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 Smith (SMTH) 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

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:30pm, Smith (SMTH) 108: Dr. R.W. Doerge , Departments of Statistics and Agronomy,; "This is an organizational meeting. All registered students must attend."
Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:30pm, Smith (SMTH) 108: There is no seminar, please read: Ghosh et al. 2003. Statistical Issues and methods for meta-analysis of microarray data: a case study. Funtional and Integrative Genomics. 3:180-188. (this can be found online at Purdue's e-journals, and I handed it out in class on January 11th).
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:30pm, Smith (SMTH) 108: Journal discussion: Ghosh et al. 2003. Statistical Issues and methods for meta-analysis of microarray data: a case study. Funtional and Integrative Genomics. 3:180-188.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: Dr. Debashis Ghosh , Department of Statistics, University of Michigan; "Combining genomic data from multiple cancer studies"; Associated reading: Prognostic meta-signature of breast cancer developed by two-stage mixture modeling of microarray data. BMC Genomics. 2004 Dec 14;5(1):94.
Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: Dr. Xiaoman (Shawn) Li , Department of Statistics, Harvard University (COALESCE Bioinformatics Candidate); "Sample Motifs on Phylogenetic Trees"
Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: Dr. Ignacio Camarillo , Department of Biological Science, Purdue University; "Mammary tumorigenesis in a Rat Model of Early Onset Diet Induced Obesity "; Reference material for seminar; "Childhood Obesity and Insulin-Resistant Syndrome"; "The Relationship Between Obesity and Breast Cancer Risk and Mortality"; "Prolactin receptor expression in the epithelia and stroma of the rat mammary gland"; "Gene expression patterns of breast carcinomas distinguish tumor subclasses with clinical implications"
Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: SEMINAR is CANCELLED
CANCELLED!!! Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: CANCELLED!!! Dr. Lexin Li , Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Davis (COALESCE Bioinformatics Candidate)
Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: Ms. Olga Vitek , Department of Statistics; Purdue University (COALESCE Bioinformatics Candidate); "A Scalable Inferential Approach to Protein Backbone Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Assignment"
Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 4:30pm, SPRING BREAK: NO SEMINAR
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: Ms. Min Zhang , Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University (COALESCE Bioinformatics Candidate); "Inference for Sparse and Asymmetric Signals in High Dimensional Data: Applications to Statistical Genetics"
Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: R.W. Doerge , Department of Statistics, Purdue University; "Detecting Methylation using Microarray Technology"; Reference material for seminar: Z. Lippman, A.-V. Gendrel, M. Black, M. Vaughn, N. Dedhia, W.R. McCombie, K. Lavine, V. Mittal, B. May, K. Kasschau, J.C. Carrington, R.W. Doerge, V. Colot, and R. Martienssen 2004. Transposable elements mediate heterochromatin and epigenetic control. Nature. 430:471-476.
Tuesday, April 5, 2005 4:30pm, Smith (SMTH) 108: Journal discussion: Three papers and SAS code for Muir seminar next week (reference links below). Each student should be able to detail the main message of the paper, contrast and compare papers, and should also be able to explain the SAS code.
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: Dr. Bill Muir , Department of Animal Science; Purdue University; "Comparison of the FDR, pFDR, and SAM for power and error rates for analysis of microarray experiments"; Reference material for seminar:; "Statistical significance for genomewide studies"; "Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response"; "Controlling the false discovery rate: A pratical and powerful approach to multiple testing"; "SAS code for pFDR"; "SAS code for FDR"; "Storey link to additional resources"; "Link to Stanford SAM software"
Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: SEMINAR IS CANCELLED
Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 4:30pm, Smith Hall (SMTH) 108: ONLY REGISTERED STUDENTS SHOULD ATTEND. This is the last seminar of the year.

Invitations are currently extended, the website will be updated weekly. Please contact doerge@purdue.edu if there is a speaker you would like to be invited to speak in this series.