The UW CMB Student Symposium
Monday, June 2, 2008

The second Computational Molecular Biology Program Student Symposium will be held on Monday, June 2 in CSE 403.

Please join us for informal research talks by senior CMB students and short "Unsolved Problem" presentations/brainstorming sessions by CMB faculty.

Schedule:

        
12:00 Dr. William Noble: An Unsolved Problem
12:30 William Sheffler: Analysis of Packing Quality in the Protein Data Bank
1:20 Brig Mecham: Surrogate Variable Normalization of Gene Expression Studies
2:10 Alex Scouras: Amino Acid Conformations and Dynamics from Dynameomics
3:00 Dr. Mary Kuhner: An Unsolved Problem
3:30 Break: Meet and mingle with other CMB members while continuing the Unsolved Problems discussions over snacks
  
Keynote Presentation
 
4:00 Dr. Joseph Felsenstein: Developing and distributing a phylogeny package: tales of the PHYLIP
 
Abstract: I will describe how the PHYLIP phylogeny inference package developed and has been distributed. In its 27 years of continuous development, it has grown and improved greatly and its developer is wiser, and perhaps sadder. I will explain some of the decisions made, assess whether they were correct ones, and try to give some sense of the reactions it has gotten, the triumphs, the tragedies, and the dilemmas that it faces in the future.
 

Please note that the CMB Journal Club (CSE 590C) will be preempted for this day to permit attendence at the Symposium.