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CBC Seminars are usually Wednesdays, 1 - 2pm in Yorktown 20-001. At times the day, time and location may vary to accommodate guest speakers. Seminars are coordinated and hosted by James Kozloski

Next Seminar

Speaker : Jin Wang, SUNY Stony Brook
Seminar : Quantifying the topography of the intrinsic energy landscape of protein folding
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 29, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Upcoming Seminars

Speaker : Martin Akerman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Seminar : Study of the biochemistry of the spliceosome through a network-based model
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. June 12, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Past Seminars

Speaker : Thomas Gregor Princeton University
Seminar : Segmentation by the numbers
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 22, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Pilib O’Broin, Dept. of Genetics, Div. of Computational Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Seminar : Automated Construction of Familial Binding Profiles
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 15, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Thomas J. Mariani, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Division of Neonatology and Center for Pediatric Biomedical Research, Co-Director, Pediatric Translational Biospecimen Laboratory, University of Rochester
Seminar : Integrating Systems-Level Analysis to Define the Molecular Bases of Respiratory Disease
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 8, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Willy Wriggers, DE Shaw Research Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College
Seminar : From Atoms to Living Organisms
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 1, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Andrew Marshall and Craig Mak, Nature Biotechnology
Seminar : Computational biology at Nature Biotechnology
When : 11 - 12 pm on Wed. April 24, 2013 in Yorktown 20-043

Speaker : Mark Hargreaves, University of Melbourne
Seminar : Histone modifications and exercise adaptations
When : 11 - 12 pm on Fri. April 19, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Peter Tass, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine - Neuromodulation, Research Center Juelich, Germany
Seminar : Long-lasting neuronal desynchronization with coordinated reset neuromodulation
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. April 10, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Camille Stephan-Otto, IRB Barcelona
Seminar : Estimating expression of known and denovo splicing variants from RNA-sequencing data
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. April 3, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Jacob Oppenheim, Rockefeller University
Seminar : The Limits of Auditory Acuity and their Implications for Auditory Processing
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. March 13, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Deok-Soo Kim, Department of Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Seminar : Molecular Geometry – New Paradigm for Molecular Problems
When : 11 - 12 pm on Tue. Feb. 26, 2013 in Yorktown 20-043

Speaker : Niina Haiminen, IBM Research
Seminar : Comp Bio PIC all hands mtg
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Feb. 20, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Ted Slater, CTO, OpenBEL Consortium
Seminar : A Lingua Franca for the Life Sciences: An introduction to OpenBEL
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Feb. 13, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Constantin Aliferis, MD, PhD, FACMI, Director, Center for Health Informatics & Bioinformatics, New York University
Seminar : Evidence-Based Bioinformatics In the Face of Continuous Methodological Innovation: Notes on Best Practices, Guidelines, and Benchmarking
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Feb. 6, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : James Kozloski, IBM Research
Seminar : What are the latest changes in patent law for life sciences?
When : 11 - 12 pm on Thurs. Jan. 31, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Paul Glimcher, Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology; Director, NYU Center for Neuroeconomics
Seminar : Understanding the Neural Basis of Human Economic Decision-Making
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Jan. 30, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Ben Strowbridge, Cold Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Dept. of Neurosciences
Seminar : Cellular mechanisms of mnemonic representations in the rodent brain
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Jan. 23, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Ravi Rao, IBM Research – Computational Biology Center
Seminar : A computational model for receptive field organization of color opponent cells incorporating a konio-cellular pathway
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Jan. 16, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Paul Geha, John B. Pierce Laboratory of Affective Sensory Neuroscience, Yale University
Seminar : Global and local functional connectivity changes with increased body weight
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Jan. 9, 2013 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Ian Peikon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Neuroscience,Yale University
Seminar : Sequencing the Connectome
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Dec. 12, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Stan Skafidas, The University of Melbourne, Centre for Neural Engineering, Parkville, Australia
Seminar : Functionalised Nanowires: Chemical and Electronic Sensors for Nanobionics
When : 1 - 2 pm on Mon. Dec. 10, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : David Kaplan, Univ. of Melbourne, Florey Neurosciences Institute
Seminar : TBD
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Oct. 31, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Keith Baggerly, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Quantitative Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Seminar : The Importance of Reproducibility in High-Throughput Biology: Case Studies in Forensic Bioinformatics
When : 1 - 2 pm on Mon. Oct. 22, 2012 in Yorktown 20-043

Speaker : Cameron Wellock, Rockefeller University
Seminar : Variability in singing and in song in the zebra finch
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Oct. 10, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Charles Peck, IBM Research
Seminar : A Biologically-Constrained, Computationally Grounded Theory for the Emergence of Subjective Experience
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Oct. 03, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Dirk Evers, New York Genome Center
Seminar : Creating a Collaborative Bioinformatics Resource for the New York Genome Center and its 11 Institutional Founding Members
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Sept. 26, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Sushmita Allam, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Seminar : Modeling Structure, Function and Dynamics: From Sub-synaptic Mechanisms to Neuron-Glia Interactions
When : 2 - 3 pm on Thu. Sept. 20, 2012 in Yorktown 36-002

Speaker : Dimitris Anastassiou, Columbia Univ.
Seminar : Biomolecular events in cancer revealed by attractor metagenes
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Sept. 19, 2012 in Yorktown 40-200

Speaker : Timothy David, Centre for Bioengineering, Univ of Canterbury
Seminar : Massively parallel coupled cell dynamics: An Exascale problem
When : 1 - 2 pm on Mon. Aug 13, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Ralph Garippa, Research Leadership and Group Management specializing in Cell-Based High Throughput Screening & High Content Automated Microscopy Expertise in Pluripotent Cell Biology and Preclinical Project Management Formerly with HOFFMANN-La ROCHE, INC.
Seminar : The Use of Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs, ESCs, and MSCs) in Drug Development and in Medicine
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. July 18, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Tobias Reichenbach, Laboratory for Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University
Seminar : Neurobiology of hearing
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. July 11, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Dragos Amarie, Biocomplexity Institute and Physics Department, Indiana University
Seminar : Label-Free Microcavity Biosensors: Detection Technology to Facilitate Personalized Medicine
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. June 20, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Matthias Reumann and Jeremy Rice, IBM Research Collaboratory in Melbourne and IBM Research, Yorktown
Seminar : Not publicized externally
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. June 13, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Aurelie Lozano, IBM Research
Seminar : Robust Joint Sparse Estimation of Multiresponse Regression and Inverse Covariance Matrix for eQTL Data Analysis
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. June 6, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Yuriy Polyakov, USPolyResearch
Seminar : Biomedical signal analysis: Application to the diagnosis of schizophrenia and photosensitive epilepsy
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 30, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Yoshio Okada, Harvard University, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Seminar : Can we read cortical activity in real time with magnetoencephalography?
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 23, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Rodolfo Llinas, NYU, Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Neuroscience
Seminar : Biologically Based, Hardware Implemented, Heuristic Analog Model of Motor Control
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 16, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Ralph Backofen, Department of Computer Science, Univ. Freiburg
Seminar : RNA Dark Matter
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 9, 2012 in Yorktown 40-100

Speaker : Jeremy Chambers, IBM, MapReduce, Solution Architect
Seminar : Shared Services Platform for Bioinformatics and Hadoop Applications
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 2, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Arno Klein, Asst. Professor of Clinical Neurobiology, Columbia University
Seminar : Brain labeling, feature identification, and shape analysis
When : 1 - 2 pm on Fri. April 27, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Carlos Diuk, Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University
Seminar : Divide and conquer: Hierarchical reinforcement learning and task decomposition in humans
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. April 25, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Stuart C. Sealfon, M.D., Mount Sinai Medical Center and School of Medicine
Seminar : Time domain information coding in CPUs built of living matter (aka cells)
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. April 18, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Roger Traub, IBM Research
Seminar : Why is it so hard to understand the brain?
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. April 11, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Thomas McTavish, Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Yale University
Seminar : Illuminating mechanisms of neural synchrony in the olfactory bulb
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. April 4, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Daniela Bruner, Psychogenics
Seminar : Bioinformatics Analysis of Behavioral Data
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. March 28, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Raquel Norel, Computational Biology Center, IBM Research
Seminar : Predicting epitope-antibody recognition: A DREAM5 Challenge
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. March 21, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : James Glazier, Director, Biocomplexity Institute, Professor of Physics, Adjunct Professor, Biology and Informatics, Indiana University
Seminar : Multi-scale, Multi-Cell Simulations of Neovascularization in Cancer and Age-Related Macular Degeneration using the Open-Source Modeling Environment CompuCell3D
When : 1 - 2 pm on Thurs. March 15, 2012 in Yorktown 20-043

Speaker : Silvina Matysiak, University of Maryland
Seminar : Modeling of self-assembly processes
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. March 14, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Gyan Bhanot, Rutger’s University
Seminar : Evolution and mimicry in influenza and other RNA viruses
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. March 7, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Randal Koene, Halycon Molecular
Seminar : Building tools to solve the system identification problem for functional reconstruction of a brain's connectome
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Feb. 29, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Nikita Vladimirov, IBM Research, Physical Sciences
Seminar : Waves and high-frequency oscillations in networks of electrically coupled axons
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Feb. 15, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Ferenc Mechler, Dept. Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College
Seminar : Dipole characterization of single neurons from their extracellular action potentials Three-dimensional localization of neurons in cortical tetrode recordings
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Feb. 8, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Avi Ma’ayan, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Seminar : Data Mining Strategies in Systems Pharmacology and Stem Cell Systems Biology
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Jan. 25, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : David Haws, University of Kentucky
Seminar : Optimality of the Neighbor Joining Algorithm and Faces of the Balanced Minimum Evolution Polytope
When : 1 - 2 pm on Mon. Jan. 23, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Cori Bargmann, Rockefeller University, Integrative Neuroscience Lab
Seminar : The invisible wiring diagram: Using fixed circuits to generate flexible behaviors
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Jan. 11, 2012 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Diego Fernandez Slezak, University of Buenos Aires, Integrative Neuroscience Lab
Seminar : Incorporating Information Technology in the Teaching and Learning Cycle
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Dec. 7, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Ed Boyden, MIT Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Biological Engineering
Seminar : Technologies for Analyzing the Computations of the Brain
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Nov 30, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Frank Hsu, Fordham University,
Seminar : Are Two Heads Better Than One? Combinatorial Fusion Analysis in Brain Informatics and Cognitive Informatics
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Nov. 23, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Benjamin Torben-Nielsen, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Seminar : The generation and maintenance of phase-differences and frequency changes in a network model of Inferior Olive subthreshold oscillations
When : 1 - 2 pm on Thu. Nov. 17, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Aurel Lazar, Columbia University,
Seminar : Massively Parallel Neural Encoding and Decoding of Visual Stimuli
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Nov. 9, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Pablo Meyer Rojas, Computational Biology Center, IBM Research
Seminar : Enzyme localization and Metabolic network regulation in bacteria
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Nov. 2, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Thierry Emonet, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Seminar : Smelling odor intensity and identity
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Oct. 26, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Lena Granovsky, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
Seminar : Statistical Analysis of DNA Microarrays
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Oct. 19, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Guillermo Cecchi, Computational Biology Center, IBM Research
Seminar : Homer to madness: Measuring cognition and psychiatric dysfunction in language
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Oct. 12, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Rob Froemke, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU
Seminar : Long-term cortical synaptic plasticity improves sensory perception
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Oct. 5, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Jacinta Wubben, IBM Collaboratory - Melbourne
Seminar : Halfway around the world in 90 days; an international molecular dynamics journey
When : 1 - 2 pm on Thurs. Sept. 29, 2011 in Yorktown 20-043

Speaker : Dennis Shasha, Dept. of Computer Science, NYU
Seminar : Storing Clocked Programs Inside DNA: A Simplifying Framework for Nanocomputing
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Sep. 28, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : James Taylor (Emory) and Anton Nekrutenko (Penn State), Galaxy Project Team
Seminar : Galaxy: Analyze, Visualize, Communicate
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Sep. 14, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Edward Drigger and Abhishek Jha, Agios Pharmaceuticals
Seminar : Lessons from development of a platform to characterize the metabolic flux networks in cells and its applications
When : 1 - 2 pm on Fri. Sept 9, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Cold Spring Harbor Lab (Mitra Lab)
Seminar : Role of chromatin interactions in long-range gene regulation
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Sept 7, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : James R. Kozloski, IBM Watson Research, Computational Biology Center
Seminar : Patent Jam
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Aug 31, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Seunghak Lee, Eric Xing's group, CMU; Summer Intern of Aurelie C Lozano, Watson IBM
Seminar : Hybrid Linear Model: Detecting Marginal and SNP-SNP Interaction Effects for Genome-wide Association Studies
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Aug 24, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : James R. Kozloski, IBM Watson Research, Computational Biology Center
Seminar : Brain Systems Computation Using the Ultrascalable Neural Tissue Simulator
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Aug 17, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Yuguang Mu, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
Seminar : Resveratrol Inhibits the Formation of Multiple-Layered β-Sheet Oligomers of the human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide segment 22-27
When : 3:30 - 4:30 pm on Fri. July 22, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Jesse H. Goldberg, McGovern Inst. for Brain Research, MIT
Seminar : Basal ganglia, thalamic and cortical circuitry underlying vocal exploration in the songbird
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. July 13, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Govind V. Kaigala, IBM Zurich
Seminar : The vertical microfludic probe: A novel scanning, non-contact microfluidic device for the life-sciences
When : 1 - 2 pm on Tues. July 5, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Dr. Viatcheslav Gurev, Institute for Computational Science, John Hopkins University
Seminar : Multi-scale electromechanical models of the ventricles
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. June 29, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Mike Kuiper, Molecular modelling scientist, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, Melbourne, Australia
Seminar : Modelling ligand interactions in the age of high performance computing
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. June 8, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, ImmunoDynamics Group, Program in Computational Biology & Immunology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Seminar : Modeling the immune system: reliable responses with unreliable lymphocytes
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. June 8, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Erhan Bilal, IBM Watson, Computational Biology Center
Seminar : A gamma distribution model for the analysis of RNA-seq data
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. June 1, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Paul Munro, University of Pittsburgh
Seminar : Spike-timing dependent plasticity: We know what it is, but what does it do?
When : 1 - 2 pm on Tues. May 24, 2011 in Yorktown 20-043

Speaker : Iannis Aifantis, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine
Seminar : Genetic and genomic dissection of oncogenic pathways in leukemia
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 18, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : William A. Goddard, III, Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics, Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC), California Institute of Technology
Seminar : Recent advances in first principles based modeling and simulation with applications to materials science, chemistry, catalysis, biotechnology and nanotechnology
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 11, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Guillermo Cecchi, IBM Watson, Computational Biology Center
Seminar : Feeling Your Pain: Computational Exploration of Pain Processing
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. May 4, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Georges Belfort, Russell Sage Endowed Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, RPI
Seminar : Insight into the Kinetics of Oligomer Formation During Amyloidosis
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Apr. 27, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Leonidas Alexopoulos, Systems Biology and Bioengineering Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
Seminar : Construction of Signaling Pathways and Identification of Drug Effects via Phosphoproteomic Experiments and Combinatorial Optimization
When : 1 - 2 pm on Fri. Apr. 15, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Fred Mintzer, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Program Director of Blue Gene Watson
Seminar : Exascale discussion #3
When : 1 - 2 pm on Apr. 13, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Shay Zakov, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Seminar : Sparse RNA folding: Time and space efficient algorithms
When : 1 - 2 pm on Wed. Apr. 6, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Alain Coletta and David Weiss, InSilico DB
Seminar : InSilico DB: An efficient starting point for the analysis of curated human gene expression public datasets in GenePattern
When : 1 - 2 pm on Mar. 30, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Fred Mintzer, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Program Director of Blue Gene Watson
Seminar : Exascale discussion #2
When : 1 - 2 pm on Mar. 16, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Hans-Guido Wendel, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Seminar : Deciphering complex genomic alterations in cancer
When : 1 - 2 pm on Mar. 9, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Fred Mintzer, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Program Director of Blue Gene Watson
Seminar : Exascale discussion
When : 1 - 2 pm on Mar. 2, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Thibaud Tailefumier, Center for Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University
Seminar : Algorithms for Neural Networks
When : 1 - 2 pm on Jan. 19, 2011 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Don Pfaff, Rockefeller Univ., and Alex Proekt, Cornell Univ.
Seminar : Neural Origins of Consciousness and Arousal in Humans
When : 1 - 2 pm on Dec. 15, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Franco Pestelli, Mahoney-Keck Center for Brain and Behavior Research and Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University
Seminar : Attentional enhancement via selection and pooling of early sensory responses in human visual cortex
When : 1 - 2 pm on Dec. 8, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Dr. Sam Markind, Neurologist in Private Practice
Seminar : The Creative Legacy of George Gershwin: A Musical and Medical Exploration of Brain and Mind
When : 2 - 3 pm on Nov. 17, 2010 in Yorktown Auditorium (Note special time and room)

Speaker : Michael Lisanti, MD-PhD, Thomas Jefferson University
Seminar : HIF1-alpha functions as a tumor promoter in cancer associated fibroblasts, and as a tumor suppressor in breast cancer cells: Autophagy drives compartment-specific oncogenesis
When : 1 - 2 pm on Nov. 10, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago
Seminar : Ontologies, disease, and models
When : 1 - 2 pm on Nov. 3, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Rita Goldstein, Neuropsychoimaging Group, Brookhaven National Lab
Seminar : Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology in Drug Addiction: Implications for Assessment and Treatment
When : 1 - 2 pm on Oct. 27, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Guillermo Solovey, Magnasco laboratory, Rockefeller University
Seminar : To be announced
When : 1 - 2 pm on Oct. 13, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Michael C. Pitman, Computational Biology Center, IBM Watson Research Center
Seminar : An Atomic Model of the Spontaneous Activation of the Cannabinoid CB2 Receptor via its Endogenous Ligand
When : 1 - 2 pm on Sep 29, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : James Kozloski, Computational Biology Center, IBM Watson Research Center
Seminar : Invent, Collaborate, Patent: Getting Started
When : 1 - 2 pm on Sep 22, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Stuart Lindsay, Biodesign Institute, Ariz. State University
Seminar : Recognition Tunneling - a new approach to DNA sequencing
When : 1:30 - 2:30 pm on Sep 3, 2010 in Yorktown 20-043 (special day, time and room)

Speaker : Francisco Pereira, Princeton University
Seminar : Using topic models to uncover neural representations of word meaning in fMRI data
When : 1 - 2 pm on Aug 5, 2010 in Yorktown 20-043 (Special day and room)

Speaker : Ajay Royyuru, Computational Biology Center, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Seminar : Are We There Yet?
When : 1 - 2 pm on Aug 4, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Irina Rish, Computational Biology Center, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Seminar : Recent Advances in Sparse Modeling: An Overview
When : 1 - 2 pm on July 28, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Roderick Y. H. Lim, Biozentrum and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
Seminar : Synthetic Protein Targeting
When : 1 - 2 pm on July 21, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Rahul Garg and Guillermo Cecchi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Computational Biology
Seminar : Brain as a Dynamical System: Full-brain Auto-Regressive Modeling using fMRI
When : 1 - 2 pm on July 14, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Pablo Meyer, Columbia University Medical Center
Seminar : Cellular Organization and Function of a Bacterial Biochemical Pathway
When : 1 - 2 pm on June 30, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Sebastian Strobel, MIT, Dept. of EE and Comp. Sci.
Seminar : Nanoscale contacts to organic molecules
When : 1:00 - 2:00 pm on June 23, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Peter Horvatovich, Analytical Chemistry Dept., U. of Groningen
Seminar : Combined effort of bioinformatics and analytical chemistry to advance biomarker discovery using comprehensive profiling with LC-MS
When : 1 - 2 pm on June 16, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Doron Betel, Post-Doc fellow, Comp. Bio. dept., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Seminar : Computational and experimental approaches towards genome-wide identification of microRNA targets
When : 10 - 11am on June 10, 2010 in Yorktown 20-043 (Special room and day: Thursday)

Speaker : Duygu Ucar, Computing Innovation Fellow, University of Iowa, Internal Medicine Dept.
Seminar : Identification of consistent and combinatorial histone modification patterns to explore 'histone code' hypothesis on human DNA
When : 1 - 2 pm on June 4, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001 (Special day: Friday)

Speaker : Amol Ghoting, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Seminar : Indexing Genomic Sequences on the IBM Blue Gene
When : 1 - 2 pm on May 26, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Debora Marks, Ph.D., Systems Biology Department, Harvard Medical School
Seminar : Saturation and competition drives microRNA/siRNA regulation of gene expression: a systems level approach
When : 1 - 2pm on May 19, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Karin Hehenberger, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances, for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Seminar : Partnerships to Improve the Lives of Patients with Type 1 Diabetes
When : 11am - 12pm on May 14, 2010 in Yorktown Auditorium

Speaker : Dr. Richard Insel, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Seminar : Computational Biology Opportunities in Type 1 Diabetes
When : 2:30 - 3:30pm on May 14, 2010 in Yorktown 20-043

Speaker : Prof. Srinivas Aluru, Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
Seminar : The new era in genomics: Opportunities and challenges for high performance computing
When : 10 - 11am on May 13, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Matthias Reumann, Computational Biology Center, IBM Research
Seminar : Computational Modeling of Cardiac Disease: Potential for Personalized Medicine
When : 1-2pm on May 12, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Itsik Pe'er, Dept. of Computer Science & Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University
Seminar : Algorithms for Detection of identity-by-descent and application in population and medical genetics
When : 1-2pm on May 5, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Samantha Kleinberg, NYU Bioinformatics Lab
Seminar : The Temporal Logic of Causal Structures
When : 1 - 2pm on April 28, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Mark Goulian, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Seminar : Perturbing, Modeling, and Evolving Two-Component Signaling Systems in Bacteria
When : 1 - 2pm on April 21, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Prof. Sean Ling, Brown University
Seminar : DNA sequencing using solid-state nanopores
When : 1 - 2pm on April 14, 2010 in Yorktown 20-001

Speaker : Dimitris Samaras, Stony Brook University
Seminar : Machine Learning Exploration of Brain fMRI data to study Inhibitory Control Mechanisms
When : 11am - 12pm on March 29, 2010 in Yorktown 20-059