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.

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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.