Spring 2012 Schedule

All talks to be held in LSE room 103 (24 Cummington St., Boston, MA) on Thursdays. A free lunch will begin at 12:15; talks will begin at 12:45 unless otherwise noted.

Speaker	Date	Title
Paul Francois, Assistant Professor of Physics McGill University	2/23/12	“Physics of Evo-Devo”
Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM Computational Biology Center	3/1/12	“Quantitative Predictive Modeling in Biological Research”
Zoltan Oltvai, Associate Professor of Pathology and Assistant Director, Division of Molecular Diagnostics, University of Pittsburg School of Medicine	3/8/12	“The systems biology of cancer metabolism”
Manolis Kellis, Associate Professor MIT Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department	3/15/12	“Genomic and epigenomic signatures for interpreting complex disease”
Mark DePristo, PhD, leads the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Group in the Medical and Population Genetics Program at the Broad Institute	3/22/12	“Under the hood of the 1000 Genomes Project”
Jennifer Reed, Assistant Professor Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison	4/19/12	“Systems Approaches for Exploring and Exploiting Cellular Metabolism”
Katie Steiling, Assistant Professor of Medicine Boston University	4/26/12	“Airway gene expression reflects a treatment-responsive COPD field of injury”
Horacio Frydman, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology & Associate Director, Vector Transmitted Infectious Diseases Core National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories Institute Boston University	5/3/12	“From cellular mechanisms to evolutionary aspects of host-microbe interactions: the case of Wolbachia targeting stem cell niches”
Nathaniel Cady, Assistant Professor College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering University at Albany	5/10/12	“Mixed Signals: A systems approach to interrupting cellular signaling and behavior”

Previous Speakers

View Spring 2009-Fall 2010 Speakers.