Topic in Bioinformatics - Spring 2002 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

Link

March 11

Ron Shamir (Computer Science)

What is Bioinformatics? Classical and personal examples.

lcourse material

March 18

Racheli Zakarin (TAU Bioinformatics Unit)

Introduction to Bioinformatics and Anthrax as a case study.

ppt

April 8

Karen Avraham (Medicine)

Using Bioinformatics to find and Characterize Deafness Genes.

 

April 15

Naftali Kaminski (Sheba Hospital)

Measuring and Understanding the Expression Patterns of Whole Genomes: The Use of Microarrays in Medicine

 

April 22

Felix Frolow (Life Sciences)

X-ray crystallography - important source of structural information.

 

April 29

Nir Ben-Tal (Life Sciences)

TBA

 

May 6

Dan Graur (Life Sciences)

Reconstructing evolutionary history: what, if anything, are whales?

 

May 13

Benny Chor (Computer Sciences)

Computational challenges in Bioinformatics.

 

May 20

Ruth Nussinov (Medicine)

Using bioinformatics to address the protein function problem

 

May 27

Haim Wolfson (Computer Science)

Structural Bioinformatics: Geometric Computing in Molecular Biology.

 

June 3

Dani Chamovitz (Life Sciences)

TBA

 

June 10

Joel Hirsch (Life Sciences)

The Three-dimensionality of Bioinformatics: Structural Biology.

 

June 17

Ron Shamir (Computer Science)

Computational Methods for Gene Expression Analysis and Gene Networks