2013

June 10, 2013   1pm-2pm
Title: Identifying molecular mechanisms of disease action in association studies
Speaker: Maria Rodriguez Martinez
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

June 7, 2013   10am-11am
Title: Healthy and Malignant Development Through the Eyes of Single Cells
Speaker: El-ad David Amir
Location: Humphreys Auditorium, VC 14-240
Host: Thesis Seminar

May 15, 2013   3pm-4pm
Title: Complexity and Information: Genetics, Circulating DNA, and the Analysis of Data
Speaker: David Galas
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Distinguished Speaker Seminar

May 10, 2013   10am-11am
Title: Aberrantly Expressed ceRNAs Alter Cancer Gene Abundance
Speaker: Hua-Sheng Chiu
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 817
Host: Thesis Proposal

May 2, 2013   2:00pm-3:00pm
Title: Cancer GWAS Studies: Where Do We Go From Here?
Speaker: Prof. Sir Bruce Ponder
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Florence Irving Auditorium
Host: Andrea Califano

April 25, 2013   4:00pm-5:00pm
Title: Diverse Types of Genetic Variation Converge on Functional Gene Networks Involved in Schizophrenia
Speaker: Sarah Gilman
Location: Vanderbilt Clinic 5, Conference Room
Host: Department of Biomedical Informatics Student Seminar

April 18, 2013   6:00pm-7:00pm
Title: Systems Biology of Psychiatric Disorders
Speaker: Dennis Vitkup
Location: Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research
Host: Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering

April 18, 2013   4:00pm-6:30pm
Title: Computational Biology & Genomics: An Introduction
Speaker: Hossein Khiabanian
Location: Irving Institute Educational Center (622 W. 168th St, Floor 10, Room 405B)
Host: Advanced Seminar on Modeling for Public Health and Clinical Research

April 8, 2013   1pm-2:30pm
Title: Inferring Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Network Structure by Exploiting Natural Sequence Variation
Speaker: Mina Fazlollahi
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

April 4, 2013   10am-11am
Title: The Development of Genetic-Genomic Approaches to Identify Driver Mutations Inducing Mesenchymal Transformation in Glioblastoma
Speaker: James Chen
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, First Floor Auditorium
Host: Thesis Seminar

March 25, 2013   1pm-2:30pm
Title: Loss of an E3 Ligase Adaptor Protein, KLHL9, Induces Mesenchymal Transformation in High-Grade Glioma
Speaker: James Chen
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

March 18, 2013   4pm-5pm
Title: An Extensive MicroRNA-Mediated Network of RNA-RNA Interactions Regulates Established Oncogenic Pathways in Glioblastoma
Speaker: Hua-Shen Chiu
Location: Vanderbilt Clinic 5, Conference Room
Host: Department of Biomedical Informatics Student Seminar

March 18, 2013   4pm-5pm
Title: Mutational Landscape of Esophageal Cancer
Speaker: Nanfang Xu
Location: Vanderbilt Clinic 5, Conference Room
Host: Department of Biomedical Informatics Student Seminar

March 18, 2013   1pm-2:30pm
Title: Clonal Evolution of Infectious Diseases
Speaker: Hossein Khiabanian
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

March 11, 2013   1pm-2:30pm
Title: Active Site-Based Method for Protein Function Prediction
Speaker: Mariam Konate
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

March 7, 2013   4pm-5pm
Title: TVariants in Exons and in Transcription Factors Affect Gene Expression in Trans 
Speaker: Anat Kreimer
Location: Vanderbilt Clinic 5, Conference Room
Host: Department of Biomedical Informatics Student Seminar

February 11, 2013   1pm-2:30pm
Title: Understanding the Binding Affinities of Type I Classical Cadherins
Speaker: Karla Felsovalyi
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

February 4, 2013   1pm-2:30pm
Title: Haemagglutinin Stalk Domain Epitopes in the Evolution of Influenza Virus
Speaker: Alex Solovyov
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

January 31, 2013   4pm-5pm
Title: Probabilistic Dynamic Simulation of Cell Signaling in Cancer 
Speaker: Eugenia Lyashenko
Location: Vanderbilt Clinic 5, Conference Room
Host: Department of Biomedical Informatics Student Seminar


2012

December 21, 2012   
Title: FGFR-TACC Gene Fusions in Glioblastoma Multiforme Discovered through High-Throughput Transcriptomic and Whole-Exome Sequencing
Speaker: Joseph Chan
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: Integrated Program Seminar

December 3, 2012   1pm-2:30pm
Title: Targeting Drug Resistance in Breast Cancer
Speaker: Forest Ray
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

December 2, 2012   3pm-4pm
Title: Folding Principles of Genomes
Speaker: Prof. Job Dekker
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Dana Pe'er

November 12, 2012   1pm-2:30pm
Title: Gene Fusion Discovery through Whole-Exome Sequencing
Speaker: Joseph Chan
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

November 7, 2012   1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Title: Mass Spectrometric Strategies for Protein Biomarker Discovery and Validation
Speaker: Dr. Ruedi Aebersold
Location: ICRC Bldg Auditorium, 1st Floor
Host: Ben Tycko

October 25, 2012   4pm-5pm
Title: D-MAND: Identifying Drug Mode of Action using Network Dysregulation
Speaker: Jung Hoon Woo
Location: Vanderbilt Clinic 5, Conference Room
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

October 25, 2012   4pm-5pm
Title: Identification of miRNA Biogenesis Regulators and Function Modulators 
Speaker: Wei-Jen Chung
Location: Vanderbilt Clinic 5, Conference Room
Host: Department of Biomedical Informatics Student Seminar

October 22, 2012   1pm-2:30pm
Title: Networks in Autism
Speaker: Sarah Gilman
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 816
Host: C2B2 Student Seminar

October 11, 2012   4pm-5pm
Title: Dissecting Effects of Genetics and Environments on Gene Expression
Speaker: Bo-Juen Chen
Location: Vanderbilt Clinic 5, Conference Room
Host: Department of Biomedical Informatics Student Seminar

October 4, 2012   
Title: Evolution of Metabolic Phenotypes Across Bacterial Species
Speaker: German Plata
Location: 
Host: Integrated Program Seminar

April 12, 2012   3PM - 4PM
Title: How the Genome Folds
Speaker: Dr. Erez Lieberman Aiden
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

April 5, 2012   3pm-4pm
Title: Unraveling Cancer Signaling Networks with Mass Spectrometry
Speaker: Dr. Paul H. Huang
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

March 7, 2012   3PM - 4PM
Title: Global RNA Regulatory Networks in the Mammalian Brain: Insights from an Integrative Biology Approach
Speaker: Dr. Chaolin Zhang
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

February 29, 2012   3PM - 4PM
Title: Evolution of the Cancer Genome
Speaker: Prof. Franziska Michor 
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

February 16, 2012   2 PM - 3 PM
Title: Compensatory Evolution in Proteins is the Norm, and not the Exception
Speaker: Prof. Fyodor Kondrashov
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Dennis Vitkup


2011

November 3, 2011   1PM - 2PM
Title: Automatic Control of Gene Expression in Living Cells: a Systems and Synthetic Biology Approach
Speaker: Diego di Bernardo
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th floor, C2B2 Commom Rm 816
Host: Andrea Califano

November 2, 2011   3PM - 4PM
Title: Recurrent Properties and Clustering of Cancer Genomes
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Krasnitz
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th floor, C2B2 Commom Rm 816
Host: Andrea Califano

October 12, 2011   2PM - 3PM
Title: Molecular Networks in Cancer
Speaker: Ilya Shmulevich
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

October 5, 2011   3PM - 4PM
Title: Characterization of regulatory small RNAs and RNA-binding proteins.
Speaker: Thomas Tuschl
Location:  ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

May 18, 2011   4pm-5pm
Title: Understanding and Predicting Protein-Ligand Binding Affinities: Theory and Practice.
Speaker: Richard A. Friesner
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Barry Honig

March 16, 2011   4pm-5pm
Title: Understanding Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer
Speaker: Robert J. Klein
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan

February 7, 2011   3pm-4pm
Title: Personal Functional Genomics: How Variation in Genome Sequence Impacts Gene Regulation
Speaker: Timothy Reddy
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano


2010

December 13, 2010   3pm-4pm
Title: Mining the EHR: Challenges and Opportunities ... and Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Noemie Elhadad
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8 Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Aris Floratos

October 20, 2010   3pm-4pm
Title: The Re-Combinatorics of Diploids.
Speaker: Laxmi Parida
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

October 13, 2010   4pm-5pm
Title: Towards Linking Tumor Genomic Signatures to Cancer Therapeutics
Speaker: Stuart L. Schreiber
Location: TBA
Host: Cory Abate - Shen

October 6, 2010   3pm-4pm
Title: Exploring Genomic Medicine Using Translational Bioinformatics.
Speaker: Atul Butte
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan
 

June 25, 2010   3pm-4pm
Title: Genome Engineering Technologies for Rapid Programming & Evolution of Organisms.
Speaker: Farren Isaacs
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

May 19, 2010   2:30pm-3:30pm
Title: Engineering Artificial Nucleases for Targeted Genomic Manipulation.
Speaker: Scot Wolfe
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Remo Rohs

May 7, 2010   2pm-3pm
Title: In Search of New Biology: from Functional Genomics to Mechanistic Hypotheses
Speaker: Aaron Mackey
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Dimitris Anastassiou

May 5, 2010   3pm-4pm
Title: Evidence for Convergent Evolution of ALU Repeats in Human and Mouse
Speaker: Aris Tsirigos
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8th floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: Itshack (Itsik) Pe'er
 
April 23, 2010   3:30pm-4:30pm
Title: Ben MacArthur: "Microdynamics and Criticality of Adaptive Regulatory Networks"; Amin Mazloom: "Network based approach to unravel microRNA mediated pathoregulation in cancer"; Alexander Lachmann: "Genes2Networks, Drugs2Networks, Disease2Networks"
Speaker: Avi Maayan group
Location: ICRC Building 8th Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
Host: Antonina Mitrofanova

April 22, 2010   11am-12noon
Title: Causal Systems Biology: the Sea Urchin Embryo Gene Regulatory Network
Speaker: Eric Davidson
Location: 1150 St. Nicholas Ave Russ Berrie Bldg 1st Floor Room 1
Host: Andrea Califano

April 22, 2010   4pm-5pm
Title: Revealing Global Regulatory Perturbations across Human Cancers.
Speaker: Saeed Tavazoie
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

April 14, 2010   4pm-5pm
Title: History, Hubris and Greed: Why Molecular Modeling is not (yet) very Successful in Drug Design.
Speaker: Anthony Nicholls
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC bldg, 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Barry Honig

April 7, 2010   3pm-4pm
Title: Dissecting the Functional Importance of Gene Circuit Architecture.
Speaker: Gurol M. Suel
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
Host: Chris Wiggins
 
March 19, 2010   12pm-1pm
Title: Phylogenomic Methods for Improved Protein Function and Structure Prediction
Speaker: Kimmen Sjolander
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave NY, ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Barry Honig
 
February 26, 2010   3:30pm-4:30pm
Title: Optimal functionality in noisy small networks
Speaker: Andrew Mugler 
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th Floor, Rm 816
Host: Antonina Mitrofanova

February 24, 2010   3-4pm
Title: Integrated Analysis of Functional Genomics Data: on the Road to Systems - Level Understanding of Disease and Enabling Molecular Medicine.
Speaker: Olga G. Troyanskaya
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

February 18, 2010   3pm-4pm
Title: Learning about Population History form Genomic Data.
Speaker: David Reich
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Itshack (Itsik) Pe'er

February 5, 2010   3:30-4:30pm
Title: Cellular Heterogeneity in Models of Cancer and Metabolism: which Differences Make a Difference?
Speaker: Steven Altschuler
Location: ICRC Bldg 1st Floor Room 114
Host: Andrea Califano

February 4, 2010   3-4pm
Title: Tales of how Yeast Got its Spots: Disentangling Positive Feedback Circuits Required for Cdc42 Polarization.
Speaker: Lani Wu
Location: Russ Berrie Bldg First Floor Room #2
Host: Andrea Califano
 
 
January 25, 2010   2:30pm-3:30pm
Title: Deciphering microRNA-mediated regulation from genome-wide changes in gene expression
Speaker: Christina Leslie
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th Floor, Rm 816
Host: Antonina Mitrofanova

January 20, 2010   4pm-5pm
Title: Mathematical Theory of Cryo-Electron Microscopy.
Speaker: Amit Singer
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan

2009

November 10, 2009   3:15-4:15
Title: Graphical Causal Modeling of Protein Structural and Dynamical Features (Journal Club Seminar)
Speaker: Kate Stafford (Palmer lab)
Location:  ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
Host: Richard Friedman

November 4, 2009   3pm-4pm
Title: Population Genetic Inference in the Personal Genome Era
Speaker: Carlos Bustamante
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano
 
 
October 14, 2009   11am-12pm
Title: Genetic Predisposition to Chronic Pain following Nerve Injury
Speaker: Ariel Darvasi
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave, ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
Host: Itshack (Itsik) Pe'er

October 7, 2009   4pm-5pm
Title: Adaptive Gene Expression Evolution in Yeast and Mice.
Speaker: Hunter Fraser
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave, ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan
 
 
September 16, 2009   3pm-4pm
Title: Information Flow in Biological Networks: Taking optimization Principles Seriously
Speaker: William (Bill) Bialek
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8 Floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan
 
June 10, 2009   4pm-5pm
Title: To Die or Not to Die, that is the Question
Speaker: Peter K. Sorger
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8th Floor C2B2 Common Romm 816
Host: Dennis Vitkup
 
 
May 22, 2009   2pm-3pm
Title: Information Directed Molecular Technology: Programming Nicleic Acid Self-assembly.
Speaker: Peng Yin
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Dimitris Anastassiou
 
April 15, 2009   4pm-5pm
Title: Oncogenic Transcriptional Networks Controlled by NOTCH1 in Human Leukemia.
Speaker: Adolfo Ferrando
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8 Floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan

April 1, 2009   4pm-5pm
Title: Novel Approaches to Drug Discovery and Cancer Metabolomics.
Speaker: Jeffrey Skolnick
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8 Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Barry Honig
 
 
March 23, 2009   4pm-5pm
Title: Molecular Logic Gates and Network Medicine.
Speaker: Rune Linding
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

March 18, 2009   3pm-4pm
Title: New Opportunities and Challenges in Protein Network Analysis.
Speaker: Trey Ideker
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8 Floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano
 
 
February 25, 2009   4pm-5pm
Title: Detecting Differentially Methylated Regions with Microarray Data.
Speaker: Rafael Irizarry
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8 Floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan

February 11, 2009   4pm-5pm
Title: Systems Biology of Cancer Cells
Speaker: Chris Sander
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg C2B2 8 Floor Common room 816
Host: Barry Honig
 
 
January 21, 2009   4:00pm-5:00pm
Title: Deep Small RNA Sequencing, SNP Discovery and De Novo Assembly with the SOLiD Analyzer.
Speaker: Tood P. Michael
Location: ICRC Bdlg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8 Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan

January 14, 2009   4pm-5pm
Title: Design Principles of Biochemical Oscillators.
Speaker: John J. Tyson
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8 Floor C2B2 Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

2008 

December 15, 2008   4-5pm
Title: "Life on the Edge: The Evolutinary Biology of RNA Viruses"
Speaker: Eddie Holmes
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8 Floor Room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan

December 3, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: "Protein Sectors: Functional Units of Tertiary Structute"
Speaker: Olivier Rivoire
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8 Floor Room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan
 
 
November 25, 2008   3:15-4:15
Title: Facilitated Variation, Modularity at the Origin of Biological Form (Journal Club Seminar).
Speaker: German Plata
Location: Common Room (room 816) Irving Cancer Research Building
Host: Dennis Vitkup

November 19, 2008   4pm-5pm
Title: Microbe Hunting in the 21st Century
Speaker: Ian Lipkin
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg C2B2 8 Floor Common Room 816
Host: Raul Rabadan

November 17, 2008   11:30pm-12:30pm
Title: Pharmacogenomic Studies on adverse Drug Reactions
Speaker: Ann Daly
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave NYC 8 Floor C2B2 Common Room 816
Host: Itshack (Itsik) Pe'er

November 11, 2008   4pm-5pm
Title: Coarse-Graining Biochemical Networks
Speaker: Ilya Nemenman
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8 Floor Room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

November 5, 2008   4pm-5pm
Title: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding Cellular Behavior
Speaker: Saeed Tavazoie
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8th Floor Room 816
Host: Andrea Califano
 
 
October 28, 2008   3;15-4:15
Title: The Evolution of Influenza virus.
Speaker: Raul Rabadan
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8 Floor Room 816
Host: Richard Friedman

October 22, 2008   4pm-5pm
Title: "Whole Genome, Whole Population Detection of Hidden Relatedness"
Speaker: Itshack (Itsik) Pe'er
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg 8 Floor Room 816
Host: 

October 15, 2008   4pm-5pm
Title: "Predicting Expression from Sequence: Data-driven Mechanistic Models of (post-) Transcriptional Networks."
Speaker: Harmen Bussemaker
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave ICRC Bldg C2B2 8 Floor common room 816
Host: 

October 8, 2008   4pm-5pm
Title: Intriguing Rules for Small Non-coding RNAs in the Cellular Regulatory Networks
Speaker: Hanah Margalit
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave C2B2 8 Floor Room 816
Host: Barry Honig

October 7, 2008   3:15-4:15
Title: So "YOUR" bacteria can save mankind... Now prove it's yours!! Watermarking genetically modified organisms (Journal club seminar)
Speaker: El-ad David Amir (Integrated Program)
Location: 3:15-4:15 Common Room (room 816) Irving Cancer Research Building
Host: Dennis Vitkup
 
May 12, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: Mesoscale Modeling of Macromolecular Machines by Normal Modes
Speaker: Michael Levitt
Location: ICRC Bldg 8th Floor common room 1130 St. Nicholas Ave NY, NY 10032
Host: Barry Honig
 
 
April 23, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: Alternative Splicing in Tumors: Detection and Interpretation.
Speaker: Terry Speed
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave C2B2 common room 816
Host: 

April 15, 2008   3:00-4:00
Title: Predicting functional transcription factor binding through alignment-free affinity-based analysis of orthologous promoter sequences.(Journal Club Seminar)
Speaker: Luke Ward (Bussemaker Lab)
Location: 816 (Common Room) HICCC
Host: Richard Friedman

April 1, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: Statistical and conformational analysis of the electron density of protein side chains (Journal Club Seminar)
Speaker: Tonya Silkov (Murray lab)
Location: Common Room (Room 816) Irving Cancer Research Building
Host: Richard Friedman
 
March 26, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: "Evolution of Eukaryotic Transcription Circuits"
Speaker: Hao Li
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave C2B2 common room 816
Host: Harmen Bussemaker

March 25, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: Information Bottleneck - Data clustering while preserving Information (Journal Club Seminar)
Speaker: Anil Raj
Location: 816 (Common room) HICCC
Host: Dennis Vitkup
 
March 5, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: "Motifs, Modules, and Machine Learning: Recent Progress and Future Challenges"
Speaker: Chris Wiggins
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave C2B2 8 Floor Common room 816
Host: Aris Floratos
 
February 27, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: Regulatory Genomics of Drosophila and Mammalian Genomes.
Speaker: Manolis Kellis
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Room 816
Host: Barry Honig

February 6, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: Toward Millisecond-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins.
Speaker: David E. Shaw
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave NY, NY 8th Floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: Barry Honig

February 5, 2008   3-4 pm
Title: Intrinsic protein disorder: molecular function and prediction from sequence (Journal Club Seminar)
Speaker: Avner Schlesinger
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave NY, NY 8 Floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: Student Seminar/Journal Club
 
January 30, 2008   3pm-4pm
Title: Activity Patterns in Biological Networks: Statistical Analysis and Network Reconstruction
Speaker: Daphne Koller
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave NY, NY 8 Floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: 

2007

December 11, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: The Origins of Genome Complexity (Journal Club Seminar)
Speaker: Dennis Vitkup
Location: Common Room (Room 816) Irving Cancer Research Building
Host: Richard Friedman
 
November 27, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: Protein--Protein Interactions: Hot Spots and Structurally Conserved Residues often Locate in Complemented Pockets that Pre-organized in the Unbound States:Implications for Docking (Journal Club Seminar)
Speaker: Brian Chen (Honig lab)
Location: CRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave NY, NY 8 Floor C2B2 common room 816
Host: Dennis Vitkup

November 14, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: â€œComputational Dissection of Mammalian Genome Regulation SubNetworks”
Speaker: Micheal Zhang
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: Andrea Califano
 
 
October 10, 2007   4pm-5pm
Title: SMASH: Single Molecule Approach to Sequencing by Hybridization
Speaker: Bud Mishra
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano
 
 
June 27, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: Sarcomagenesis and Molecular Events Associated with Sarcoma Progression
Speaker: Carlos Cordon-Cardo
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano
 
 
May 30, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: â€œThe Deterministic Mutation Hypothesis Revisited: Co-evolution of Robustness, Epistasis, and Recombination Favors Asexual Reproduction
Speaker: Aviv Bergman
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

May 23, 2007   4pm-5pm
Title: Human Diseasome: From Networks to Human Diseases.
Speaker: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

May 16, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: Biological Context Networks: Towards a more Sensitive Predictive Biology of Disease using Network Signatures
Speaker: Simon Kasif
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

May 2, 2007   4pm-5pm
Title: Pre-Seady-State Decoding of the Bicoid Morphogen gradient
Speaker: Sven Bergmann
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common room 816
Host: Itshack (Itzik) Pe'er
 
 
April 18, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: Analysis Methods for Association Studies in General and Special Populations
Speaker: Itshack (Itzik) Pe'er
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor common Rm 816
Host: Aris Floratos

April 11, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: Deriving the Single-Neuron Transcriptome of C. Elegans to Infer Mechanisms for Synaptic Connectivity.
Speaker: David M. Miller
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Room 817
Host: Dimitris Anastassiou
 
 
March 21, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: Deciphering the DNA Recognition Code of Natural and Synthetic Transcription Factors
Speaker: Aseem Ansari
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common room 817
Host: Barry Honig
 
 
February 28, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: The Novel Biophysics of Cell Adhesion
Speaker: Lawrence Shapiro
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common room 816
Host: Aris Floratos

February 21, 2007   3pm-4pm
Title: The Evolution of Influenza Virus during the 20th and 21st Centuries
Speaker: Arnold Levine
Location: ICRC 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor common room 817
Host: Andrea Califano
 

2006

December 13, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Genetic Variation and Regulatory Networks: Mechanisms and Complexity
Speaker: Dana Pe'er
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common room 816
Host: Aris Floratos
 
 
November 29, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Nuclear Pore Complexes: The Hole Picture?
Speaker: Michael Rout
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

November 15, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Similarity measures and Similarity Searches in Genome-wide Numeric Data Sets or Blast the Vectors.
Speaker: Arcady Mushegian
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: Andrey Rzhetsky
 
 
October 25, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Systems Biology, Cancer Stem Cells, and Inferring Genetic Regulatory Networks.
Speaker: Stuart Kauffman
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: Andrea Califano

October 18, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Embedding Computation in Studies of Protein Structure and Function.
Speaker: Chris Bailey-Kellogg
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave 8th Floor Common room 816
Host: Andrea Califano
 
 
September 20, 2006   4:30pm-5:30pm
Title: Understanding and Exploiting the Evolution of Eukaryotic Regulatory Sequences.
Speaker: Michael Eisen
Location: ICRC Bldg 1130 St. Nicholas Ave. 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: Harmen Bussemaker
 
June 14, 2006   4:30pm-5:30pm
Title: Inference of sets of synergistically interacting genes from microarray data
Speaker: Dimitris Anastassiou
Location: ICRC Bldg/ Aud III 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: 

June 7, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Cancer knowledge exploration and modeling with OncoTCap
Speaker: Roger Day
Location: ICRC Bldg/ Aud III 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: Aris Floratos
 
 
May 24, 2006   4:30pm-5:30pm
Title: MINDY: An Algorithm for the Genome-wide Discovery of Modulators of Transcriptional Interactions
Speaker: Kai Wang
Location: ICRC Bldg/ Aud III 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: 

May 17, 2006   4:30pm-5:30pm
Title: Computational and Experimental Approaches to the Study of Protein-DAN Interactions and Gene Regulation.
Speaker: Gary Stormo
Location: 
Host: Harmen Bussemaker

May 3, 2006   4:30pm-5:30pm
Title: Structure, Function, and Evolution of Cellular Networks.
Speaker: Dennis Vitkup
Location: ICRC Bldg/ Aud III 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: 
 
 
April 26, 2006   4:30pm-5:30pm
Title: Coping with Cenetic and Non-Genetic Variations.
Speaker: Yitzhak Pilpel
Location: ICRC Bldg/Aud III 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: Barry Honig

April 19, 2006   4:30pm-5:30pm
Title: Revising our View of the Mammalian Transcriptome.
Speaker: Brendan Frey
Location: ICRC Bldg/ Aud III 8th Floor Common Room 816
Host: Christina Leslie
 
 
March 29, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Predictive Modeling of Condition-Specific Regulation Of mRNA Stability
Speaker: Harmen Bussemaker
Location: ICRC Bldg/Aud III 8th Floor Common room
Host: Aris Floratos
 
March 22, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Of yeast, birds, mice, and men: Bayesian machine learning and systems biology.
Speaker: Alexander Hartemink
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, 8th Floor Conference Room
Host: Andrea Califano

March 17, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Rule-based Modeling of Signaling by Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor.
Speaker: Michael L. Blinov
Location: 1130 St. Nicholas Ave. ICRC Bldg 8th Floor Common Room
Host: Chris Wiggins
 
 
February 22, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Interactome Neworks
Speaker: Marc Vidal
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, 8th Floor Conference Room
Host: Andrea Califano
 
January 11, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: Transmembrane Protein Structures Without X-rays
Speaker: Nir Ben-Tal
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, 8th Floor Conference Room
Host: Barry Honig

January 4, 2006   3pm-4pm
Title: geWorkbench - A bioinformatics platform for integrated genomics
Speaker: Aris Floratos
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, 8th Floor Conference Room
Host: 

2005

December 7, 2005   3-4 pm
Title: Inference of Selection and Other Human Population Genetic Analysis from Genome-Wide Data
Speaker: Andrew G. Clark
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, 8th Floor Conference Room
Host: Andrey Rzhetsky
 
November 30, 2005   3-4pm
Title: The Functional Landscape of Gene Expression in Yeast and Mouse
Speaker: Timothy R. Hughes
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, 8th Floor Conference Room
Host: Paul Pavlidis

November 16, 2005   
Title: Information theoretic analysis of biological data
Speaker: Noam Slonim
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, 8th Floor Conference Room
Host: Andrea Califano

November 9, 2005   3-4pm
Title: Analysis of I) S. cerevisiae synthetic-lethal interactions and II) a high-throughput experimental map of protein interaction in humans.
Speaker: Frederick P. "Fritz" Roth
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, 8th Floor Conference Room
Host: Chris Wiggins
 
October 12, 2005   4-5pm
Title: Genomic Analyses of Transcription Factors and CIS Regulatory Elements.
Speaker: Martha L. Bulyk
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, Rm 114
Host: Harmen Bussemaker
 
June 1, 2005   4-5pm
Title: Information Theory in Systems Biology.
Speaker: Ilya Nemenman
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg, Rm 115
Host: C2B2
 
May 24, 2005   4:15-5:15pm
Title: Oncogenes and Cell Mechanics.
Speaker: Michael Sheetz
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg Rm 114/ 167 St. and St. Nicholas Ave.
Host: C2B2

May 17, 2005   4:15-5:15 pm
Title: Integrating Genotypic and Molecular Profiling Data in Segregating Populatins to Elucidate Gene Networks Underlying Common Disease Traits.
Speaker: Eric E. Schadt
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Bldg Room 114
Host: Andrea Califano

May 10, 2005   4:15-5:15 pm
Title: Transcription factor binding from the theoretical physicist\'s point of view: more questions than answers.
Speaker: Curtis Callan
Location: Irving Cancer Research Bldg Room 114
Host: Ilya Nemenman
 
March 29, 2005   4:15-5:15pm
Title: Decoding Transcription Networks in Microbes and Applications to Drug Discovery.
Speaker: Timothy Gardner
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center Room 121A (1130 St. Nicholas Ave.)
Host: Andrea Califano

March 21, 2005    3-4pm
Title: The Computational Biology Group at Harvard\\\'s Bauer Center for Genomic Research.
Speaker: Eitan Rubin
Location: Irving Cancer Research Center, Room 121B (1130 St. Nicholas Ave.)
Host: Yves Lussier

March 1, 2005   4:15-5:15pm
Title: Information-theoretic design of experiments and estimation of discrete distributions.
Speaker: Liam Paninski
Location: ICRC First Floor, Room 121A ( Aud. III, 1130 St. Nicholas Ave.)
Host: Ilya Nemenman
 
January 31, 2005   3-4pm
Title: How does a Protein find its site on DNA
Speaker: Leonid Mirny
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2

2004

December 20, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Rich Probabilistic Models for Genomic Data
Speaker: Eran Segal
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2

December 13, 2004   2-4pm
Title: How does a Protein find its site on DNA?
Speaker: Leonid Mirny
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2

December 6, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Evolution and Assembly of Scrambled Genes.
Speaker: Laura Landweber
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2
 
November 29, 2004   3-4
Title: Systems Biology of the { \\it Drosophila} blastoderm: What can we learn?
Speaker: John Reinitz
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2

November 22, 2004   3-4pm
Title: From aneuploidies to function: making sense of functional genomics data.
Speaker: Olga G. Troyanskaya
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2
 
October 25, 2004   3-4pm
Title: From Sequence-based comparitive genomics to functional comparative genomics.
Speaker: Isasc Kohane
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2

October 24, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Birth-and-death evolution of multigene families: Examples from immune systems and olfactory receptor genes.
Speaker: Masatoshi Nei
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2
 
June 28, 2004   2-3pm
Title: Aracne: A method for the Automated Reconstruction of Accurate Cellular
Speaker: Andrea Califano
Location: R Berrie Rm 4th
Host: C2B2

June 21, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Comparative Genomics of Human/Apes and Mouse/Rat
Speaker: Saitou Naruya
Location: R Berrie First Floor Room 1
Host: C2B2
 
March 28, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Combining Multiple Genomic Data Sources into Reliable Predictions of Protein-interactions
Speaker: Ronald Jansen
Location: R Berrie 1st Floor Conference Room No. 1
Host: C2B2

March 25, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Advances in statistical alignment methods
Speaker: Jotun John Hein
Location: R Berrie Pavilion 1st Floor Conference Room, No. 1
Host: C2B2

March 1, 2004   3-4pm
Title: The Yeast Cell Cycle Network is Robustly Designed
Speaker: Chao Tang
Location: R Berrie 1st Floor Conference Room No. 1
Host: C2B2
 
February 23, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Inferring gene regulatory networks from multiple sources of data
Speaker: Dr. Chen-Hsiang Yeang
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2

February 16, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Computational Proteomics: Genomic Analysis of Protein Fossils
Speaker: Mark Gerstein
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2

February 9, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Integrative Models of the Cardiac Ventricular Myocyte: from Microscopic Channel Gating to Macroscopic Cell Behavior
Speaker: Raimond Winslow
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2

February 4, 2004   3-4pm
Title: Functional and topolocial characterization of protein interaction networks
Speaker: Dr. Soon-Hyung Yook
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2

2003

December 19, 2003   2-3pm
Title: Bayesian Methods for Microarray Data Analysis.
Speaker: Marco Ramoni
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2
 
January 24, 2003   3-4pm
Title: Motifs in the Functional Connectivity of Primary Neuronal Cultures.
Speaker: Greg Stephens
Location: R Berrie Rm 5th
Host: C2B2