STATISTICAL BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR SERIES
STAT 598B is a 1 credit seminar course (public is welcome)
4:30pm on Tuesdays in Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130
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SPRING 2013 Schedule:

Tuesday, January 8, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

RW Doerge, Department of Statistics and Department of Agronomy, Purdue University

This is an organizational meeting. All registered students must attend. If you need a registration form signed, please bring it to class.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

No Seminar

Tuesday, January 22, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Rebecca Doerge , Department of Statistics, Purdue University

"Part 1: Beginning a Job Search: Academic, Industry, Government..."

Associated reading:
1. Center for Career Opportunities (CCO), Purdue University

2. Applying for a Job (U.S. Department of Labor)

3a. How to write a cover letter.
3b. How to write an academic cover letter.

4. Academic Job Application Checklist

5. Academic Job Interview Advice

6. Academic Interview Questions

7. Tricky (Industry) Interview Questions

Tuesday, January 29, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Rebecca Doerge, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

"Part 2: The job interview and what to do when you get an offer (academic, industry, etc.)"

Associated reading:

1. Center for Career Opportunities (CCO), Purdue University
2. Preparing for an Academic Career

Tuesday, February 5, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Jake Chen, (IUPUI) Indiana University School of Informatics Purdue University Dept. of Computer & Information Science

"Systems Pharmacology: are we ready for predicting new uses of old drugs?"

Associated reading:

Li J, Zhu X, Chen JY (2009) Building Disease-Specific Drug-Protein Connectivity Maps from Molecular Interaction Networks and PubMed Abstracts. PLoS Comput Biol 5(7): e1000450.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

No Seminar

Tuesday, February 19, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Robert Elston, Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University

"Using the Optimal Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve to form Predictive Genetic Tests"

Associated reading:

Qing Lu, Changshuai Wei, Chengyin Ye, Ming Li, and Robert C. Elston. 2012. A Likelihood Ratio-Based Mann-Whitney Approach Finds Novel Replicable Joint Gene Action for Type 2 Diabetes. Genetic Epidemiology 36 : 583-593.

Tuesday, February 27, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Anindya Bhadra, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

"Joint high-dimensional Bayesian variable and covariance selection with an application to eQTL analysis"

Associated reading:

Bhadra, A. and Mallick, B. K. (2013). Joint high-dimensional Bayesian variable and covariance selection with an application to eQTL analysis. (to appear, Biometrics)

Tuesday, March 5, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Christina Leslie, Computational Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

"New insights into regulatory transcriptomics from next-generation sequencing"

Associated reading:

Loeb et al., (2012) Transcriptome-wide miR-155 Binding Map Reveals Widespread Noncanonical MicroRNA Targeting. Molecular Cell, Volume 48, Issue 5, 760-770.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

SPRING BREAK

Tuesday, March 19, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Ariful Azad, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

"Analyzing High Dimensional Flow Cytometry Data: Combinatorial and Statistical Algorithms"

Associated reading:
Azad,A., Langguth, J., Fang,Y., Qi, A. and Pothen, A. 2010. Identifying Rare Cell Populations in Comparative Flow Cytometry, Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) 2010, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 6293, pp. 162-175.

Azad,A., Pyne,S. and Pothen, A. 2012. Matching phosphorylation response patterns of antigen-receptor-stimulated T cells via flow cytometry, BMC Bioinformatics, 13(Suppl 2): S10.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Arun Seetharam, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Bioinformatics Core, Purdue University

"Next Gen Phylogenomics: An Overview of Nontraditional Methods"

Associated reading:

Seetharam A, Stuart GW. 2012 Whole genome phylogenies for multiple Drosophila species. BMC research notes. 5:670.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Cherie Ochsenfeld, Quantitative Genetics, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, USA

"Agronomic Trait Mapping in a Commercial Plant Breeding Program"

Associated reading:

Collard, B.C.Y. and D.J. Mackill (2008). "Marker-assisted selection: an approach for precision plant breeding in the twenty-first century." Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B 363: 557-572.

Würschum, T. (2012). "Mapping QTL for agronomic traits in breeding populations." Theoretical and Applied Genetics 12 5(2): 201-210.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Arnab Maity, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

"Detecting association between copy number variation and multiple myeloma: a functional data analytic approach"

Associated reading:

Baladandayuthapani, V., Ji, Y., Talluri, R., Nieto-Barajas, L. E., and Morris, J. S. (2010), "Bayesian Random Segmentation Models to Identify Shared Copy Number Aberrations for Array CGH Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 1358-1375.

Tuesday, April 16 , 2013; 4:30pm, Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1130

Rebecca Doerge,

"Final wrap-up. All registered students must attend"

No Seminar. We are done for the semester. Thank you.

Please contact doerge@purdue.edu if there is a speaker (including yourself) you would like to invite for this series, or if you would like to be added to the weekly email list.