Bioinformatics Seminar Series 2017

The seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Theory of Computation group at the MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The seminar series focuses on highlighting areas of research in the field of Computational Biology. This is the seminar's fifth year.


Kasper Lage, Genetics, HMS
Functional interpretation of genomes using biological networks
Speaker(s): Kasper Lage
Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Eliezer Van Allen, HMS Dana Farber
Accelerating precision cancer medicine through clinical computational oncology
Speaker(s): Eliezer Van Allen
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Matan Hofree, Broad Institute and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Challenges in identifying cancer genes in the face of inter and intra tumor heterogeneity
Speaker(s): Matan Hofree
Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Rachel Kolodny, University of Haifa, Israel
Studying reuse patterns in the protein universe
Speaker(s): Rachel Kolodny
Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Aviv Regev,
Perturb-Seq: Dissecting Cellular Circuits with Single Cell RNA-Seq
Speaker(s): Aviv Regev
Date: Monday, March 20, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Jian Peng, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Learning representations of protein from sequence, structure, and network
Speaker(s): Jian Peng
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Ben Raphael,
Algorithms for Inferring Evolution and Migration of Tumors
Speaker(s): Ben Raphael
Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Decoding epigenetic programs in cellular differentiation and T cell dysfunction in tumors
Speaker(s): Christina Leslie
Date: Monday, April 10, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Donna Slonim, Tufts
Anomaly Detection for Precision Medicine
Speaker(s): Donna Slonim
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Stirling Churchman, HMS
FIDDLE: An integrative deep learning framework for functional genomic data inference
Speaker(s): Stirling Churchman
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Raghavendra Hosur, Biogen
Network-based approaches to identify disease-relevant mechanisms
Speaker(s): Raghavendra Hosur
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

David Sontag, MIT CSAIL
Electronic medical record phenotyping using the anchor and learn framework
Speaker(s): David Sontag
Date: Wednesday, May 03, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Sean Simmons, Broad Institute
Genomic Databases and Genomic Privacy: Can we have the best of both worlds?
Speaker(s): Sean Simmons
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Stata 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu

Isaac Kohane, HMS
Update on Computational Approaches to Autism Research
Speaker(s): Isaac Kohane
Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Stata 32-G575
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu