Bioinformatics Seminar
The Bioinformatics Seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Theory of Computation group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The seminar series focuses on highlighting areas of research in the field of computational biology. This year, we are hoping to highlight three topics: (1) evolution and computational approaches to modeling and understanding it, (2) generative AI for biology/biomedicine, and (3) algorithms for computational biology/genomics.
Schedule - Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 3 | James Zou Microsoft Research |
Harnessing the unseen for next generation population genomics and epigenomics | |
| Feb. 10 (Room: Star 32-D463) | Caroline Uhler, MIT |
Causal Inference and Gene Regulation | |
| Feb. 17 (Room: Kiva 32-G449) | Po-Ru Loh, Harvard School of Public Health |
Fast and accurate long-range phasing in a UK Biobank cohort | |
| Feb. 24 (Room: Kiva 32-G449) | Sean Simmons |
Enabling genomic data sharing without violating patient privacy | |
| Mar. 2 (Room: Hewlett 32-G882) | Nicolò Fusi, Microsoft Research |
In Silico Predictive Modelling of CRISPR/Cas9 guide efficiency | |
| Mar. 9 (Room: Star 32-D463) | Michael Baym, Harvard Medical |
Evolutionary strategies to combat antibiotic resistance | |
| Mar. 16 | Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Health |
Algorithms for integrative functional metagenomics | |
| Mar. 23 | Spring Break | ||
| Apr. 6 (Room: Kiva G-449) | Ben Hescott, Tufts University |
Moving Beyond Local Patterns: New Ways to Reason about Biological Network Comparisons | |
| Apr. 13 (Room: Star 32-D463) | Rafael Irizarry, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
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| Apr. 20 | Lenore Cowen, Tufts |
Diffusion-Based Metrics for Biological Network Analysis | |
| Apr. 27 | Yaniv Erlich, NY Genome Center |
Democratizing genetic surveillance | |
| May 4 | Brad Malin, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
A Risk Analysis Perspective on Biomedical Data Privacy | |
| May 11 | Jeremy Gunawardena, Harvard University |
The Hopfield barrier in gene regulation | |
| May 24 (Room: Patil/Kiva G449) | Luay Nakhleh, Rice University |
Statistical Phylogenomics in the Presence of Reticulation |
Past Terms
A listing of the Bioinformatics Seminar series home pages from prior terms.
- Fall 2024
- Fall 2023
- Fall 2022
- Spring 2022
- Fall 2021
- Spring 2021
- Spring 2020
- Spring 2019
- Spring 2018
- Spring 2017
- Spring 2016
- Spring 2015
- Spring 2013
- Spring 2011
- Spring 2010
- Spring 2009
- Fall 2008
- Fall 2007
- Spring 2007
- Fall 2006
- Spring 2006
- Fall 2005
- Spring 2005
- Fall 2004
- Spring 2004
- Fall 2003
- Spring 2003
- Spring 2001
Organizers and Information
The Bioinformatics Seminar is hosted by MIT Simons Professor of Mathematics and head of the Computation and Biology group at CSAIL Bonnie Berger. Professor Berger is also Faculty of Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology, Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Faculty of MIT CSB, and Affiliated Faculty of Harvard Medical School.
The seminar is announced weekly via email to members of the seminar's mailing list and to those on CSAIL's event calendar list. It is also posted in the BioWeek calendar.
Bonnie Berger: bab@mit.edu
Anna Sappington (TA): asapp@mit.edu
To be added to the seminar's email announcement list or for any questions you have about the seminar, please mail bioinfo@csail.mit.edu and cc TA Anna Sappington (asapp@mit.edu).
If you plan to enroll in the associated course, 18.418/HST.504: Topics in Computational Molecular Biology, please contact Professor Berger (bab@mit.edu) and cc TA Anna Sappington (asapp@mit.edu) for more information.