New Statistical Methods in Molecular Biology 2005-2006

An Interdisciplinary Workshop Sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School

Oranized by Steve Qin, Student Coordinator: Birva Sheth
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 2005-2006 school year is as follows:

Schedule

Date Presenter Affiliation Title of the Talk
10/07/05 Yongqun He (Oliver) Medical School Application of Bioinformatics in Host-Brucella Interaction Research
10/21/05 Dongxiao Zhu Bioinformatics Program Network constrained clustering for gene microarray data
11/11/05 Eleazar Eskin Computer Science, UCSD Integrated Genomics Approaches to Discovering the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits in Inbred Mouse Strains
12/02/05 Timothy Read Naval Research Center Population Genomics of Bacillus anthracis and Relatives
02/03/06 Steve Qin Biostatistics Clustering microarray gene expression data using Chinese restaurant process
02/10/06 Rich McEachin NCIBI Bioinformatics in Psychiatric Research
03/17/06 Ronglai Shen Biostatistics Eigengene Based Linear Discriminant Model for Tumor Classification Using Gene Expression Microarray Data.
03/31/06 Ben-Yang Liao EEB Cross-species Transcriptome Comparison using Oligonucleotide Microarray.
04/07/06 Fan Meng MBNI Target definition and the interpretation of GeneChip results
04/14/06 Shuanglin Zhang Michigan Tech An Ensemble Learning Approach for Identifying a Set of Interacting Loci Associated with Complex Traits.
04/28/06 Graham Coop Chicago
05/17/06
05/31/06
  • We will meet every other Friday from 2pm to 3:30 pm at M4318, SPH II.
  • Contact: steve qin (qin@umich.edu), birva sheth (bsheth@umich.edu).