COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES STRATEGIC TEAM POSITIONS
Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources
The Search Committee for the Computational Sciences Strategic Team Positions will be interviewing the following six candidates:
Tomas Helikar - Research Associate in Mathematics, University of Nebraska – Omaha
• Tuesday, May 28; 4-5 p.m.; Research Seminar “Large-scale Dynamical Models of Biochemical/Biological Networks in Healthy and Diseased Cells”, N172 Beadle
• Wednesday, May 29; 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.; Teaching Seminar “Boolean-based Modeling of Biological Systems”, E103 Beadle
Hongmei Jiang – Assistant Professor of Statistics, Northwestern University
• Thursday, May 30; 4-5 p.m.; Research Seminar,” Statistical Analysis of Metagenomic Sequencing Data”, Beadle N172
• Friday, May 31; 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.; Teaching Seminar, “Multiple Hypothesis Testing”, E103 Beadle
Yu (Brandon) Xia – Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics Program, Boston University
• Monday, June 10; 4-5 p.m.; Research Seminar, “Biological Networks in Three Dimensions”, N172 Beadle
• Tuesday, June 11; 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.; Teaching Seminar, “The Social Life of Nature’s Robots: An Introduction to Proteins and Protein Networks”, E103 Beadle
Qiong Cheng – Post-doctoral Researcher in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Monday, June 17; 4-5 p.m.; Research Seminar, “The Inference, Comparison and Dynamics Prediction of Biological Networks”, N172 Beadle
• Tuesday, June 18; 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.; Teaching Seminar, “D-separation: Computing the Conditional Independence in Directed Graph”, E103 Beadle
James Schnable – Post-doctoral Researcher in Plant Biology, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
• Wednesday, June 19; 4-5 p.m.; Research Seminar, “Studying Gene Regulation and Evolutionary Innovation in the Grasses Using Comparative Genomics”, N172 Beadle
• Thursday, June 20, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Teaching Seminar, “Practical and Theoretical Consideration in Assembling Genomes”, E103 Beadle
Taner Sen – Computational Biologist, USDA Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit and Collaborator Assistant Professor in Genetics, Development and Cell Biology and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University
• Monday, June 24; 4-5 p.m., Research Seminar “Discovering Metabolic and Protein Interaction Networks”, Beadle N172
• Tuesday, June 25; 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.; Teaching Seminar “Introduction to Molecular Modeling and Simulations”, Beadle E103
We encourage you to attend their seminars as your schedule permits. Please share this information with interested faculty, staff and students and encourage their attendance.