Computational Molecular Biology and Genomics Project Presentations

[Format] [Last year's presentations] [Schedule]

The last two days of class will be devoted to presentations of the project topics. The topics you have selected cover a range of emerging problems in computational genomics. The goal is to give an overview of new research in genomics to the rest of the class.

Survey talks

Duration: 10 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions.
Seven to ten slides covering

A statement of the problem to be solved
Description of data that drives the problem (if applicable)
Why the problem is important
Why the problem is challenging
Current state of the art; open problems. You will not have time to discuss algorithms in detail.

Computational project talks

All group members must speak
Duration: 15 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions.
Ten to fifteen slides covering

A statement of the problem to be solved
Background and signficance
Data and methods
Results
Summary: what you learned, problems encountered, future work

You may find it useful to look at the slides from last year's presentations

Schedule

Tuesday, Dec 07
10:30 - 10:45	Human Origins and Genetic Diversity	Srinath Sridhar
10:45 - 11:05	Whole genome duplication and evolution of biological networks	Sabine Hauert, Bob Montgomery
11:05 - 11:20	Natural and directed evolution of bacterial dehalogenating enzymes	Christine Wang
11:20 - 11:40	Whole genome comparison in bacteria	Heather Hendrickson, Tom Murphy

Thursday, Dec 09
10:30 - 10:45	Inferring gene function from protein-protein interaction data	Aly Azeem Khan
10:45 - 11:05	Secondary structure prediction based on local sequence similarities with solved structures	Patrick Bourke, Panagiotis Papasaikas
11:05 - 11:20	High throughput functional assays	Peter Zullo
11:20 - 11:35	Simulation of the minCDE pathway in E. coli	Mike Abd-el-Malek

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Last modified: November 30th, 2004. Maintained by Dannie Durand (durand@cs.cmu.edu).