BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR SERIES: FALL 2006
ST598B is a 1 credit seminar course (public is welcome) that meets
at 4:30pm on Tuesdays in Electrical Engineering (EE) 270.
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 2007 Schedule:
- Tuesday, January 9, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
- Dr. RW Doerge, Departments of Statistics and Agronomy,
- "This is an organizational meeting. All registered students must attend. If you need
a registration form signed, please bring it to class."
Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Dr. Stan Luck , Dupont, Wilmington, DE
"Associating genes with traits in populations"
Associated reading:
1. Balding D. A tutorial on statistical methods for population
association studies, Nature Rev. Genet. 7 (special issue on statistical
analysis), 781, 2006.
2. Rostoks N., et al. Recent history of artificial outcrossing
facilitates whole-genome association mapping in elite inbred crop
varieties, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103:18656, 2006.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Dr. Ilya Shmulevich, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA
"Modeling and Inference of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks"
Associated reading:
I. Shmulevich, S. A. Kauffman, M. Aldana, "Eukaryotic cells are dynamically ordered or
critical but not chaotic," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA,
Vol. 102, No. 38, pp. 13439-13444, 2005.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Dr. Krista Nichols , Dept. Biological Sciences and Dept. Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University
"QTL in rainbow trout: dissecting the
genetic architecture of complex life history traits"
Associated reading:
1. Nichols, K.M., K. Broman, K. Sundin, J. Young, P. Wheeler, and G.H. Thorgaard. Quantitative trait loci by maternal environment interaction for development rate in rainbow trout. Genetics, 175: 335347 (January 2007).
2. Vasemagi, A. & Primmer, C.R. Challenges for identifying functionally important genetic variation: the promise of combining complementary research strategies. Molecular Ecology 14, 3623-3642 (2005).
Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Dr. Katy Simonsen , Department of Statistics, Purdue University; and Statistical Genetics and Biomarkers, Bristol-Myers Squibb
"Pharmacogenomics: Statistical Genetics in the Pharmaceutical World"
Associated reading: None.
*** THE FEBRUARY 13, 2007 (AMY LOSSIE) SEMINAR IS
CANCELED TODAY DUE TO THE WEATHER. PLEASE NOTE, NO SEMINAR NEXT WEEK (FEBRUARY 20TH). RWD
***
Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Dr. Amy Lossie, Department of Animal Science, Purdue University
"Sequence Conservation at Odz4: An Evolutionary Mechanism of Gene Diversity?"
Associated reading:
Amy C. Lossie, Hisashi Nakamura, Sharon E. Thomas and Monica J. Justice. 2005. Mutation of l7Rn3 Shows That Odz4 Is Required for Mouse Gastrulation. Genetics. 169: 285-299.
*** THE FEBRUARY 13, 2007 (AMY LOSSIE) SEMINAR IS
CANCELED TODAY DUE TO THE WEATHER. PLEASE NOTE, NO SEMINAR NEXT WEEK (FEBRUARY 20TH). RWD
***
Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
No Seminar
Sponsored by the Department of Statistics GSO
Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Dr. RW Doerge, Department of Statistics and Department of Agronomy, Purdue University
"How to find, apply for, and negotiate a job (academic, industry, etc.)"
Associated reading:
None
Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
No Seminar
Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Spring Break. No Seminar
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Dr. Amy Lossie, Department of Animal Science, Purdue University
"Sequence Conservation at Odz4: An Evolutionary Mechanism of Gene Diversity?"
Associated reading:
Amy C. Lossie, Hisashi Nakamura, Sharon E. Thomas and Monica J. Justice. 2005.
Mutation of l7Rn3 Shows That Odz4 Is Required for Mouse Gastrulation. Genetics. 169: 85-299.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Ms. Zhaoxia Yu, (COALESCE Bioinformatics (Stat/Ag) interview talk), Division of Biostatistics,
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic
"An Integrated Analysis of Genetic Variants and Co-Regulated Genes"
Associated reading:
None.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Dr. Randall Roper , Department of Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
"Analysis of neural crest deficit in Down syndrome mice"
Associated reading:
Roper RJ, Reeves RH. Understanding the basis for Down syndrome phenotypes.
PLoS Genet. 2006 Mar;2(3):e50.
Roper RJ, Baxter LL, Saran NG, Klinedinst DK, Beachy PA, Reeves RH. Defective cerebellar response to mitogenic Hedgehog signaling in Down syndrome mice.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jan 31;103(5):1452-6. Epub 2006 Jan 23.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 4:30pm, Electrical Engineering (EE) 270
Dr. Dave Neale, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
"Association genetics of natural variation and complex traits in
forest trees"
Associated reading:
Neale, D.B. and O. Savolainen (2004) Association genetics of complex traits in conifers. Trends in Plant Science. 9:325-330.
Peter, G. and D. Neale (2004) Molecular basis for the evolution of xylem lignification. Curr. Op. Plant Biol. 7:1-6.
Brown, G.R., G.P. Gill, R.J. Kuntz, C.H. Langley and D.B. Neale. (2004) Nucleotide diversity and linkage disequilibrium in loblolly pine. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101:15255-15260.
Krutovsky,K.V. and D. B. Neale. (2005) Nucleotide diversity and linkage disequilibrium in cold-hardiness and wood quality related candidate genes in Douglas-fir. Genetics 171:2029-2041.
Gonzalez-Martinez, S.C., E.Ersoz, G.R. Brown, N.C. Wheeler and D.B. Neale. (2006) Candidate genes for drought-stress response in Pinus taeda L. DNA sequence variation and natural selection. Genetics 172:1915-1926.
Gonzalez-Martinez, S. C., K. V. Krutovsky and D. B. Neale. (2006) Forest tree population genomics and adaptive evolution. New Phytologist 170:227-238.
Krutovsky, K. V., and D. B. Neale. (2006) Forest genomics and new molecular genetic approaches to measuring and conserving adaptive genetic diversity in forest trees. In: Th.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
SEMINAR IS COMPLETE, and OVER FOR THE SEMESTER.... SEE YOU NEXT FALL!!! THANK YOU...RWD
Please contact
doerge@purdue.edu if there is a speaker you would
like to invited for this series.