Boston University Systems Biology Seminars

Welcome to webpage (under construction) of the new campus-wide Boston University seminar series on Systems Biology. Standard schedule for Free Lunch Seminars: Lunch starts at 12.30, Seminar starts at 1.00pm. Stay tuned for additional information.


Date and time

Speaker Title Place Notes

March 19, 2008 2.30pm-4.00pm

Bernhard Palsson, The Galetti Professor of Bioengineering, University of California at San Diego Genome-scale analysis of E. coli adaptation to new growth environments, using re-sequencing and mutational analysis LSEB, Room 103 Opening seminar
March 27, 2008 2.30pm-4.00pm Joel Bader, The Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Decoding and recoding the genome LSEB, Room 103 Joint BME and Bioinformatics Seminar
April 3, 2008 12.30-2.30pm James Galagan, Associate Director: Microbial Genome Analysis and Annotation, Broad Institute Integrated Genomics and Systems Biology for Tuberculosis LSEB, Room 103 Free Lunch Seminar
April 10, 2008 1.00pm Eric Schadt, Sr. Scientific Director, Genetics Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck and Co)

Constructing tissue-to-tissue whole gene networks to map obesity, diabetes and atherosclerosis circuits

BU Med School, Main Building, Room L303 Genetics and Genomics Departmental Seminar, BU Shuttle
April 17, 2008 12.30-2.30pm James Collins, University Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics Boston University Top-down and bottom-up approaches to gene networks LSEB, Room 103 Free Lunch Seminar
April 22, 2008 3.30-4.30pm Ned Wingreen, Princeton University E. coli's division decision: modeling Min-protein oscillations Metcalf Science Center (SCI 107) Physics Colloquium
April 24, 2008 12.30-2.30pm John Reinitz, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY Stony Brook Canalization of transcription in the Drosophila blastoderm: from data to dynamical systems

ROOM CHANGE!

BRB (5 Cummington Street), Room 115

Free Lunch Seminar
May 1, 2008 12.30-2.30pm Fritz Roth, Assoc. Professor, Harvard Medical School, BCMP Dept. Systematic analysis of genetic interactions in yeast and humans (abstract) BRB (5 Cummington Street), Room 115 Free Lunch Seminar
May 8, 2008 12.30-2.30pm Xiaole Shirley Liu, Dept. of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute ChIPing the Human Cistrome (abstract) BRB (5 Cummington Street), Room 115 Free Lunch Seminar
May 15, 2008 12.30-2.00pm (NOTE: talk will start at 12.45) Martha Bulyk, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Health Sciences & Technology (HST) Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Genomic Analyses of Transcription Factors and their DNA Binding Sites: Regulatory Codes in DNA BRB (5 Cummington Street), Room 115 Free Lunch Seminar (talk starting at 12.45pm)
May 22, 2008 12.00-1.30pm No seminar Organizational meeting BRB 115  
May 29, 2008 12.30-2.30pm No seminar      
June 5, 2008 12.30-2.30pm Winston Hide, Director,  South African National Bioinformatics Institute,  University of Western Cape;  Visiting Professor, Harvard School of Public Health An approach towards the understanding of regulation and cancer stem cell gene expression LSEB, Room 103, (24 Cummington Street) Free Lunch Seminar

June 9, 2008 12.30-2.30pm

(Monday, Special Seminar)

Giorgio Ascoli
Director of the Center for Neural Informatics, Structure,
and Plasticity at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study

From Neuronal Arbors to Connectomics: a Neuroinformatics Approach to the Brain LSEB, Room 103, (24 Cummington Street) Center for BioDynamics Seminar
June 19, 2008 12.30-2.30pm TBA TBA TBA Free Lunch Seminar
June 26, 2008 12.30-2.30pm TBA TBA TBA Free Lunch Seminar

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