Greschwind
       
3-Nov-08 Ion Mandoiu U. of Conn Matteo Pellegrini
24-Nov-08 Vineet Bafna UCSD Matteo Pellegrini
1-Dec-08 Rich Bonneau NYU Matteo Pellegrini

WINTER QTR

DATE Name AFFIL HOST
5-Jan-09 Nitin Baliga ISB Matteo Pelegrini
26-Jan-09 Ernest Fraenkel MIT Matteo Pellegrini
2-Feb-09 David Heckerman Microsoft Matteo Pellegrini
9-Feb-09 Adam Siepel Cornell Matteo Pellegrini
2-Mar-09 Shibu Jooseph J. Craig Venter Institute Matteo Pellegrini
9-Mar-09 Steven Brenner UC Berkeley Chris Lee

SPRING QTR

DATE Name AFFIL HOST
30-Mar-09 Kimmen Sjolander UC Berkeley Matteo Pellegrini
6-Apr-09 Zhiping Weng Boston U Matteo Pellegrini
20-Apr-09 Michael Zhang Cold Spring Harbor Matteo Pellegrini
27-Apr-09 Ian Holmes UC Berkeley Matteo Pellegrini
4-May-09 Terry Speed UC Berkeley Matteo Pellegrini
18-May-09 David Weston Oak Ridge Nat’l Lab Matteo Pellegrini
1-Jun-09 Aviv Regev Harvard Matteo Pellegrini

Spring 2008 UCLA Bioinformatics Retreat (May 2008): videos of the research talks, information about the poster session,etc.
For last year’s Bioinformatics Seminar series events, please see the UCLA Bioinformatics mailing list archive.

Past Seminars

Fall Faculty Research Seminar Schedule
New UCLA Center for High Throughput Biology
Symposium Videos Now Online
David Haussler to Speak 1/27
Ernest Fraenkel To Speak at Upcoming Seminar 1/26
Andrey Rzhetsky:Text-mining, Modeling, Pathways and Human Disease
Computational Biology and Statistics Workshop
Grace Xiao - UCLA
Christopher Lee: Phylogenetic Analysis of 20 Arthropod Genomes Reveals Massive Expansion of Dscam Splicing Diversity via Staggered Homologous Recombination
Jane Marie Lin: Sequence features that drive human promoter function and tissue specificity
John Novembre: Surprising sines: Interpreting principal components of spatial population genetic data
Debopriya Das: Bottom-Up Systems Level Modeling In Humans
Eugene Myers: Imaging-Based Models for Molecular Biology
Martha Bulyk: Genomic Analysis of Transcription Factors and cis Regulatory Elements: Regulatory Codes in DNA
Edward Holmes: The Evolutionary Genomics of Influenza Virus
Ben Raphael: Genome Duplications and Rearrangements in Evolution and Cancer
Gill Bejerano: Dispensability of Mammalian DNA
Eric Schadt: Constructing Networks That Predict Disease States as a Path to Treating Common Human Diseases
Saeed Tavazoie: Internal representation of environment in regulatory networks
Jim Kent: Tools for Understanding the Human Genome
Serafim Batzoglou: Algorithms for Gene Finding, Network Alignment, and Ancestral Population Inference
View Seminar Archive

FALL QTR