Seminars - Spring 2003

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.

Spring, 2003, 2229 Seamans Center, 3:30 - 4:30 pm

• January 29 - Dr. Padmini Srinivasan, School of Library and Information Science,
  University of Iowa, “Text Metadata Mining: Extending the Frontiers of Text Based Applications in Biomedicine”, Rank: +2
  
• February 12 - Dr. Ramon Lawrence, Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa, "Database Integration Challenges in Bioinformatics", Rank: +4
  
• February 19 - Dr. Terry Braun, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Ophthalmology, University of Iowa, "TrAPSS: Transcript Annotation Prioritization and Screening System (Automated Knowledge Discovery for Accelerated Mutation Identification)", Rank: +1

DSL/Broadband
• February 26 - Dr. Andrew Williams, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, "Disease Genes Discovery via Phenotyping using Multi-Agent Ontology Consensus" , Rank: +2
  

• March 5 - Dr. Adrian Elcock, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, "Simulating Protein Function", Rank: -1
  
• March 12 - Dr. Mark Burns, Departments of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, "Genotyping on a 'Chip': Microfabricated Chemical Analysis", Rank: +1


• March 26 - Dr. Michael Zhang, Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, "Computational Molecular Biology of Genome Expression and Regulation", Rank: 0
  
• April 2 - Dr. Wing Wong, Computational Biology, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, “Analysis of cis-regulatory sequences”, Rank: -1


• April 9 - Dr. Michael Mackey, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Pathology, University of Iowa, "The Large Scale Digital Cell Analysis System - A Tool for the Analysis of Large Populations of Living Cells", co-authored by Fiorenza Ianzini, University of Iowa, Department of Radiology, Rank: -2
  

• April 24 - Dr. Michael Lovett, Departments of Genetics and Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, "Cross-Species Gene Profiling: Using Human Transcription Factor Microarrays to Interrogate Chick Inner Ear Development", Rank: -2, 7 pm, 376 IMU, Richey Ballroom

• April 28 - Dr. William Hersh, Devision of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research, Oregon Health and Science University, "Enhancing Access to the Bibliome: The TREC Genomics Track", 1 - 2 pm, 3321 Seamans Center, presented by Dr. Marc Light, School of Library and Information Science
• May 7 - Dr. Carol Bult, Staff Scientist, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, “Making Sense of Sequence: Integrating Biological Knowledge with the Mouse Genome”, Rank: 0

Seminars around Campus

• Specifying Pattern and Identity during Development, Interdisciplinary Genetics Ph.D. Program
• Life Science Seminars
• Department of Mathematics Seminar Series
• College of Engineering Seminar Series
• Department of Microbiology
• Department of Computer Science