New Statistical Methods in Molecular Biology 2006-2007

An Interdisciplinary Workshop Sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School

Oranized by Steve Qin, Student Coordinator: Shyam Gopalakrishnan
High throughput technologies such as Sequencing, DNA microarray, genotyping and MASS Spectrometry produced enormous amount of information. How to extract scientific knowledge from these massive data presents a daunting challenge as well as unprecedented opportunities for researchers. Statistics is playing an increasingly important role in fields like molecular biology and biochemistry. Sophisticated and carefully designed data analysis tools are in high demand. To develop these new tools, researchers from quantitative side need to team up with experimental scientists, and acquire in-depth knowledge of biology to have a better understanding of the problem. To encourage interaction with biologists, and expose statistics and biostatistics, computer science faculty and students to real cutting-edge biological problems, we organize this workshop focusing on the development of new statistical and computational approaches to extracting scientific knowledge from experimental data. The schedule for 2006-2007 school year is as follows:

Schedule

Date Presenter Affiliation Title of the Talk
10/06/05 Peter Woolfe Chemical Enginerring A systems biology approach to Automatic Pathway Identification
10/20/05 Hua Tang Fred Hutchinson Reconstructing genetic ancestry blocks in admixed individuals
11/03/05 Yuehua Cui MSU Sequencing complex diseases with penalized logistic regression
11/17/05 Inhan Lee Psychiatry microRNA-filtered genome-wide expression profiling
12/01/06 Yan Sun Epidemiology A Scan Statistic for Identifying Chromosomal Regions in Genomic Studies
01/19/07 Glenn Tarcea et al. EECS, NCIBI MiMI - A Molecular Interactions Database
02/02/07 Alexey I. Nesvizhskii Pathology Analysis and statistical validation of shotgun proteomics datasets
03/16/07 Matthias Kretzler Internel Medicine Functional genomics of renal disease: a tale of multi-level integration across disciplines and continents.
04/06/07 Jeesun Jung Indiana University Bivariate combined linkage and association mapping of quantative trait loci
04/13/07 Yves Atchade Statistics MCMC for statistical models with intractable normalizing constants.
05/10/07 Sheng Zhong Univeristy of Illinois at Urbanan Champaign Reproducibility Probability Score: Incorporating Measurement Variability across Laboratories for Gene Selection.
08/10/07 Sean Mooney Indiana University School of Medicine Identification and characterizing the molecular affects of single nucleotide polymorphisms.

Previous workshop: 2005-2006

  • We will meet every other Friday from 3pm to 4:00 pm at 1690 Crossroads, the new tower of SPH.
  • To join the mail list, contact steve qin (qin@umich.edu).