Pattern Discovery in Biology

Dr. Gao Yuan
Harvard Medical School

Room 610, CBI, New Life Science Building, PKU
2:00-3:00 PM, Tuesday, 21 June,2005

Abstract
in this talk, I will discuss the application of pattern discovery techniques to biology. Specifically, I will discuss methods we developed/are developing in identifying interesting patterns in biological sequences and gene expression data.

Dr. Gao is currently a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He obtained his M.S. and PH.D. degree in computer science from the University of Memphis in 2001. He got his B.S. degree from Beijing University in 1992 and received a Master's degree at the University of Tennessee in 1995. He did his postdoc work with professor George Church at Harvard. Before moving to Harvard, he worked at the computational biology center at IBM T.J.Watson Research Center for four years and was an visiting assistant professor at the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Memphis for one year.