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CMB Symposium 2011

 

Monday, May 9, 2011

The Fifth Computational Molecular Biology Program Spring Symposium was held on Monday, May 9 in CSE 691.

         

1:00-1:40 

Elhanan Borenstein  (Genome Sciences)
Making sense of our other genome: Systems biology studies of the human microbiome

1:40-2:15 

Shyamala Iyer  (Microbiology)
Evaluation of HIV-1 variants from next-generation sequencing technologies

2:15-3:00 

Mary-Claire King  (Medical Genetics, Genome Sciences)
Stories of genome sequencing, with computational problems to which I wish I knew the answers

3:00-3:25 

Break

3:25-4:00 

Babak Momeni  (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Spatial patterning in multicellular microbial communities

4:00-4:45 

Erick Matsen  (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
From the human microbiome to polyhedral geometry: theorems and questions in phylogenetics

4:45-5:30 

Joseph Felsenstein  (Genome Sciences, Biology)
Statistical nonmolecular phylogenetics as illuminated by chickens and guinea pigs