IGB :: Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics

Distinguished Speaker Schedule

Academic Year 2009-2010
Academic Year 2008-2009
Academic Year 2007-2008 (Also: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning)
Academic Year 2006-2007 (New Series: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning)
Academic Year 2005-2006
Academic Year 2004-2005
Academic Year 2003-2004
Academic Year 2002-2003

Academic Year 2009-2010

The Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics is pleased to announce its Distinguished Series for the academic year 2009-2010.

Dec 3, 2009 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Andrew McCammon Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectous Diseses
Jan 21, 2010 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Steve Mayo Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry California Institute of Technology Computaional Protein Design: Designing Enzymes that really work!
Feb 18, 2010 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Jonathan Weissman Professor Cellular and Molecular Pharmacy University of California, San Francisco Biology without Bias: new tools for Probing Biological Systems
March 11, 2010 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Brian Shoichet Professor Pharmaceutical Chemistry & University of California, San Francisco New Ligands for old Targets and new Targets for old Drugs

Academic Year 2008-2009

The Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics is pleased to announce its Distinguished Series for the academic year 2008-2009.

Jan 22, 2009 Bren Hall 4011 11:00am	Pavel A. Pevzner Professor of Computer Science Engineering University of California, San Diego EULER: From Assembling Short DNA Reads to Shotgun Protein Sequencing by Assembling Mass Spectra
Feb 5, 2009 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Paul S. Zorner President and CEO Hawai`i BioEnergy LLC Power to the People: Repositioning Agriculture, Biotechnology and Engineering as a Foundation to Enriched Energy Security, Climate Mediation and Regional Economic Development Co-Sponsored by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society
Feb 13, 2009 Bren Hall 4011 11:00am	Michael B. Eisen Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development University of California, Berkeley Evolution of Fly Gene Regulatory Sequences and their Functions
April 2 , 2009 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	David Pimentel Professor Emeritus, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Biofuels and Renewable Energy *Co-Sponsored by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society*
May 8, 2009 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Thomas W. Jeffries Professor Department of Bacteriology University of Wisconsin Global Expression Analysis to guide Engineering of Xylose and Cellobiose Metabolism by Pichia Stipitis *Co-Sponsored by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society*
May 21, 2009 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Jay D. Keasling Hubbard Howe Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering University of California, Berkeley Engineering Microbial Metabolism for Production of Drugs and Fuels *Co-Sponsored by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society*

Academic Year 2007-2008

The Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics is pleased to announce its Distinguished Series for the academic year 2007-2008.

Oct 29, 2007 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	David Heckerman Founder, Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Group Microsoft Research Graphical Models for HIV Vaccine Design
Nov 9, 2007 Bren Hall 6011 4:00pm	Klaus Schulten Swanlund Professor of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Computational Microscope
Nov 16, 2007 Bren Hall 6011 11:00am	Tommi Jaakkola Associate Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Elements of Distributed Inference
Nov 29, 2007 Calit2 Auditorium 4:00pm	Alan Perelson Senior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mathematicsl Modeling of Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Treatment
Feb 7, 2008 Calit2 Auditorium 4:00pm	Dan Gusfield Professor of Computer Science University of California, Davis ReCombinatorics: Combinatorial Algorithms for Studying the History of Recombination in Populations
May 30, 2008 Calit2 Auditorium 4:00pm	Paul Rothemund Beckman Senior Research Fellow Computer Science and Computation and Neural Systems DNA origami: folding DNA to create arbitrary shapes and patterns

The Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, in partnership with The Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems, is very pleased to announce its Distinguished Speaker series for the academic year 2007-2008. This year's series will bring a set of internationally-known researchers to UC Irvine, speaking on a broad set of topics ranging from automated reasoning, distributed learning algorithms, human and machine learning, statistical prediction, and analysis of text, network, and Web data.

Sept 28, 2007 Bren Hall 6011 11:00am	Judea Pearl Professor, Department of Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles The Science of Reasoning with Cause and Effect
Oct 29, 2007 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	David Heckerman Founder, Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Group Microsoft Research Graphical Models for HIV Vaccine Design
Nov 16, 2007 Bren Hall 6011 11:00am	Tommi Jaakkola Associate Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Elements of Distributed Inference
Jan 17, 2008 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Tom Griffiths Asst. Professor, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science University of California, Berkeley Human and Machine Learning
Feb 21, 2008 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Andrew McCallum Professor, Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts, Amherst Bayesian Models of Social Networks and Text
Mar 20, 2008 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Trevor Hastie Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics Stanford University Regularization Paths
Apr 17, 2008 Calit2 Auditorium 11:00am	Prabhakar Raghavan Stanford University Director of Yahoo! Research Labs New Sciences for a New Web

Academic Year 2006-2007

All DSS presentations will be held at 4 p.m. at the McDonnell Douglas Auditorium on the UCI campus, unless otherwise noted. Attendance is free, however, reservations are requested. To RSVP, please send an email to igb@ics.uci.edu.Please note that seating for these events is always on a first-come, first-served basis and seats cannot be held

10/27/06	Satoru Miyano Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo Inferring and Simulating Gene Networks for Drug Target Pathway Discovery
11/16/06	Gunnar von Heijne Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, SCFAB Stockholm University Proteome-Wide Studies of Membrane Protein Topology
11/28/06	Jack W. Szostak Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital Towards the Design and Synthesis of an Artificial Cell
5/11/07	Nicholas J. Turro William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry Columbia University Fluorescence Probes for the Imaging of mRNA in Living Neurons: Toward Tracing Thoughts One mRNA Molecule at a Time
5/18/07	Elliot M. Meyerowitz George W. Beadle Professor of Biology; Chair, Division of Biology California Institute of Technology How Plants Compute: Cellular Interactions in the Shoot Apical Meristem and Patterns of Plant Growth

NEW SERIES 2006-2007

Distinguished Speaker Series in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

All DSS-AI/ML presentations will be held at 11 a.m. in the CALIT2 Bldg. (#325), unless otherwise noted. Attendance is free, however, reservations are requested. To RSVP, please send an email to igb@ics.uci.edu. Please note that seating for these events is always on a first-come, first-served basis and seats cannot be held.

10/6/06 Calit2 Auditorium	Stuart Russell Professor of Computer Science Director of the Center for Intelligent Systems; Smith--Zadeh Chair in Engineering University of California, Berkeley Uncertainty in an Unknown World
10/20/06 Calit2 Auditorium	Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck Gordon & Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems & Electrical Engineering California Institute of Technology The Logic of Biological Networks
11/3/06 Canceled	Tommi Jaakkola Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; CSAIL Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Canceled by speaker due to illness*
11/17/06 Calit2 Auditorium	Pedro Domingos Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle Unifying Logical and Statistical AI
1/12/07 Calit2 Auditorium	David G. Stork Chief Scientist Ricoh Innovations Did the Great Masters "cheat" Using Optics? Computer Image Analysis of Renaissance Masterpieces Sheds Light on a Bold Theory
2/2/07 (2 talks) Calit2 3008 11 a.m. 4 p.m.	Brendan J. Frey Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 1. A New, Simple and Fast Algorithm for Clustering Non-Euclidean Data by Passing Messages Between Data Points Preprint: http://www.psi.toronto.edu 2. Towards a Unified Framework for Modeling DNA/RNA Sequence, Expressed RNA, Spliced RNA, Peptides and Drugs
2/9/07 Calit2 Auditorium	Garrison W. Cottrell Professor of Computer Science & Engineering University of California, San Diego What Can Computational Models Tell Us About Face Processing?
2/16/07 Calit2 3008	John C. Platt Principal Researcher, Knowledge Tools Group Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA The Beautiful Noisy-OR: How Automatic Diagnosis Can Help Web Services and Video Teleconferencing
3/2/07 Calit2 Auditorium	John D. Lafferty Professor of Computer Science & Machine Learning; Co-Director of the Ph.D. Program in Computational & Statistical Learning Carnegie Mellon University Challenges in Statistical Machine Learning
3/9/07 Calit2 Auditorium	Sam Roweis Associate Professor of Computer Science; Canada Research Chair in Statistical Machine Learning University of Toronto Making the Sky Searchable: Large Scale Astronomical Pattern Recognition
4/24/07 Calit2 3008	Shree Nayar T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science Columbia University Computational Cameras: Redefining the Image
5/10/07 Postponed to Fall Quarter '07	David Heckerman Lead Researcher & Manager of the Machine Learning and Applied Statistics (MLAS) Group Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA *Postponed by speaker due to illness*
5/25/07 Calit2 Auditorium	Yann LeCun Professor of Computer Science, The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University Supervised and Unsupervised Learning with Energy-Based Models

Academic Year 2005-2006

All presentations will be held at 4 p.m. at the McDonnell Douglas Auditorium on the UCI campus, unless otherwise noted. Attendance is free, however, reservations are requested. To RSVP, please send an email to igb@ics.uci.edu. Please note that seating for these events is always on a first-come, first-served basis and seats cannot be held.

10/28/05	Jeffrey Skolnick Director of the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics University at Buffalo Prediction of Protein Structure, Function and Druggability on a Proteomic Scale
11/17/05	Leslie Orgel Professor of Chemical Evolution Salk Institute The Origin of the RNA World
1/13/06	Terry Sejnowski Professor and Director of the Computational Neurobiology Lab Salk Institute The Secret Lives of Cells
4/21/06	Soren Brunak Professor and Center Director Center for Biological Sequence Analysis BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark Temporal Interactome for the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle by Data Integration
5/5/06	Stephen Altschul Professor, Computational Biology Branch National Center for Biotechnology Information; National Library of Medicine; and National Institutes of Health The Compositional Adjustment of Amino Acid Substitution Matrices
5/25/06 4:00pm - MDEA In conjunction with the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow Series	Marvin Minsky Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Interior Grounding and Self-Conscious Reflection - Three Possibly New Theories of Intelligence

Academic Year 2004-2005

05/13/05 Canceled	James E. Ferrell -- (Canceled by the speaker due to illness) Professor, Dept's of Molecular Pharmacology & Biochemistry Stanford University *Canceled by the speaker due to illness*
02/28/05 10:00 a.m. Emerald Bay A/B In conjunction with the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow Series	Eric S. Lander Professor of Biology, MIT; Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School; Founding Director, Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard; and Member, Whitehead Institute Interpreting Genomic Information
01/14/05	Stephen Smale Professor Emeritus, Dept's of Mathematics and Economics University of California, Berkeley *Fields Medal winner* Learning Theory
11/12/04	Gene W. Myers Professor of Computer Science, University of California Berkeley Whole Genome Sequencing, Comparative Genomics, and Systems Biology
10/15/04	Pavel A. Pevzner Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science University of California, San Diego Transforming Mice into Men

Academic Year 2003-2004

05/28/04	Tomaso Poggio Investigator, McGovern Institute and Artificial Intelligence Lab Eugene McDermott Professor, Brain Sciences, and Human Behavior Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Learning Theory and Applications
04/23/04	Clarence J. Peters Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Director, Center for Biodefense The University of Texas Medical Branch Biotechnologies in Society Series Technological vs. Societal Responses to Viral Threats *Co-Sponsored by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society*
03/26/04	C. Lee Giles David Reese Professor, Information Sciences & Technology, Pennsylvania State University Future Directions in Information Preservation and Aggregation – CiteSeer?
02/13/04	Mark Borodovsky Regents’ Professor, Biology and Biomedical Engineering Director, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology Unsupervised Model Training for DNA Sequence Analysis Algorithms *Co-sponsored by Cal(IT)²*
01/27/04 4:30pm	Fred Cohen Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, Medicine, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco Prions, Protein Misfolding and Pharmaceutical Interventions
12/10/03	Jonathan Moreno Professor & Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia Biotechnologies in Society Series The History and Ethics of Human Experiments *Co-Sponsored by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society*
12/05/03	Michael Arbib Fletcher Jones Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Director, Brain Project, University of Southern California Wrapping the Brain: From Brain Operating Principles to Computer Technology Co-sponsored by Cal(IT)²
11/06/03	Baruch Brody Professor of Philosophy, Rice University Intellectual Property and Biotechnology *Canceled by the speaker due to illness*
10/16/03	Russ Altman Associate Professor, Genetics, Medicine and Computer Science, Stanford University Medical Center Challenges in Knowledge Management and Discovery in Biology Co-sponsored by Cal(IT)²

Academic Year 2002-2003

The Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics is pleased to present 8 academic Distinguished Speakers renowned for their contributions to biology, information technology, and society. All presentations will be held at the McDonnell Douglas Auditorium on the campus of the University of California, Irvine.

The IGB Distinguished Speaker Series has three themes this year, co-sponsored by CalIT², and the Newkirk Center.

10/11/02	Pavel Pevzner Professor of Computer Science University of California , San Diego Finding Subtle Motifs in DNA Sequences
11/18/02	Geoffrey Hinton Professor of Computer Science and Psychology University of Toronto Learning Energy-Based Models of High-Dimensional Data
12/17/02	Francisco Ayala Professor of Biological Sciences University of California , Irvine Between Utopia and Hades: Genetic Engineering and Mankind's Future
01/22/03	Luis Villarreal Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry University of California , Irvine Smallpox Virus: Reemerging Threats from a Vanquished Enemy Drives Scientific Innovation
2/19/03	Laurie Zoloth Professor of Ethics & Director, Program in Jewish Studies San Francisco State University/Northwestern University Difficult Freedoms: The Turbulent Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell and Genetic Research
3/06/03	David Haussler University of California Presidential Chair in Computer Science University of California , Santa Cruz Computational Analysis of the Human and other Mammalian Genomes
4/21/03	Douglas Wallace Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry; Director, Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics University of California , Irvine The Mitochondria: An Informatics Paradigm for the Post-Genomic Era
5/2/03	Ian Lipkin Professor of Epidemiology Columbia University The Pandora's Box Project: An Odyssey in Pathogen Discovery
5/19/03	C. Lee Giles Professor, School of Information Science and Technology The Pennsylvania State University Future Directions in Information Preservation and Aggregation – Cite Seer? Postponed by the speaker to the 03-04 Series