News

Congratulations to Dr. Yeasin for being selected as an Associate Editor for BMC Bioinformatics (Feb. 2009)

Congratulations to Drs. Phan and Sutter for receiving a grant from the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing entitled  "A microarray Analysis Software Package for Comparisons and Extrapolations of Relevance to Toxicology." (Feb. 2009)

UM Bioinformatics welcomes the new Spring 2009 graduate students: Rekha Bhaskarabhatla, Sahitya Emmadishetti, Brian Kennedy, Banoo Rekha Madhanagopal and Vijay Pidikiti. (Jan. 2009)

M. Garzon, V. Phan, A. Neel, 2009, "Optimal DNA Codes for Computing and Self-Assembly", Int. Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation, 1(1):1-17. (January 2009)

Dr. Victor Jin was featured in the article "Cashing in Your Chips to Advance Discovery: Chromatin Technology Uncovers Previously Unknown Regulatory Networks in Living Cells" in the October 15th issue of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. (Nov. 2008)

Dr. Jin co-wrote "E2F in Vivo Binding Specificity: Comparison of Consensus vs. Non-consensus Binding Sites" published in the October 8th issue of Genome Research. (Nov. 2008)

Welcome Chang Choi who accepted the position of Business Officer for Bioinformatics Program and the W. Harry Feinstone Center for Genomic Research. (Oct. 2008)

UM Bioinformatics partners with University of Tennessee Clinical and Translational Science Institute, for which Dr. R. Homayouni serves as co-director of the Biomedical Informatics Unit, Dr. E.O George serves as co-director of the Design, Biostatistics and Epidemeology Unit, and Dr. T. Sutter serves as director of genomics core in the Research Technology Unit. (October 2008)

Welcome to Laasya Vadlamudi and Som Patrudu who joined the Bioinformatics Program in the Fall 2008 semester. (Sept. 2008)

Preethi Katragadda project presentation will be held on July 29th at 10:00a.m. at FIT 210.

Sreedhar Sonteneni project presentation will be held on July 18th at 10:00a.m. at FIT 210.

Nicholas Furlotte thesis presentation will be held on April 30th at 2:00 p.m. in the Fed Ex Institude in room 227.

The title of Mr. Furlotte's thesis presentation will be Literature based evaluation of microarray normalization procedures.

U of  M welcomes assistant professor Victor Jin to the Bioinformatics Faculty

U of M will Host Graduate and Professional School Fair Sept. 28

UM Bioinformatics Program begins search for tenure-track faculty position

Meetings

November 15 - 17, 2007; the 6th Georgia Tech-Oak Ridge National Labs International Conference on Bioinformatics, Atlanta, Georgia;

November 30 - December 2, 2007; 5th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference (Rocky '07)  Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado;

July 21-25, 2007; 15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Vienna, Austria;

June 4-8, 2007; The 13th International Meeting on DNA Computing, Memphis, TN;

February 1st-3rd, 2007; The Fourth Annual Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society, New Orleans, Louisiana

January 3-7, 2007; Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Wailea, Maui;

The 13th International Meeting on DNA Computing, Memphis, TN; June 4-8, 2007

April 13-15, 2007; 6th Annual UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit; Paris Landing State Park, Buchanan, TN

May 4-5, 2007; 31st Annual Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Southeastern Atlantic Section Meeting (SIAM-SEAS 2007)

May 7-10, 2007; International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Seminars

Friday March 14, 2008  Seminar titled: Transcriptional Regulation of MDR1- and ERG11- mediated azole antifungal resistance in candida albicans by Dr. P. David Rogers.

Friday 1:30pm, November 9, 2007; Analysis of Gene Expression Data using Hierarchical Bayesian and Gene Set Enrichment Procedures By Haibao Wan

Friday 9:15am, November 2, 2007; Clustering genes based on profiles of RNA responses to multiple treatments, with application to cancer chemoprevention By Quynh Tran

Monday 4:00pm, October 22, 2007; Bridging Genotype and Phenotype: Causal Pathways from DNA to Complex Traits By Dr. Yan Cui

Tuesday 2:45pm, October 23, 2007; Visualization Techniques for Microarray Data By Jahangheer Shareef Shaik

Monday 4:00pm, October 29, 2007; Comparative Analysis of Gene Product Expression Among Strains of F. tularensisBy Dr. George M. Hilliard

Thursday 2:00pm, June 14, 2007; A computational genomics approach to model protein-DNA interactions from ChIP-chip data By Dr. Victor X. Jin.

Thursday 2:00pm, June 7, 2007; Novel regulatory mechanisms based on DNA duplex destabilization By Dr Prashanth Ak.

Friday 10:00am, June 1, 2007; Systematic profiling of yeast and mouse models of neurodegenerative disorders By Oliver King.

February 2, 2007; Proteomics approaches to probe the selectivity and consequences of protein damage by reactive electrophiles BY Dr. Daniel C. Liebler

Jan. 25, 2007; The Molecular Basis for Azole Antifungal Resistance in Candida albicans and Candida glabrata BY Dr. P. David Rogers

Jan. 25, 2007; The Evolution of Antifungal Drug Discovery BY Dr. Alice M. Clark

Brain Development: New Frontiers in Autism Research, Nov. 17, 2006 BY Dr.  Wendy Stone, Dr. Pat Levitt

Regulatory Region Analysis: Reverse Engineering Regulatory Circuits from the Bottom Up, November 3, 2006 BY Dr. Pavel Sumazin

Using Information Retrieval Approaches to Explore Genomic Data, October 6, 2006 BY Dr. Ramin Homayouni 

 Moving from Correlative Science to Predictive Medicine October 6, 2006 BY Dr. Richard Simon

Title: Using Information Retrieval Approaches to Explore Genomic Data


Time: 1:30 - 2:30pm, Friday, October 6, 2006
Place: Dunn Hall 233
BY
Dr. Ramin Homayouni 
Associate Professor,  Director of Bioinformatics
The University ofMemphis

Title: "Proteome and Transcriptome Analysis in the bacterium Francisella

Time: 4:00pm, Thursday, October 5, 2006
Place: Ellington - Lecture Hall
BY
Dr. George Hilliard
Assistant professor
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

TITLE: Moving from Correlative Science to Predictive Medicine

Time: 12:00pm, Friday, October 6, 2006
Place: St. Jude Auditorium
BY
Dr. Richard Simon
Head, Molecular Statistics and Bioinformatics Section,
Biometric Research Branch, National Cancer Institute,
Bethesda, Maryland