STAT 598

Bioinformatics Seminar (Spring 2019)

Time: 11:30am-12:20pm            Location: BRNG 2290

Schedule

1.    Tuesday, January 8, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Min Zhang, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

·        Course information: Only registered students should attend.

 

2.    Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Doug Crabill, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

·        Title: Introduction to Linux and Cluster Computing Environments for Bioinformatics – Part I

·        Abstract

·        Slides

·        Associated reading: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unixintro.html

 

3.    Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Lei Liu, PhD, Division of Biostatistics, Washington University in St. Louis

·        Title: Estimating and testing targeted mediation effect in the presence of high-dimensional mediators

·        Abstract

·        Associated reading: Testing for targeted medication effect with application to human microbiome data

4.    Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Doug Crabill, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

·        Title: Introduction to Linux and Cluster Computing Environments for Bioinformatics – Part II

·        Abstract

·        Slides

·        Associated reading: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unixintro.html

 

5.    Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Jun Wan, PhD, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine

·        Title: Dissect functional interactions between methylated DNA sequences and transcription factors

·        Abstract

·        Associated reading:

Methylated cis-regulatory elements mediate KLF4-dependent gene transactivation and cell migration

 

DNA methylation presents distinct binding sites for human transcription factors

 

 

6.    Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Gladys K Andino Bautista, PhD, Purdue University Research Computing

·        Title: Hands-on Bioinformatics on Purdue Supercomputers

·        Abstract

·        Slides

·        Associated reading:

FastQC https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/

Trimmomatic (https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu170)

Blast command line (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279670/

 

7.    Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 11:30am  (Cancelled)

                           

8.    Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Nadia Lanman, PhD, Purdue University Center for Cancer Research

·        Title: Alignment of Next-Generation Sequencing Data

·        Abstract

·        Slides

·        Associated reading:

Alignment of Next-Generation Sequencing Reads

 

9.    Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290 (Cancelled)

 

10.         Tuesday, March 12, 2019 – (No Seminar, Spring Break)

 

11.         Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Jennifer Garvin, PhD, MBA, RHIA, CTR, CPHQ, CCS, FAHMIA, Health Information Management & Systems Division, The Ohio State University

·        Title: Health Information and Informatics: The Heart of the Matter “The Devil is in the Details”

·        Abstract

·        Associated reading:

Automating Quality Measures for Heart Failure Using Natural Language Processing: A Descriptive Study in the Department of Veterans Affairs

 

Congestive Heart Failure Information Extraction Framework for Automated Treatment Performance Measures Assessment

 

12.         Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Jiping Wang, PhD, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University

·        Title: Normalization of Generalized Transcript Degradation Improves Accuracy in RNA-Seq Analysis

·        Abstract

·        Associated reading:

Normalization of generalized transcript degradation improves accuracy in RNA-seq analysis

 

13.         Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Eric Stahlberg, PhD, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical research

·        Title: Data Science and the Fight Against Cancer - News from the Frontier

·        Abstract

·        Associated reading:

CANDLE/Supervisor: a workflow framework for machine learning applied to cancer research

Predicting tumor cell line response to drug pairs with deep learning

14.         Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Suthat Liangpunsakul, MD, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

·        Title: Serum Metabolomic Profiling Identifies Key Metabolic Signatures Associated With Pathogenesis of Alcoholic Liver Disease in Humans

·        Abstract

·        Associated reading:

 

 

15.         Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 11:30am at BRNG 2290

Warren Kibbe, PhD, Dept. of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University

·        Title:

·        Abstract

·        Associated reading: