Biological Information Theory and Chowder Society

Meetings, Talks and Posters

We have had many BITCS meetings before this web page began to record them. If you can remind me of the dates and times, I'll put them in here. I'm also including announcements of talks; if you have one in your local area that you would like to announce here, please email me the information.

Presentations listed here are by Tom Schneider (this web site) and by his close collaborator Peter K. Rogan (a separate web site).

How to arrange talks by Tom Schneider

Forthcoming Presentations

Presentations before 1996

Past Presentations 1996-

• Department of Genetics of the North Carolina State University. February 26, 1996 ``New Approaches in Mathematical Biology: Information Theory and Molecular Machines''.
• Workshop on Gene Networks and Cellular Controls, Hotel duPont, Wilmington, Delaware 18-19 June 1996. Sponsored by the Office of Naval Reasearch. ``Information capacity and molecular recognition in gene control''.
• Fourth Workshop on Physics and Computation: PhysComp96, Boston, 22-24 November 1996, Boston University.
• Second Gordon Research Conference on "Modern Developments in Thermodynamics", February 16-21, 1997, Holiday Inn, Ventura, California. ``Information theory and molecular recognition''.
• Poster American Society of Human Genetics
  Oct. 1996: mutation and polymorphism studies
  Peter K. Rogan
• Talk Human Genome Organization
  3rd International Mutation Database Organization Meeting (Oct 96) - abstract
  Peter K. Rogan
• Meeting 1997 September 29, Bethesda, MD: Gad Yagil talk and Chowder Dinner
• Talk 1997 September 30, Bethesda, MD: Thomas Schneider
• Talk 1997 October 1, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD: Thomas Schneider
• Poster 1997 October 7, Bethesda, MD: P. N. Hengen and T. D. Schneider
• Talk 1997 October 14, Bethesda, MD: Thomas Schneider
• Talk 1997 October 28 Tuesday 12:00 noon, Human Genome Organization 4th International Mutation Database Organization Meeting. Chesapeake Room, (not Ball Room F), Regency Hyatt Hotel, "Information Theory Analysis of Splicing", Baltimore, Maryland, Peter K. Rogan (Hyatt Regency Baltimore, 300 Light St, Baltimore, MD 21202, Phone: (410) 528-1234)
• Poster 1997 October 29 Wednesday 4-6pm (but mounted through Saturday), 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics will held at the Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, "Information theory based analysis of splice junction mutations in hereditary non-polypoisis colon cancer", program number 438, topic 1, "Cancer Genetics", Peter K. Rogan
• Poster 1997 November 1-4, The Institute for Genome Research Computational Genomics meeting, "The First Annual Conference on Computational Genomics", Hyatt Dulles, "Information Theory Based Analysis of mRNA Splice Site Mutations", Peter K. Rogan
• Meeting 1998 January 4-9, Hawaii: Symposium on Biocomputing
• Talk 1998 January 30, Indiana University, PA. 10:30 AM. Information analysis of splice junction variants. Peter K. Rogan
• Meeting 1998 Feburary 16, Philadelphia, PA: AAAS 1998 Meeting: Thermodynamics and Information Theory in Biology
• Poster American Association for Cancer Research, New Orleans (1998 March 28 - 1998 April 1), in the session titled "Molecular Biology 24" on Tuesday March 31 from 1-5 PM. "Information theory based analysis of splice junction mutations in hereditary non-polypoisis colon cancer", Peter K. Rogan. The permanent abstract number is #3637, to be published in the Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research
• Talk 1998 May 28, Magee Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. City Wide Clinical Genetics Case Conference. "Information Analysis of Splice Junction Mutations in Hereditary Non-polyposis Colon Cancer". Clinic room 0 level. 12:00 noon. Peter K. Rogan
• Poster SPLICE MUTATIONS IN XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM GROUP C DNA: INTRON RETENTION AND EXON SKIPPING. Sikandar G. Khan, Thomas D. Schneider*, Kenneth H. Kraemer, LMC and *LECB, NCI. A poster to be presented at the 1998 NIH Research Festival October 6-9, 1998 Bethesda, MD. ABSTRACT
• Poster Comparison of algorithms for computational identification of natural and mutant splice sites. Human Genome Organization, Mutation Database Meeting, Denver 1998 Oct. 27. Peter K. Rogan and Thomas D. Schneider.
• Talk Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Molecular Machine Efficiency. Thomas Schneider. CSI COLLOQUIUM Fall '98 George Mason University ST1 room 206 1998 December 3, 4:30pm. Directions to GMU Science and Tecnnology Building 1.
• Talk Prediction of clinical phenotype by individual information analysis of splice site mutations and polymorphisms. Peter K. Rogan. Dec 4, 1998 (12 PM) at Children's Mercy Hospital University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Medicine Kansas City, MO
• Meeting 4-9 January, 1999, in Mauni Lani, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Information-theoretic approaches to biology
• Talk 1999 January 23, 1:30pm-2:15pm, Anaheim, CA. AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition. Thomas Schneider. Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Molecular Machine Efficiency
• Talk Thomas Schneider. Molecular Information Theory, April 27, 1999 at the Transcription Factors Interest Group Conference, Holiday Inn Conference Center, Frederick, MD.
• Talk Thursday, 1999 Nov. 11, Peter K. Rogan will present "Information analysis of human splice site mutations" at 12 noon at the Cancer Center of the University of Vermont School of Medicine in Burlington. as of 1999 November 9
• Talk Thomas Schneider. 2000 Feb 7: "Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Molecular Machine Efficiency" at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia MO. 3:30pm, with a reception following (contact: Francis J. Schmidt, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, M121 Medical Sciences, Columbia MO 65212, 573-882-5668/ Fax, 573-884-4597, email: bcfranks@muccmail.missouri.edu)
• Talk Thomas Schneider. "Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Molecular Machine Efficiency" at the International Summer School on "DNA and Chromosomes: Physical and Biological Approaches" at the Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargése, Cargése, Corsica, France, July 31-August 12, 2000.

• Posters: At the 50th Annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics October 3-7, 2000, Peter K. Rogan et al. presented three posters:

  1. Tumor suppressor function of the BRCA1 gene has a low threshold for mutation. ABSTRACT
  2. Alternative splicing of DNA Polymerase b mRNA in normal tissues and bladder cancer. ABSTRACT
  3. Relationship of splice site information content to severity of hemophilia A and B. ABSTRACT
• Talk Thomas Schneider. "Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Molecular Machine Efficiency" in a symposium on "Macromolecular Machines" at the Burnham Institute, La Jolla, USA, April 5, 2001.

• Poster Peter K. Rogan at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting, San Diego, California, 2001 October 12-16,

  • Poster 1: Program Number: 2764, Title: PREDICTED EXPRESSION OF PLP1 SPLICING MUTATIONS IN PELIZAEUS-MERZBACHER DISEASE. Authors: S. R. SVOJANOVSKY,* G. M. HOBSON, K. SPERLE, E. A. SISTERMANS, J. Y. GARBERN, P. K. ROGAN.
  • Poster 2: Program Number: 1725, Title: MODELING DIFFERENTIAL BINDING OF NF-KAPPAB P50 TO A CYP2D6 PROMOTER VARIANT BY INFORMATION THEORY. Authors: I. HURWITZ,* S. SVOJANOVSKY, S. LEEDER, P. ROGAN.

• Talk Thomas Schneider, Ph.D., Flippers, Flappers and Flip-Flops in DNA Binding. 2001 November 6. 4:30pm George Mason University School of Computational Sciences Bioinformatics Colloquium in the Auditorium, Room 185, Building PWII on the Prince William Campus. Directions to the campus. More detailed direction information can be found using the George Mason University Campus Explorer. Host: Iosif Vaisman.

• Talk Thomas Schneider, Ph.D., Flippers, Flappers and Flip-Flops in DNA Binding. Wednesday 2001 December 12, Noon Note date change: it will not be December 5th. Frederick Faculty Seminar Series Building 549 Auditorium, Fort Detrick, MD. ABSTRACT as of 2001 Nov 7

  2001 December 1 issue of Nucleic Acids Research

• Talk Thomas Schneider, Ph.D., Flippers, Flappers and Flip-Flops in DNA Binding. 2002 January 17. Thursday, North Carolina State University in the Microbilogy Department. 10:00-11:00 am, Stephens Room (Gardner 3533). Please contact my host for further information:

  Eric S. Miller, Ph.D.
  Department of Microbiology
  North Carolina State University
  Raleigh, NC 27695-7615
  Tel:  919-515-7922
  Fax: 919-515-7867
  eric_miller@ncsu.edu
  www.mbio.ncsu.edu/esm/esm.html
  

  ABSTRACT as of 2001 Nov 1

• Talk Thomas Schneider, Ph.D., Flippers, Flappers and Flip-Flops in DNA Binding. 2002 February 7. Department of Mathematics. The Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania, Mathematics Colloquium. Announcement as of 2001 Nov 26. ABSTRACT. Host: Howard Weiss

• Poster Peter K. Rogan, Ph.D., Modeling Splice Site and Transcription Factor Binding Site Variation by Information Theory. Keystone Symposium in Santa Fe, NM, Genotype to Phenotype: Focus on Disease. 2002 February 19-24. as of 2002 Jan 23. ABSTRACT

• Poster Modeling Splice Site and Transcription Factor Binding Site Variation by Information Theory. P.K. Rogan, S.R. Svojanovsky, I. Hurwitz, T.D. Schneider, J.S. Leeder. American Society of Human Genetics, 2002. abstract; abstract at ASHG.

• Talk Thomas Schneider, Ph.D., Twenty Years of Delila and Molecular Information Theory. 2002 July 11-14 for the workshop on Biological Information Beyond Metaphor at the Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg, Austria. Photographs from this trip as of 2001 August 7

• Talk Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Workshop I: Alternative Computing, UCLA, Los Angeles CA. September 30 - October 3, 2002. Schneider TD Molecular Information Theory: Molecular Efficiency and Flip-Flops. Wednesday October 2, 2002, 3:30 pm. as of 2002 September 15.

• Talk Presentation at the American Neurology Association,
  Plenary Session on October 15, 2002, NY, NY. ABSTRACT. Peter K. Rogan

• Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, 11th annual meeting, October 27-31, 2002. MODELING PXR/RXR BINDING USING INFORMATION THEORY, Carrie A. Vyhlidal, Peter K. Rogan, and J. Steven Leeder. Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Toxicology and Department of Medical Research, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA. as of 2002 August 12

• Talk: at the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology CARB (9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, contact: Dr. Harold Smith ) by Tom Schneider. Flippers, Flappers and Flip-Flops in DNA Binding. 2002 December 2 Monday, 11:00 am. as of 2002 October 25.

• Talk: at the University of Richmond by Tom Schneider. Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Molecular Machine Efficiency. 2003 January 27, Monday, 4:30 pm. Hosts: Karen Lewis and Peter Smallwood.

• Talk: at the Virginia Commonwealth University by Tom Schneider. Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Binding Site Evolution. 2003 January 28, Tuesday, 1:00 pm. Host: Gail Christie

• Talk: by Peter K. Rogan. Modeling Splice Site and Transcription Factor Binding Site Variation by Information Theory at the Dept. Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 2003 May 15.

• Talk Thomas Schneider. CANCUN Mexico 2003 17 - 21 September, 25th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY Special Session on Communication Theory, Coding Theory and Molecular Biology. Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Binding Site Evolution. Host: Elebeoba (Chi-Chi) May

• Talk Thomas Schneider. "Genomes 2004: International Conference on the Analysis of Microbial and Other Genomes" (http://www.tigr.org/conf/mg/) held from April 14-17, 2004 , The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom. (This conference was originally to be held at the Institut Pasteur, France, April 14 - 17th, 2004 www.pasteur.fr/gmp but it was cancelled. It was then located to the UK.)

• Talk Thomas Schneider. The Chemical Theatre of Biological Systems" will be held from 24th - 28th May, 2004 in Bozen, North Italy. The talk will be in the session on "Application of Information Theory to Chemical and Biological Systems" hosted by the Beilstein-Institut. Audio and photos

• Talk: Two Essential Splice Lariat Branchpoint Sequences in one Intron in a Xeroderma Pigmentosum DNA Repair Gene Dr. Sikandar Khan, NCI. as of 2004 Sep 10.

• Talk: at the Wesleyan Biology Department SEMINAR SERIES by Tom Schneider. Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Molecular Machine Efficiency. 2005 February 3, Thursday, at 12:00 noon. Hosts: Michael Weir and Jason Wolfe

• Talk and Poster: at the International Society of Computational Biology meeting on 2005 June 25-29 by Peter Rogan and Vijay Nalla, "Feasibility of genome-wide recognition of mutant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with effects on constitutive mRNA splicing". The poster is by Chengpeng Bi and Peter K. Rogan (2005): "A genetic algorithm for bipartite sequence alignment with application to CAR/RXRalpha binding sites." as of 2005 April 1.

• Paper: at the JCIS 2005/6th International Symposium on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics meeting 2005 July 21-26 by Chengpeng Bi and Peter K. Rogan (2005) Determining thresholds for binding site sequence models using information theory. as of 2005 April 1.

• Talk: at the FinBioNet 2005 Symposium, Ellivouri, Finland. (symposium website) by Tom Schneider. Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Molecular Machine Efficiency. 2005 October 6-7, Hosts: Jaakko Pohjoismaki (google: Jaakko Pohjoismaki)

• Talk: at the University of Missouri - Kansas City Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE) Seminar Series by Tom Schneider. Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Binding Site Evolution, 2005 November 11. Hosts: Yugyung Lee and Pete Rogan.

• Talk: at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at the Ohio State University by Tom Schneider. Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Binding Site Evolution, 2005 November 14-18. This is part of a workshop on Aspects of Self-Organization in Evolution organized by Chris Adami and Claus O. Wilke.

• Talk: by Tom Schneider. Molecular Information Theory: Flippers, Flappers and Flip-Flops in DNA Binding, 2006 Feb 22, at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD. Host: Ralph Pollack. as of 2006 Jan 26.

• Talk: by Tom Schneider. Molecular Information Theory: from Clinical Applications to Molecular Machine Efficiency, 2006 March 28 at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering -- Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-6701. Host: Sergio Servetto of the Cornell Communication Networks Research Group. as of 2006 Jan 26.

Schneider Lab
origin: 1997 October 1
updated: 2018 Sep 25