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PAST THINK TANK EVENTS
DATE
TITLE
SPEAKER
5/19/08
Model-based analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

Yong Zhang
DFCI

Analysis of ChIP-Seq Data to Elucidate Genome-wide Human Epigenetic Regulation at the Nucleosome Level

Hyunjin Shin
DFCI

4/29/08
Mechanisms to suppress multipolar mitoses in cancer cells

Mijung Kwon
(DFCI)

CES-1 and HLH-6 activate gene expression through a shared binding site

John Reece-Hoyes
(UMASS)

3/24/08
Genome-wide profiling of the estrogen response in breast cancer
Mathieu Lupien
(DFCI)
Assessing excess epistasis in human
populations
Adnan Derti
(Harvard)
2/25/08
Network analysis for gene expression-based high-throughput screening
Jonathan Jesneck
(Broad Institute Harvard/MIT)
Distribution of node characteristics in complex networks
Juyong Park (Northeastern University)
1/28/08
Selection of cyclic peptide binders to HCV IRES RNA using mRNA display
Alexander Litovchick
(CCIB/MGH)
Simple systems and the origins of life
Irene Chen
(Harvard)
11/26/07
Experimental Evolution of Symbiosis
Erik Hom
(Harvard)
 
Current CCSB ORFeome Annotation Project
Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani
(DFCI)
9/24/07
Exploring human bZIP protein-protein interaction space: Measurement of viral bZIPs and computationally-designed specific binding partners
Aaron W. Reinke (MIT)

Recurrent initiation: A mechanism for triggering p53 pulses in response to DNA damage
Eric Batchelor
(HMS)
5/21/07
A quantitative theory of tumor growth and vascularization
Van Savage
(HMS)
 
Structure and Function of a Tra nscriptional Network activated by the p38 MAPK Hog1
Andrew Capaldi
(Harvard)
4/30/07
Chemical Dissection of the Apoptotic Signaling Network
Loren Walensky
(Harvard)
 
Antibacterial drug combinations and evolution of drug resistance
Remy Chair
(Harvard)
3/26/07
Genetic Screens in Human Tumor Cells
Joseph Pearlberg
(HMS)
 
Development of Mass Spectrometry Based Technologies for Quantitative Cell Signaling Phosphoproteomics
Alejandro Wolf Yadlin
(HMS)
2/26/07
Studying apoptosis systematically
Anthony Letai
(DFCI)
  Natural History and Evolutionary Principles of Gene Duplication in Yeast
Ilan Wapinski
(Harvard)
1/29/07
High-throughput quantitative analysis of in vivo gene expression in C. elegans
Denis Dupuy
(CCSB, DFCI)
  MouseFunc: A Battle of Classifiers for Mouse Gene Function Prediction
Murat Tasan
(HMS)
10/30/06
Quantitative Proteomics: Cells, Tissues, and Beyond
Marto Lab
(DFCI)
 
Stochastic Signatures in Mesoscopic Gene Expression
Jess Mar
(Harvard University)
09/25/06
Role of the RNAi pathway in stem cell function and heterochromatin maintenance
Chryssa Kanellopoulou
(DFCI)
 
Structural similarity enhances interaction propensity of proteins
Dima Lukatsky
(Harvard University)
08/28/06
The BRCA1 Tumor Suppressor Network in Genome Stability and Cancer
Roger Greenberg
Livingston Lab (DFCI)
 
Coupling NCI60 cell line drug response and gene expression profiles
Aedin Culhane
Quackenbush Lab (DFCI)
06/26/06
The Ku80 complexes, problems and solutions for large complexes analysis
Jean-Bernard Lazaro
Iglahert Lab (DFCI)
 
Construction of genetic networks from the literature and microarray data
Amira Djebbari
Quackenbush Lab (DFCI)
05/29/06
The role of the social network in innovation diffusion
Gabor Szabo
Barabasi Lab (UND)
Mammalian ultraconserved sequence elements avoid duplication
Stefa Muljo
04/24/06
Mammalian ultraconserved sequence elements avoid duplication
Adnan Derti
Roth Lab (HMS)
Genome-wide analysis of polyploidy in yeast: mechanisms of genome instability in cells with abnormal numbers of chromosomes
Zuzana Storchova
Pellman Lab (DFCI)
03/27/06
Discovery and characterization of a 130 million-year-old ribozyme in human genome
Kourosh Sahlie-Ashtiani
Vidal Lab (DFCI)
Human disease network
Kwang-Il Goh
Barabasi Lab (UND)
02/27/06
Complexities of therapeutic signaling inhibition in GIST as a kinase-driven disease: challenges and lessons with Gleevec and Suten
George Demetri
(DFCI)
Statistical properties of protein interaction networks
Alexei Vazquez
Barabasi Lab (UND)
10/24/05
A systematic approach to PI3-kinase signaling in cancer
Jean Zhao
Roberts Lab (DFCI)
Predicting cytokine-induced apoptosis with a model based on a compendium of signaling and response measurements
Suzanne Gaudet
(MIT)
08/29/05
Genetic Analysis of EBNA3A: Notch Signaling in EBV lymphocyte transformation
Eric Johannsen (HMS)
The connectivity map project
Justin Lamb
(MIT)
07/25/05
Cell fate determination and gene networks: towards a molecular basis for Waddington's Epigenetic Landscape
Sui Huang
(Children's Hospital)
Stem Cell Research - where are we really?
Vivian Rebel
Livingston Lab (DFCI)
06/27/05
Multiresolution Modeling of Intracellular Signaling
Maya Said
(MIT)
Grammars in biological representation & Finding remote homologs by approximate sequence matching
Dennis Wall & Leon Peshkin
(CBI/HMS)
05/23/05
Things that keep me awake at night
John Quackenbush
(DFCI)
Regulation of BCL-2 by PP2A
Stephen Lin
Korsmeyer Lab (DFCI)
04/25/05
Clonable DNA Nanotechnology
William Shih
(DFCI)
Making and breaking the appoptosis interactome in C. elegans
Stuart Milstein
Vidal Lab (DFCI)
03/28/05
Mapping RNA Binding Proteins to the Human Genome
Alexander Brodsky
Silver Lab (DFCI)
Proteomic Approaches to Identifying Protein Interactions in Mammalian Cells
Jason Arroyo
Hahn Lab (DFCI)
02/28/05
Finding regulatory motifs for tissue-dependent alternative splicing
Adnan Derti
Roth Lab (HMS)
 
Protein Interactome Topology Provides a Framework for Coordinated-Functionality in Yeast
Andre Valente
Vidal Lab (DFCI)

 

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