| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 24 | Multiple speakers | Brief updates including: computational tools in MCDB (Dan Timmons), computational tools in the Liu lab (Kristen Bathel), the mass spec facility (Katheryn Resing), computational tools in the Knight lab (Rob Knight), and the microarray facility (Ken Krauter) |
| Eric Nawrocki (Eddy lab, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Janelia Farms)) | Rapid structural SSU rRNA alignment for phylogenetic analyses | |
| Oct 15 | Anis Karimpour-Fard (UCDHSC, Hunter and Gill labs) | Investigation of factors affecting prediction of protein-protein interaction networks by phylogenetic profiling |
| Mike Lynch (OPX Biotechnologies) | Functional Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics: A Synergistic Team | |
| Nov 5 | Maribeth Oscamou (APPM, Lladser lab [note: this work performed while working with Meredith Betterton]) | The use of global optimization algorithms for parameter estimation in cell signaling models |
| Dave Clarke (CHBE, Liu lab) | Experimental strategies for estimating parameters in cell signaling models | |
| Dec 3 | Rob Knight (CHEM) | GO-Getter: using the gene ontology for functional profiling |
| Phoenix Kwan (ThermoFisher Scientific, Inc.) | The High-Throughput RNAi Screening Data Analysis Workflow | |
| Feb 11 | Jeremy Widmann (CHEM, Knight lab) | MotifCluster: relating protein families through shared motifs |
| Gianguido Coffa (CIRES, Copley lab) | Identification of convergently evolved enzymes in the thermophilic microbe T. volcanium | |
| Mar 3 | Diana Nemergut (INSTAAR and EBIO) | Patterns in microbial community assembly and implications for net community function |
| David Bortz (APPM) | Mathematics and Biology with Applications to the Study of Bacterial Communities | |
| Apr 7 | Massimo Buvoli (MCDB, Leinwand Lab) | Charge profiling in the myosin tail: implications for molecular packing. |
| Greg Caporaso (Hunter lab, CU Denver) | Detecting coevolution by disregarding evolution? Tree-ignorant metrics of coevolution perform as well as tree-aware metrics. | |
| May 5 -- note date change! | Karen Meyer-Arendt (CHEM, Resing lab) | The Challenges of Protein Inference from High-throughput Tandem Mass Spectrometric Data |
| Carrie Croy (CHEM, Ahn lab) | In Search of an Oncogenic Signature in Melanoma |
The Bioinformatics Supergroup brings together people from several departments, including MCDB, EEB, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Applied Math, who are interested in applying advanced computational techniques to biological problems.
The goal of the group is to increase communication among people on campus who are doing bioinformatics-related work, and to provide support to people who are just learning about this exciting emerging field.
Meetings are held from 4:00 to 5:30 on selected Mondays in Ekeley W165/W166 (note time and room change from last year) (map here), on selected Mondays at roughly 4-week intervals. The typical meeting format is two 30-minute talks, with discussion following each talk.
Deborah Wuttke (Chem) has put up information about bioinformatics here.
I have put up some information for students, including relevant classes, here. (Warning: needs to be updated with current information).
The Bioinformatics Supergroup is affiliated with the Center for Computational Biology, based at CU Denver, which sponsors several meetings and events.
Many useful databases can be accessed through NCBI and EBI. Good directories of tools can be found here and here. Joe Felsenstein's page on phylogenetics tools can be found here.
Mike Robeson has put up a useful page listing Mac bioinformatics applications here.
This site is maintained by Rob Knight.
There is a mailing list set up for bioinformatics announcements. To subscribe, send mail to listproc@lists.colorado.edu with the following message:
subscribe bioinfo [YOUR NAME HERE]
Page last updated 4/21/08.