CSAIL Event Calendar
Bioinformatics Seminar Series 2008The seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Theory of Computation group at the MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The seminar series focuses on highlighting areas of research in the field of Computational Biology. For more information on this series please see http://www-math.mit.edu/compbiosem/ Prof. Dr. Rolf Backofen, Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik Institut für Informatik Motif Detection under RNA Structural Constraints Date: Friday, January 11 2008 Time: 3:00PM to 4:00PM Refreshments: 2:30PM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-723-8183, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Claire Herrbach, Universite Paris-Sud (France) Pairwise RNA secondary structures alignment Date: Wednesday, January 23 2008 Time: 12:00PM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:30AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Peter Clote, Boston College Riboswitches, RNA conformational switches and prokaryotic gene regulation Date: Wednesday, February 13 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Protein conformation sampling using conditional random fields Date: Wednesday, February 20 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:30AM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Liisa Holm, Univ of Helsinki/Radcliffe Sequence space graph and some applications Date: Wednesday, February 27 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Arjun Bhutkar, Boston University Bioinformatics (Temple Smith’s Lab) Harvard University (Gelbart Lab) Comparative Genomics: Synteny and genome rearrangements Date: Wednesday, March 5 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Jerome Waldispuhl, MIT Algorithms for exploring the mutation landscape of RNA molecules Date: Wednesday, March 12 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Shobha Potluri, Pfizer Predictive Models for Toxicity using rat in-vivo Gene Expression Data (ToxExpress) Date: Wednesday, March 19 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Date: Wednesday, April 2 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Eric Xing, CMU Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Genetic Inference Date: Wednesday, April 9 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Sebastian Will, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Sequence Structural Alignment of RNA Date: Monday, April 14 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Location: TOC 32-575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Jadwiga Bienkowska, Biogen/CSAIL Convergent Random Forest Predictor Date: Wednesday, April 16 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Date: Wednesday, April 23 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Joseph Lehár, CombinatoRx Incorporated, Cambridge MA USA Systems Biomedicine and the Multi-Node Drug Target Date: Wednesday, April 30 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 12:45PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Yoel Shkolnisky, Yale Universtiy Reference Free Cryo-EM Structure Determination through Eigenvectors of Sparse Matrices Date: Wednesday, May 7 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Lenore Cowen, Tufts - CSAIL Comparative Modeling for Protein Structure Prediction Date: Wednesday, May 14 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Ilan Gronau, CS Department Technion Israel Institute of Technology Adaptive Fast Convergence - Towards Optimal Reconstruction Guarantees for Phylogenetic Trees Date: Wednesday, October 1 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00AM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Mireille Regnier , Inria-FRANCE Special Bioformatics Seminar: Exceptional Words Counting Date: Wednesday, October 29 2008 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00AM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 TOC Lab Stata Center Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu For more information on this series please see http://www-math.mit.edu/compbiosem/  
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