Computational Genetics Discussion Group

Spring 2000 Speakers



Date Presenter Topic/Paper
01/27 Steve Johnson Digital Organisms: Tools or Toys? [See Avida]
02/03 Robin Matlib Book Review: "Modeling Nature: Cellular Automata Simulations with Mathematica"
02/10 Fugen Li Does DNA microarray promise?
02/17 Robin Dowell Education in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics -- Are we being adequately trained?
02/24 Takis Benos Neanderthal DNA
03/02 Michael Brent Gene-structure prediction: GENSCAN and beyond
03/09 David Messina The Biotech Boom
03/16 No Speaker Mathematics Seminar: Minping Qian
4:30 pm Rm 188 Cupples I (Hilltop Campus)
"Hidden Markov Models, Linguistics, and Gene Finding"
03/23 Shawn Stricklin Biological Computation (See: the Slides)
03/30 Sean Eddy Suffix Trees
04/06 No Speaker Special viewing of the movie: Sneakers
A "study" of cryptography
Genetics Library (823 McDonnell Sciences)
04/13 Paul Cliften Biological Clocks
04/20 No Speaker IBC Seminar: Webb Miller
4:00 pm Genetics Library (823 McDonnell Sciences)
"Mouse-Human Genomic Sequence Comparison"
04/27 Joey Bedell Human Uniqueness: Can 1% explain it? (See: Joey's Site)
05/04 Raymond Yeh SNP Discovery
05/11 Jim McCarter Divergence: Lessons Learned (So-far) During the Start-up Process
05/18 Christian Zmasek Algorithm to distinguish between duplication and speciation events in a gene tree.

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