BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2004 ST598B is a 1 credit seminar course (public is welcome) that meets at 4:30pm on Tuesdays in SMITH 108.

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


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    SPRING 2004 Schedule:

    Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. R.W. Doerge , Departments of Statistics and Agronomy,
    "This is an organizational meeting, no seminar. All registered students must attend."

    Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. Yong Duan , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware; Newark, DE
    "Folding, Binding, Aggregation: a computational perspective"

    Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. Joanna Masel , Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University; Stanford, CA
    "Can natural selection favor evolvability? Yeast prions as evolutionary capacitors"

    Tuesday, February 3, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. Dennis Livesay , Department of Chemistry, California State Polytechnic University; Pomona, CA
    "Engineering thermostability: Toward the design of highly stable protein mutants that maintain function at lower tempertures"

    Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. Chin-Rang Yang , Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California; Irvine, CA
    "An Enzyme Mechanism Language for the Mathematical Modeling of Metabolic Pathways"

    Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. Katy Simonsen , Department of Statistics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
    "An efficient algorithm for simulating coalescence with recombination"

    Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    OPEN DISCUSSION , COALESCE, Purdue University
    "Open Discussion: COALESCE BIOINFORMATICS Hires"

    Tuesday, March 2, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. Peter Doerschuk , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
    "3-D reconstruction problems for viruses"

    Tuesday, March 9, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Drs. Jim Fleet and Jing Wu , Department of Food and Nutrition AND Department of Statistics, respectively; Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
    "Globalizing the search for molecular regulators controlling the maturation of intestinal cells"

    Tuesday, March 16, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!! ************No Seminar*******

    Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. John Storey , Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington; Seattle, WA
    "Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes in DNA Microarray Experiments"

    Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    ************No Seminar*******

    Tuesday, April 6, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. Michael Gribskov , University of San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center and Department of Biology, La Jolla CA
    "Computational Exploration of the Plant Kinome"

    Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. Chittibabu Guda , University of San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center La Jolla, CA
    "Developing Computational Tools to Enhance Biological Research"

    Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    Dr. Christine Heitsch , Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin -Madison
    "From Nucleotide Sequences to Secondary Structures, and Back Again"

    Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    ************No Seminar*******

    Tuesday, May 4, 2004 4:30pm, SMITH 108
    ************No Seminar*******


    *************** THE SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED*************
    Monday, May 10, 2004; 10:30am; WTHR 201
    Dr. Jonathan (Joff) Silberg , Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology.
    "Exploring protein sequence space by computation guided recombination" ***************************************************************