CSAIL Event Calendar
Bioinformatics Seminar Series 2011/2012The 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/ Peter Stadler, University Leipzig, Germany Special Bioinformatics Seminar Series: Structural Evolution of Long Non-Coding RNAs Date: Tuesday, December 6 2011 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Eugene V. Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of CRISPR, adaptive immunity system in Archaea and Bacteria: Lamarckian evolution and a general model of evolution of environmental sensors Date: Wednesday, February 8 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard New tools for systems-level analysis of regulation and signaling dynamics Date: Wednesday, February 22 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Jeremy England, MIT Shape Shifting: protein statistical physics as a linear programming problem Date: Wednesday, February 29 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard Reducing microbial unemployment: functional roles in the human microbiome Date: Wednesday, March 7 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Ian Stokes-Rees, Harvard Protein structure determination using model fragments from the Protein Data Bank Date: Wednesday, March 14 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Michelle Meyer, Boston College Diversity of RNA-Based Ribosomal Protein Regulation Across Bacterial Phyla Date: Wednesday, April 4 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Jadwiga Bienkowska, biogen idec Case study: Biomarker discovery in phase IIb Baminercept trials. Date: Wednesday, April 11 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Nick Patterson , Broad Institute Human Genetic History - results and methods Date: Wednesday, April 18 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Lenore Cowen , Tufts SMURFLite: combining simplified Markov random fields with simulated evolution improves remote homology detection for beta-structural proteins into the Date: Wednesday, April 25 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu John Rinn, Broad Institute, Harvard, Whitehead Linking RNA to Human Health and Disease Date: Monday, May 7 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Julia Shifman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Computational design of protein-based inhibitors Date: Wednesday, May 9 2012 Time: 11:30AM to 1:00PM Refreshments: 11:00AM Location: Stata Center 32-G575 Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617.253.3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu Tandy Warnow, University of Texas Austin SEPP and TIPP: New Phylogenetic Placement and Taxon Identification Methods for Metagenomic Data Date: Wednesday, May 16 2012 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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