Welcome!

The COMBO seminar series brings together bench and clinical scientists and their computationally-minded colleagues. These collaborations have been exceptionally fruitful in the past and will become even more important as high-throughput technologies grow in popularity. Since collaborations work best when formed at the start of a project (ie not after the paper is submitted), we hope that this seminar series will spark meaningful partnerships and encourage the formation of unique and symbiotic relationships.

This is an effort of the Johns Hopkins Center for Computational Genomics and the Division of Oncology Biostatistics in the SKCCC in collaboration with our partners in the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and the Johns Hopkins IBBS HiT Center, as well as various other friends and colleagues.

We meet on the fourth Thursday of every month, from 2-3PM, in CRB II room 111.
Directions to the room are here. CRBII is the Koch Cancer Research Building, and room 111 is located approximately underneath the "17" labeling the building. It's a 5-minute walk from the BRB.

Current COMBO page
Past seminars:
June 11Giovanni Parmigiani and Alison KleinRisk Prediction and Prevention in the National Familial Pancreatic Tumor Registry
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May 28Leslie Cope and Joyce OhmA Cancer-related Epigenome Associated with Reprogramming of Induced Pluripotent Stem CellsDownload Flyer
March 26David Berman and Luigi MarchionniDifferentiation of a Highly Tumorigenic Basal Cell Compartment in Urothelial Carcinoma>Download Flyer
February 26Rafael Irizarry and Andy Feinberg, JHUSome observations made from genome-wide measurements of differential methylationDownload Flyer
January 22, 2009Jinghui Zhang and Donna Messersmith, Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG)Identifying and Visualizing Complex Tumor Alterations through Integration of Diverse Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) ProjectDownload Flyer
December 18 (note shifted date)Michael Ochs (JHU) and Andrew Godwin (Fox Chase Cancer Center)Biomarkers of Treatment Response in Gastrointestinal Stromal TumorsDownload flyer
October 31Keith Baggerly of MD Anderson Cancer CenterCell Lines, Microarrays, Drugs and Disease: Trying to Predict Response to Chemotherapy
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September 25Luigi MarchionniIn vitro culture imposes irreversible changes in gene expressionDownload flyer
July 24Victor Velculescu and Giovanni ParmigianiGenomic landscapes of human cancerDownload flyer
June 26Leslie Cope and Kornel SchuebelIntegrated analysis of methylation data from The Cancer Genome Atlas Project
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May 22Sarah Richardson and Jessica SiegelSynthetic Yeast Project: How to re-invent the perfect lab organismDownload flyer
April 24Jeanne Kowalski and Michael McDevittShort and Small, Long and Tall: Getting the Most out of Complex Leukemia datasetsDownload flyer
March 27Ping Ye and Ping YePredicting temperature-sensitive mutants for yeast and human proteins
February 28Sarah WheelanTop 5 list of mistakes made in computational biology—crimes committed using BLAST

Contact for questions or to be added to the seminar announcement list: swheelan@jhmi.edu