| Date | Speaker |
Topic |
| 8/24 | - | Organizational meeting |
| 8/31 | Saurabh Sinha | Probabilistic alignment of regulatory modules |
| 9/7 | Wen-Ting Lin | |
| 9/14 | Majid Kazemian | Fusion methods for secondary structure prediction |
| 9/21 | Ruth Kantorovitz | Alignment-free sequence comparison |
| 9/28 | Jiawei Han | Mining, Indexing, and Searching Graphs in Large Biological Data Sets |
| 10/5 | Julia Hockenmaier | What parsing algorithms can tell us about protein folding |
10/11 (4PM, 2 Illini Hall) | Haiyan Huang | Gene Expression/Function Similarity Inferences |
| 10/19 | John MacMullen | Measuring curator annotation variation in model organism databases |
| 10/26 | Xu Ling | Efficient Identification of Conserved Gene Clusters Across Multiple Genomes with Decomposition-Filtering |
| 11/2 | Xin He | Evolutionary model based approach to regulatory sequence alignment and annotation |
| 11/9 | Younhee Kim | |
| 11/16 | | |
| 11/30 | Jaebum Kim | Evolution of regulatory sequences |
| 12/7 | Ryan Cunningham | The poplar genome project |