2020-2021 Choose Ohio First Forum Seminars
[Presentation 3] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Psoriatic Skin Transcriptome Clustering
Presenter: Dr. Sreeskandarajan Sutharzan, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Date & time: 7.30 - 8:30 pm, Thursday, Apr 15, 2021
Location: Online (Zoom conference)
[Presentation 2] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Somatic Variant Calling - Identifying Cancer Cell Mutations (Fundamentals, Key Institutions, Software and Usage Overview)
Presenter: Mr. Patrick Burridge, undergraduate student, Miami University
Date & time: 7.30 - 8:30 pm, Thursday, Feb 25, 2021
Location: Online (Zoom conference)
[Presentation 1] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: The insertion of transposable elements in osteosarcoma genomes and their prognostic value as cancer biomarkers
Presenter: Mr. Chao Wang, graduate student, Miami University
Date & time: 7:30 - 8:30, Thursday, Jan 28, 2021
Location: Online (Zoom conference)
2019-2020 Bioinformatics Forum Seminars
[Presentation 1] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Separating genes from gene mimics in plant genomes
Presenter: Assoc. Prof. James Schnable, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date & time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm, Thursday, Sept 19, 2019
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 2] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: Selective forces shaping the evolution of intelligence
Presenter: Prof. Kay Holekamp, Michigan State University
Date & time: 4:15 - 5:15, Thursday, Nov 7, 2019
Location: Upham Hall 002
[Presentation 3] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: "A Cell is a Bag of RNA"
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Stephen Quake, Department of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University
Date & time: 6:30 - 7:30, Monday, March 16, 2020
Location: PSN 128
2018-2019 Bioinformatics Forum Seminars
[Presentation 1] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: CRISPR/Cas – A Powerful Tool for DNA and RNA Editing
Presenter:Mr. Houxiang Zhu, Miami University
Date & time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm, Thursday, August 30, 2018
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 2] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: How gastrointestinal hormones influence food intake and body weight?
Presenter: Dr. Stephen Woods, University Cincinnati
Date & time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm, Thursday, Oct 18, 2018
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 3] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Novel software tool for microsatellite instability classification and landscape of microsatellite instability in osteosarcoma
Presenter: Mr. Chen Wang
Date & time: 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Thursday, Feb 28, 2019
Location: 222 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 4] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Genetics and genomic bases of soybean domestication
Presenter: Prof. Jianxin Ma, Purdue University
Date & time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm, Thursday, Apr 25, 2019
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
2017-2018 Bioinformatics Forum Seminars
[Presentation 1] Biology and Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Transcriptional Regulation of Axolotl Appendage Regeneration
Presenter: Dr. Randall Voss, University of Kentucky
Date & time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm, Thursday, Nov 30, 2017
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 2] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Transcriptional Regulation of Axolotl Appendage Regeneration
Presenter: Mr. Chen Wang, Miami University
Date & time: 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Thursday, Feb 15, 2018
Location: 86 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 3] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Clustering Influenza A HA segments using Self Organizing Maps
Presenter: Mr. Sutharzan Sreeskandarajan, Miami University
Date & time: 10:15 am - 11:00 am, Thursday, March 8, 2018
Location: Mallory-Wilson Center Conference Room 106c, Pearson Hall
[Presentation 4] Biology and bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Repeal, replace, and redeploy: evolution of a conserved gene regulatory network in the mosquito Aedes aegypti
Presenter: Dr. Marc Halfon, University at Buffalo-SUNY
Date & time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm, Thursday, May 3, 2018
Location: 208, Pearson Hall
2016-2017 Bioinformatics Forum Seminars
[Presentation 1] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Why are signals complex? Testing economic models of multicomponent signaling
Presenter: Dr. Tricia Rubi, University of Michigan
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, October 6, 2016
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 2] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: Building an adaption: 300 million years of toxin resistance evolution
Presenter: Dr. Joel McGlothlin, Virginia Tech
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, November 3, 2016
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 3] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: The conversion of autosomes to sex chromosomes in dioecious Asparagus
Presenter: Dr. Alex Harkess, Danforth Center in St Louis
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, November 17, 2016
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 4] Biology Seminar
Topic/title:Big Data Approaches at the Interface of Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
Presenter: Dr. Dan Warren, Macquarie University
Date & time: 4:00-5:00 pm, Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 5] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: Evolution of multicellular development in the volvocine algae
Presenter: Dr. Matthew Herron, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, February 2, 2017
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
2015-2016 Bioinformatics Forum Seminars
[Presentation 1] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Using Molecular, BioinformaLcs and GeneLc Tools to Study DYRK Protein Kinases
Presenter: DR. VAUGHN CLEGHON, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, September 24, 2015
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 2] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Phylogeographic and Phylodynamic Analysis of H5N1 Endemic in Waterfowl
Presenter: Dr. Dhananjai M. Rao, Miami University.
Date & time: 5:00 - 6:00 pm, Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Location: 314 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 3] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: The de novo Identification of Transposable Elements in Genomic Sequences,
and Their Use in the Identification of Genes Subjected to Strand-Asymmetric Constraint-free Substitution
Presenter: Dr. John Karro, Miami University.
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, October 8, 2015
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 4] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: Pack-MULE Transposable Elements Duplicate and Modify Host Genes in Plants
Presenter: Dr. Ning Jiang, Michigan State University.
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, December 3, 2015
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 5] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: The Case for Overabundant Deer in Eastern Forests
Presenter: Dr. William J. McShea, Smithsonian ConservaEon Biology Institute
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, March 3, 2016
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 6] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: What Makes a Tool User? Insights from Chimpanzees and Bonobos
Presenter: Dr. Kathelijne Koops, University of Zurich and Harvard University
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, March 17, 2016
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 7] Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar
Topic/title: Diurnal Expression of the Chlamydomonas Genome
Presenter: Dr. Sabeeha Merchant, University of California, Los Angeles
Date & time: 11:45 am - 12:45 pm, Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Location: Hughes Laboratory, Room 161
[Presentation 8] Microbiology Department Seminar
Topic/title: The wild, wild west of organelle gene expression: new frontiers, lawlessness, and misfits
Presenter: Dr. David Smith, University of Western Ontario
Date & time: 4:15 am - 5:15 pm, Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
2014-2015 Bioinformatics Forum Seminars
[Presentation 1] Biology Department Seminar
Topic/title: Macroevolution and Patterns of Diversification in Continental Distributed Freshwater Fishes
Presenter: Dr Tom Near, Yale University.
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, September 04, 2014
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 2] Microbiology Department Seminar
Topic/Title: Community genomic reconstruction reveals new ecosystem roles for uncultivated bacterial lineages
Presenter: Dr Kelly Wrighton, Ohio State University
Date & time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm, Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 3] Biology Department Seminar
Topic/Title: The Risks, Rewards, and Rules of Living with a Duplicated Genome Presenter: Dr Mike Barker, University of Arizona
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, November 6, 2014
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
2013-2014 Bioinformatics Forum Seminars
[Presentation 1] Gradaute Student Presentation
Topic/title: BioDIG: Matchings between Phenotype and Genotype
Presenter: Mr. Andrew Oberlin, Miami University.
Date & time: 5:00 - 6:00 pm, Thursday, Oct 03, 2013
Location: 314 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 2] Hefner Lecture 2013
Topic/title: 101 Genomics: Studying Dogs in the Genomics Era
Presenter: Dr. Adam Boyko, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University.
Date & time: 8:00 - 9:00 pm, Thursday, Oct 24, 2013
Location: 102 Benton Hall
[Presentation 3] Center of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics and Microbiology Seminar
Topic/title: Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing Data and Related Statistical Issues
Presenter: Professor Rebecca Doerge (http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~doerge/), Purdue University.
Date & time: 4:10 - 5:00 pm, Wednesday, Nov 20, 2013
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 4] Biology Seminar
Topic/title: Who Let the Pears Out? The Role of Horticulture in the Invasive Behavior of the Callery Pear Tree and What it Means for the Future
Presenter: Dr. Theresa Culley, University of Cincinnati
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Thursday, March 6, 2014
Location: 218 Pearson Hall
[Presentation 5] Bioinformatics Seminar
Topic/title: Evaluation of tools used for RNA-Seq data analysis, and alternative splicing analysis in Chlamydomonas
Presenter: Mr Praveen Kumar Raj Kumar, Biology Department, Miami University
Date & time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Location: 218 Pearson Hall