Instructions for entering Stanley Hall:

Please come to the glass door on the northern side of the building at street level with Gayley Road. (This is the third floor entrance.) The conference room is at the end of the corridor directly in front of you as you come in this door.

Note the time change from 4:00 to 2:00.

Ruchira Datta from The Berkeley Phylogenomics Group will present an overview of phylogenomics, a discipline of bioinformatics which uses multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees to predict the functions of genes. For more details, here is a paper from Ruchira on the Phylofacts Orthology Group Prediction web server (PHOG) a novel algorithm in phylogenomics which she helped develop.

In addition to her work on PHOG, Doctor Datta holds a PhD in Mathematics, studying game theory and has worked as a software engineer at Google.

Agenda:

2:00-2:30 - Networking
2:30-3:00 - Dr. Datta presents "Phylogenomics"
3:00-3:15 - Break/Discussion
3:15-4:00 - Lightning talks

We will have lightning talks at this forum, so please bring a brief (10 minute) presentation on a topic that you want to share with the group. We should have time for as many as 4 talks, so let Doug know if you are planning on presenting one. Lightning talk slots will be given on a first requested basis. Powerpoint slides on a thumb drive to accompany your talk are optional.

Blogging is allowed at this event. Please see the BayBIFX blog policy for more details.

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Hope to see you all there!