Presentation Schedule:

(All talks  in HSB 740, Tuesday, 1.30pm)

Date

Name

Title

May 30, 2005
Adam Zagdanski
Using R/Bioconductor tools for exploring Gene Ontology (abstract)
Oct 3, 2005
Adam Zagdanski
Computational cluster validation in post-genomic data analysis (abstract)
Oct 24, 2005
Shafagh Fallah
Structured Analysis of Microarrays (StAM) (abstract)
Oct 31, 2005
Nicholas Mitsakakis
Predicting drosophila gene functions from expression data using SVM: some first thoughts (abstract)
Nov 7, 2005
Xiaofei Shi
Feature Selection Based on Mutual Information (abstract)
Nov 14, 2005
Rafal Kustra
A Subversion Collaborative Tool (abstract)
Nov 21, 2005
Helen He Nonparametric Statistical Method for Partial Areas under ROC curves, with application to Genomic studies (abstract)
Nov 28, 2005
Adam Zagdanski
Application of GO-based semantic similarity measure for clustering gene expression data (abstract)
Dec 5, 2005
Rafal Kustra
A Factor Analysis Model for Functional Genomics (abstract)
Jan 16, 2006
Shafagh Fallah
Statistical Analysis using goCluster (abstract)
Jan 23, 2006
Nicholas Mitsakakis
Evaluating SVM as a predicting method for drosophila gene functions (abstract)
Jan 30, 2006
Xiaofei Shi
Searching for Differentially Expressed Gene Combinations (abstract)
Feb 6, 2006
Clement Ma
Analysis of Variance in Proteomics Data (abstract)
Feb 13, 2006
Rafal Kustra
Analysis of Microarray Time Course experiments (abstract)
Feb 20, 2006

Cancelled
Feb 27, 2006
Adam Zagdanski
Improving the Relevance  of  Microarray  Data Clustering through
Integration  with Gene Ontology (abstract)
Mar 6, 2006
Adam Zagdanski
Improving the Relevance  of  Microarray  Data Clustering through
Integration  with Gene Ontology (continued)
Mar 13, 2006
Lourdes Peña Castillo
Analysis of Host and Parasite Expression Data from Susceptible and Resistant Mice to Cerebral Malaria (abstract)
Mar 20, 2006
Sophia Lee
Weighted Random Forest Approach to Map Quantitative
Trait Loci in Linkage Analysis (abstract)
Mar 27, 2006
Helen He
Overdispersed Poisson regression in Microarray Data Analysis (abstract)
Apr 3, 2006

Cancelled
Apr 10, 2006
Rafal Kustra
Update on the ARCTIC project (abstract)
Apr 17, 2006

Cancelled (Easter Monday)
Apr 24, 2006
Xiaofei Shi
Fuzzy p-values and their applications in latent variable problem (abstract)
May 1, 2006
Shafagh Fallah
In-group proportion (INP) cluster quality measure (abstract)
May 8, 2006
Lei Sun
Distribution of p-values and its implications
May 15, 2006
Nicholas Mitsakakis
Data Mining methods for predicting Gene Functions (abstract)
May 22, 2006

Cancelled
May 29, 2006

Cancelled (SSC)
Jun 5, 2006
TBA

Jun 12, 2006
Adam Zagdanski
Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF): state-of-the-art and
applications in genomic data analysis (abstract)
Jun 19, 2006

Cancelled (MITACS conference)



Oct 10, 2006
Adam Zagdanski
Analyzing Time-Course Microarray Data using Regularized Reduced Rank Multivariate Time Series Models (abstract)
Oct 17, 2006
Rafal Kustra
"Aspects of the design and analysis of high-dimensional SNP studies for disease risk estimation", Prentice and Qi, Biostatistics (2006) 7:3, pp339-354
Oct 24, 2006
Adam Zagdanski
Analyzing Time-Course Microarray Data using Regularized Reduced Rank Multivariate Time Series Models (part 2)
Oct 31, 2006
Nicholas Mitsakakis
Introduction of Gaussian Graphical Models and applications in Statistical Genomics
Nov 7, 2006
Babak Shahbaba
Gene function classification using Bayesian models with hierarchy-based priors (abstract)
Nov 14, 2006
Matthew Kowgier
" A Bayesian mixture model for partitioning gene expression data", Zhou C. and Wakefield J., Biometrics (2006), 62:515-525
Nov 21, 2006
Xiaofei Shi
Clustering genes based on their phylogeny signals
Dec 5, 2006
Adam Zagdanski
Handling Multiple Testing in Gene Set Functional Enrichment
Analysis (GSFEA)  (abstract)
Dec 12, 2006
Rafal Kustra
"Assessing the finite dimentionality of functional data", Hall and Vial, J.R.Statist. Soc. B (2006) 68, Part 4, pp. 689-705



Jan 23, 2007
Nicholas Mitsakakis
"An empirical Bayes approach to inferring large-scale gene association networks", Schafer and Strimmer, Bioinformatics (2005), 21(6), 754-764
Jan 30, 2007
Xiaofei Shi
"The optimal discovery procedure for large-scale significance testing, with application to comparative microarray experiments", Storey, Dai and Leek, Biostatistics, Aug 2006
Feb 6, 2007
Przemyslaw Biecek
Two approaches to testing the set of hierarchically related hypotheses, with applications to Gene Ontology-based analyses (abstract)
Feb 27, 2007
Billy Heung Wing Chang
From PCA to Mixture of Factor Analyzer (abstract)
Mar 7, 2007
Adam Zagdanski
"Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profile'', A.Subramanian, P.Tamayoa et al. (2005),  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102, pp. 15545-15550
Mar 14, 2007
Rafal Kustra
"Correlation and Large-Scale Simultaneous Significance Testing", Brad Efron
Mar 21, 2007
Nicholas Mitsakakis
Experimenting with Gaussian Graphical Models (abstract)
May 29, 2007
Matthew Kowgier
Incorporating prior knowledge in the analysis of genomic data: A review of new methodology (abstract)
July 17, 2007
Nicholas Mitsakakis
Graphical Modelling using low-order partial correlations (abstract)
Aug 28, 2007
Matthew Kowgier
Bayesian Covariance Modeling (abstract)
Sept 12, 2007
Billy Heung Wing Chang
Mixture of Factor Analyzer model, with application to microarray data clustering (abstract)
Oct 2, 2007
Matthew Kowgier
Copy number analysis (abstract)
Oct 16, 2007
Nicholas Mitsakakis
Order-1 partial correlations in Graphical Models (abstract)
Oct 30, 2007
Jagadish Rangrej
Genomewide Analysis
Nov 6, 2007
Jagadish Rangrej
Genomewide Analysis - Part 2 (abstract)
Nov 20, 2007
Billy Heung Wing Chang
Affinity Propagation (abstract)
Dec 4, 2007
Nicholas Mitsakakis
Numerical experiments on edge detection on Gaussian Graphical Models (abstract)
Jan 24, 2008
Zhong Liu (UBC)
Combining Measurements With Deterministic Model Outputs (abstract)
Mar 14, 2008
Niloofar Arshadi
Performance Improvement of Case-Based Classification by Ensemble Methods Integrated with Feature Selection Techniques (abstract)
May 6, 2008
Billy Heung Wing Chang
Missing Genotype Imputation - A K-Nearest-Neighbors Approach (abstract)
May 13, 2008
Nicholas Mitsakakis
Introduction to Bayesian Gaussian Graphical Model Selection (abstract)
July 10, 2008
Matthew Kowgier
Copy Number analysis for SNP chip data (abstract)