iLabs - UIUC Bioinformatics Seminar, Fall 2006

Spring 2006 talks

01/20/2006	Ping Ma, Statistics
01/27/2006	Brendan Frey, Engineering (U. Toronto)
02/03/2006	Charles Whitfield, Entomology
02/17/2006	Jose Meseguer, Computer Science
02/24/2006	Xinguang Zhu, Plant Science
03/03/2006	Jing Jiang, Computer Science
03/10/2006	Bioinformatics Summit Week
03/17/2006	Carlos Santos, Bioinformatics (U. Mich.)
03/24/2006	UIUC spring break
03/31/2006	Mike Colvin, Natural Sciences (UC-Merced)
04/07/2006	No meeting
04/14/2006	Huixia (Judy) Wang, Statistics
04/21/2006	Jay Mittenthal, Cell & Structural Biology
04/28/2006	William Hersh, Medical Informatics (OHSU)
05/05/2006	Michael Erdmann (Carnegie Mellon)

Fall 2005 talks

08/26/2005	Sheng Zhong, Bioengineering
09/02/2005	Richard LeDuc, NIDA Center for Neuroproteomics
09/09/2005	Xifeng Yan, Computer Science
09/16/2005	Xu Ling, Computer Science
09/23/2005	Saurabh Sinha, Computer Science
09/30/2005	Hui Fang, Computer Science
10/07/2005	Bruce Schatz, Medical Information Sciences
10/14/2005	Kathy Lu, Bioengineering
10/21/2005	Peter Bajcsy, NCSA
10/28/2005	Uriel Kitron, Veterinary Medicine
11/04/2005	Denis Larkin, Animal Sciences
11/11/2005	Matthew Hudson, Crop Sciences
12/02/2005	Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Animal Sciences

Spring 2005 talks

Charles Whitfield (Entomology)	1/28/05
Peter Bajcsy (Automated Learning Group)	2/4/05
Wei Xie (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)	2/11/05
Gustavo Caetano-Anolles (Crop Science)	2/18/05
Bruce Schatz (GSLIS; IGB)	2/25/05
Xinguang Zhu (Plant Science)	3/4/05
Gary Olsen (Microbiology)	3/11/05
Tao Tao (Computer Science)	3/18/05
Sameer Varma (Biophysics and Computational Biology)	4/1/05
Christine Elsik (Texas A&M Univ.)	4/8/05
Xin He (Bioinformatics MS Option, Computer Science)	4/15/05
Xinghua Lu (Medical Univ. of S. Carolina)	4/22/05

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08/26/2005

Sheng Zhong, Bioengineering

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Sheng Zhong, a new faculty member in Bioengineering at UIUC, will be our first presenter. The abstract for his talk appears below:

Slide set [PowerPoint]

Current Topics in Computational Biology

Sheng Zhong, Dept of Bioengineering, UIUC

Computational Biology has evolved rapidly from a tool into a discipline. Huge amounts of genomic data, including genome sequence, microarray data and a lot of others, have been produced with the hope to understand fundamental questions related to human health.

Computational developments that utilize genomic data to interrogate human health related problems are lacking behind the speed of data generation. Better algorithms and computational tools on machine learning, scientific computing, intelligence system, data management and information retrieval are in great demand. How these algorithms and tools should be developed to interrogate the important biological and biomedical questions is the art that is open to discuss in this lecture.

Two biological questions and their related genomic data are going to be discussed. 1) How do stem cells work? 2) What causes cancer? In detail, can we computationally identify gene clusters based on gene expression profiles that best represent the functional relationship among genes? What is the gene regulatory network that initiates stem cell differentiation, or cancer formation? How do we decipher the relevant DNA sequence code so as to understand the genetic bases of cancer?

Background Reading:

1. BBC News on stem cells: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4155016.stm Also related stem cell news on the right panel of the browser.
2. Forbes's survey of venture capital on stem cells http://www.forbes.com/newsletter/2004/11/01/cz_sg_1101soapbox.htm
3. Science: Joining Forces for Brain Tumor Research http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5731/32b

Scientific Reading:
1. Microarray study on stem cells. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/298/5593/597
2. Brain tumor microarray study http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v415/n6870/full/415436a_fs.html