George Mason University
School of Computational Sciences

Bioinformatics Colloquium

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

Fall 2001 Schedule

Spring 2002 Schedule
 
Jan 29 Stephen Bryant
Senior Investigator, Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NIH
A Conserved Domain Database
Feb 5 Alexander Tropsha
Associate Director, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina 
Computational Analysis of Proteins: From Structure to Sequence to Function
Feb 12 John Campbell
Senior Group Leader, Database Development, Gene Logic Inc.
Applying Data Warehouse Concepts to Gene Expression Data Managment
Feb 19
postponed
James Cassatt
Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, NIGMS, NIH
Biology in the 21st Century -- A challenge for the funding agencies and the universities
Mar 5 Rida Moustafa, Ph.D.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
The Power Projection Method for Mining and Visualizing Multivariate Datasets
Mar 12 Spring recess (no seminar)
Mar 19 Frederick Schwarz, Ph.D.
Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology/National Institute of Standards and Technology
Energetics of the Initiation of Transcription in E. coli.
Apr 2 Curtis Jamison, Ph.D.
George Mason University
Merging Experimental and Clinical Data
Apr 9 Steven Salzberg, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Bioinformatics, The Institute for Genomic Research
Genome Archaeology: Discoveries from Computational Analyses of Whole Genomes
Apr 16 Prem Yadav
Director of Bioinformatics, American Type Culture Collection
Structure-Function Analysis of HIV-1 RT: Implications in Structure-Based Drug Design
Apr 23
postponed
Fatah Kashanchi
Associate Professor, George Washington University
Microarray and Proteomic approach in viral infections.
Apr 30 Victor Zhurkin, Ph.D.
National Cancer Institute, NIH
DNA Sequence-Dependent Deformability and Formation of Regulatory Loops: Gal-operone in E. coli and p53-DNA Complex in H. sapiens
May 7 James Cassatt
Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, NIGMS, NIH
Biology in the 21st Century -- A challenge for the funding agencies and the universities
May 9 Weifan Zheng
Eli Lilly and Company
Computational Methods for Combinatorial Library Design
May 10 Leila Akhmadeeva, M.D., D.Sc.
Ufa State Medical University
TBA

George Mason University graduate students may enroll in the Bioinformatics Colloquium for credit .
For the Spring 2002 the course number is CSI 898 Sec 004.

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