Laurent Itti
Associate Professor, USC
Computer Science, Psychology and Neuroscience
"Computational modeling of top-down attention and visual behavior"

James Bower
Professor of Computational Neuroscience
Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
"The Hodgkin Huxley Model, Misunderstood by Experimentalists and Theorists"

James Bower
Professor, Numedeon Inc.
"What happens to STEM education if learning is based in virtual gaming worlds?"

William S. Noble
Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
"The one-dimensional and three-dimensional structure of the genome"

Robert L. Jernigan
Director, L.H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics & Biological Statistics
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Iowa State University

Jonathan H. Chen
Internal Medicine Resident, Expert Systems Informatics
Department of Medicine
Stanford University

September 28, 2012
Bren Hall 6011
11:00AM-12:00PM

Vasant Honavar
Professor, Department of Computer Science.
Director, Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery
Iowa State University

Program Director, Division of Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS)   Computer Science and Engineering DirectorateNational Science FoundationDepartment of Computer Science.

“Computational Prediction of Protein Interfaces and Interactions“

August 19, 2011
Bren Hall 4011
1:00-2:00PM

Karsten Borgwardt
Professor, Department of Machine Learning & Computational Biology of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology
“Efficient Graph Mining“

September 26, 2011
Bren Hall 4011
1:00-2:00PM

Amir Atiya
Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Cairo University, currently on temporary leave at Veros Systems, Texas.
“Gaussian Processes for Classification“

January 9, 2012
Bren Hall 4011
11:00am

Wendy Warr, Ph.D.
Wendy Warr & Associates
"Adapt and Survive: the Changing Face of R&D in the Pharmaceutical Industry and its Impact on Cheminformatics"

February 6, 2012
Bren Hall 3011
11:00am

S. Joshua Swamidass, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
"Mining Small-Molecule Screens to Repurpose Drugs"

May 14, 2012
Bren Hall 6011
11:00am

Chloe-Agathe Azencott, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral researcher, Machine Learning and Computational Biology research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen Germany
"Guided feature selection from incomplete data for disease-gene prediction and chemoinformatics applications"

Aug 23, 2010
Bren Hall 3011
11:00am

Andrea Vattani
3rd year Ph.D. student in computer science at UC San Diego
“Clustering: complexity and popular procedures“

Oct 4, 2010
Bren Hall 3011
11:00am

Jianlin Cheng
Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia
“Challenges and Solutions to Protein Structure Prediction in the Post Genomic Era“

Nov 1, 2010
Bren Hall 3011
11:00am

Yijun Ruan, Ph.D.
Senior Group Leader
Associate Director, Genomics Technology
Genome Institute of Singapore
"Chromatin Looping Architecture and Models of Transcription Regulation in Human Cancer Cell"

Nov 22, 2010 Gillespie 3135 11:00am

Diego di Bernando, Ph.D.

"Discovery of Drug Mode of Action and Drug Repositioning from Transcriptional Responses"

Wendy Warr
Wendy Warr & Associates
"Finding the “rich nitch” "

March 28, 2011
Bren Hall 3011
1:00-2:00pm

Knut Reinert
Professor at the University of Berlin, Institute of Computer Science
"SeqAn -- An efficient C++ library for NGS data analysis"

May 23, 2011
Bren Hall 4011
11:00am

Mark Silberstein
Postdoctoral Scholar, Israel Institute of Technology
"Superlink-online: A Distributed Supercomputer for Hunting Disease Mutations"

Oct 1, 2009
Bren Hall 3011
12:30pm

Victoria Mironova
Institute for Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk
“Auxin Regulation of Root Pattering “

Oct 15, 2009
Bren Hall 6011
4:00pm

James M. Bower
Principle Founder: Whyville.net
Chief Visionary Officer, Numedeon, Inc.
Professor of Computational Biology
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
“Whyville a Virtual Learning World for children: 10 years old & going strong“
Sponsored & Moderated by Pierre Baldi, Institute for Genomics & Bioinformatics

Nov 12, 2009
Bren Hall 4011
11:00am

Karine Le Roch
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
University of California, Riverside
“Mapping Chromatin Structure and Nucleosome Fluctuation by massive Parallel Sequencing: A Genomic Approach to understand the Malaria Parasite Infection Cycle“

Feb 16, 2010
Bren Hall 4011
11:00am

S. Joshua Swamidass
Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass is a recent graduate of UCI's MD/PhD and BIT (Biomedical Informatics Training) programs and, after working as a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute at MIT/Harvard, is now completing a research and  laboratory medicine residency in the physician scientist training program at Washington University.  He has been continuing his work on high throughput screening analysis and chemical informatics, laying the foundation for an independent science career, while simultaneously completing his clinical training.
"To Dose or Not to Dose? An Economic Framework for Prioritizing Confirmatory Experiment in the Context of High Throughput Screening"

March 5, 2010
Calit2 Auditorium
2:00pm

Geoffrey Hinton
Professor of Computer Sciene
Canada Research Chair is Machine Learning
Fellow of the Royal Society Canada
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
University of Toronto