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Outreach: ChuanLi Jiang, Penny Rowe, and Steven Neshyba are leading a hands-on presentation at Seattle's Pacific Science Center for the Polar Science Weekend.
February 2015
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Their presentation, “Where is the Polar Front?” will occur February 27 10am-12pm. Please join them! |
Seminar: Statistical Modelling of Stochastic Processes in Epigenetics
February 2, 2015 @ noon
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Tom Bartlett (University College London) Epigenetic patterns are seen as the interface between the environment and the genome, and hence offer a mechanism to understand environmental risk factors of disease. However, we currently know only a small fraction of what there is to know about epigenomic science. Well-known statistical techniques can be successfully adapted to study genomic patterns such as these. For example, time-series methodology is well-suited for this context, because location along the genome carries a natural ordering equivalent to events in time. Network models are also highly applicable, because genes can be modelled as interacting entities, equivalently to friends in a social network. I will explore some of these modelling approaches, and present some results of my work. |