Genome Dynamics

BioE131/231 needs a matlab component. The expm (matrix exponential) function would work well with the molecular evolution angle.

I am proud to learn that my recently-hooded PhD student, Rob Bradley, whom I “hooded” on Friday, has won a Damon Runyon cancer research fellowship. Well done Rob!

UC Davis (Jonathan Eisen’s lab); UCLA bioinformatics seminar series (hosted by Matteo Pellegrini & Marc Suchard).

epigenetics is a nice way to spice up the usual “molbio101″ intro to a bioinformatics class.

gave a talk on ancestral reconstruction at Nevan Krogan’s lab in UCSF, hosted by Pedro Beltrao. Discussed some interesting yeast reconstruction ideas…

See my main post on the biowiki.org blog.

Was fun to find out about Pythium…

I’ve been asked to give the invited talk at the “Bioinformatics Algorithms for Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Lipidomics” session in the Theme 4 “Bioinformatics, Computational Biology & Systems Biology” at the 31st IEEE EMBS conference.

Visiting Josh Kaminker and George Hartzell; also met Thomas Wu (GMAP), Yan Zhang (interested in JBrowse when the documentation gets written), and lots of other people doing great stuff. Interesting place, lots of cool research on cancer and drugs and stuff. Promised myself I would go there more often…

Possible trip to Adelaide:

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/acad/

Also ACEBB (Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity)