The Bioinformatic "Pizza" seminar
In light of the growing interest and to keep the inertia (and success) of the Israel Bioinf Symposium in UH in Spring 2016, we have initiated a new activity in order to promote "Bioinformatic communication and brainstorming" between relevant labs in the faculty of natural sciences (and even beyond).
It is called Bioinformatic Journal Club and is about 4 meetings per semester, one hour talk by some PI describing a typical work/project from her/his lab.
The forum should focus on methods, approaches, modelling (not necessarily "algorithms") rather than the biological specifics of each lab, as this is the common ground to all participants of the forum (neuro, marine, EEB, stat, math). The presentations will not be too technical so it is accessible to all participants.
The way to follow most Bioinformatics activity undergoing in campus is by joining the Bioinfo Forum, so if you are not subscribed yet but wish to, please visit http://list.haifa.ac.il/listinfo/haifa-bioinfo.
Directions:
The seminar takes place in the seminar room at lab complex b (מיתחם מדעים ב׳) that is located in bldg 11 (terrace bldg). The entrance is from the road between blg 11 and 12 (multipurpose bldg) right opposite to bldg 12, wide glass door. (Haifa University Map)
Fall 2019
1. Nov 11 - Doron Chelouche, Physics dept, U Haifa. How dusty is our Universe, and can we clean it up?
2. Dec 18 - Yardena Peres, IBM Lab. Analytics in the Real World: predicting hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) events for people with Diabetes.
3. Jan 8 - Imad Shams, Evol & Env Biol Dept, U Haifa. Stay tiny, go underground, beat cancer: molecular mechanisms supporting longevity in the blind mole rat.
4. Jan 29 Maya Lalzar, Bioinformatic Unit, U Haifa. A venture to demonstrate and quantify environment-function-structure relationships in microbiom studies: A bioinformatic view
Spring 2019
1. Mar 6th - Adam Spiro, IBM Haifa Lab: Medical Imaging, Clinical Data and Deep Learning: Creating Technologies for Assisting Radiologists.
2. April 10th - Dalit Barkan, Human Bio, U Haifa: Promoting Tumor Dormancy of Breast Cancer Cells by ‘Normalizing’ their Microenvironment and their Malignant Phenotype.
3. May 15th - Eran Tauber, Evol & Env Biol, U Haifa: From population genetics to population genomics: insights from Drosophila.
4. Jun 12th - Laura Steindler, Marine Biol, U Haifa: When culturing is not yet an option: Omics in symbiosis research. Abstract
Special Pizza seminar:
Eugene Koonin will visit the lab on Feb 21 and will give a special Pizza talk on 'Cancer evolution: mutation-selection balance and driver-passenger interplay'
Fall 2018
1. Nov 7th - Avraham Korol: Interplay of biological and computational challenges in genome mapping
2. Dec 2nd - Danny Statman: Brain Research and the Ethical Theory
3. Dec 26th - Sarit Avarni: Sleeping with the Enemy: How do the interactions between cyanobacteria and their phages affect the evolution of phage and host?
4. Jan 16th - Shlomo Wagner: All the lonely people: how is the brain affected by acute social isolation?
Spring 2018
1. Wed 28/2: Mor Peleg: Goal oriented ontology supported methodology for treatment of multi-morbidities
2. Wed 21/3: Amir Sapir: Analysis of the sterol synthesis pathway in eukaryotes reveals its surprising plasticity in evolution
3. Wed 25/4: Rachel Kolodny: Studying reuse patterns in the protein universe
4. Wed 7/6: Lior Cohen: The parental brain - Structure\Function Synaptic Plasticity in the Auditory Cortex
Fall 2017
1. Wed 8/11 - Eyal Privman: Phylogenomics and population genomics of ants for unraveling the molecular basis of social evolution
2. Wed 29/11 - Rami Reshef: Evolution of Somitogenesis or Algorithm of Myogenic Differentiation
3. Wed 20/12 - Yuval Nov (Stat dept): Learning context-dependent DNA mutation patterns
4. Wed 10/1 - Elah Pick: Evolution of protein modifiers in parasitic protozoans
Spring 2017
1. Wed 15/3 - Mickey Kosslof: Deciphering protein-protein interaction specificity using 3D structures
2. Wed 19/4 Daniel Sher: What controls the dynamics of microorganisms in an aquatic system highly impacted by man?
3. Wed 17/5 - Smadar Ben Tabu de Leon: Comparative studies of expression kinetics reveal developmental constraints and plasticity
4. Wed 7/6 - Itai Datner (Stat dept)