Mathematical Genetics and Bioinformatics Groups

Seminar Programme 2008: Michaelmas Term

Contact Simon Myers myers@stats.ox.ac.uk for more information


 

WEEK1: Tuesday October 14th

16:30

      

Jake Byrnes

WTCHG, Oxford

 

"The Application of hidden Markov models to the analysis of sequence and expression data"


 

WEEK2: Tuesday October 21st

16:30

 

Amy Strange

WTCHG, Oxford

 

"Natural variation in an adaptive trait"


 

WEEK3: Tuesday October 28th

16:30

 

Alex Alekseyenko

EBI, Cambridge

 

"Multi-state stochastic Dollo model for evolution of complex characters "


 

WEEK4: Tuesday November 4th

16:30

 

Peter Pfaffelhuber

University of Freiburg

 

"Approximate genealogies under genetic hitchhiking"


 

WEEK5: Tuesday November 11th

16:30

 

Adam Auton

Statistics, Oxford

 

"Population Structure and Genetic Diversity in a Genome-Wide Study of 3,845 Humans"


 

WEEK6: Tuesday November 18th

16:30

 

Gil McVean

Statistics, Oxford

 

"Gene genealogies and PCA "


 

WEEK7: Tuesday November 25th

16:30

 

Agnar Helgasson

deCODE Genetics, Iceland

 

"The study of micro-evolutionary patterns using genealogical data: Humans as a model organism"


 

WEEK8: Tuesday December 2nd

16:30

 

Ewan Birney

EBI, Cambridge

 

“De Bruijn graphs in DNA sequence analysis"


 


Seminars are in the Henry Wellcome Building of Gene Function (3rd floor seminar room).

Or in the Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research (level 30 seminar room).

Building are numbered 24 and 34 respectively on this map: www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/maps_and_directions/science_area.html