The mission of Compustat Group is to foster interactions and promote collaborations between faculty and students in the Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Scientific Computing, Biological Science, Chemistry, and College of Medicine at FSU, and to establish a free flowing graduate program to sustain such collaborations.

Biomedical research in the 21st century will require biologists trained in the analysis and interpretation of complex data. Mathematicians and computer scientists wishing to apply their knowledge to the study of living systems will require an understanding of biological mechanisms. The sheer size of the data sets being generated in the biological sciences has dramatically changed the way biological research is being done. Moreover, integration of data from systems previously studied in isolation is a central goal of future research. Finally, it is our belief that FSU has tremendous untapped potential, having both skilled computer scientists and mathematicians with the desire to apply their skills to biomedical research, as well as biomedical scientists with large data sets in need of computational assistance.

COMPUSTAT group meetings Mondays at 2:30 PM in Bio Unit I Room 307

DATE        DISCUSSION LEADER (Dept.)                          TOPIC OF DISCUSSION
 
14-Sept.   Tyrone Ryba (Bio)                   "Tipping points between bistable states"
21-Sept.   Peter Beerli (SC)                     "Epigenetic inheritance and the missing heritability problem (discussion around a paper in Genetics by Montgomery Slatkin)"
28-Sept.   Jonathan Dennis (Bio)              "phylogenetic analysis of conservation of chromatin structural signals"
5-Oct.      Xiuwen Liu                              "Recent developments in super resolution light microscopy" (discuss the principles and a few recent papers)
12-Oct.    Hank Bass (Bio)                      "G4 DNA - the occurrence and significance of quadruplex DNA"
19-Oct.                OPEN - nothing scheduled at this time
26-Oct.     Darin Rokyta (Bio)        "Snake venom genomics"
2-Nov.      Karen McGinnis (Bio)              "Educating biologists to do 21st century science,"
9-Nov.      Jinfeng Zhang (Stats)              "Gene regulatory network inference: an exercise on DREAM challenge data,"
16-Nov.    Adrian Barbu (Stats)                         "Variable selection in case control studies"
23-Nov.     CANCELLED DUE TO BIOLOGY DEPT. MEETING.  
30-Nov.    Alan Lemmon (SC)                                    "Targeted Phylogenetics"