CSBL Seminar Series

"Motif Length Could Be Computationally Recognized"
Speaker: Dr. Guojun Li
          Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology &
          Institute of Bioinformatics
          University of Georgia
Date: July 24, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Dynamic analysis of biological networks"
Speaker: Dr. Ruoyu Luo
          Shanghai Center for Bioinformatics Technology
          Chinese Academy of Sciences
Date: July 17, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Beyond Sequence Alignment : An optimization framework for the inference of nontrivial protein domain architecture and ancient homology"
Speaker: Dr. Degui Zhi
          Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
          University of California, Berkeley
Date: July 10, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Plant Phylogenomics: Comparative Analyses of Plant Genes and Genomes"
Speaker: Dr. Jim Leebens-Mack
         Department of Plant Biology
         University of Georgia
Date: May 15, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Artificial Neural Networks and Prediction of Protein Structural Properties"
Speaker: Dr. Bin Xue
         School of Informatics
         Indiana University & Purdue University
Date: April 17, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Enzyme Prediction based on Protein Subfamily and Support Vector Machine"
Speaker: Dr. Ying Huang
         Center for the Study of Systems Biology School of Biology
         Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: March 20, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"DA and Xiao - Two Giant and Composite LTR-retrotransposon-like Structures Identified in the Human Genome"
Speaker: Dr. Shaying Zhao
         Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
         University of Georgia
Date: March 06, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Decipher lysophospholipid signaling in embryo implantation"
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoqin Ye
         Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
         University of Georgia
Date: February 21, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"An Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods: A New Paradigm in Scientific Exploration (Part III and End)"
Speaker: Dr. David Landau
         Center for Simulational Physics
         University of Georgia
Date: February 8, 2008 (Friday)
Time: 11:15 - 12:15
Venue: B118, Life Sciences Building


"An Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods: A New Paradigm in Scientific Exploration (Part II)"
Speaker: Dr. David Landau
         Center for Simulational Physics
         University of Georgia
Date: January 31, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"An Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods: A New Paradigm in Scientific Exploration (Part I)"
Speaker: Dr. David Landau
         Center for Simulational Physics
         University of Georgia
Date: January 17, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Overview of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharide Biosynthesis: Are We Ready for a Systems Biology Approach?"
Speaker: Dr. Debra Mohnen
         Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
         University of Georgia
Date: November 29, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Computational Methods for Automatic Parallelization of Workflow Problems and Applications to Genome Scale Protein Structure Prediction"
Speaker: Dr. Kyle Ellrott
         CSBL
         University of Georgia
Date: November 8, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Marginal hazards regression for case-control and case-cohort studies with possibly correlated failure time data"
Speaker: Dr. Sangwook Kang
         Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health,
         University of Georgia
Date: October 18, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Molecular Epidemiology of Viral Hepatitis"
Speaker: Dr. Yuri Khudyakov
         Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
         Atlanta, Georgia
Date: October 11, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: C120, Life Sciences Building


"Evolution of a genetic regulatory network"
Speaker:  Dr. Sue Brown
          Division of Biology,
          Kansas State University
Date: September 13, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Evolutional pathways of H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus"
Speaker:  Dr. Xiu-Feng (Henry) Wan
          Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
          Atlanta, Georgia
Date: September 6, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Polynomial Spline Smoothing for Nonlinear Time Series"
Speaker:  Dr. Lily Wang
          Department of Statistics
          University of Georgia
Date: August 30, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Identification of network involved in Nucleotide-sugar metabolic pathways and regulation"
Speaker:  Dr. Maor Bar-Peled
          Department of Plant Biology
          University of Georgia
Date: August 28, 2007 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:30-3:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"On the origin of microbial ORFans: are they from viruses?"
Speaker:  Dr. Yanbin Yin
          Department of Computer Science & Engineering
          University of Buffalo, NY
Date: August 22, 2007 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:30-3:30 pm
Venue: B118, Life Sciences Building


"Interpreting and Misinterpreting Shared Introns in Homologous Genes : Tubulin Case"
Speaker:  Dr. Vivek Gopalanz
          Center For Advanced Research in Biotechnology
          University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Date: August 2, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Detection of genomic duplication pattern and divergence profiles of paralogous genes in rice"
Speaker:  Dr. Xiyin Wang
          Center for Applied Genetic Technologies
          University of Georgia
Date: August 1, 2007 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"M-TASSER: An Algorithm for Protein Quaternary Structure Prediction"
Speaker:  Dr. Huiling Chen
          Center for the Study of Systems Biology
          Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: July 26, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Molecular engineering of microbes for useful products"
Speaker:  Dr. Rachel Chen
          Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
          Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: May 31, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"A Tale of Two Projects with Metabolically Engineered Escherichia coli"
Speaker:  Dr. Mark A. Eiteman
          Professor of Engineering
          Adjunct Professor of Microbiology
          University of Georgia
Date: May 24, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Data Analysis"
Speaker:  Dr. Haesun Park
          Professor, College of Computing
          Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: May 21, 2007 (Monday)
Time: 1:30-2:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Some research issues in Genomic Signal Processing"
Speaker:  Dr. Yufei Xiao (postdoc candidate)
          Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
          Texas A&M University
Date: May 17, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"The number of prokaryotes on earth (and why we care)"
Speaker:  Dr. Barny Whitman
          Professor
          Department of Microbiology
          University of Georgia
Date: April 26, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Single Molecule Wires: Molecular Nanoelectronics and Biosensors"
Speaker:  Dr. Bingqian Xu
         Assistant Professor
          Faculty of Engineering
          University of Georgia
Date: April 12, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"A Computational Approach for Identification of Drug Targets using Metabolic Network"
Speaker:  Dr. Tamer Kahveci
         Assistant Professor
          Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
          University of Florida
Date: March 22, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Discrete Algorithms for Disease Association Search and Susceptibility Prediction"
Speaker:  Dr. Alexander Zelikovsky
         Associate Professor
          Department of Computer Science
         Georgia State University
Date: Febuary 8, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"An Overview of Blind Source Separation"
Speaker:  Dr. Xiaoli Ma
           Assistant Professor
          School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
           Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: January 11, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Membrane Protein Structure Prediction : A Necessarily Multi-disciplinary Task"
Speaker:  Dr. Claire Gervais
           Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
           University of Georgia
Date: December 14, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"A brief review of mathematical tools in system engineering: hybrid filtering, stochastic approximation, and multi-time scale structure"
Speaker:  Dr. Qing Zhang
           Professor, Department of Mathematics
           University of Georgia
Date: December 7, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Ecological Genomics in the Coastal Ocean"
Speaker:  Dr. Mary Ann Moran
           Professor, Department of Marine Sciences
           University of Georgia
Date: November 16, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"What positions nucleosomes: An incomplete history of the discovery of the nucleosome positioning code"
Speaker:  Dr. Jan Mrazek
           Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Bioinformatics
           University of Georgia
Date: October 12, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Combining Comparative Genomics with de novo Motif Discovery to Identify Human Transcription Factor DNA-Binding Motifs"
Speaker:  Dr. Linyong Mao (CSBL postdoc candidate)
           Medical University of South Carolina
Date: Oct. 5, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Hypothalamus - Pituitary - Adrenal (HPA) Axis Modeling"
Speaker:   Eric Aslakson
           Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
           Atlanta, Georgia
Date:
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Information theory based DNA binding site models"
Speaker:  Dr. Zehua Chen (CSBL postdoc candidate)
           Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program
           NCI, CCR, NIH
Date: August 24, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Glucocorticoid Receptor: A Disturbing Element in the HPA Axis Negative Feedback Loop in stress-related diseases"
Speaker:  Dr. Shakti Gupta(CSBL postdoc candidate)
           Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
           Atlanta, Georgia
Date: August 11, 2006 (Friday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Study of the kinetics of realtime PCR by ensemble ethod"
Speaker:  Mr. Wenduo Zhou(CSBL postdoc candidate)
           Department of Physics and Astronomy
           University of Georgia
Date: August 10, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Molecular Modeling: a Diversified Tool for Understanding Molecular Crystals"
Speaker:  Dr. Claire Gervais(CSBL postdoc candidate)
           Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
           University of Bern
Date: August 3, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Analysis of Protein Structure Using Delaunay Tessellation"
Speaker:  Dr. Todd Taylor (CSBL postdoc candidate)
           School of Computational Sciences
           George Mason University
Date: July 26, 2006 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Prospects and Challenges in Proteomics"
Speaker:  Dr. Junmin Peng
          Department of Human Genetics,
          Emory University
Date: July 20, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"A new clustering method -- quasi-clique merger"
Speaker:  Dr. Yongbin Ou
           Department of Mathematics
           West Virginia University
Date: July 13, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Genome-scale maps of recently active IS elements in cyanobacteria and archaea"
Speaker:  Dr. Fengfeng Zhou
           CSBL, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept.
           University of Georgia
Date: June 29, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Site Mapping and Characterization---How Unsatisfying for Complex Glycans!"
Speaker:  Dr. Lance Wells
           CCRC and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept.
           University of Georgia
Date: May 25, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Detecting Uber-operons in Prokaryotic Genomes"
Speaker:  Dr. Fenglou Mao
           CSBL, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept.
           University of Georgia
Date: May 18, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Protein secondary structure prediction"
Speaker:  Dr. Wen-Lian Hsu
           Institute of Information Science,
           Academia Sinica
Date: May 9, 2006 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Preserving Privacy and Confidentiality of Healthcare Data"
Speaker:  Dr. Li Xiong
          Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
          Emory University
Date: April 13, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Dissecting the effects of nitroheterocyclic compounds on environmentally relevant species using genomics"
Speaker:  Dr. Edward Perkins
           US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Date: March 24, 2006 (Friday)
Time: 2:30-3:30Pm
Venue: C112, Life Sciences Building


"Genomics-enabled Biogeochemistry in Nevada Hot springs"
Speaker:  Dr. Chuanlun Zhang
           Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Marine Sciences
           Department, the University of Georgia
Date: March 16, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Applications of Statistics in Drug Discovery and Engineering"
Speaker:  Dr. Abhyuday Mandal
           Department of Statistics, the University of Georgia
Date: March 9, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Challenges and benefits of metagenome sequence analysis"
Speaker:  Dr. Margie D. Lee
          College of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Georgia
Date: February 16, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"A hierarchical system of homologous genes for prokaryotes"
Speaker:  Dr. Hongwei Wu
          CSBL, BCMB the University of Georgia
Date: January 26, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Introduction to the Floating Genome (aka Open Source Evolution)"
Speaker:  Dr. Anne Summers
           Department of Microbiology, the University of Georgia
Date: January 12, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"CREAD: Comprehensive Regulatory Element Analysis and Detection"
Speaker:  Dr. Andrew Smith
           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: November 9, 2005 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:00-5:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Mitotic orchestration: molecular dissection of chromosome segregation"
Speaker:  Dr. Xuebiao Yao
           Department of Physiology, Morehouse School of Medicine
Date: November 8, 2005 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Linking evolutionary genome instability to colorectal tumorigenesis:comparing the human, dog, and mouse genomes"
Speaker:  Dr. Shaying Zhao
           Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology &
          Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia
Date: November 3, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Effective Use of Data Mining Technologies on Biological and Clinical Data"
Speaker:  Dr. Huiqing Liu
           CSBL, University of Georgia
Date: October 27, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"The Approximability of the Exemplar Breakpoint Distance Problem"
Speaker:  Dr. Binhai Zhu
           Department of Computer Science, Montana State University
Date: October 18, 2005 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Clinical and comparative aspects of canine prostate cancer"
Speaker:  Dr. Bruce LeRoy
           Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Georgia
Date: October 13, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Comparative Genomics of Gossypium and Arabidopsis: Unraveling the Consequences of both Ancient and Recent Polyploidy"
Speaker:  Dr. Junkang Rong
           Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia
Date: September 29, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Computational predictions of cis-regulatory elements with high accuracy in prokaryotes"
Speaker:  Dr. Zhengchang Su
           CSBL, University of Georgia
Date: September 15, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"The regulation of the C. elegans cell cycle by cullin ubiquitin ligases"
Speaker:  Dr. Edward Kipreos
           Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia
Date: September 1, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Digital Representations of Complex Carbohydrate Structures: Implications for Automated Analysis of High-Throughput Spectral Data"
Speaker:  Dr. William S. York
           BCMB, University of Georgia
Date: June 16, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"The road to predicting non-coding RNA genes"
Speaker:  Thao Tran
           Visiting Student from Georgia Tech
Date: June 2, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Modeling Carbohydrate Antibody Interactions"
Speaker:   Dr. Robert J. Woods
           BCMB and CCRC, University of Georgia
Date: May 19, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Modeling of Nanoscale molecular devices and biological macromolecules"
Speaker:   Dr. Xiange Zheng (postdoc candidate)
          kelly Services of NIH
Date: April 11, 2005 (Monday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Network Cluster Analysis via a Continuous Evolution of a Physical Analog"
Speaker:   Dr. Vladimir Gudkov
           Associate Professor
           Department of Physics and Astronomy
          University of South Carolina
Date: March 17, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"A MAGIC Approach to Gene Discovery and Transcriptome Expression"
Speaker:   Dr. Lee H. Pratt
           Distinguished Research Professor
           Department of Plant Biology and BCMB, UGA
Date: Febuary 17, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Computational modeling of transmembrane helix packing at different length scales"
Speaker:  Dr. Zhong Chen
           Computational Systems Biology Lab
           Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA
Date: Febuary 3, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Mathematical Models for Predicting Chemical Induced Disturbances in the Thyroid"
Speaker:  Jeffrey W. Fisher, Ph.D.
          Professor and Department Head
         Environmental Health Science, UGA
Date: January 27, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Detecting Differential Expression for Microarray Time Course Data"
Speaker:Ming Yuan, Ph.D.
       Assistant Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
       Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: January 6, 2005 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Random Walks through the Gene Machine: the Ensemble Method of Biological Circuit Identification"
Speaker:Dr. Bernd Schuttler
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Georgia
Date: December. 2, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Parallel Computing: Introduction and Application"
Speaker:Professor Thiab Taha
Department of Computer Science
University of Georgia
Date: November. 11, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Sample classification using microarray data: Dealing with potential misclassification"
Speaker:Dr. Romdhane Rekaya
Department of Animal and Dairy Science and Statistics
University of Georgia
Date: October. 28, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Intragenomic Conflict and Evolution of Gene Silencing"
Speaker:Dr. Paul Schliekelman
Department of Statistics
University of Georgia
Date: October. 14, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Genetic Design of Drugs without Side-effects"
Speaker:Dr. Guojun Li, Visiting Scientist
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CSBL
University of Georgia
Date: October. 7, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Pathway Mapping with Operon & Regulon Information: An Integer Programming Method"
Speaker:Dr. Fenglou Mao
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CSBL
University of Georgia
Date: Sept. 16, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Comparative analyses of bacterial phosphonate metabolic pathway"
Speaker:Dr. Jinling Huang
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, CSBL
University of Georgia
Date: Sept. 9, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Computational prediction of operons in Synechococcus sp. WH8102"
Speaker:Dr. Xin Chen
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California - Riverside
Date: August 26, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30-4:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Protein Structure Recognition: From codability principle to structural threading method"
Speaker:Dr. Haibo Cao, postdoctoral candidate
        Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
Date: August 9, 2004 (Monday)
Time: 2:00-3:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Towards Computational Inference of Regulatory Pathways in Prokaryotes"
Speaker:Dr. Zhengchang Su
        CSBL, Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia
Date: July 29, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Identification of ion types in Tandem Mass Spectra - a novel graph-theoretic approach"
Speaker:Dr. Bo Yan
        CSBL, Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia
Date: July 22, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Understanding and Detecting Hidden Periodic features in Data: An Introduction to Fourier Analysis"
Speaker:Vincent A. Emanuele II
        Visiting Student from Georgia Tech
Date: July 8, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Discriminant analysis and predictive models in bioinformatics"
Speaker:Eva K. Lee, Ph.D.
       Associate Prof. & Director, CORM
       Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech.
       Dept. of Radiation Oncology,Emory University
Date: July 1, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Graphical CMOS IDDQ Testing Signatures Based on Data Mining"
Speaker:Dr. Lan Rao
       Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Rutgers University
Date: June 24, 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30-3:30Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Improving Power Efficiency for Wireless Transmissions"
Speaker:Professor Tong Zhou
       School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
Date: April 28, 2004 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Physical Design of DNA Probe Arrays"
Speaker:Dr. Alex Zelikovsky
       Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University
Date: April 21, 2004 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"New Mathematical Analysis of Fetal Heart Rate"
Speaker:Ms. Hanqing Cao
        University of Virginia
Date: April 19, 2004 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:00-2:15Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Modeling prosody for speech recognition"
Speaker:Mr. Ken Chen
        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: April 14, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


" Acoustic feature based classification of ground vehicles"
Speaker: Ms. Hongwei Wu
       Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South California
Date: April 8, 2004(Thursday)
Time: 9:30Am-10:45Am
Venue: C112, Life Sciences Building


"Optimal construction of theoretical spectrum, and defining the area of peptide identification problems, for which the intensity model is not necessary"
Speaker: Dr. Tema Fridman
       Oak Ridge National Lab
Date: April 7, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00Pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Entropy, pattern matching, and sequence analysis"
Speaker: Dr. Lihua Song
            Date: March 31, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Molecular Simulations of Complicated Polymeric Systems: Algorithms and Applications"
Speaker: Dr. Zhong Chen
            Cornell University
Date: March 29, 2004(Monday)
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Methods and models for gene regulation"
Speaker: Dr.Sohyoung Kim
            George mason University
Date: March 17, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"RDC-PROSPECT: Protein structure prediction using residual dipolar coupling data"
Speaker: Dr. Youxing Qu
            Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. UGA
Date: March 10, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Protein binding sites prediction using CUBIC"
Speaker: Dr. Victor Olman
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. UGA
Date: March 3, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Micro/Nano-Structured Terrain for Controlling Cellular Activities"
Speaker: Dr. Guigen Zhang
            Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering. UGA
Date: Febuary 25, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Protein Threading by Linear Programming"
Speaker: Dr. Won Jae "Dave" Chung
            Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA
Date: Febuary 18, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Structural mining: Self-consistent design on flexible protein-peptide docking and transferable binding affinity potential"
Speaker: Dr. Zhijie Liu
            Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA
Date: Febuary 11, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Transcriptional Regulatory Networks: Genome-Wide Prediction and Discovery"
Speaker: Drs. Bob Scott, Mike Adams, Ying Xu
            Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
           Department of Chemistry, UGA
Date: Febuary 4, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Transposable elements in the era of genomic: a case study in rice"
Speaker: Dr. Ning Jiang
         Department of Plant Biology, UGA
Date: January 28, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"Functional Genomics of the Hyperthermophilic and Anaerobic Archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus: The Response to a Blast of Cold Air"
Speaker: Dr. Mike Adams
         Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA
Date: January 21, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"A New Approach to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics"
Speaker: Dr. David Landau
         Department of Physics and Astronomy, UGA
Date: January 14, 2004(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: B121, Life Sciences Building


"A Progress Report: Using Cubic to identify binding sites of transcriptional regulators in Synechococcus sp. WH8102"
Speaker: Dr. Phuongan An Dam
Date:     January 7, 2004(Wednesday)
Time:     3:00-4:00pm
Venue:   B121, Life Sciences Building


"Piecing together the significance of alternative splicing in cancer"
Speaker: Dr.Chindo Hicks
Date:     December 11, 2003 (Thursday)
Time:     2:00-3:00pm
Venue:   B121, Life Sciences Building


"Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) Studies of Loblolly Pine and Arabidopsis"
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Dean
Date:     December 4, 2003 (Thursday)
Time:     2:00-3:00pm
Venue:   B121, Life Sciences Building


"Computational Predictions of Gene Functions and Biological Pathways in Arabidopsis"
Speaker: Dr. Dong Xu
Date:     November 24, 2003 (Monday)
Time:     3:00-4:00pm
Venue:   C127, Life Sciences Building


"Protein Mass-Spectrometry Data Under Statistical Microscope: Probabilistic Profile Method and Its Applications"
Speaker: Dr. Andrey A. Gorin
Date:     November 17, 2003 (Monday)
Time:     2:30-3:30pm
Venue:   B121, Life Sciences Building


"Stochastic grammar modeling of RNA pseudoknots"
Speaker: Dr. Liming Cai
Date:     November 6, 2003 (Thursday)
Time:     2:00pm-3:00pm
Venue:   B121 Conference Room, Life Sciences Building


"Predicting CpG island methylation in human tumors"
Speaker:  Dr. Alex Feltus
Date:      October 30, 2003 (Thursday)
Time:     2:00pm-3:00pm
Venue:    B121 Conference Room, Life Sciences Building


"A computer algorithm for identification of ion types in mass spectrometry data"
Speaker:  Dr.Ying Xu
Date:      October 24, 2003 (Friday)
Time:     10:00am-11:00am
Venue:    B121 Conference Room, Life Sciences Building


"An Efficient Bayesian Network Method for Detecting Stable Gene Regulatory Networks"
Speaker: Dr. Hanchuan Peng
Date:October 16, 2003 (Thursday)
Time:2:00pm -3:00pm
Venue: B121 Conference Room, Life Sciences Building


"New Paradigms in Cancer Research: From Molecular Pathway to Bioinformatics"
Speaker: Dr. Peng Wang
Date: October 8, 2003 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00pm -4:00pm
Venue: A110 Conference Room, Life Sciences Building


"SOAP and Web Service Design with applications to the Protein Structure Prediction Pipeline"
Speaker: Kyle Ellrott
Date: October 1, 2003 (Wednesday)
Venue: A110 Conference Room, Life Sciences Building
Time: 3:00pm -4:00pm



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