Lectures and Seminars

For additional information about a seminar, contact:

Teresa Gonzales
teresa.gonzales@mdanderson.org
Senior Administrative Assistant
713-563-0299

2012 Seminars

FCT conference rooms are in the Pickens Academic Tower

Thursday, March 1, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

FCT3.4168, Room 8

Cheng Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts

Progress and challenges in analyzing cancer genomic data to identify drug targets and develop personalized medicine

Tuesday, February 28, 11:00 a.m.

FCT4.5043

Yu Fan
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Bayesian phylogenetics: Model selection and methods of detecting non-independent and heterotachous molecular evolution

Friday, February 10, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

FCT3.5001

Chris Sander, Ph.D.
Chair, Computational Biology Program
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Cancer systems biology: Perturbation experiments reveal signaling networks predictive of drug response

Wednesday, February 8, 11:00 a.m.

FCT5.5049

Andrey A. Shabalin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Reconstruction of a low-rank matrix in the presence of Gaussian noise

Wednesday, January 25, 4:00 p.m.

FCT2.4142, Training Room B

Ninad Dewal, Ph.D.
Keck Postdoctoral Fellow
Human Genome Sequencing Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Methodologies that integrate germline and somatic variation in tumor data

Wednesday, January 11, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

FCT1.2002 - AT&T Classroom

Giovanni Parmigiani, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Cambridge, MA