Seminars/Events

Spring 2013 Seminar Series
This seminar series is jointly sponsored by the department of Computer and Information Sciences, the department of Electrical Engineering and the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. For more information please email bioinformatics@dbi.udel.edu

The Importance of Figures to Automate Different
Components of the Curation Workflow

David Lopez,
Recent PhD Graduate, Computer and Information Sciences

University of Delaware
February 4, 2013
3:30- 4:00pm
DBI, Room 102
Patterns of Small RNA 3ΚΌ Modifications in Plant hen1 Mutants
Reveal Distinct Routes of Turnover

Jixian Zhai,
MS Student, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
PhD Student, Plant and Soil Sciences

University of Delaware

4:00-4:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Data Extraction of Reactome Biopax3 and Chicken Gene Annotation
Liang Sun,
PhD Candidate, Bioinformatics & Systems Biology

University of Delaware
February 11, 2013
3:30- 4:00pm
DBI, Room 102
iSimp: A Sentence Simplification System for Biomedical Text
Yifan Peng,
PhD Student, Computer and Information Sciences

University of Delaware

4:00-4:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Targeted Drug Delivery to Lungs
Arun Kumar,
Assistant Professor, Medical Laboratory Sciences

University of Delaware
February 18, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Mathematical Model of Intimal Thickening:
An Application to Atherosclerosis

Pak-Wing Fok,
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

University of Delaware
February 25, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Valuing Voronoi Visualization: Computational Geometric, Graph Theoretic,
and Spatio-Temporal Statistical Analyses of Dynamic Tessellations and
Spatial Point Distributions Applied to Tissue Network Topology

John Jungck,
Director, Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories
Professor, Biological Sciences

University of Delaware
March 4, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Using Bioinformatics to Understand Obesity:
An application of an environment-wide association study

Mia Papas,
Assistant Professor, Behavioral Health and Nutrition

University of Delaware
March 11, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Eukaryotic Transcriptome Complexity:
From the Start to the End & Beyond

Jun Zhu,
Director, DNA Sequencing Core

NIH
March 18, 2013
3:30pm
Smith, Room 102A

From Core-side to Bed-side and Back Again!
Impact of the Nemours Biomolecular Core Laboratory on Biomedical Research

Katia Sol-Church,
Director, Biomolecular Core Laboratory

A.I. Dupont Hospital for Children
April 1, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102
CANCELED

Bioinformatics Algorithms for Identification and Phylogenetic Classification
of Bacteria Using of Mass Spectrometry Based Proteomics Data

Samir Deshpande,

Science and Technology Corporation
April 8, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

A Few Surprises in Glycosylation of Proteins
Radoslav Goldman,
Associate Professor, Department of Oncology

Georgetown University
April 15, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Lysis Time Stochasticity in Bacteriophage Lambda
John Dennehy,
Associate Professor, Biology

City University of New York
April 22, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Characterizing Salient Concepts in Online Health Communities
Noemie Elhadad,
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Columbia University
THURSDAY May 2, 2013
11:00am
Smith, Room 102A

CHARACTERIZING DISTAL ENHANCERS
Sridhar Hannenhalli,
Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

University of Maryland
May 6, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Systems Toxicology of Chemicals of Military Interest
Jennifer Sekowski,
Molecular Toxicologist

US Army ECBC
May 13, 2013
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Fall 2012 Seminar Series

Probing Microbial Physiology with Sequencing: from
Hot Springs to the Arctic via the Bahamas

Tom Hanson,
Associate Professor

University of Delaware
September 10, 2012
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Systems Biology of the Chicken: Perturbation Models, Transcriptional Analyses
and Discovery of Functional Gene Networks

Larry Cogburn,
Professor

University of Delaware
September 17, 2012
3:30- 4:00pm
DBI, Room 102
Profiling Epigenetic Patterns of Gene Methylation:
from Mouse Brains to Polar Seas

Adam Marsh,
Associate Professor

University of Delaware

4:00-4:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Metagenomics and other cultivation-independent views
of marine microbes and the global carbon cycle
Dave Kirchman,
Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor

University of Delaware
September 24, 2012
3:30- 4:00pm
DBI, Room 102
Extending the capabilities and scope of genetic association studies:
some progress and questions
Randy Wisser,
Assistant Professor

University of Delaware

4:00-4:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Are microsatellites the missing heritable genetic component of cancer?
Harold "Skip" Garner,
Director, Medical Informatics and Systems Division

Virginia Tech
October 1, 2012
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Development of a Cluster-Based Sequence Compression Pipeline
Modupe Adetunji, Dan Nasko
Bioinformatics Graduate Students

University of Delaware
October 8, 2012
3:30- 4:00pm
DBI, Room 102
Development of a Genomic Variant Detection Tool
Erin Crowgey
Bioinformatics Graduate Student

University of Delaware

4:00-4:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Mathematical Modeling for Stress and Fatigue Management
David Thorsley,
Research Scientist

Army Research Lab
October 15, 2012
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Breast Cancer Progression and Health Disparities
Dan Flynn,
Associate Dean for Research, CHS

University of Delaware
October 22, 2012
3:30- 4:00pm
DBI, Room 102
Promoter DNA Methylation Enhances Metastasis of Pancreatic Cancer
Huey-Jen Lin,
Chair, Medical Laboratory Sciences

University of Delaware

4:00-4:30pm
DBI, Room 102


Benefit-risk Assessment in Drug Development
Bennett Levitan,
Director, Quantitative Safety Research

Johnson & Johnson
November 5, 2012
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Uncommon Use of Common Data (in BioMedicine)
Hagit Shatkay,
Associate Professor, Computer & Information Sciences

University of Delaware
November 12, 2012
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Taking a Picture of Transcription
Along a Single Chromosome

Arjun Raj,
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering

University of Pennsylvania
November 19, 2012
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Detecting Structural Influences on Binding Specificity
Brian Chen,
Assistant Professor

Lehigh University
November 26, 2012
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102

Innovations in Antibody Development
Ross Chambers,
Director, Technology R&D

SDIX
December 3, 2012
3:30pm
DBI, Room 102
Spring 2012 Seminar Series
Are Certain Viral Genes More Likely to Become CRISPR Spacers?
Dan Nasko,
MS Graduate Research Assistant

University of Delaware
February 6, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

The Surprising Dynamics of Adenosine
Ed Lyman,
Assistant Professor

University of Delaware
February 13, 2012
4:00pm
Smith, Room 218

Computational Intelligence in Biology: Two Tales from Neuroscience
Tomasz Smolinski,
Assistant Professor

Delaware State University
February 20, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

Towards More Physically Realistic and Accurate In-silico Protein-Ligand Interaction Models
Yang Zhong,
Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Delaware
February 27, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

Modeling Endocrine Resistance in Breast Cancer
Robert Clarke,
Professor of Oncology and Physiology & Biophysics

Georgetown University
March 5, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

Search for Genomic Footprints of Divergent Selection From Whole Genome Sequencing of Four Experimental Lines of Broiler Chickens
Behnam Abasht,
Assistant Professor

University of Delaware
April 2, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

Challenges and Opportunities in Drug Discovery and Development
Anastasia Christianson,
Senior Director and Global Discipline Leader for Biomedical Informatics

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
April 9, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

Inferring Host Subnetworks Involved in Viral Replication
Mark Craven,
Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Department of Computer Science

University of Wisconsin
April 16, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

Merging Microscopy and Bioinformatics to Understand the Evolution of Calcium Signaling in Fungi
Kirk Czymmek,
Associate Professor, Director CTCR Core Facility

University of Delaware
April 23, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

Systems Analysis to Drive Synthetic-Biology Strategies in Solventogenic Clostridia
Terry Papoutsakis,
Eugene Dupont Chair Professor

University of Delaware
April 30, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

Maximizing Efficiency and Resources in Pediatric Drug Development Through Team Science and Standardized Preclinical Testing
Andy Kolb,
Director, Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation
Head, Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory

Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
May 7, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102

Using Information Technology for Comparative Effectiveness Research
William Weintraub,
Director, Christiana Center for Outcomes Research
Chair of Cardiology

Christiana Care
May 14, 2012
4:00pm
DBI, Room 102
Related Seminars
Synthetic Signaling Systems for Biological Discovery and Design
Casim Sarkar,
Associate Professor

University of Pennsylvania
September 13, 2012
10:00 am
Brown Lab, Room 219

 

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