Biomathematics Seminar Series Winter 2006

Location:  Center for Health Sciences seminar 4:00 – 5:00 PM

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             DATE                                                           SPEAKER                                                                                  TITLE

Jan. 12, 2006	Donald Rubin Department of Statistics Harvard University	Causal Inference Through Potential Outcomes: Application to Quality of Studies with “Censoring” Due to Death and to Studies of the Effect of Job-training Programs on Wages
Jan. 19, 2006	Warren Grundfest, M.D., F.A.C.S. Professor of Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, and Surgery UCLA	New Technologies for Minimally Invasive Procedures
Jan. 26, 2006	Tom Chou, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biomathematics UCLA	A One-Dimensional Exclusion Theory for Histone-DNA Adsorption and Wrapping
Feb. 2, 2006	Kenneth Lange, Ph.D. Professor Departments of Biomathematics and Human Genetics UCLA	Dictionary Models for Motif Finding and Haplotyping
Feb. 9, 2006	Alex Levine, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry UCLA	The Worm Turns: The Nonlinear Elasticity of an Alpha-Helical Polypeptide
Feb. 16, 2006	Dolores Bozovic, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy UCLA	The Active Process and Spontaneous Oscillations in Hair Cells of the Inner Ear
Feb. 23, 2006	Christopher Lee, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry UCLA	Mapping Evolutionary Pathways of HIV-1 Drug Resistance using Conditional Selection Pressure
Mar. 2, 2006	No seminar.
Mar. 9, 2006	Victoria Sork, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Institute of the Environment UCLA	Modeling Gene Flow on a Landscape Scale: Empirical Studies of California Valley Oak
Mar. 16, 2006	Steve Horvath, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Departments of Human Genetics and Biostatistics UCLA	What is the Relationship Between Network Connectivity and Modular Structure? And Why Do Hub Genes Matter in Practice?
Apr. 20, 2006	Anton Zilman, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Center for Studies in Physics and Biology The Rockefeller University New York	Mechanism of the Nuclear Pore Transport Nano-Sieves Inside the Cell