Church Lab & Lipper Center Meeting Schedule

NOTE:     Mon/Thu meetings are restricted to lab members, rotation students, & collaborators with consent of the speaker. (This is not lab policy, but respected request of the HMS-OTL and a subset of the speakers). Guest lectures & Journal meetings are open to the scientific community. All meetings and topics are subject to change at the last minute so please check this page.

Monday & Thursday Meetings at 12:30 to 1:45 PM in NRB 2nd floor, room 258. (*** indicates other times or locations.)

DATE      SPEAKER     Title (please update your titles)
Mar 08 Mon    Christoph Dieterich & Stefan Roepcke (Guest speakers from Germany)
Mar 11 Thu    George Church   Meeting reports & "A Synthetic Biology Project"
Mar 15 Mon    Jake Jaffe   The Slippery Genome of Mycoplasma mobile
Mar 18 Thu    Chen-Hsiang (Guest Speaker) Inferring gene regulatory networks from multiple sources of data
Mar 22 Mon    Nathan Walsh   From motifs to systems
Mar 25 Thu    Jingdong Tian   Synthetic mini-genomes tests
Mar 29 Mon    Tony Forster   Synthesizing Biological Systems
Apr 01 Thu    Gary Gao   Flex Motifs
Apr 05 Mon    Elvind Almass and Andre X C N Valente (Guest Speakers)
Apr 08 Thu    Dat Nguyen   Meeting report(s)
Apr 12 Mon    Xiaoxia Lin   Cooperative competition models
Apr 15 Thu    Herbert Sauro "Functional Motifs in Biochemical Networks"

Apr 26 Mon    Partha Kanijilal   Modeling using Orthogonal Transformation

Apr 29 Thu*** Bill Agnew  Neuro seminar on alternative splicing; Goldenson 122 12:15 PM
May 03 Mon         Allegra Petti “Coordinating cell functions”
May 06 Thu    Andrey Gorin (ORNL) “Tandem MS”(Guest Speaker)

May 10 Mon    Analysis of Genomic Data Conference 77 Ave Pasteur

May 13 Thu *** Saeed Tavazoie, Princeton. (Note time of 1:00 PM).

May 17 Mon   Adnan Derti   Splicing'r'Us
May 20 Thu    Greg Porecca   Personal Genome Sequences
May 27 Thu    Esti Yager Lotem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

May 31 Mon    Memorial Day

Jun 03 Thu    No lab meeting (GMC in St. Louis)

Jun 07 Mon    German Cavelier, Genomic Information Systems Lab, Columbia Univ. "From Computational Structural Biology to Computational Systems Biology"
Jun 10 Thu    Synthetic Biology meeting at MIT
Jun 14 Mon    Kobi Benenson (Guest speaker) Molecular computer:'Smart drug' in a test tube
Jun 17   Thu      George Church, Jingdong Tian, Dan Janse, Mike Chou, Discuss Synthetic Biology meeting.
Jun 21 Mon    no meeting

Jun 24 Thu    Kyriacos Leptos   MapQuant
Jun 28 Mon    Dan Janse   Protein degrading drugs
Jul  1 Thu    Jim Collins et al, Counters & Finite State machines (NSF SynBio Summer challenge).
Jul  5 Mon    no lab meeting
Jul  8 Thu    Zhou Zhu   Chip^3
Jul 12 Mon     Jan Korbel (Guest Speaker)
Jul 15 Thu    Ben Williams Ploidy in istu
Jul 19 Mon    John Aach  Imagineering

Jul 22 Thu    Kun Zhang  How to do genome-wide haplotyping in 10 days

Jul 26 Mon    no lab meeting.
Jul 29 Thu    Nikos Reppas  Genome and Ecosystem engineering

Aug 02 Mon    Kavitha Venkatesan (Guest Speaker) "LSF/GRH transcription factor family: A 

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Evolution and Biological Function"

Aug 05 Thu    Patrik D’haeseleer

Aug 09 Mon   Aimee Dudley

Aug 12 Thu   1PM joint lab meeting with Jim Collins group  Room 301, 44 Cummington street. The topic is Synthetic biology.

Aug 19 Thu    Dana Pe’er  Lymphoid cell signaling; inferring causal regulatory relations

Sep 09 Thu    Natasha Novikov     Measures & models of in situ chromosomal geometry in nuclei

Sep 13 Mon   Daniel Segre  Optimal Regulation

Sep 16 Thu    No lab meeting (Roshashana)
Sep 20 Mon    Xinshu (Grace) Xiao (guest speaker) New System Identification Methods for Effective Probing of Physiological and Biological Systems.

Sep 23 Thu    Farren Isaacs (Guest Speaker) "Genetic Modules:  Autoregulatory Networks & Riboregulators"

Sep 27 Mon    Peter Kharchencko  The search for the universal metabolite t6A

Sep 30 Thu*** Synthetic Biology Meeting  (Time is at 11:am)

Oct 14 Thu    Even Forland (Guest Speaker)  Artificial Photosynthesis

Oct 18 Mon    Chris Varma   The Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex

Nov 01 Mon    Jay Shendure   The Library of Babel

Nov 04 Thu    Matthew Wright   4D string theory of chromosomes

Nov 15 Mon    Nathan Walsh   Counting up to one with DNA

Nov 16 Tue****Lab Meeting with Chancellor Wrighton of WashU **(5pm – 5:30pm)**

Nov 18 Thu    Sasha Wait   Bio-quantum-computing

Nov 22 Mon    Madeline Price   Methyl-epigenomics

Nov 25 Thu        No Lab Meeting

Nov 29 Mon    Wayne Rindone, Aaron Brandes, Jeremy Zucker   BioSPICE of Life

Dec 02 Thu    Jingdong Tian   Synthetic proteomes

Dec 06 Mon    Dat Nguyen     Gene Expression Factorization

Dec 09 Thu    Jun Zhu     Splicing Alternatives

Dec 13 Mon    Allegra Petti   SPIN : Search for Pairwise INteractions

Dec 16 Thu    No Lab Meeting

Dec 20 Mon    Kyriakos Leptos   A day in the life of a light harvester

Jan 06 Thu    Adnan Derti "History (of introns) & geography (tissue-specific splicing)"

Jan 10 Mon   John Aach     Pushing the cell envelope

Jan 13 Thu    Canceled

Jan 17 Mon    No Lab Meeting

Jan 20 Thu    Joao Magalhaes     Tales told by old chimps and whales

Jan 24 Mon    Gary Gao/Xiaoxia Lin       (meeting postponed due to snow)

Jan 27 Thu    Andrew Levin (Guest Speaker) "Conformation and Pharmacology"

Jan 31 Mon    No Lab Meeting

Feb 03 Thu    Zhou Zhu     Mammalian Transcription

Feb 07 Mon    (postponed due to DOE GtL meeting in DC)

Feb 10 Thu    Greg Porreca   Go with the flow wobble sequencing

Feb 14 Mon    Dana Pe’er   Casual causality      

Feb 21 Mon    No Lab Meeting

Feb 24 Thu    No Lab Meeting

Feb 28 Mon    No lab Meeting

Mar 03 Thu    Peter Kharchenko     b1654, b1132, b0892, b1203, b0914,...

Mar 07 Mon   Aimee Dudley     Deconvolving Pleio-plexes

Mar 10 Thu****Julian Mintseris (Guest Speaker) "Structure-driven Approaches to Protein Recognition"

Mar 14 Mon   Nikos Reppas     Selectioneering

Mar 15 Tue****Guest- Shereen Elkholy - DNA Mediated Immunization and Plant-Derived Vaccination ** 10- 11:30am rm 335 (fish bowl)**

Mar 16 Wed     DOE GtL meeting Jeremy Zucker   &nsbp; The Adopt-a-genome project

Mar 17 Thu     No lab meeting (already 3 this week).

Mar 21 Mon    Jay Shendure     Personal genomics for non-persons

Mar 24 Thu****Ruth Hershberg (Guest Speaker) "Chromosomal organization is shaped by the transcription regulatory network"

Mar 28 Mon    Dana Pe’er (with Mike Chou, Aimee Dudley)   CSHL meeting on Systems Biology Report

Mar 31 Thu    No Lab Meeting  

Apr 04 Mon    Rhonda Harrison    Chip^2 Data Mine Sweeping

Apr 07 Thu    Madeleine Price     meC in mammals

Apr 11 Mon    Michael Chou   Mass Spec-ificity

Apr 14 Thu****Sarah Kummerfeld (Guest Speaker) Genome-wide transcription factor repertoire prediction and analysis

Apr 18 Mon    No Lab Meeting

Apr 21 Thu    Nathan Walsh   Coli-Counter

Apr 25 Mon    Joseph Chou     pre- & post-natal genomics

Apr 28 Thu    George Church & lab   general discussion and future directions

May 02 Mon    Matthew Wright   Toward a 3D/4D structure of the Caulobacter genome

May 05 Thu        Kun Zhang Sequencing genomes from single cells

May 09 Mon    No Lab Meeting

May 12 Thu    Chris Varma   human CD44 splicing

May 16 Mon**** Maxim Barenboim(Guest Speaker) A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach to Classification of the Functional Effects of Human Non-Synonymous SNPs Based upon Computational Geometry

May 19 Thu    Carl Kingsford Solving Side-chain Positioning Problems Using Mathematical Programming

May 23 Mon    Abraham Rosenbaum   A rolling circle gathers no emulsion

May 26 Thu    No Lab Meeting - Genetics Retreat

May 30 Mon    No Lab Meeting - Memorial Day

Jun 02 Thu****Dr. Alexander Stark “MicroRNA Target and Function Prediction in Drosophila”

Jun 06 Mon****Ran Kafri "Responsive Backup Circuits - a regulatory design of genetic redundancy"

Jun 09 Thu    No Lab Meeting   Synthetic Virology/Biology Conference, Virginia.

Jun 13 Mon    No lab meeting   Shavu'ot   

Jun 15 Wed****at noon NRB 258 DOE GtL Meeting John, Andy, Maureen, Adam, Jorge.

Jun 16 Thu    No Lab Meeting   CodonDevices Meeting

Jun 17 Fri    Genetics DJ Meeting

Jun 20 Mon****Haiyuan Yu (Guest Speaker) Analysis of biological networks on a genome scale

Jun 23 Thu    No lab meeting   NHGRI SeqTechDev meeting   

Jun 24 Fri    Genetics Dept DJ & afterward Students & Postdocs choose speakers for next year   

Jun 27 Mon    Farren Isaac   rE.coli & taRNAs 

Jun 30 Thu    No Lab Meeting (National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, NSABB Conference, Bethesda)

Jul 04 Mon    No Lab Meeting

Jul 07 Thu    No Lab Meeting (JASON Summer Study)

Jul 11 Mon    George Church   Constructionism and the sum of the parts

Jul 14 Thu    Guo Hong Feng  (Guest speaker) “Screening small molecules to inhibit protein-protein interactions”

Jul 18 Mon    Aaron Brandes & Xiaoxia Lin "Metabolic Network Identification using Mixed Integer Linear Programming”

Jul 21 Thu    No lab meeting

Jul 25 Mon    Sasha Wait   Competition in Synthetic & Artificial Biology

Jul 28 Thu    Allegra Petti   computational regulomics

Aug 02 Tue****Duhee Bang   (Guest)   Mirror protein synthesis

Aug 04 Thu    Dan Janse   Dimerizing for degradation

Aug 08 Mon    Michelle Kuykendal and Yetunde Ibrahim

Aug 11 Thu    DOE GTL Meeting MIT 48-308 Prochlorococcus Diel Cycle Jamboree

Aug 15 Mon    No lab meeting

Aug 18 Thu    John Aach   What the human's eye tells the computer's brain

Aug 22 Mon    Mirko Palla   Genetomic promototypes

Aug 25 Thu    Michael Strong (guest) Genomes, Maps, and Modules: Navigating the M. tuberculosis Proteome

Aug 29 Mon    No lab meeting

Sep 01 Thu    Matt Wright Thesis MIT 6-321 9:00 AM (&after-thesis @NRB 12:30-ish)

Sep 05 Mon    No Lab Meeting (Labor Day)

Sep 08 Thu    Gary Gao & Xiaoxia Lin   Sic1[sic] & multisite-p-theory

Sep 12 Mon    Joao Magalhaes   Designing Methuselah Mice

Sep 15 Thu    Wayne Rindone Secure Web CAD-PAM

Sep 19 Mon    Zeev Smilansky (guest from Animal Cell Metrology)   Proteome readout with ribosomal FRET

Sep 21 Wed    DOE GtL monthly meeting

Sep 22 Thu    No lab meeting

Sep 26 Mon    No lab meeting

Sep 29 Thu    No lab meeting

Oct 03 Mon    Aimee Dudley Genetics meets Genomics version 2

Oct 06 Thu    No lab meeting

Oct 10 Mon    No Lab Meeting (Columbus Day)

Oct 13 Thu    Peter Kharchenko   Metabolichromosome

Oct 17 Mon    No lab meeting due to GSAC meeting

Oct 20 Thu    No lab meeting due to ICSB meeting

Oct 24 Mon    Zhou Zhu   human p63 DNA binding

Oct 27 Thu    No lab meeting

Oct 31 Mon    No lab meeting

Nov 03 Thu    No lab meeting due to CEGS meeting

Nov 07 Mon    Kyriakos Leptos   Just-in-time in slow motion

Nov 10 Thu    Matthew Wright   Comparative Origamomics

Nov 14 Mon    Sasha Wait   From Free Software to Free Community

Nov 16 Wed    DOE GtL Monthly Meeting 12-2 PM

Nov 17 Thu    Xiang Zhang      (guest speaker) RNA splicing

Nov 21 Mon    Adnan Derti      Ultraconservative views on evolution

Nov 24 Thu    No lab meeting  (Thanksgiving Day)

Nov 28 Mon    Madeleine Price Epi-stem-ology

Dec 01 Thu    No lab meeting (ALS & Orfeome meetings) 

Dec 05 Mon    Mike Chou       Massively parallel masses

Dec 08 Thu    No lab meeting    .

Dec 12 Mon    Jin Billy Li (Guest Speaker) Comparative genomics approach identifies a

              Ciliary and basal body proteome.

Dec 15 Thu    No lab meeting (UC Berkeley NSF Meeting)

Dec 19 Mon     Lilach Friedman  (Guest Speaker) "As Much As a Pair Can Hold"

Dec 22 Thu    No lab meeting   

Dec 26 Mon    No lab meeting  (Christmas Holiday

Dec 29 Thu    No lab meeting  (Christmas Holiday)

Jan 02 Mon    No lab meeting  (New Year’s)

Jan 05 Thu    No lab meeting (GSA meeting)

Jan 09 Mon    Ting Wang (Guest Speaker) Combining Phylogenetic data and Network      

        Topology to identify Regulatory Motifs.

Jan 12 Thu    Greg Porreca    Toward a human genome sequence

Jan 16 Mon    No lab Meeting (Martin Luther King Day)

Jan 18 Wed    Nick Reppas & Ben Kirkup DOE GTL Lab evolution of Growth Rate

Jan 19 Thu    Noel Goddard    Lost in translation

Jan 23 Mon    Abraham Rosenbaum   Nanogrids for gigabases

Jan 26 Thu    Kun Zhang        Single chromosomes speak out

Jan 30 Mon    Nikos Reppas     Genomengineering

Feb 02 Thu    Chris Varma      Human cancer splicing counts

Feb 06 Mon    Shawn Douglas   Long stiff DNA rods

Feb 09 Thu    Dana Pe'er      Promoting promoters

Feb 13 Mon    Joseph Chou     The child in mom's veins

Feb 16 Thu    Dat Nguyen      Proteanomics

Feb 20 Mon    No Lab meeting (President’s Day)

Feb 23 Thu    Mark Umbarger   The shape of coli's mortal coil

Feb 27 Mon   

    

 

 

 

Genetics Dept. Seminars Wed at noon in WAB 563
(except as noted ***)


Church lab lecture tour

Jan 25-30, 2001 World Economic Forum 2001 in Davos (George Church)

Feb 22, 2001 Showcase meeting: Where do we go from HUGO? at The Pierre in NYC (George Church)

Mar 13, 2001. Experiencing the Frontiers of Biomedical Technology HST Symposium, Boston, MA (George Church)

Apr 21-24, 2001 Recomb 2001 in Montreal (George Church)

May 8, 2001 CGR lecture in Cambridge, MA (George Church)

May 24, 2001 Mass. Biotech Council Science Symposium session "MINING THE GENOME", 2:45-4:30pm at the Westin Copley Place, Boston. (George Church)

June 22, 2001 DIMACS Workshop on Integration of Diverse Biological Data (Tzachi Pilpel)

Jun 13-14, 2001 Armenise Symposium: Cancer Biology & Post-Genomics Grand Hotel Borromee, Lago Maggiore in Italy (George Church)

Jul 21-25, 2001 ISMB 2001 in Copenhagen, Denmark (Tzachi Pilpel)

Aug 23-26, 2001 Santa Cruz Human Genome Workshop at UCSC (George Church).

Sep 12, 2001 New England Bioinformatics Group (NEBiG) and Abbott Bioresearch Center: Microarray Data Analysis Toward Understanding Autoimmunity. Worcester, MA (George Church)

Sep 13-15, 2001 PNL, SDSC, and Sun: Computational Challenges In The Post-Genomic Age-II. Durham, NC. (George Church)

Nov 27-Dec 1, 2001 DARPA BioCOMP meeting Monterey, CA (George Church)

Dec 1, 2001 E.coli resources meeting, Chicago, IL (Doug Selinger)

Dec 17, 2001 Biomedical Informatics Grand Rounds Mon 11 AM Children's Hospital, Boston (George Church)

Jan 27-31, 2002   DOE Genome Meeting, Santa Fe, NM (Rob Mitra & Wayne Rindone)

Jan 31, 2002  Whitehead Institute Functional Genomics Seminar Series (George Church)

Feb 12, 2002 MIT Mathematics Dept: "The challenge of integrating informational, spatial, temporal, and optimal models: toward synthetic biology.

Feb 14, 2002    BWH Clinical Pathology Conference Series: "Relating Genetic differences to Gene Expression and Cell Proliferation: Technologies and Models." (George Church)

Feb 26, 2002    Harvard Inst. Medicine Genomics Center 1st floor Conference at Noon: "Genome-wide measures and system models for protein interactions and cell proliferation." (George Church)

Feb 27, 2002    HMS Cannon Room 4:00 to 6:00 PM BBS minisymposium on Functional Genomics & Informatics (George Church, Martha Bulyk, Fritz Roth, Marc Vidal)

Mar 18-19, 2002 Gaithersburg, MD DOE Genomes to Life Mathematics Workshop (Matthew Wright)

Mar 23, 2002 E. coli Model Cell Consortium (Emc^2) meeting (Doug Selinger).

Apr 1, 2002   BU Bioinformatics Dept, "Genome systems models and measures connecting genotype with phenotype." (George Church)

May 1, 2002  at 10:50 AM Boston CHI Macro Results Through MicroArrays Keynote Presentation: "Array Quantitation for Modeling Mutations Affecting RNA, Protein Interactions, and Proliferation" (George Church)

May 22-24, 2002  Washington DC DARPA IPTO Bio-Computation PI Meeting (George Church)

Jun 4, 2002 Archemix at 11:00 AM "Polonies" (George Church).

Jun 11, 2002 Yale at 4:00 PM "Systems models and measures connecting genotype to phenotype" (George Church).

Jun 19, 2002 Harvard CGR at 3 PM. "From proteomics to a highly interconnected model of replication and selection." (George Church)

Jun 24-28, 2002 MIT 20.01s Bioinformatics: Principles, methods and applications. (George Church).

July 7-12, 2002 Vienna 14th International Organization for Mycoplasmology (IOM) Congress (Jake Jaffe)

July 23, 2002 Sequencing and resequencing the biome. Pooks Hill Bethesda Marriott (George Church)

July 26, 2002 Fri at 9:00 AM Humboldt Univ. & Boston Univ. Bioinformatics workshop in Boston. Keynote: "Biosystems Measures and Models of Reproductive Fitness" (George Church)

July 28-Aug2 GRC Genomics & Structural/Evolutionary Bioinformatics Mount Holyoke (Dennis Vitkup)

July 30-Aug 4 Yeast meeting 2002 Madison, WI (Aimee Dudley)

Aug3-6 ISMB02 & SIGSIM02 Edmonton (Matt Wright)

Sept 4, 2002 Serono (George Church).

Sept 13, 2002 DNA Microarrays in Biology and Medicine Lausanne, Switzerland (Doug Selinger)

Oct 2, 2002 Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conf. (GSAC) Boston (George Church)

Nov. 8, 2002   University of Massachusetts Boston, Genome "Systems models: Genotype to Phenotype" (George Church).

Dec 9-11, 2002 DARPA NSF San Diego, CA (Daniel Segre)

Dec 13-15, 2002 ICSB-3 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (George Church).

Feb 7, 2003   Univ. of Texas Biomedical Sciences 7th Mini-Symposium, Houston. Keynote (George Church).

Feb 10-12, 2003 First DOE Genomes to Life Workshop, Arlington, VA, (George Church)

Mar 30 - Apr2, 2003 New Horizons in Genomics (DOE), Santa Fe, NM (George Church).

Apr 11-12, 2003 The Future of Human Nature, Boston (George Church).

May 13-16, 2003 DARPA/NSF BioComp meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Wayne Rindone)

May 17-18, 2003 Recomb 2003 DNA Sequencing Technologies and Computation, Stanford, CA (Jay Shendure).

May 18-22, 2003. American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Colloquium 215 on Systems Microbiology. Washington DC convention center.   4D and Optimality Models of Replicative Fitness (George Church)

Aug 26-28, 2003 Genomics and Health: A Practical Guide to the Genomics Revolution Boston, MA (George Church)

Sep 16-19, 2003.Third Virtual Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics, Access Grid locations (George Church)

Oct 22, 2003. 10:30 AM Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Boston. Models and Measures of Single Molecules in Human Physiology (George Church)

Feb 4, 2004. 9:30 AM. Bio-SPICE Design & Synthesis of useful replicating biosystems. DARPA Meeting Adelphi, MD (George Church).

Feb 5, 2004. 4 PM. Measures, models and synthesis of "optimal" replicating biosystems MIT Biological Engineering Divis. (George Church)

Mar 1-2, 2004. DOE GtL meeting. Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC (George Church)

Mar 3-4, 2004. MolTools meeting Stockholm (George Church)

Mar 10,2004 TJU CBAT, Phildelphia (George Church)

May 7,8, 2004. HMS Systems Biology Retreat."Optimality in Synthetic Biosystems" (George Church)

May 10-11, 2004. International Conference on Analysis of Genomic Data, The Conference Center at HMS, 77 Ave. Pasteur, Boston. Modeling time-series and perturbation analyses for RNA and proteomics data streams. (George Church).

May 11, 2004 at 4-6 PM. CIMIT, Boston. New Tools for Genome Engineering (George Church).

May 12, 2004 Broad Inst. Seminars Computational Biology. Cambridge,MA (George Church)

May 14, 2004 ACLU Genomics Technology and Genetic Databases. Boston, MA (George Church)

May 20, 2004 Bauer Center, Cambridge, MA (George Church)

May 24, 2004 Dept. of Genome Sciences, Univ. Washington, Seattle, WA (George Church)

Jun 2, 2004 Dept. of Genetics. Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (George Church)

Jun 10-12,2004 Synthetic Biology. MIT, Cambridge MA (Geo.Church & Jingdong Tian)

Jun 22-23,2004 BU Bioengineering retreat, Falmouth MA (George Church)

Aug 17, 2004 ISB Seminar (George Church)

Oct 1-3, 2004 SAGE2004 "Decoding the Omes" meeting, Boston Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. Keynote: "New technologies and models for integrative systems biology." (George Church)

Oct 4, 2004 Berkeley Synthetic Biology Dept. 100 Lewis Hall at 4 PM. (George Church)

Oct 6, 2004 U. Wisconsin Omics Seminar Series. (George Church)

Oct 12-13, 2004 DARPA BioComp. (George Church)

Oct 20-22, 2004 NHGRI CEGS Annual meeting. (George Church, Rob Mitra)

Oct 22,2004 SACNAS meeting "Personal Genomics and Synthetic Biology" (George Church)

Nov 9,2004 Univ. Texas Austin (George Church)

Nov 8, 2004 Amer. Inst. of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Symposium on "Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics" , Austin TX, (George Church)

Dec 1, 2004 MGH-E Cancer Center (George Church)

Jan 4-5, 2005. NHGRI Genome sequencing of existing cohorts Bethesda, MD (George Church)

Feb 1, 2005. Annual MITRE Microbial Workshop, Washington, DC. (Church)

Feb 6-9, 2005. Annual DOE GtL Workshop, Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC. (Church, Leptos, Martiny, Sullivan, Zhang)

Mar 17-20, 2005 Systems Biology, CSHL (Dana Pe'er, Aimee Dudley, Mike Chou)

Mar 7-9, 2005 2nd International Immunoinformatics Symposium BU, Boston (George Church)

Apr 8-12, 2005 Systems and Biology (X4) Keystone, Colorado (Dana Pe'er)

Apr 13, 2005 Duke University Genomics "Personal Genome/Transcriptome Sequencing"(George Church)

May 4, 2005 CHI Microarrays in Medicine Meeting, Boston WTC (George Church).

May 9, 2005 Diversa, San Diego (George Church)

May 10, 2005 Caltech (George Church)

May 14-17, 2005 RECOMB, Boston (George Church, et al.)

May 26-7, 2005 HMS Genetics Retreat, Newport, RI (all)

Jun 9-10, 2005 Conference on synthetic biology, virology MITRE, Tyson's Corner, VA (George Church & Jingdong Tian)

Jun 11-15, 2005 Environmental Microbial Genomics Workshop, Shanghai (Kun Zhang)

Jun 22-23, 2005 NHGRI Seq-Tech meeting, Boston (George Church, Jay Shendure, Greg Porecca, Rob Mitra)

Jun 30-Jul 1, 2005 NSABB(George Church)

Jul 7, 2005 JASON Summer Study - Bioengineering, San Diego (George Church)

Jul 20-22, 2005 Santa Barbara (George Church)

Jul 21-24, 2005 CSHL Gilbert Symposium (George Church)

Sep 23, 2005 Howard Goodman Symposium Boston (George Church)

Sep 25-26, 2005 NRC DOE GTL Review meeting, DC (George Church)

Sep 25-27, 2005 Sloan/JCVI/MIT Biosecurity meeting, Cambridge, MA (George Church)

Sep 30, 2005 Personal Health Information (PHI) Workshop, New York City (George Church)

Oct 17-19 GSAC Genomes, Medicine and the Environment Hilton Head, SC (George Church) Design, Synthesis, Evolution & Sequencing of rE.coli genomes

Oct 19-24 ICSB-6, Boston, MA (Aach, Church, Lin, et al.) Shifting between reverse and forward engineering

Nov 1-3, 2005 NHGRI CEGS meeting, Yale (Church, Porreca, et al).

Nov 5-6, 2005 iGEM (Genetically Engineered Machines) competition Jamboree, Boston (all)

Nov 9-12, 2005 8th Annual Conference on Computational Genomics, Cambridge MA (George Church) Toward computing & interpreting $1000 human sequences

Nov 14, 2005 Symposium in SNP technology and bioinformatics, Uppsala University (Greg Porreca)

Nov 15, 2005 U. Chicago (George Church)

Dec 1, 2005 2:00 PM ALS Technologies Meeting, Cambridge (George Church)

Dec 1, 2005 6:15 PM Orfeome DFCI Boston (George Church)

Dec 8, 2005 IABMR Annual Scientific Meeting at the Forsyth Institute, Boston (George Church)

Dec 13-15, 2005 UC Berkeley NSF Synthetic Biology Meeting (George Church)

Jan 4, 2006 HPCGG Proteomics Cambridge MA (George Church)

Jan 5-8, 2006 Genetics Society of America, San Diego "The Genetics of Synthetics" (George Church)

Feb 7-8, 2006 2nd NHGRI DNA sequencing technology development grantees meeting Marco Island, FL (George Church, Greg Porecca, et al)

Feb 13-15, 2006 DOE GtL (Nina Lin, Kun Zhang, George Church, et al.)

Mar 7-8, 2006 Bioethics conference, NYC (George Church)

Mar 15, 2006 Vanderbilt Univ (George Church)

Apr 23-24, 2006 ISB Symposium, Seattle (George Church) Personal Genomics & Systems Biotechnology

May 3, 2006 Procter & Gamble Biosystems Modeling Symposium (George Church)

Jun 12, 2006 The Chilren's Hospital Neuroscience Seminar (George Church)

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Friday D/J Seminars at Noon in WAB 563
Feb  15/02    Jake Jaffe
Mar  08/02    Aimee Dudley
Apr  05/02    Kyriacos Leptos
Apr  26/02    Yonaton Grad
May  03/02    Daniel Segre
May  31/02   Martin Steffen



Church Lab Journal Club

        **************  NOTE TIME AND ROOM CHANGE  Mudd 3rd floor Tues noon ************

The purpose of the Church Lab journal club is to explore various topics related to functional genomics and computational biology.  Suggested formats for presentations include analyses of relevant journal articles (current or historical), tutorials (software packages, web sites, statistical algorithms), brain-storming sessions on how to apply new techniques within the lab, etc.

Wednesday biological modeling journal discussions in Mudd 3rd floor conference room.    Journal articles should be distributed 1 week in advance.  Attendance is open to all.

DATE SPEAKER FOOD TOPIC
January 14, 00 Saeed                  Priya            Introduction to Clustering
January 28, 00 John                   Aimee            Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
February 11, 00 Barak                  Felix            Modeling Baterial Chemotaxis
February 25, 00 Tzachi                 Paula            BLAST Theory
March 10, 00 Paula                  Tzachi           AlignACE
March 24, 00 Aimee                  Allegra          Evolution of the yeast Mitochondrial genome
April 7, 00 Abby’s Thesis Defense
April 21, 00          --------------------------
May 5, 00  Priya                  Nick             FRAP/FLIP analysis
May 26, 00 Adnan/Itai            Dan             Gene fusions in S. cerevisiae
June 9, 00 Doug                   Rob              Artificial life
June 23, 00 Jeremy                 Vasu             Genetic toggle switches
July 7, 00            --------------------------
July 21, 00 Tzachi                 Jeremy           Matlab tutorial - I
July 28, 00 Tzachi                 Priya            Matlab tutorial - II
Sept 22, 00  Nick                   Aimee            Flux Ratio Analysis
Oct 20, 00 Post-doc candidate for the Roth lab
Nov 3, 00 Cheng Li         Barak       Model based analysis of oligonucleotide DNA arrays
Nov 17, 00 Atul Butte          Novel bioinformatics techniques in functional genomics
Dec 1, 00 Jadwiga Bienkowska             A bayesian approach to protein fold recognition
Jan 12, 01 Fri Rob Mitra                                 Proteomics
Jan 26, 01 Fri WAB 4th floor conf. room   Patrik         Robustness SFI , Philip Ball.
Feb 9, 01 Fri Room C212 Savageau's genetic regulation papers
Feb 20, 01 Tue 11:30 Mudd 304A Overview of modeling methods: Stochastic, Bayesian,...
Mar 9, 01 Fri 2:00 Room C212 Nik Metabolic Control Analysis
Mar 20, 01 Tue 11:30   Mudd 304A Metabolic (& small world) Networks
Apr 3, 01 Tue 11:30 Mudd 304A Modularity : Wagner, G.P. and L. Altenberg 1996. Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution 50:967-976 Arnone MI, Davidson EH 1997. The hardwiring of development: organization and function of genomic regulatory systems. Development 1997 May;124(10):1851-64
Apr 17, 01 Tue 11:30   Mudd 304A Peter K Petri Nets
May 1, 01 Tue 11:30   Mudd 304A Stochastics II
May 15, 01 Tue 11:30   Mudd 304A Differential Equation models
May 29, 01 Tue 11:30  Mudd 304A Integrated RNA & proteomics Ideker et al.
Jun 12, 01 Tue 11:30   NE43-518 Alexander Hartemink Networks & Expression
Jun 26, 01 Tue 11:30   Mudd 304A Allegra Petti: Emergent properties of networks of biological signaling pathways. Science 283: 381 (1999). Bhalla, et al.
10-Jul-2001 Tue 11:30   Mudd 304A Tzachi Pilpel: Regulatory element detection using correlation with expression. Nature Genet. 27, 167-171 (2001). Bussemaker, et al.
24-Jul-2001 Tue 11:30 Mudd 304A Peter & Patrik: Stochastic differential equations (&geometric Brownian Motion) (1) Tomas Bjork(2) Jan Nygaard Nielsen(3)Peter Laurence
21-Aug-2001 Tue 11:30 Mudd 304A Peter : complex networks by the Barabasi group

29-Jan-2002 Tue 11:30 Mudd 304A Patrik : Reka Albert and Barabasi's review on "Statistical mechanics of complex networks" Chapter VI (small-world networks) and VII (the scale-free model)

5-Feb-2002 Tue 11:30 Mudd 304A Systematic Genetic Analysis with Ordered Arrays of Yeast Deletion Mutants Hin Yan Tong et al, Science Dec 14 2001: 2364-2368.

5-Mar-2002 Tue 11:30 AM Mudd 304A Whole-istic Biology Lisa Chong and L. Bryan Ray Science Mar 1 2002: 1661. Systems Biology: A Brief Overview Hiroaki Kitano Reverse Engineering of Biological Complexity Marie E. Csete and John C. Doyle

20-Mar-2002 Wed 10:00 AM Mudd 2nd floor conference (note new time!) A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development (Davidson et al Science 2002 ; more detailed background: Genomic Cis-Regulatory Logic (Science 1998) , Yuh et al Development

3-Apr-2002 Wed 10:00 AM Mudd 2nd floor conf: same topic as last time plus: Cis-regulatory logic in the endo16 gene: switching from a specification to a differentiation mode of control. Yuh et al (2001) Development 128 (5): 617

30-Apr-2002 Wed 10:00 AM Mudd 2nd floor conf (202): A preprint from Reka Alberts (see Patrik) and The segment polarity network is a robust developmental module. von Dassow, G. et al. Nature 406, 188-192 (2000)

15-May-2002 Wed 10:00 AM Mudd 2nd floor conf (202):
John : Topological & causal structure of the yeast transcriptional regulatory network N. Guelzim, S Bottani, P Bourgine & F Kepes. Nat. Gen 31:60-63.
Daniel : Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli SS Shen-Orr, R Milo, S Mangan, U Alon. Nat Gen 31:64-68.
Debra : The identification of functional modules from the genomic association of genes Berend Snel, Peer Bork, and Martijn A. Huynen PNAS 99(9):5890-5895
Patrik : Reverse engineering gene networks using singular value decomposition and robust regression M. K. Stephen Yeung, Jesper Tegnr, and James J. Collins. PNAS 99:6163-6168

21-Jan-2003, Tue 10-11:30 am in the Folin Wu room (next to Canon conference room). Markus W. Covert and Bernhard Palsson Transcriptional Regulation in Constraints-based Metabolic Models of E. coli J. Biol. Chem. 2002 277:28058-28064

8-Jul-2003 Tue noon. Mudd 3rd floor conference.
Pfeiffer T, Schuster S, Bonhoeffer S. Cooperation and competition in the evolution of ATP-producing pathways. Science. 2001 Apr 20;292(5516):504-7. Erratum Science 2001 Aug 24;293(5534):1436. Supporting info.
Pfeiffer T, Bonhoeffer S. An evolutionary scenario for the transition to undifferentiated multicellularity.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Feb 4;100(3):1095-8 . Supporting Info

22-Jul-2003, Tue Noon-2pm Mudd 3rd floor conference room. Westerhoff HV, Hellingwerf KJ, Van Dam K. Thermodynamic efficiency of microbial growth is low but optimal for maximal growth rate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1983 Jan;80(1):305-9 


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