Seminars

About the Seminar Series

The seminar series is an effort to build a community of scientists in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology through interdisciplinary collaboration. Currently, our community has many scientists from the extreme ends of the spectrum, with very few in the middle. We want to fill the spectrum more evenly and hope our seminars accomplish this goal.

Along with the list of seminar speakers and their primary discipline, the seminars will be ranked along the above scale. For example, Dr. Wing Wong will be giving a seminar April 2, 2003, and this would be rank of "1" on the scale. Note: All subject to change.

Fall 2003

September 5, 2003, Dr. Mark Craven, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, "Using Weakly Labeled Data to Learn Models for Extracting Information from Biomedical Text", 3083 Main Library, 11:30 am - 12:20 pm

September 19, 2003, Dr. Marc Light, School of Library and Information Science, Linguistics Department, University of Iowa, "An Overview of Text Mining of Bioscience Literature", 3083 Main Library, 11:30 am - 12:20 pm

September 23, 2003, Dr. Doug Hawkins, Professor, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, "Large dirty data arrays -- problems and possibilities", 2189 MERF, 3:30 - 4:30 pm.

September 25, 2003, Dr. Lynette Hirshman, Chief Scientist, Information Technology Division, The MITRE Corporation, "Using Biological Resources to Bootstrap Text Mining", 3083 Main Library, 11:30 am - 12:20 pm

September 30, 2003, Dr. Damien Chaussabel, National Institute ofAllergy and Infectious Disease (NIH), "Mining for Meaning: Data interpretation in the post-genomic era", 2229 Seamans Center, 4:00 - 5:00 pm

October 24th, 2003, Dr. William Krivan, "Computational modeling of transcriptional regulatory regions: America's funniest promoter regions", 3083 Main Library, 11:30 am - 12:20 pm

October 27, 2003, Dr. Jeanette Eckel, Mayo Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Research Training Program, "Rao's Score Test for Testing Hypotheses of the Covariance Matrix n Situations Where p Exceeds n", 2189 MERF, 3:30 - 4:30 pm.

October 28, 2003- Dr. Joe Assouline, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, "Bioinformatics Applications in Tissue Engineering", Rank: -3, 2229 Seamans Center, 4:00 - 5:00 pm

November 11, 2003, Dr. Brian Shoichet, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, "Docking to Model Binding Sites", 2229 Seamans Center, 4:00 - 5:00 pm

December 1, 2003, Dr. Aviv Bergman, Center for Computational Genomics and Biological Modeling, Stanford University, 101 Biology Building, Kollros Auditorium, 4:00 - 5:00 pm

December 2, 2003, Dr. Aviv Bergman, Chalk Talk, Center for Computational Genomics and Biological Modeling, Stanford University, 3220 Seamans Center, 3:30 - 4:30 pm

December 15, 2003, Dr. Yong Duan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, "Folding, Binding and Aggregation: A Computational Perspective:, 101 BBE, Kollros Auditorium, 4:30 - 5:30 pm.