BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2005

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2005 ST598B is a 1 credit seminar course (public is welcome) that meets at 4:30pm on Tuesdays in Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161.

If you would like your name added to the weekly mailing of this seminar announcement, please send an e-mail request to RW Doerge: doerge@purdue.edu

Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. R.W. Doerge , Departments of Statistics and Agronomy,; "This is an organizational meeting. All registered students must attend."; Please see the Associated reading for next seminar
Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Michael (Mik) Black, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland; "Detecting significant changes in the expression patterns of groups of genes"; Associated reading (pdf):; 1. "Significance analysis of functional categories in gene expression studies: a structured permutation approach"; 2. "PGC-1alpha-responsive genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation are coordinately downregulated in human diabetes"
Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Discussion of Natural Variation, in preparation for Borevitz seminer; Associated reading:; 1. Borevitz J, Liang D, Plouffe D, Chang H, Zhu T, Weigel D, Berry C, Winzeler E, Chory J. "Large Scale Identification of Single Feature Polymorphisms in Complex Genomes". Genome Research. 2003 Mar; 13(3):513-23.; 2. Borevitz J, Ecker J. Plant Genomics: The Third Wave Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 2004. 5:443-77
Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Justin Borevitz, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago; "Toward the genetic basis of adaptation using arrays"; Associated reading:; Borevitz J, Liang D, Plouffe D, Chang H, Zhu T, Weigel D, Berry C, Winzeler E, Chory J. Large Scale Identification of Single Feature Polymorphisms in Complex Genomes. Genome Research. 2003 Mar; 13(3):513-23.; Borevitz J, Ecker J. Plant Genomics: The Third Wave Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 2004. 5:443-77
Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Discussion of triple analysis: transcription, methylation, and ChIP-Chip; Associated reading:; Li, L., Shi, H., Yiannoutsos, C., Huang, T., Nephew, K. 2005. Epigenetic hypothesis tests for methylation and acetylation in a triple microarray system. Journal of ComputationalBiology. 12(3):370-399.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Lang Li, Department of Medicine (Divison of Biostatistics), Indiana University Medical School; "Epigenetic Hypothesis Tests for Methylation and Acetylation In a Triple Microarray System "; Associated reading:; Li, L., Shi, H., Yiannoutsos, C., Huang, T., Nephew, K. 2005. Epigenetic hypothesis tests for methylation and acetylation in a triple microarray system. Journal of Computational Biology. 12(3):370-399.
Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Robert Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York; "Introduction to Epigenetics for Bioinformaticians"; Associated reading:; R.A. Martienssen, R.W. Doerge, V. Colot. 2005. Epigenomic mapping in Arabidopsis using tiling microarrays. Chromosome Research 13:299-308.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005: Fall Break, no seminar
Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Santiago Schnell, School of Informatics, Indiana University; "Unraveling the nature of the segmentation clock"; Associated reading:; Olivier Pourquie. 2003. The Segmentation Clock: Converting Embryonic Time into Spatial Pattern. Science. July 18, 2003, Vol. 301. page 328-330.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005: No seminar
Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Brynn Voy, Mammalian Genetics and Genomics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; "Making the Most of Microarray Data"; Associated reading:; Duccio Cavalieri and Carlotta De Filippo. 2005. Bioinformatic methods for integrating whole-genome expression results into cellular networks. Drug Discovery Today. 10 10:727-734.
Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Michael Langston, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; "Fixed-Parameter Tractable Algorithms for Microarray Data Analysis"; Associated reading:; Faisal N. Abu-Khzam, Michael A. Langston, Pushkar Shanbhag and Christopher T. Symons. 2005. Scalable Parallel Algorithms for FPT Problems. Algorithmica (in press).
Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Brian Haab, Laboratory of Cancer Immunodiagnostics, Van Andel Research Institutes, Grand Rapids, MI; "Antibody and protein microarray methods to study cancer-associated changes to serum proteins"; Associated reading:; 1. Brian Haab. 2005. Antibody Arrays in Cancer Research. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 377-383.; 2. Hamelinck etal. 2005. Optimized Normalization for Antibody Microarrays and Application to Serum-Protein Profiling. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. 773-783.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005,: No seminar
Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. RW Doerge, Department of Statistics, Purdue University; Discussion/Questions about future research and employment opportunities in Statistics, Bioinformatics, and Genomics. This is an open session to all students and faculty. All registered students should attend.
Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: No seminar

Please contact doerge@purdue.edu if there is a speaker you would like to be invited to speak in this series.