[Acmsmajors] This week's seminar

[Julie Eaton]

Date:  	Thursday, January 18, 2007

Time:  	12:30 pm

Place: 	Denny 304

Speaker:  David Reiss, Institute for Systems Biology

Title: 	 Modeling the pathways and regulatory dynamics of the salt-loving
extremophile Halobacterium NRC-1

Abstract:
I work with a group studying an "extremophile", Halobacterium, that thrives
in water that is 10x saltier than ocean water. Our group has collected
global measurements of many different types of biological molecules (DNA
sequence, mRNA, protein, etc.) and interactions between those molecules for
this organism under a wide range of environmental stimuli. My research
involves the development of statistical models to integrate and effectively
describe these different levels of biological information, and of efficient
computational procedures to solve those models in a way that will be
predictive of future (unseen) responses by Halobacterium. In this talk, I
will summarize some aspects of my work, both past and currently in-progress.