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Seminars

The Whitehead Institute publishes a listing of many Biology seminars in the Boston area.

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Bioinformatics Group Meetings - past

The MGH Molecular Biology department's Bioinformatics Group meets each Monday in the Jackson 13 conference room at MGH for presentations by its members and outside guests. Here is the MGH-PGA Bioinformatics Group Meeting Schedule. The following is a listing of past presentations given by Bioinformatics Group members.

  • The Bakeoff Project

    Harry Bjorkbacka, Freeman Lab, Feb 9, 2004, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

  • MGH DNACore LIMS

    Stefan Dragnev, Bioinformatics Group, Sep 29, 2003, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

  • Microarray Software Package - BASE

    Daniel Park, Bioinformatics Group, Sep 15, 2003, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

    The presentation is available in HTML, PDF, and PowerPoint formats.

  • Oligo Synthesis 101

    Jay Klaren, Oligonucleotide Synthesis Center, Jun 16, 2003, Bioinformatics Conference Room, 38 Sidney St DNA Core, Cambridge, MA

  • New Microarray Tools: OOP module, DB & shell

    Sean Quinlan, Bioinformatics Group, May 12, 2003, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

  • Microarray Project

    Xiaowei Wang, Bioinformatics Group, Mar 24, 2003, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

  • Collaborative Groupware

    Eric VanHelene, Bioinformatics Group, Mar 10, 2003, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

  • QC testing w Rational Software's "Team Test"

    Adam Boc, Software QA, Bioinformatics Group, Mar 3, 2003, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

  • Glue LIMS and Data Entry System in Production

    Chen Liu, Bioinformatics Group, Feb 24, 2003, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

  • Annotation Project

    Dong Liu, Bioinformatics Group, Feb 10, 2003, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

  • PIMA

    Sean Quinlan, Bioinformatics Group, Jan 27, 2003, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston, MA

    Find out more about PIMA.

  • Microarray Database System Using Struts Technology

    Chen Liu, Software Engineer, Bioinformatics Group, May 13, 2002, Jackson 13 Conference Room, MGH, Boston MA

    The presentation is available in HTML, PDF, and PowerPoint formats.

  • BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

    Jonathan Urbach, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Specialist, MGH Dept. of Molecular Biology, Jul 27, 2001, Shriners Burns Center Auditorium, Boston MA

    This lecture was given as part of a course, "Current Techniques in Molecular Genetics," organized by Dr. Lee Kaplan at the Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, MGH.

    The presentation is available in HTML, PDF, and PowerPoint formats.

  • Bioinformatic Analysis Using the Internet: A Primer on Using Web-based Tools in Functional Genomics Analysis

    Dr. Joel Graber, Senior Research Associate and Lecturer, Boston University, Mar 28, 2001, Wellman 11 Conference Room, MGH, Boston MA.

    Joel Graber, Senior Research Associate and Lecturer, Boston University presented a brief overview of the information sources and tools that are freely available to the biological scientist via the world wide web. This presentation included examples that have arisen in his research to delineate the information and showed some of the inconsistencies, errors and other headaches that can arise.

    The presentation is available in HTML and PowerPoint formats.

MGH Genetics Seminars - upcoming

  • On phenotyping and genotyping patients with psychiatric disease

    Pam Sklar, MD, PhD, Mar 26, 2004

  • New approaches to discovering the genes responsible for Alzheimer's disease

    Rudy Tanzi, PhD, Apr 1, 2004

  • The genetics of learning disorders

    David Pauls, PhD, Apr 29, 2004

  • Genetics and genomics approaches to clarifying the role of lipid disorders in atherosclerosis

    Mason Freeman, MD, Director of the MGH Program in Genomics Applications, July 22, 2004

MGH Genetics Seminars - past

  • The Asthma Epidemic: Genes, the Environment, or Both?

    Scott Weiss, MD, MS, Feb 17, 2004

  • Nancy Cox

    Nancy Cox, Assoc. Professor of Human Genetics and Medicine, University of Chicago. Jan 14 & 15, 2004

    Dr. Cox presented four separate lectures over two days on the following topics:

    • Linkage Analysis from the Basics to the Controversies
    • Linkage Disequilibrium: Impressionist Painting in the Genome
    • Association Studies: Traditional and Perditional
    • Review & Evaluation of Selected Clinical Research Studies
  • Genetics and Clinical Research: Points to Consider

    Lisa Lehmann, M.D., Ph.D., MSc., Instructor in Medicine and Medical Ethics, HMS, May 29th, 2003

    The explosion of information about human genetics and genomics is creating new opportunities for clinical research, but also raises important questions regarding research participants. This talk will review some major issues involved in genetics and genomics research, including definition of genetic testing & research, return of research results, consent of family members, and DNA and tissue banking.

  • Human Genomes and Beyond

    Eric Lander, PhD, Professor of Biology, MIT and Director, Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, Oct 30, 2002

    The Institute of Medicine is honored to be hosting a Regional Distinguished Lecture by IOM member Eric S. Lander, Ph.D..

  • Genomic Approaches to the Study of Obesity

    Dr. Jeffrey M. Friedman, Director, Starr Center for Human Genetics and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University, Oct 30, 2002

  • Translating Genomic Advances to Genomic Medicine for Investigation of Complex Diseases in Human Populations

    Christopher O'Donnell, M.D., M.P.H., Cardiology Division, MGH and Associate Director, Framingham Heart Study, Jun 11, 2002

    Dr. O'Donnell will provide a broad overview of concepts in study design and statistical analyses used for genetic studies of "complex" human diseases in human populations. Disease examples will include cardiovascular, endocrinologic and pulmonary diseases.

  • Genetics and Clinical Research: Issues in the Protection of Human Subjects

    Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D. , Medical Director, HPCGG Jan 30, 2002

    Dr. Korf will discuss the issues involved in performing genetic research in human subjects.

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