CSAIL Event Calendar
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Bioinformatics Seminar Series Spring 2009 The 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. This is the seminar's fourth year. For more information on this series please see http://www-math.mit.edu/compbiosem/ Lenore Cowen, Tufts - CSAIL Fault Tolerance in Protein Interaction Networks: Stable Bipartite Subgraphs and Redundant Pathways Date: Wednesday, February 11 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: 32-G575 TOC Lab Stata Center Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Shuba Gopal, Formerly with the Rochester Institute of Technology Genetic algorithm learning: A new approach for the discovery of small, diffuse patterns in genomic sequences Date: Wednesday, February 18 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00AM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Francois Major, University of Montreal The Discovery of Nucleotide Cyclic Motifs, the Implementation of the MC-Fold and MC-Sym Pipeline, and the Prediction of Small and Large RNA 3-D Struct Date: Wednesday, February 25 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Amy Keating, MIT POSTPONED: Designing Protein-Protein Interaction Specificity Date: Monday, March 2 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Amy Keating, MIT Designing Protein-Protein Interaction Specificity Date: Wednesday, March 4 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Rolf Backofen, Universitat Freiburg Non-Coding RNAs: How to find them and how to find targets. Date: Wednesday, March 11 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Tobias Bollenbach, Harvard "Non-optimal Microbial Response to Antibiotics Underlies Drug Interactions" Date: Wednesday, March 18 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Protein threading by nonlinearly combining evolutionary and non-evolutionary information Date: Monday, March 30 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu David Reich, Harvard "Reconstructing Indian Population History" Date: Wednesday, April 1 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Samuel Kou, Harvard Exploring global energy landscape of lattice protein models via Monte Carlo methods Date: Wednesday, April 8 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Austin Che, MIT, Ginko BioWorks Engineering Synthetic Splicing Ribozyme Systems Date: Wednesday, April 15 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Charles W. O'Donnell, MIT Modeling ensembles of beta-sheet folds Date: Wednesday, April 22 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Ivan Dotu, Brown University Combinatorial Optimization Applications in Computational Biology Date: Wednesday, April 29 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu James Collins, Boston University "Bacterial Network Biology" Date: Wednesday, May 6 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Jun Liu, Harvard A Bayesian Partition Model for Detecting eQTL Modules Date: Wednesday, May 13 2009 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 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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