Archive of Seminars
2012 Seminars
November 7, 2012
Rafael A. Irizarry, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Bump hunting in the cancer epigenome
October 3, 2012
Sohrab Shah, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of British Columbia
BC Cancer Agency
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Measuring and modeling evolutionary dynamics in breast and ovarian cancer
September 5, 2012
Josh Stuart, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Pathway-based analysis of mutation impact
July 25, 2012
Michael Ryan, Ph.D.,
President
Insilico Co.
Fairfax, VA
SpliceSeq for the analysis of alternative splicing in TCGA data
July 11, 2012
Jan F. Prins, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Revealing the transcriptome using expression-weighted splice-graphs
May 23, 2012
Michael Brudno, Ph.D.
Scientific Director
Centre for Computational Medicine
Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The path to the medical genome: From sequencers to clinicians through computer science
March 14, 2012
Barry S. Taylor, Ph.D.
David H. Koch Fellow
Computational Biology Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Mechanism-based oncology through cancer genome discovery
March 7, 2012
Richard Gibbs, Ph.D.
Director, Human Genome Sequencing Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Genetics and the cancer genomics scorecard
March 1, 2012
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
February 28, 2012
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
February 10, 2012
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
February 8, 2012
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
January 25, 2012
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
January 11, 2012
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
Gene set analysis as a tool for cross-platform integration in genomics
2011 Seminars
December 8, 2011
Peter Valk, Ph.D.
Head, Molecular Diagnostics
Department of Hematology
Erasmus University Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Integrating molecular biomarkers in the clinical diagnostics of AML
December 7, 2011
Chung-I Wu, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Neutralism vs. selectionism in the evolution of cells of hepatocellular carcinomas
November 4, 2011
Jun S. Liu, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Reconstructing 3-D shapes of chromosomes from Hi-C data
October 20 and 21, 2011
8th Annual Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium
Rice University
October 5, 2011
Michael Berger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Massively parallel sequencing for discovery and diagnostics in cancer
September 7, 2011
Michael S. Noble
TCGA GDAC Pipeline Manager
Broad Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Broad Institute Firehose Sequencing Data Management System: Insights from early TCGA use
July 6, 2011
Ilya Shmulevich, Ph.D.
Professor, Computational Biology
Institute for Systems Biology
Seattle, Washington
Molecular networks in cancer
June 29, 2011
Andrew W. Dowsey, Ph.D.
Independent Research Fellow
Imperial College London
A sparse signal restoration framework for simultaneous baseline estimation, deisotoping and charge state deconvolution of complex mass spectra
June 1, 2011
Jill P. Mesirov, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer
Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Machine learning approaches for genomic medicine
May 20, 2011
W. Sabrina Lin, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Coalition Formation Game: A new tool for classification
May 19, 2011
Mark Kenneth Transtrum, Ph.D.
Department of Physics
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Sloppy models, information geometry, and data fitting
April 6, 2011
Terry Speed, Ph.D.
Professor Ermeritus, Program in Biostatistics
University of California, Berkeley
Bioinformatics Division
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Parkville, Australia
Dealing with the GC-content bias in second-generation DNA sequence data
March 23, 2011
Thang Vu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
The bootstrap in supervised learning and its applications in genomics and proteomics
March 17, 2011
Kosuke Yoshihara, M.D., Ph.D.
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
Niigata University, Niigata City, Japan
Gene expression profile for predicting survival in patients with advanced-stage serous ovarian cancer
February 25, 2011
Sang Mee Lee
Ph.D. Candidate, Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Likelihood-based approach to gene set enrichment analysis with a finite mixture model
February 24, 2011
Siyuan Zheng, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Exploring molecular mechanisms of diseases using a systems biology approach
February 18, 2011
Chaeryon Kang
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Change-line classification and regression for chemical toxicity analysis
February 11, 2011
Soyoung Ryu
Department of Statistics
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
A atatistical approach to peptide identification from clustered tandem mass spectrometry data
2010 Seminars
November 29, 2010
Yolanda Gil, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Project Leader, Interactive Knowledge Research Group
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA
Bringing semantics to computational workflows: Reproducibility and assistance for complex data analysis
October 27, 2010
Ilya Kupershmidt
Cofounder and VP of Products
NextBio, Cupertino, CA
Making sense of your data and gaining clinical insights through NextBio's integrative genomics and genetics platform
October 19, 2010
Michael Ryan, Ph.D.
President and Bioinformatics Specialist
In Silico Solutions, Fairfax, VA
Founding Partner and Technical Consultant
Tiger Team Consulting, Fairfax, VA
Next-Gen Splice Tool - Motivation and concepts
July 23, 2010
Di Wu
Bioinformatics Division
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Analysis of transcriptional signatures reveals the cell of origin for breast cancer subtypes
May 24, 2010
Anatoly Ulyanov
Principal Research Investigator and Head of Bioinformatics Group
Sanofi-Aventis, Boston, Massachusetts
Data-driven biomarker discovery
March 29, 2010
Xiaobo Zhou, Ph.D.
Associate Member, The Center for Bioengineering and Informatics
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas
Associate Professor of Radiology
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
Imaging informatics and computational systems bioinformatics for pathway analysis and optimal drug therapy
March 18, 2010
Hyungwon Choi, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Department of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Analysis of protein-protein interactome: Evaluation of protein-protein interactions from label-free quantitative proteomics data
March 16, 2010
Wenyi Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Genome Technology Center
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
Statistical methods for DNA resequencing analysis in disease-gene studies
February 25, 2010
Peng Qiu, Ph.D.
Integrative Cancer Biology Program, Department of Radiology
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Discovering biological progression underlying microarray samples
February 22, 2010
Hao Wu, M.S.
Department of Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Genomic “bump finding” from ChIP-chip data and DNA sequence
February 16, 2010
Ju Hee Lee, M.S.
Department of Statistics
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Minimally informative prior distributions for nonparametric Bayesian analysis
February 8, 2010
Qi Tang, M.S.
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
A new Bayesian variable selection method: Bayesian lasso with pseudo variables
January 13, 2010
Roel Verhaak, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Integration of genomic data from The Cancer Genome Atlas Data based on gene expression subtypes provides new insights in the pathogenesis of glioblastoma and serous ovarian cancer
Updated January 25, 2013