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Seminars and Colloquium

 

FALL 2009

 

Friday, August 28 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Rich Roberts from USC, Dept. of Chemistry, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Norm Arnheim

 

Friday, September 11 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Leor Weinberger from UC San Diego, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Exploiting Gene-Expression Circuitry and Noise for Therapy"

Host: Don Arnold

 

Friday, October 2 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Leanne Jones from The Salk Institute, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Mechanisms Regulating Size & Maintenance of a Stem Cell Niche"

Host: John Tower

 

Thursday, October 6 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Luay Nakhleh from Rice University, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Computational Techniques for Inferring Phylogenetic Relationships Using Multiple Loci"

Host: Fengzhu Sun

 

Friday, October 9 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Doug Cook from UC Davis, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Studies of Genome Evolution in Plants and Applications in the Developing World "

Host: Sergey Nuzhdin

 

CANCELED Until Further Notice- Thursday, October 15 -Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Brendan Frey from University of Toronto, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Liang Chen

 

Friday, October 16 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Francesca Mariani from USC, Keck School of Medicine, Dept. of Cell & Neurobiology, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Growth Factor Signaling During Skeletal Development "

Host: Samantha Butler

 

Thursday, October 22 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Nancy Zhang from Stanford University, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Simultaneous Change-point Models with Applications to Cross-sample and Cross-platform Analysis of DNA Copy Number"

Host: Jasmine Zhou

 

Friday, October 23 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Todd Holmes from UC Irvine, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Time to Wake up! Cell Autonomous Light Sensing in Arousal Neurons in Drosophila "

Host: Michelle Arbeitman

 

Thursday, October 29 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Gill Bejerano from Stanford University, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Genomics and the Evolution of Human-Specific Traits "

Host: Fengzhu Sun

 

Friday, October30 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Matt Michael from Harvard University, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "The DNA Replication Stress Response "

Host: Oscar Aparicio

 

MONDAY, November 9-

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Liming Li from Northwestern University, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Yeast Prion: "Infectious" Protein Conformation Defines Unusual Genetics "

Host: Xiaojiang Chen

 

Thursday, November 12 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Paul Spellman fromLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "The Cancer Genome Atlas "

Host: Jasmine Zhou

 

Friday, November 13-

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Shi-Ou Shan from Caltech, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "Towards a New Paradigm for GTPase regulation of Intracellular Protein "

Host: Xiaojiang Chen

 

Thursday, November 19 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Andrej Sali from UC San Francisco, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title:"Computational Integration of Diverse Structural and Kinetic Data for Visualizing Macromolecular Assemblies and Processes"

Host: Frank Alber

 

Friday, November 20 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Luiz Penalva from UTHSCSA - Children's Cancer Research Institute, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "The Biology and Genomics of RNA Binding Proteins in Cancer "

Host: Andrew Smith

 

TUESDAY, December 1 --

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Shanghua Teng from USC - Computer Science Dept., 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Fengzhu Sun

 

Thursday, December 3-

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Michael Eisen from UC Berkeley, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Sergey Nuzhdin and Michelle Arbeitman

 

Thursday, December 10 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Yuzhen Ye from Indiana University, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Fengzhu Sun

 

SPRING 2010

 

Thursday, January 28 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Fei Sha from USC, Computer Science Dept., 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Jasmine Zhou

Thursday, March 11 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Sarah Otto from the University of British Columbia, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Sergey Nuzhdin

 

Friday, March 12-

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Catherine Fox from the University of Wisconsin, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Oscar Aparicio

 

Thursday, April 1 -

Computational Biology Colloquium w/ Katerina Kechris from the UC Denver, 2-3 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Jasmine Zhou

 

Friday, April 2 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Zhe Lu from the University of Pennsylvania, HHMI, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Emily Liman

 

Friday, April 16 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Eric Webb from the USC - Marine Biology, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Michelle Arbeitman

 

Friday, April 30 -

Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar w/ Michael Rosbash from the Brandeis University, 12-1 pm in RRI 101.

Title: "TBA"

Host: Michelle Arbeitman

 

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