Mathematics 596a

Quantitative Biology Seminar

Fall 2014

Tuesdays 4PM

Mathematics Room 402

Schedule

 

 

Week

Dates

Topics

Speakers

Title

References

1

26Aug

Organizational Meeting

2

2Sep

No meeting

3

9Sep

Ethics Discussion

4

16Sep

Ethics Discussion

 

5

23Sep

Gene Duplication

                             

Erik Hanschen

Gene Duplication and Turnover in Eukaryotes:

Examples and Importance

Gene Expansion by Gene Duplication

Duplication and Turnover in Plant Genomes

 

6

30Sep

Brian Hallmark

Modeling and Inferring Gene Duplication Birth and Death Rates

Lynch  Conery 2003

Hahn 2005

Maere 2005

Probabilistic Model

Locus Tree Modeling

CAFE

7

7Oct

8

14Oct

9

21Oct

10

28Oct

11

4Nov

12

11Nov

13

18Nov

14

25Nov

15

2Dec