Bioinformatics Colloquium

The Colloquium meets on Tuesdays, at 4:30 pm in the Auditorium, Building PWII.
Directions to Prince William Campus.

Fall 2001 Schedule

Sep 4	Iosif Vaisman, Ph.D. George Mason University Computational Geometry of Protein Structure
Sep 11 postponed	Stephen Bryant, Ph.D. National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH A conserved domain database
Sep 18	John Grefenstette, Ph.D.  George Mason University and Parabon Computation, Inc.  Comparing Algorithms for Large-Scale Sequence Analysis
Sep 25	Boris Veytsman, Ph.D. ITT Industries and Pennsylvania State University Hydrogen Bonds and Thermodynamics of Complex Liquids
Oct 2	Cathy Wu, Ph.D. National Biomedical Research Foundation and Georgetown University PIR and iProClass for functional genomics/proteomics
Oct 9	Columbus Day Recess (no seminar)
Oct 16	Don Seto, Ph.D. George Mason University High Throughput DNA Sequencing Technology: Recent Applications to Computational Virology
Oct 23	John G. Pierce George Mason University Report on the Gordon Conference on Bioinformatics
Oct 30	Devarajan Thirumalai, Ph.D. University of Maryland Plasticity of helices in prion proteins: Structural and sequence analysis
Nov 6	Thomas Schneider, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute, NIH Flippers, Flappers and Flip-Flops in DNA Binding
Nov 13	Javed Khan, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH The Challenge of Gene Expression Profiling using DNA Microarrays
Nov 20	Jason Kinser, D.Sc. George Mason University Biometrics: Multiple Methods of Human Identification
Nov 28 Fairfax JC-Stat Seminar	Francoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch  Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bioinformatics for HIV Genomics
Nov 29	Avia Rosenhouse-Dantsker, Ph.D.  Mount Sinai School of Medicine What a difference water makes... or: On the route of a ligand to its binding site in a receptor
Dec 3	Anton Nekrutenko, Ph.D.  University of Chicago Genomic Landscape of Eukaryotes
Dec 4	Keith McKenney, Ph.D. George Mason University Molecular Genetic Analysis of Ancient and Modern People
Dec 6	Neeti Sinha, D.Phil.  National Cancer Institute, NIH Protein Flexibilities: Implications for Folding, Binding and Function
Dec 13	Christian Forst, Ph.D.  Los Alamos National Laboratory A Network Genomics Approach for the Analysis of Biological Systems

The Bioinformatics Colloquium series can be taken for credit by the George Mason University graduate students.
The course number CSI 898 Sec 003.

Colloquium coordinator Iosif Vaisman (ivaisman@gmu.edu).