Upcoming Bioinformatics Colloquium:   

 

 

2009-2010:

Colloquium Chair: Max Shpak, Department of Biological Sciences

 

Distinguished speakers are invited to present their research in our weekly Bioinformatics Colloquium as special seminars or lectures posted below for the current academic year. Talks, tutorials, and workshops for professional training on other Fridays, primarily for bioinformatics students, will only be announced via emails. To join our mailing list, please contact us at bioinformatics@utep.edu.

 

April 23, 2010

Marina Vannucci, Professor, Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, TX

  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

 

February 12, 2010

Max Shpak, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, UTEP

  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A
   

November 20, 2009

Annual Poster Session 2009 (Best Poster Awards)

 

Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

   

October 23, 2009

Naijun Sha, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP

 
  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

 

October 16, 2009

Vladik Kreinovich, Professor, Department of Computer Science, UTEP

 
  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

 

October 9, 2009

Kyle Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Director, DNA Analysis Core Facility, Border Biomedical Research Center, UTEP

 
  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

 

September 18, 2009

Gang (Gary) Ren, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA

 
  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

 

2008-2009:

Colloquium Chair: Max Shpak, Department of Biological Sciences

 

February 27, 2009

Marc Cox, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, UTEP

 
  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

 

February 6, 2009

Jean Gao, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX (Dr. Gao's Biosketch)

 
  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

 

October 3, 2008

Joe Song, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (Dr. Song's Biosketch)

 

Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

   

September 19, 2008

Chuan Xiao, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, UTEP

 

Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

   

2007-2008:

Colloquium Chair: Mahesh Narayan, Department of Chemistry

 

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

 

Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

   

April 18, 2008

Frank Hsu, Clavius Professor of Science, Professor of Computer and Information Science, Fordham University, New York, NY (UTEP Graduate; See Biosketch)

 
 

Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

February 29, 2008 Peter Hraber, Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab., Los Alamos, NM

Title: Dissecting Genetics of Host-Pathogen Interactions

  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A
 

 

February 8, 2008

Joe Torres, UTEP Communications (Biosketch)

Title: Preparing for an Employment Interview

 

Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 130A

   

January 29, 2008

(Tuesday)

Stephen Senn, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Title: Issues in Blinding Clinical Trials
 
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.
 

Time: 12:00 noon; Place: EDUC 203

(Jointly presented by the Statistical Consulting Laboratory and Bioinformatics Program, UTEP)

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

 

Title: Disease, Mathematics and Globalization

  Time: 10:30 a.m.; Place: BUSN (COBA) 323
   

 

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