BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2003 ST598B is a 1 credit seminar course (public is welcome) that meets at 4:30pm on Tuesdays in LILLY G126.

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


  • Fall 2000 seminar series speakers
  • Spring 2001 seminar series speakers
  • Fall 2001 seminar series speakers
  • Spring 2002 seminar series speakers
  • Fall 2002 seminar series speakers


    Spring 2003 Schedule:

    Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:30pm, REC 121
    Dachuang Cao and R.W. Doerge, Departments of Agronomy, and Statistics, and Computational Genomics
    Organizational meeting of all participants.
    Everyone that is enrolled in the course should attend. If you need a signature to add the class please see the main office in Statistics (MATH 532).

    PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS A ROOM CHANGE (we needed more seats). SEMINARS ARE NOW IN LILLY G126

    Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Dr. Jeanne Romero-Severson and Dr. Joe Ogas, Department of Forestry and Department of Agronomy, and Department of Biochemistry, respectively, Purdue University.
    "A microarray-based screen for targets of a chromatin remodeling factor in Arabidopsis"

    Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Steve Smith, V.P. Bioinformatics, NimbleGen Systems, Madison, WI
    "Microarrays from Micromirrors - The key to iterative experimental redesign"

    Tuesday, February 4, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Dr. Joe Anderson and Dr. Steve Scofield, USDA-ARS, Purdue University
    Co-investigators: Charles Crane, Steve Goodwin, Christie Williams, and Herb Ohm (Purdue University)
    "Expression Profiling in a Non-model Organism: Using Transcriptional Profiling in Wheat To Identify and Characterize Genes Responding To Insect, Viral and Fungal Pests"

    Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Dr. Miguel Arechavaleta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, Purdue University.
    "Binary trait loci (BTLs) and Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that influence the expression of defensive behavior of honey bees.'' "

    !!!!!CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!!
    Tuesday, February 18, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126 !!!!!!!!!CANCELLED!!!!!!!!
    Dr. John Sninsky, Celera, Rockville, MD CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!!!
    CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Ms. Amy Anderson, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
    "Gene Mapping on a Pedigree of Inbred Lines"

    Tuesday, March 4, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Dr. Jonathan Arnold, Department of Statistics, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia
    "Computing Life"

    Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Dr. Marta Wayne, Department of Zoology, University of Florida
    "Combining mapping and arraying: a novel approach to candidate gene identification"

    Tuesday, March 18, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    NO SEMINAR. SPRING BREAK!

    Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Dr. Bill Muir, Department of Animal Science, Purdue University
    "Methods to select for, or map QTLs for, competitive effects in plants or animals"

    Tuesday, April 1, 2003 4:00pm WSLR 116
    Dr. Nathan Spring, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin
    "Applications of oligonucleotide microarrays for functional genomics in maize"

    Tuesday, April 8, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Dr. Ernie Retzel, Director of Bioinformatics, University of MinnesotaCANCELLED!!!!!!!!!!!!
    CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    Tuesday, April 15, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Dr. Shankar Subramaniam, Department of Bioengineering, and Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    "Systems Biology: Windows into Intracellular Networks"

    Tuesday, April 22, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    Dr. Scott Jackson and Dr. Cliff Weil, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University
    "Applying Comparative Genomics"

    Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:30pm, LILLY G126
    NO SEMINAR!!!