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, January 10, 2006 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Drs. Xie and Zhang , Departments of Statistics and Agronomy,; "This is an organizational meeting. All registered students must attend."
Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Xiang Zhang , Lead Scientist in Bindley Bioscience Center in Discovery Park, Purdue University; "Informatics of Biomarker Discovery in Mass Spectometry Based Proteomics"; Associated reading (pdf):; Xiang Zhang, John M. Asara, Jiri Adamec1, Mourad Ouzzani and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, 2005, "Data pre-processing in liquid chromatographymass spectrometry-based proteomics", Bioinformatics, Vol. 21, no. 21, pages 4054-4059. "
Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Daisuke Kihara , Department of Computer Science, Purdue University; "Enhanced Automated Function Prediction for Proteomics Analysis"
Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Matthew Hahn , Department of Biological Sciences, Indiana University; "Creation, extinction, and evolution of mammalian gene families"; Associated reading (pdf):; Matthew W. Hahn, Tijl De Bie, Jason E. Stajich, Chi Nguyen, and Nello Cristianini, 2005, "Estimating the tempo and mode of gene family evolution from comparative genomic data", Genome Research, 15:1153-1160.
Tuesday, Februrary 7, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. David Salt , Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University; "Development of an Integrated "Omics" Cyberinfrastructure"; This work is in collaboration with:
Seza Orcun (2), Shrinivas S Jandhyala (3), Brad Kennedy (3), Brett Lahner (1), Xiang Zhang (1), and Ivan Baxter (1)

(1) Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University
(2) e-Enterprise Center, Purdue University
(3) Discovery Park Applications Development, Purdue University
***CANCELLED***Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Wen Jiang , Department of Biological Science, Purdue University; "Solving Virus Structures Using Single Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy"; Associated reading (pdf):; Jiang, W., Chang, J., Jakana, J., Weigele, P., King, J. and Chiu, W., 2006, Structure of Epsilon15 phage reveals organization of genome and DNA packaging/injection apparatus Nature, 439, 612-616.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Haixu Tang, School of Informatics, Indiana University; "Decoding the mosaic structure of segmental duplications in human genome"; Associated reading (pdf):; Pavel A. Pevzner, Haixu Tang, and Glenn Tesler De Novo Repeat Classification and Fragment Assembly Genome Res., Sep 2004; 14: 1786 - 1796.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Wen Jiang , Department of Biological Science, Purdue University; "Solving Virus Structures Using Single Particle Cryo-Electron Microscop y"; Associated reading (pdf):; Jiang, W., Chang, J., Jakana, J., Weigele, P., King, J. and Chiu, W., 2006, Structure of Epsilon15 phage reveals organization of genome and DNA packaging/injection apparatus Nature, 439, 612-616.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Tony Hazbun , Department Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University; "Discovering Protein Function Using Functional Genomics"
Tuesday, March 14, 2006: NO SEMINAR: Spring Break
Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Jun Xie, Department of Statistics, Purdue University; "De novo discovery of transcriptional regulators"
Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Chiwook Park , Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University; "Proteome-wide investigation of conformational energy landscapes of proteins by proteolysis"
Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Sun Kim , School of Informatics/Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics Indiana University-Bloomington; "A Sequence-Clustering Approach to Motif Discovery for Proteins"
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Ann Rundell , Department of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; "Investigating the TCR-activated Erk-MAPK Signaling Pathway Through a Comparative Study of Parameter Sensitivity Analyses"
Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Dr. Jing Li , Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University; "Haplotype-based linkage disequilibrium mapping via direct data mining"; Associated reading (pdf):; Jing Li and Tao Jiang. 2005. Haplotype-based linkage disequilibrium mapping via direct data mining. Bioinformatics. 21(24):4384-4393.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering Building (ME) 161: Mr. Lianbo Yu, Department of Statistics, Purdue University; "Statistical Issues in Protein Microarray Analysis"

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