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2007-2008:
Colloquium Chair:
Mahesh Narayan,
Department of Chemistry |
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April
25, 2006 |
Kim-Anh
Do, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Division of
Quantitative Sciences, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, TX |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A |
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April
18,
2008 |
Frank Hsu, Clavius Professor of Science, Professor of
Computer and Information Science, Fordham University, New
York, NY (UTEP Graduate;
See Biosketch) |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A |
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February
29, 2008 |
Peter Hraber, Postdoctoral
Fellow,
Los Alamos
National Lab., Los Alamos, NM |
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Title:
Dissecting Genetics of Host-Pathogen Interactions |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A |
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February
8, 2008 |
Joe Torres,
UTEP Communications (Biosketch) |
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Title:
Preparing for an Employment Interview |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A |
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January
29, 2008
(Tuesday) |
Stephen Senn, Professor, Department of Statistics,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow,
United Kingdom |
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Title:
Issues in Blinding Clinical Trials |
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Synopsis: |
Many analyses of double blind clinical trials betray the
fact that the authors do not understand the value of
blinding. This talk explains what blinding can and
cannot do in clinical trials. |
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Time: 12:00 noon; Place: EDUC 203 |
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(Jointly
presented by the
Statistical Consulting Laboratory and Bioinformatics
Program, UTEP) |
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January
25, 2008 |
Carlos
Castillo-Chavez, University Regents Professor and Joaquin
Bustoz Jr.
Professor of Mathematical Biology, Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
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Title:
Disease, Mathematics and Globalization |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: BUSN (COBA) 323 |
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November
16, 2007 |
Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Assistant Professor, Department
of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Title:
Membrane Receptor Structure, Dynamics and Interaction
Networks |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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November
2, 2007 |
Bioinformatics Research Poster Session 2007 |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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October
26, 2007 |
William J. Wedemeyer, Assistant Professor, Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University,
East Lancing, MI |
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Title:
Biophysical, Cellular and Computational Studies of Type II
Secretion in Vibrio cholerae (Abstract) |
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Time: 4:00 p.m.; Place: PSCI 208 |
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(Jointly presented by the Department of Chemistry and
Bioinformatics Program
and supported in part by the MARC Program, UTEP) |
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October
19, 2007 |
Caroline
Garland,
UTEP Communications (Biosketch) |
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Title:
Writing for the Sciences |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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October
12, 2007 |
Joe Torres,
UTEP Communications (Biosketch) |
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Title:
Creating an
Effective Resume |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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October 5,
2007 |
Monica
Gilland, Coordinator, Cooperative Education & Internship
Program,
UTEP Career Services |
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Title:
Co-op Opportunities |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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September
21, 2007 |
Debbie
Torres,
Program Coordinator, UTEP Bioinformatics |
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Title:
Overview, Expectations, and Feedback |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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September
14, 2007 |
Dr. Lee
Bitsoi, Director of Minority Training in
Genomics/Bioinformatics, Department of Molecular & Cellular
Biology, Harvard University |
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Title:
Educational Opportunities in
Bioinformatics |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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2006-2007: |
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April 13,
2007 |
Jing He, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer
Science and CREST Center for Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (Biosketch)
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Title:
Extraction and Application of Geometrical Features from
3-dimensional Images for Protein Structure Prediction |
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Time: 11:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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February 16,
2007 |
Raul
Cruz-Cano, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics Program,
UTEP |
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Title:
Prediction of Viral Replication Origins Using Least-Squares
Support Vector Machines |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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February 2,
2007 |
Desh Ranjan, Director, NMSU Center for Bioinformatics, and
Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico
State University, Las Cruces, NM (Biosketch)
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Title:
NMSU Center for Bioinformatics
(website) |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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January 26,
2007 |
Osamu Miyashita, Assistant Professor, Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona |
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Title:
Computational Study of Interprotein Electron Transfer Reaction
from Cytochrome c2 to Photosynthetic Reaction Center |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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January 25,
2007 |
Florence Tama,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona |
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Title:
Multi-scale Modeling from Multi-resolution Data: Unveiling
Functional Motions of Macromolecular Machines |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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November 10,
2006 |
Poster
Session for Bioinformatics and Related Research at UTEP |
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Time: 12:30-2:00 p.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 and 125 |
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October 20,
2006 |
Gilbert, H.F., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, and Associate Dean, Graduate School, Baylor
College of Medicine, Houston, Texas |
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Title:
Protein Disulfide Formation and the Rearrangement of Incorrect
Disulfides In Vivo and In Vitro |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: BUS 309 |
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(Supported by Honors Program and Medical Professions Institute
at UTEP) |
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October 13,
2006 |
Borries Demeler, Assistant Professor, Department of
Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio, Texas |
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Title:
Modeling Hydrodynamic Properties of Biological Macromolecules:
A Biophysical Application for Distributed Computing |
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Time: 3:00 p.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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(Jointly presented by Department of Mathematical Sciences and
Bioinformatics Program) |
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October 6,
2006 |
Rowen J.-Y. Chang, Professor and Director, The Brown
Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention
of Human Diseases, The University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston, Texas |
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Title:
Trapping Conformational Isomers of Deformed Proteins: Methods
and Applications (abstract,
PDF) |
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Time: 12:30 p.m.; Place: CRBL 205 |
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(Jointly presented by Department of Biological Sciences and
Bioinformatics Program
and supported in part by NIH SCORE Program at UTEP) |
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September
22, 2006 |
Ricardo Bernal, Assistant
Professor, Department of Chemistry, UTEP |
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Title:
Three-Dimensional Structural Analysis of the Intact Thermus
thermophilus ATP Synthase by Electron Microscopy |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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September
8, 2006 |
Mahesh Narayan, Assistant Professor, Department of
Chemistry, UTEP |
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Title:
The Protein Folding Problem |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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2005-2006: |
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April
28, 2006 |
Mei-Ling Ting Lee, Professor and Chair, Division of
Biostatistics, School of Public Health, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio |
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Title:
Rank
Analysis of Replicated Microarray Data |
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Time: 3:00 p.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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(Supported in part by NIH SCORE Program at UTEP) |
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April
28, 2006 |
Kim-Anh
Do, Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Applied
Mathematics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, Texas |
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Title:
A
Bayesian Mixture Approach to the Classification of Proteomic
Profiles |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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(Supported in part by Fessinger-Springer funds) |
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April
21, 2006 |
Max Shpak, Assistant Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences, UTEP
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Title:
Selection for Variance in Offspring Number |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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March 24,
2006 |
Gabriel A. Schachtel,
Biometry and Population Genetics, Interdisciplinary
Research Center for Environmental Protection, Justus-Liebig
Universität, Giessen, Germany |
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Title:
The Major Ingredients of Sequence Alignment with BLAST |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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February
24, 2006 |
Delfina Dominguez, Associate Professor and Clinical
Laboratory Science Program Director, College of Health
Sciences, UTEP |
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Title:
Biochemical and Computational Analyses Reveal Elongation
Factor Tu as a Putative Calcium Binding Protein |
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Time: 11:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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February
24, 2006 |
Michela Taufer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, UTEP |
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Title:
Predictor@Home: A “Protein Structure Prediction Supercomputer”
Based on Global Computing |
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Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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February
17, 2006 |
Dr. Guoqing
Liu, Professor, School of Sciences, Nanjing University of
Technology, China; and Visiting Scholar,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, UTEP |
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Title:
Robust Cancer Classifier Based on Gene Feature Extraction |
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Time:
11:00 a.m.; Place:
Bell Hall 143 |
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February
10, 2006 |
Ming-Ying Leung,
Professor,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP |
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Title:
Poisson Process Approximation for Palindrome Occurrences in
Random DNA Sequences |
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Time: 3:00 p.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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December
2, 2005 |
David S.H. Chew, Ph.D. Student,
Department of Mathematics, National University of
Singapore, Singapore |
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Title:
Scoring schemes of palindrome clusters for more sensitive
prediction of replication origins in herpesviruses |
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Time:
11:00 a.m.; Place:
Bell Hall 143 |
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Raul
Cruz-Cano, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics Program, UT
El Paso |
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Title:
Neural Networks for the Prediction of Replication Origins in
Herpesviruses |
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Time: 3:00
p.m.; Place:
Bell Hall 143 |
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November 18, 2005 |
Luis Arturo Medrano-Soto,
UCLA-DOE
Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, Los Angeles,
California |
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Title:
Challenging the compositional paradigm in horizontal gene
transfer prediction: a comparative genomics approach |
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Time:
10:30 a.m.; Place:
CRBL 301 |
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Luis Arturo Medrano-Soto,
UCLA-DOE
Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, Los Angeles,
California |
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Title:
The challenge of knowledge discovery in Genomic Sciences |
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Time: 3:00
p.m.; Place:
CRBL 305 |
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October
28, 2005
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Chandrajit Bajaj, Professor of Computer Sciences and
Director, Center for Computational Visualization, Department
of Computer Sciences & Institute of Computational Engineering
and Sciences, UT Austin |
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Title:
Geometric and Signal Processing of Reconstructed 3D Maps of
Macromolecular Complexes |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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Hugh Nicholas, Senior Scientific Specialist,
Biomedical
Initiative, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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Title:
Mathematical Methods used to Identify the Sequence Features
that Determine Biochemical Specificity of Proteins and Nucleic
Acids |
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Time:
3:00 p.m.;
Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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Alex
Ropelewski, Coordinator, Biomedical Code Development,
Biomedical Applications Group, Pittsburgh Supercomputing
Center |
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Title:
Adapting Dynamic Programming for Biological Problems on
Diverse High Performing Computer Architectures |
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Time:
4:00 p.m.;
Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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October
27, 2005 |
Hugh Nicholas, Senior Scientific Specialist,
Biomedical
Initiative, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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Title:
Advanced GeneDoc Techniques: Working with RasMol and User
Defined Highlighting |
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Time:
4:00 p.m.;
Place: Bell Hall 130 (Math Aces) |
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October
24, 2005 |
Hugh Nicholas, Senior Scientific Specialist,
Biomedical
Initiative, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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Title:
Integrating Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry
Computations with Experiment and Structure to Understand the
Aldehyde Dehydrogenases |
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Time:
11:00 a.m.;
Place: BIOL 203 |
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October 4,
2005 |
Andrei
Gabrielian and Tao Tao, National Center of Biotechnology
Information (NCBI) |
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Title: NCBI
Field Guide |
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Time:
8:30 a.m.;
Place: UGLC 342 |
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September 19,
2005 |
Hugh Nicholas, Senior Scientific Specialist,
Biomedical
Initiative, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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Title:
Changing Substrate Specificity by Remodeling Domain Interfaces
in Glutathione Transferases |
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Time: 11:30
a.m.;
Place: BIOL 203 |
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2004-2005: |
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April 8,
2005 |
Delfina
Dominguez, Associate Professor and Clinical Laboratory Science
Program Director, College of Health Sciences, University of
Texas at El Paso |
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Title:
Analysis of Calcium-Binding Proteins in B. pertussis
and the Use of Bioinformatics |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: BUSN 309 |
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February
18, 2005 |
David Steffen, Professor, Department of Molecular and Human
Genetics, and Director, Bioinformatics Research Center, Baylor
College of Medicine, Houston, Texas |
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Title:
What Is Bioinformatics? |
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Time: 11:00 a.m.; Place: BUSN 313 |
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David Wheeler, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular
and Human Genetics, and Co-Director, Bioinformatics Group,
Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Texas |
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Title:
Use of High-throughput DNA Sequencing to Capture Genome
Variation |
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Time: 12:00 noon.; Place:
BUSN 313 |
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January
21, 2005 |
Lou Gross,
Professor
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, and
Director of The Institute for Environmental Modeling,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee |
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November
19, 2004 |
Ming-Ying Leung,
Professor,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University
of Texas at El Paso |
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Time: 12:30 p.m.; Place: CS 221 |
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October
29, 2004 |
Ming-Ying Leung,
Professor,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University
of Texas at El Paso |
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Title:
Poisson Approximation and Viral Replication |
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Time: 3:30 p.m.; Place: BH 143 |
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October
15, 2004 |
Charles Harlow,
Professor
and Bentsen Endowed Chair,
Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Texas - Pan American |
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Title:
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