Abstracts

Koret-Berkeley-Tel Aviv Initiative in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018

Analysis of 141k Genomes
2:00 pm–2:30 pm
Speaker: Rasmus Nielsen (UC Berkeley)

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Computational Genomics for Medicine: Some Examples
2:30 pm–3:00 pm
Speaker: Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv University)

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Genetic Insights into Human Evolutionary History
3:00 pm–3:30 pm
Speaker: Priya Moorjani (UC Berkeley)

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From CRISPR-Cas Systems and Genome Diversity to Community-Level Antibiotic Resistance
4:00 pm–4:30 pm
Speaker: Uri Gophna (Tel Aviv University)

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Genome-Resolved Metagenomics: Gut Microbiome Development and the Mysterious Phenomenon of Megaphage
4:30 pm–5:00 pm
Speaker: Jill Banfield (UC Berkeley)

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SpartaABC – Inferring Indel Parameters
5:00 pm–5:30 pm
Speaker: Tal Pupko (Tel Aviv University)

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Talk 7
5:30 pm–6:00 pm
Speaker: Jennifer Listgarten (UC Berkeley)

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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018

Iterative Random Forests for Predictive and Stable Non-Linear Interactions
9:30 am–10:00 am
Speaker: Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)

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Atlas Sensing Technology, Behavioral Syndromes and the Evolution of Movement Guilds
10:00 am–10:30 am
Speaker: Wayne Getz (UC Berkeley)

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Inferring Gene-Gene Interactions and Functional Modules Beyond Standard Models
11:00 am–11:30 am
Speaker: Haiyan Huang (UC Berkeley)

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Genome-scale Analysis of Alternative Polyadenylation (APA) using Single-cell RNA-seq
11:30 am–12:00 pm
Speaker: Rani Elkon (Tel Aviv University)

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Interpreting Newborn Genomes
12:00 pm–12:30 pm
Speaker: Steven Brenner (UC Berkeley)

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How, When and Where in Pattern Formation: Spying on Embryonic Development One Molecule at a Time
2:00 pm–2:30 pm
Speaker: Hernan Garcia (UC Berkeley)

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Accurate Design of Translational Output by a Neural Network Model of Ribosome Distribution
2:30 pm–3:00 pm
Speaker: Liana Lareau (UC Berkeley)

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Building Computational Models of the Cell
3:00 pm–3:30 pm
Speaker: Roded Sharan (Tel Aviv University)

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The Key Parameters That Govern Translation Efficiency
3:30 pm–4:00 pm
Speaker: Yun Song (UC Berkeley)

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Genomics of Breast Cancer
4:30 pm–5:00 pm
Speaker: Noam Shomron (Tel Aviv University)

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Genome-wide Profiling of Protein Synthesis and Translational Control
5:00 pm–5:30 pm
Speaker: Nick Ingolia (UC Berkeley)

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Single-molecule Mapping of Long-range Epigenetic Regulation
5:30 pm–6:00 pm
Speaker: Yuval Ebenstein (Tel Aviv University)

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Imaging and Sequencing Single Cells
6:00 pm–6:30 pm
Speaker: Aaron Streets (UC Berkeley)

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Thursday, October 11th, 2018

Scalable Systems and Algorithms for Genomic Analyses
9:00 am–9:30 am
Speaker: Anthony Joseph (UC Berkeley)

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Discovery of Novel CRISPR–Cas Systems in Uncultivated Microbes
9:30 am–10:00 am
Speaker: David Burstein (Tel Aviv University)

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DNA Assembly: From Information Limits to Assembled Genomes
10:00 am–10:30 am
Speaker: Tom Courtade (UC Berkeley)

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Efficient Algorithms to Discover Alterations with Complementary Functional Associations in Cancer
11:00 am–11:30 am
Speaker: Dorit Hochbaum (UC Berkeley)

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Revealing the Genetic, Molecular, and Cellular Basis of Disease: A Computational Approach
11:30 am–12:00 pm
Speaker: Irit Gat-Viks (Tel Aviv University)

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The Lineage-Heterogeneous Birth-Death-Shift Process and its Implementation in RevBayes
12:00 pm–12:30 pm
Speaker: John Huelsenbeck (UC Berkeley)

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Analytics of single cell RNA-Seq: lessons from heterogeneity of immune cells
12:30 pm–1:00 pm
Speaker: Nir Yosef (UC Berkeley)

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