STATISTICAL BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR SERIES
STAT 598B is a 1 credit seminar course (public is welcome)
4:30pm on Tuesdays in LILY G126

FALL 2015 Schedule:

Tuesday, August 25, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Registered students only should attend

Tuesday, September 1, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

No Seminar.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Heejung Shim, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

"Multi-scale approaches for analyses of functional phenotypes arising from high-throughput sequencing assays"

Associated reading:
1. Shim, H and Stephens, M, Wavelet-based genetic association analysis of functional phenotypes arising from high-throughput sequencing assays, Ann. Appl. Stat. 9 (2015), no. 2, 665-686

2. Degner, J. F., Pai, A. a., Pique-Regi, R., Veyrieras, J.-B., Gaffney, D. J., Pickrell, J. K., De Leon, S., Michelini, K., Lewellen, N., Crawford, G. E., Stephens, M., Gilad, Y. and Pritchard, J. K. (2012). DNaseI sensitivity QTLs area major determinant of human expression variation. Nature 482 390-4

Tuesday, September 15, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Nan Kong, Department of Biomedical Engineering , Purdue University

"Assessing Colonoscopy Screening Strategies via a Partially Observable Markov Chain Model"

Associated reading:
Y. Li, M. Zhu, R. Klein, N. Kong (2014) Using a partially observable Markov chain model to assess colonoscopy screening strategies -A cohort study. European Journal of Operational Research 23:313-326.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Bill Muir, Department of Animal Science, Purdue University and Department of Medicine, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN

Part 1: "Hitchhiking mapping to find quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with phenotype differential of resource populations... a work in progress..."

Associated reading:
1. Nielsen, R. 2005. Molecular signatures of natural selection. Annu. Rev. Genet. 39:197-218

2. Smith, J.M.and J.Haigh. 1974. Hitch-Hiking Effect of A Favorable Gene. Genetical Research 23:23-35

3. Walsh,B. 2008. Using molecular markers for detecting domestication, improvement, and adaptation genes. Euphytica 161:1-17

Tuesday, September 29, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

No Seminar.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Chen Chen, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

"Two-Stage Penalized Least Squares Method to Construct Large Gene Regulatory Networks"

Associated reading:
Jansen and Nap. 2001.Genetical genomics: the added value from segregation. Trends in Genetics. 17(7):388-391.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

No Seminar. Fall Break

Tuesday, October 20, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Bill Muir, Department of Animal Science, Purdue University and Department of Medicine, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN

Part 2: "Hitchhiking mapping to find quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with phenotype differential of resource populations... a work in progress..."

Associated reading:
1. Nielsen, R. 2005. Molecular signatures of natural selection. Annu. Rev. Genet. 39:197-218

2. Smith, J.M.and J.Haigh. 1974. Hitch-Hiking Effect of A Favorable Gene. Genetical Research 23:23-35

3. Walsh,B. 2008. Using molecular markers for detecting domestication, improvement, and adaptation genes. Euphytica 161:1-17

Tuesday, October 27, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Gayla Olbricht, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO

"Differential DNA Methylation Detection in Plants: The Importance of Sequence Context"

Associated reading:
Tom Mayo, Gabriele Schweikert and Guido Sanguinetti. 2015. M³D: a kernel-based test for spatially correlated changes in methylation profiles. Bioinformatics. 31(6):809-816.

Tuesday, November 3, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Patrick Dolan, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Standford, CA

"Dissecting Population Structure and Viral Fitness Landscapes in Dengue Host Adaptation"

Associated reading:
A. Acevedo, L. Brodsky, and R. Andino. 2014. Mutational and fitness landscapes of an RNA vir us revealed through population sequencing. Nature. 505:686-690, include supplemental methods.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Jessica Lasky Su, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

"From the Lab to the Clinic: Capitalizing on Multiple Omics Datatypes to Identify Causal Variants and Biologic Pathways for Asthma"

Associated reading:
E.K. Silverman and J. Loscalzo. 2012. Network Medicine Approaches to the Genetics of Complex Diseases. Discovery Medicine. 14(75):143-152

Tuesday, November 17, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Kelci Miclaus, Advanced Analytics R&D Manager, JMP Life Sciences, SAS Institute, Cary, NC

"Scientific Data Discovery with JMP Genomics"

Associated reading:
JMP® Genomics A unique pedigree: visual discovery and analytics

Tuesday, November 24, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

No Seminar, Happy Thanksgiving!

Tuesday, December 1, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Rebecca Doerge, Department of Statistics and Department of Agronomy, Purdue University

"Part 1: Beginning a Job Search: Academic, Industry, Government..." "

Tuesday, December 8, 2015; 4:30pm, Lilly (LILY) Hall G126

Rebecca Doerge, Department of Statistics and Department of Agronomy, Purdue University

"Part II: The job interview and what to do when you get an offer (academic, industry, etc.)""

Happy Holidays... see you next semester.

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Please contact doerge@purdue.edu if there is a speaker (including yourself) you would like to invite for this series (we have funding for visiting Bioinformatics speakers), or if you would like to be added to the weekly email list.

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