Seminars & Workshops

Seminars Spring 2016

06/03/16	Simple neural networks cont. Presented by Xiu Zhang and Rajkumar Theagarajan	PDF
05/27/16	Simple neural networks. Presented by Xiu Zhang and Rajkumar Theagarajan	PDF
05/20/16	Data Mining with Weka: Attribute selection using the "wrapper" method. Presented by Giovanna Pozuelos and Asong Tambo	PDF
05/13/16	More Data Mining with Weka, Class 3 cont. Presented by Vincent On and Atena Zahedi
05/06/16	More Data Mining with Weka, Class 3 cont. Presented by Vincent On and Atena Zahedi	PDF
04/29/16	More Data Mining with Weka, Class 3 Presented by Vincent On and Atena Zahedi	PDF
04/22/16	More Data Mining with Weka, Class 2 Presented by Adam Witmer and Belinda Le	PDF
04/15/16	Data Mining with Weka, Class 1 More Data Mining with Weka, Class 2 Presented by Careen Khachatoorian and Reed Harrison Presented by Adam Witmer and Belinda Le	PDF
04/08/16	Data Mining with Weka, Class 1 Presented by Careen Khachatoorian and Reed Harrison
04/01/16	Class Meeting Presented by Bir Bhanu

Seminars Winter 2016

01/08/16	Class Meeting Presented by Bir Bhanu
01/15/16	Introduction to Data Mining with Weka: Part 1 Presented by Xiu Zhang	PDF
01/22/16	Introduction to Data Mining with Weka: Part 2 Presented by Xiu Zhang	PDF
01/29/16	WEKA Ch.2: Testing, Training, and Evaluation: Part 1 Presented by Adam Witmer and Belinda Le	PDF
02/05/16	WEKA Ch.2: Testing, Training, and Evaluation: Part 2 Presented by Adam Witmer and Belinda Le	PDF
02/12/16	Data Mining with Weka Presented by Careen Khachatoorian and Asong Tambo	PDF
02/19/16	Data Mining with Weka Presented by Vincent On and Atena Zahedi	PDF
02/26/16	Data Mining with Weka Presented by Vincent On and Atena Zahedi Data Mining in Weka: Chapter 5, Putting it all together Presented by Giovanna Pozuelos and Reed Harrison	PDF
03/04/16	Data Mining in Weka: Chapter 5, Putting it all together Presented by Giovanna Pozuelos and Reed Harrison	PDF
03/11/16	Machine Learning and Bioinformatics Presentation Presented by Bir Bhanu	PDF

Seminars Fall 2015

10/02/2015	Stem Cell Research: Where are we now? Presented by Giovanna Pozuelos	PDF
10/09/2015	Rethinking Differentiation: Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Plasticity Presented by Belinda Le	PDF
10/16/2015	Live cell imaging distinguishes bona fide human iPS cells from partially reprogrammed cells Presented by Harrison Reed	PDF
10/23/2015	Human Neural Stem Cell Growth and Differentiation in a Gradient-Generating Microfluidic Device. Presented by Adam Witmer	PDF
10/30/2015	StemCellQC: A Smart-Detection Multiplexing Toolkit for Evaluation of Cellular Processes, Quality, and Biomarkers of Harm Presented by Vincent On	PDF
11/06/2015	Dynamic Bi-Modal Fusion of Images for the Segmentation of Pollen Tubes in Video Presented by Asong Tambo	PDF
11/13/2015	Dynamic and Social Behaviors of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Presented by Careen Khachatoorian	PDF
11/20/2015	Time-Lapse Analysis of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Reveals Multiple Bottlenecks Restricting Colony Formation and Their Relief upon Culture Adaptation Presented by Giovanna Pozuelos	PDF
12/04/2015	In Vivo Time-Lapse Imaging of Cell Divisions During Neurogenesis in the Developing Zebrafish Retina. Presented by Vincent On	PDF

Seminars Spring 2015

4/10/2015	Review: “Unifying Immunology with Informatics and Multiscale Biology” Presented By Reed Harrison	PDF
4/17/2015	Quantitative High Content Imaging of Cellular Adaptive Stress Response Pathways in Toxicity for Chemical Safety Assessment Presented By Atena Zahedi	[![](sites/g/files/rcwecm2166/files/pdf-icon.png)](https://cris.ucr.edu/IGERT/seminar.php)
4/24/2015	Facial Expression Recognition Presented By Belinda Le	[![](sites/g/files/rcwecm2166/files/pdf-icon.png)](https://cris.ucr.edu/IGERT/seminar.php)
5/1/2015	"Multiscale Computational Models of Complex Biological Systems" by Walpole et al Presented By Melissa Eberle and Carissa Rodriguez	[![](sites/g/files/rcwecm2166/files/pdf-icon.png)](https://cris.ucr.edu/IGERT/seminar.php)
5/8/2015	“Multi-Scale Modeling in Cell Biology” Presented By Careen Khachatoorian	[![](sites/g/files/rcwecm2166/files/pdf-icon.png)](https://cris.ucr.edu/IGERT/seminar.php)
5/22/2015	Structural Systems Biology and Multiscale Signaling Models Presented By Jillian Larsen and Erica Freeman	[![](sites/g/files/rcwecm2166/files/pdf-icon.png)](https://cris.ucr.edu/IGERT/seminar.php)
5/29/2015	A Survey on Cloud Computing Presented By Katya Mkrtchyan	[![](sites/g/files/rcwecm2166/files/pdf-icon.png)](https://cris.ucr.edu/IGERT/seminar.php)
6/5/2015	"Multiscale Models of Cell Signaling" by S. Bajikar and K. Janes. Presented by Vincent On and Asong Tambo	[![](sites/g/files/rcwecm2166/files/pdf-icon.png)](https://cris.ucr.edu/IGERT/seminar.php)

Seminars Winter 2015

1/16/2015	An Overview of Cellular Reprogramming Presented by Sabrina Lin	PDF
1/23/2015	Computational Image Analysis of Colony and Nuclear Morphology to Evaluate Human iPSCs Presented by Atena Zahedi	PDF
1/30/2015	Cellular Alchemy and the Golden Age of Reprogramming Presented by Careen Khachatoorian	PDF
2/06/2015	The Role of Transcription Factors for Inducing Pluripotent Stem Cells. Presented by Erica Freeman	PDF
2/13/2015	Modulating Immune Response for Efficient Induction of Pluripotency Presented by Reed Harrison	PDF
2/20/2015	"Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors" Presented by Carissa Rodriguez	PDF
2/27/2015	_"Concise Review: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Versus Embryonic Stem Cells: Close Enough or Yet Too Far Apart?" by Bilic and Belmonte_ Presented by Vincent On	PDF
3/6/2015	"Review: Directing Cell Fate for Regenerative Medicine" Presented by Belinda Le	PDF
3/13/2015	Using Cellular Reprogramming In Vivo to Regenerate Functional Neurons in Injury and Alzheimer’s Disease Models Presented by Brett Bays	PDF

Seminars Fall 2014

10/03/2014	Computational Methods for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Presented by Anthony Bianchi	PDF	Visual and Contextual Modeling for the Detection of Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
10/17/2014	Integrated Model for Understanding Pollen Tube Growth in Video Presented by Asong Tambo	PDF
10/24/2014	The Colored Revolution: An Introduction to Fluorescence Microscopy Presented by Jillian Larson	PDF
11/7/2014	Informatics Challenges of High-Throughput Microscopy by Zhou and Wong Presented by Reed Harrison	PDF
11/14/2014	Tracking in Molecular Bioimaging Presented by Careen Khachatoorian	PDF
11/21/2014	Understanding the Mechanisms of Cell Migration and Morphology Presented by Atena Zahedi	PDF
12/05/2014	Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction in Electron Microscopy Presented by Belinda Tran Le	PDF
12/12/2014	Dynamic Migration and Cell-Cell Interactions of Early Reprogramming Revealed by High-Resolution Time-Lapse Imaging, by Cynthia M Megyola Presented by Vincent On	PDF

Seminars Spring 2014

6/6/2014	Cell Segmentation: Quantitative High-speed Imaging Of Entire Developing Embryos With Simultaneous Multiview Light-sheet Microscopy Presented by Erica Freeman	PDF	Quantitative High-Speed Imaging of Entire Developing Embryos with Simultaneous Multi-view Light-sheet Microscopy
5/30/2014	FIJI Is Really ImageJ Presented by Albert Cruz	PDF	Fiji
5/23/2014	Faster STORM Using Compressed Sensing Presented by Asong Tambo	PDF	Faster STORM Using Compressed Sensing
5/16/2014	Cell Segmentation: 50 Years Down the Road Presented by Benjamin Guan	PDF	Cell Segmentation: 50 Years Down the Road
5/09/2014	Brain Programming for the Evolution of an Artificial Dorsal Stream Presented by Gustavo Olague, Ph.D.	PDF	Brain Programming for the Evolution of an Artificial Dorsal Stream
5/02/2014	Icy: An Open Bioimage Informatics Platform For Extended Reproducible Research Presented by Nolan Ung	PDF	Icy: An Open Bio-Image Informatics Platform for Extended Reproducible Research
4/25/2014	An Image Analysis Toolbox For High-throughput C. Elegans Assays Presented by Stephanie Coffman	PDF	An Image Analysis Toolbox for High-Throughput C. Elegans Assays
4/18/2014	Current Biological Software Tools Presented by Jillian Larsen	PDF	Biological Imaging Software Tools
4/11/2014	Video Bioinformatics Presented by Bir Bhanu, Ph.D.	PDF

Seminars Winter 2013

3/14/2014	Identification Of Genes Required For RNAi-mediated Antiviral Immunity In The Animal Model, C. Elegans Presented by Stephanie Coffman	PDF
3/07/2014	Dipole Modulated Charge Transfer And Tools For Experimental Molecular Mechanics Presented by Jillian Larsen	PDF
2/28/2014	Video of Bioinformatics Databases Presented by Ninad Thakoor, Ph.D.	PDF
2/21/2014	"Quest For The Early Crest." Origin Of Neural Crest From Birds To Humans Presented by Martin Garcia-Castro, Ph.D.	PDF
2/14/2014	Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Results In Long Term White Matter Disruption Presented by Virginia Donovan	PDF	Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Results in Long-Term White-Matter Disruption
2/07/2014	Drosophila Taste Receptors Reveal Combinatorial And Cross-modality Functions Presented by Erica Freeman	PDF	Detection of Sweet Tastants by a Conserved Group of Insect Gustatory Receptors
1/31/2014	Workshop on Adobe Premiere and Science Video Documentaries Presented by Albert Cruz
1/24/2014	IGERT Poster Competition 2014 Stage 2 Presented by Brett Bays, Carissa Reynolds, and Asong Tambo	PDF
1/17/2014	Spatio-temporal Patterns Of Alpha Band EEG Activity In A Perceptual Learning Paradigm: An In-progress Analysis Presented by Brett Bays	PDF

Seminars Fall 2013

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
12/06/2013	IGERT Retreat Program and Video/Posters	Jhon Gonzalez
11/22/2013	Image Super-Resolution: Current Approaches and Applications	Le An	Abstract
11/15/2013	MI-VIS: A 3D Visualization Application for Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging (SFDI) Data	Michael Oliveira	Abstract Quantitation and Mapping of Tissue Optical Properties Using Modulated Imaging
11/08/2013	Integrated Model for Understanding Pollen Tube Growth Dynamics in Video	Asong Tambo	Abstract
11/01/2013	Bio-Optimized Segmentation of Blebs in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Videos	Ben Guan	Abstract
10/25/2013	Quantifying Endomembrane Dynamics Using Chemical Genomics and Image Informatics	Nolan Ung	Abstract Opportunities and Challenges in Plant Chemical Biology
10/18/2013	Detecting Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Using Dynamic Low Level Context	Anthony Bianchi	Abstract Detecting Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Using Dynamic Low Level Context
10/11/2013	Facial emotion recognition with anisotropic inhibited gabor energy histograms	Albert Cruz	Abstract Facial Emotion Recognition with Anisotropic Inhibited Gabor Energy Histograms
10/04/2013	Framework for Single Image Super-resolution Methods and Single Image Super-resolution for Natural Images	Ben Sanders	Abstract
09/27/2013	Revolutionizing the way we see in the brain	Atena Zahedi	Abstract Optogenetic Investigation of Neural Circuits Underlying Brain Disease in Animal Models CLARITY for Mapping the Nervous System

Seminars Spring 2013

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
06/3/2013	Responsible Conduct of Research: Research Ethics and Integrity	Charles E. Greer
05/20/2013	IGERT Information and Feedback	Jhon Gonzalez
05/13/2013	Computational Conformal Geometry with its Applications in Shape Analysis	Yalin Wang	Abstract
05/06/2013	Video Bioinformatics Book Information	Bir Bhanu
04/29/2013	Models of Cytoplasmic Streaming in Motile Amoeboid Cells	Robert Guy	A Computational Model of Bleb Formation Flow-Induced Channel Formation in the Cytoplasm of Motile Cells
04/22/2013	Responsible Conduct of Research: Research Ethics and Integrity	Charles E. Greer
04/15/2013	Data Stewardship for Researchers: Tips, Tools, and Guidance	Carly Strasser	Abstract
04/08/2013	Fast by Nature - How Stress Patterns Define Human Experience and Performance in Dexterous Tasks	Ioannis Pavlidis, UH	Fast By Nature - How Stress Patterns Define Human Experience and Performance in Dexterous Tasks
04/01/2013	Computational Analysis of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Videos Predicts Health Index	Brett Bays Vincent On Atena Zahedi	Abstract

Seminars Winter 2013

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
03/11/2013	Image Processing in MATLAB	Albert Cruz Ninad Thakoor	Abstract
03/04/2013	Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice - What to Expect	Rajan Kasetty	Abstract
02/25/2013	MATLAB Programming Introduction	Albert Cruz Ninad Thakoor	Abstract
02/11/2013	Ethics Training	Bir Bhanu
02/04/2013	Funding Search Engines for Graduate Students	Mitch Boretz	Abstract
01/28/2013	IGERT Poster Competition Stage 2	Ilva Cabrera Geoffrey Harlow Stephanie Coffman	Abstract
01/14/2013	Dose, Discrimination and Transcriptional Logic of Stem Cell Dynamics	G. Venugopala Reddy	Abstract Gene Expression Map of the Arabidopsis Shoot Apical Mersistem Cell Niche WUSCHEL Protein Movement Mediates Stem Cell Homeostasis in the Arabidopsis Shoot Apex
01/07/2013	How to become a better researcher?	Bir Bhanu	Abstract

Seminars Fall 2012

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
12/03/2012	Targeting actin to regulate neuronal structure and synaptic connectivity	Iryna Ethell	Cofilin Under Control of B-Arrestin-2 in NMDAdependent Dendritic Spine Plasticity, Long-Term Depression (LTD), and Learning Accelerators, Brakes, and Gears of Actin Dynamics in Dendritic Spines
11/26/2012	IGERT on Video Bioinformatics Retreat Overview	Jhon Gonzalez
11/19/2012	Characterizing Variation in Embryonic Patterning Among Drosophila Species Using a Spatio-Temporal Atlas of Gene Expression	Charless Fowlkes	Analysis of Gap Gene Regulation in a 3D Organism-Scale Model of the Drosophila melanogaster Embryo A Conserved Developmental Patterning Network Produces Quantitatively Different Output in Multiple Species of Drosophila A Quantitative Spatiotemporal Atlas of Gene Expression in the Drosophila Blastoderm
11/05/2012	Advances in physics-based character animation	Victor Zordan	Angular momentum control in coordinated behaviors Using Natural Vibrations to Guide Control for Locomotion
10/29/2012	IGERT on Video Bioinformatics Information	Ninad Thakoor
10/22/2012	Imaging and Tracking Individual Biomolecules in Living Cells and Animals with Nanometer Precision using Peptide-based Fluorescent Nanomaterials and Probes	Fabien Pinaud	Targeting and imaging single biomolecules in living cells by complementation-activated light microscopy with split-fluorescent proteins Dynamic Partitioning of a Glycosyl-Phosphatidylinositol-Anchored Protein in Glycosphingolipid-Rich Microdomains Imaged by Single-Quantum Dot Tracking
10/15/2012	IGERT on Video Bioinformatics Retreat 2012	Bir Bhanu
10/08/2012	Harm Reduction Cigarette Smoke Impairs Dynamic Cell Process in Stem Cells and Pulmonary Fibroblasts Through Depolymerization of the Cytoskeleton	Sabrina Lin	Abstract
10/01/2012	Computational Analysis Reveals Increased Blood Deposition Following Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury	Virginia Donovan	Abstract

Seminars Spring 2012

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
06/01/2012	IGERT Poster Competition	Anthony Bianchi
05/25/2012	Neuroimaging of repeated mild TBI	Andre Obenaus Ph.D.	Abstract
05/18/2012	Quantitative assessment of neurons with optical coherence tomography	Hyle Park	Abstract Extracting structural features of rat sciatic nerve using polarization-sensitive spectral domain optical coherence tomography
05/11/2012	Novel Quantitative FRET Technologies for the Determinations of Protein Interaction Dissociation Constant, K_d, and Protease Kinetics, K_cat/K_M Determinations	Jiayu Liao	Abstract Quantitative Forster resonance energy transfer analysis for kinetic determinations of SUMO-specific protease Development of FRET Assay into Quantitative and High-throughput Screening Technology Platforms for Protein-Protein Interactions
05/04/2012	Contextual and Visual Modeling for Detection of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in MRI	Anthony Bianchi
04/27/2012	Dynamics in a Broad Scale	Valentine I. Vullev	Abstract Amyloid Histology Stain for Rapid Bacterial Endospore Imaging Coatings of Polyethylene Glycol for Suppressing Adhesion between Solid Microspheres and Flat Surfaces
04/20/2012	M cells: Imaging and Mucosal Immune Surveillance	David Lo	Abstract
04/13/2012	Updates in IGERT on Video Bioinformatics	Bir Bhanu
04/06/2012	Zombie Survival Optimization: A Swarm Intelligence Algorithm Inspired By Zombie Foraging	Hoang Nguyen	Abstract

### Seminars Winter 2012

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
03/16/2012	Finding and winning research funding	Mitch Boretz
03/09/2012	Information Geometry and its Applications to Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis	Bab C. Vemuri	Abstract Total Bregman Divergence and Its Applications to DTI Analysis
03/02/2012	Biomechanical Challenges in Abusive Head Trauma	Mark Massi	Abstract
02/24/2012	IGERT on Video Bioinformatics Poster Competition Stage 2	IGERT Fellows	Abstract
02/17/2012	Quantitative Live-Cell Imaging: Increasing the possibilities with Cell-IQ	JoAnne Montalbano	Abstract Bibliography
02/10/2012	IGERT on Video Bioinformatics Poster Competition Information	Bir Bhanu
02/03/2012	Molecular Basis of Tumor Heterogeneity and Morphometric subtypes in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)	Bahram Parvin	Morphometic Analysis of TCGA Glioblastoma Multiforme Nuclear Segmentation in H&E Sections via Multi-Reference Graph Cut(MRGC)
01/27/2012	IGERT on Video Bioinformatics Internships	Bir Bhanu
01/20/2012	A Fast, Automatic Computational Method for Injury Detection in T2 MRI Images Using a Symmetry-Based Algorithm	Devin McBride
01/13/2012	Data Sampling for Live Biological Processes	Albert Cruz

Seminars Fall 2011

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
12/02/2011	High-Throughput Biology Approaches for Profiling Cellular Processes	Thomas Girke	Abstract
11/18/2011	Dynamic Health Index Derived from Morphological Changes used to Screen Chemicals for Toxicity in Stem Cell Colony Growth	Douglas Hill	Abstract
11/04/2011	Estimation of Cell Lineages in Confocal Microscopy Images of A Developing Plant Meristem	Katya Mkrtchyan
10/21/2011	Understanding Discrete Facial Expression in Video Using Emotion Avatar Image	Songfan Yang	Abstract
10/14/2011	A Psychologically-Inspired Match-Score Fusion Model for Video-Based Facial Expression Recognition	Albert Cruz	Abstract A Psychologically-Inspired Match-Score Fusion Model for Video-Based Facial Expression Recognition
10/07/2011	Antiviral immunity and virus discovery by deep sequencing and computational algorithms	Shou-Wei Ding	Abstract RNA-based antiviral immunity Virus discovery by deep sequencing and assembly of virus-derived small silencing RNAs
09/30/2011	Non-Dynamic Blebbing single unattached human embryonic stem cell detection in the complex cell clusters	Ben Guan

Seminars Spring 2011

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
06/03/2011	Research Ethics Workshop: Session 2	Dr. Charles F Louis
05/27/2011	Biologically-inspired Bacterial Foraging for Tracking	Hoang Nguyen	Abstract
05/20/2011	Utilization of Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) to monitor B-arrestin interactions in living cells	Dr. Kathryn DeFea	Abstract
05/13/2011	Discussion of IGERT on Video Bioinformatics Program	Dr. Bir Bhanu
05/06/2011	Research Ethics Workshop: Session 1	Dr. Charles F Louis
04/29/2011	Finding and Winning Research Funding	Mitch Boretz
04/22/2011	Automated injury detection from Brain MRI	Dr. Nirmalya Ghosh	Automated Ischemic Lesion Detection in a Neonatal Model of Hypoxic Ischemic Injury
04/15/2011	Self-Assembled Nano-Materials for Optical Imaging and Phototherapy	Dr. Bahman Anvari	Optical Nano-Constructs Composed of Genome-Depleted Brome Mosaic Virus Doped with a Near Infrared Chromophore for Potential Biomedical Applications
04/8/2011	An introduction to Temporal Databases and Indexing	Dr. Vassilis Tsotras	Comparison of Access Methods for Time-Evolving Data
04/1/2011	Overview of the MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding Initiative	Dr. Philip Brisk	Abstract

Seminars Winter 2011

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
03/11/2011	To eat or not to eat: Analysis of receptors and neurons that guide feeding behavior decisions	Dr. Anupama Dahanukar	The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Bitter Taste in Drosophila Two Gr Genes Underlie Sugar Reception in Drosophila
03/04/2011	Quantitative Cellular Imaging Analysis	William "Ned" Jastromb	Teachable, High-Content Analytics for Live-Cell, Phase Contrast Movies From Image to Data Using Common Image-Processing Techniques
02/25/2011	Study of pollen tube morphogenesis using mathematical and experimental approaches	Dr. An Yan	Abstract
02/18/2011	Tuning PLGA Microparticles for Single-Shot Vaccines: Transient Evaluation using TEM	Dr. Victor Rodgers	Theoretical Prediction of Induction Period from Transient Pore Evolvement in Polyester-Based Microparticles Using TEM to couple transient protein distribution and release for PLGA microparticles for potential use as vaccine delivery vehicles
02/11/2011	Polarity Establishment in Yeast	Dr. Daniel Lew	Modeling Vesicle Traf?c Reveals Unexpected Consequences for Cdc42p-Mediated Polarity Establishment
02/04/2011	Image Based Growth Modeling In Plant Meristems	Dr. Amit Roy-Chowdhury	Automated tracking of stem cell lineages of Arabidopsis shoot apex using local graph matching
01/28/2011	IGERT Students Poster Competition	Anthony Bianchi Ben Guan	Characterization of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation into Osteoblasts
01/21/2011	Microfluidics Made Easy	Dr. Valentine Vullev	Abstract Nonlithographic Fabrication of Microfluidic Devices Kinetics of Bacterial Fluorescence Staining with 3,3'-Diethylthiacyanine Print-and-Peel Fabricated Passive Micromixers Print-and-Peel Fabrication of Microelectrodes
01/14/2011	Natural Material Design: Engineering Materials that Work	Dr. Julia Lyubovitsky	Multiphoton Optical Image Guided Spectroscopy Method for Characterization of Collagen-Based Materials Modified by Glycation

### Seminars Fall 2010

Date	Title	Presenter	Papers
12/03/2010	Analysis of static and moving images to quantify calcification of osteoblasts in culture	Dr. Nicole I. zur Nieden	Comparing three novel endpoints for developmental osteotoxicity in the embryonic stem cell test
11/19/2010	Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography	Dr. Hyle Park	Real-time fiber-based multi-functional spectraldomain optical coherence tomography at 1.3 µm
11/12/2010	High-throughput genomics and signal transduction in filamentous fungi	Dr. Katherine Borkovich	A high-throughput gene knockout procedure for Neurospora reveals functions for multiple transcription factorss
11/05/2010	Harm Reduction Cigarettes: Accessing its effects on early development using embryonic stem cell based assays	Dr. Sabrina Lin	Comparison of the Toxicity of Smoke from Conventional and Harm Reduction Cigarettes Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells
10/29/2010	Assessing Exposure to Nicotine and Tobacco Carcinogens - Recent Applications in Clinical Research	Dr. Peyton Jacob	UCR Symposium on Tobacco-Related Disease Research 11:30am-12:00pm
10/29/2010	Differentiation of Human Germ Cells from Pluripotent Stem Cells	Dr. Renee Reijo Pera	UCR Symposium on Tobacco-Related Disease Research 11:00am-11:30am
10/22/2010	Electron Microscope Tomography in Biological Research	Dr. Albert Lawrence	Electron Microscope Tomography in Biological Research
10/15/2010	Segmentation of Low-contrast Images	Dr. Bir Bhanu	Segmentation of Images Having Unimodal Distributions
10/08/2010	Computational challenges in barley genomics	Dr. Stefano Lonardi	Efficient and Accurate Construction of Genetic Linkage Maps from the Minimum Spanning Tree of a Graph Accurate Construction of Consensus Genetic Maps via Integer Linear Programming
10/01/2010	Rational drug design: the compstatin paradigm	Dr. Dimitrios Morikis	Species specificity of the complement inhibitor compstatin investigated by all-atom molecular dynamics simulations Conformational Interconversion in Compstatin Probed With Molecular Dynamics Simulations
09/24/2010	A statistical approach for intensity loss compensation of confocal microscopy images	Dr. Ninad Thakoor	A statistical approach for intensity loss compensation of confocal microscopy images

Seminars 2009-2010

Date	Title	Presenter
05/20/2010	Radon transform	Katya Mkrtchyan and Aaron Schooley
05/13/2010	Automated Tracking of Stem Cell Lineages of Arabidopsis Shoot Apex Using Local Graph Matching	Min Liu and Anirban Chakraborty
05/06/2010	Segmentation of Complex Nucleus Configurations in Biology Images	Ben Guan and Erica Freeman
04/29/2010	Use of Video Bioinformatics in Animal Behavior Studies	Anthony Bianchi and Melissa Yoder
04/22/2010	Segmentation of center brains and optic lobes in 3D confocal images of adult fruit fly brains	Virginia Donovan and Ben Sanders
04/15/2010	Image Retrieval for Highly Similar Objects	Anthony Bianchi
03/11/2010	Recap Questions & Answers	Presented by All
03/04/2010	Nonnegative Mixed-Norm Precondition for Microscopy Image Segmentation (Continue)	Ben Guan
02/25/2010	Nonnegative Mixed-Norm Precondition for Microscopy Image Segmentation	Ben Guan
02/18/2010	Visualizing Signals Moving in Cells	Virginia Donovan
02/11/2010	Tracking in Molecular Bioimaging	Anthony Bianchi
02/04/2010	Mitosis Through the Microscope: Advances in Seeing Inside Live Dividing Cells	Melissa Yoder
01/28/2010	Deconvolution Methods for 3-D Fluorescence Microscopy Images	Ben Sanders
01/21/2010	Color Revolution of Bioimaging Part 2	Ivann Martinez
01/14/2010	Color Revolution of Bioimaging Part 1	Albert Cruz

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