2012

• Friday 13/04/2012: Room 1110-223, C. F. Møllers Allé 8: 14:15 - 15:00: Birc Seminar: Anders Krogh, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen: On the use of quality scores with short read mapping. Abstract.

• Friday 09/03/2012: Room 1110-223, C. F. Møllers Allé 8: 14:15 - 15:00: Birc Seminar: Lachlan Coin, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London: Making sense of population next-generation sequence data. Abstract.

• Friday 10/02/2012: Aud. 1110-223, C. F. Møllers Allé 8: 14:15 - 15:00: Birc Seminar: Steinar Thorvaldsen, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Comparative Genomics by Computational Exploration: a Probabilistic Approach. Host: Thomas Mailund. Abstract. Poster.

2011

• Wednesday 05/10/11, C. F. Møllers Alle 8, Aud. 1110-223: 11.00-12.00: Talk by David Richardson, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia: MHC-dependent sexual and natural selection: insights from avian populations. Abstract.
• Wednesday 21/09/2011, C. F. Møllers Alle 8, Aud. 1110-223: 14.15-15.00: Talk by James Anderson: Grammars, Alignments, and Averaging for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction. Abstract.
• Thursday 16/06/2011: C. F. Møllers Allé 8, Room 1110-223, 13.15: PhD Defense Thomas Greve Kristensen: 'Virtual Screening Algorithms'.
• Thursday 16/06/2011: C. F. Møllers Allé 8, Room 1110-223, 11.15 - 12.00: Talk by Pierre Baldi, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, UC Irvine: 'Integrative Systems Biology Approaches to Gene Regulation and Beyond'.
  
• Wednesday 15/06/2011: Room 1110-223, C. F. Møllers Allé 8: 14:15 - 15:00: Talk by Bjarni Vilhjalmsson entitled: 'Genome-wide association mapping in A. thaliana'.
• Wednesday 08/06/2011: Birc Seminar: John Hawks, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, will give a talk entitled: 'Genealogical network visualization and recent positive selection in humans'. See abstract.
• Wednesday 08/06/2011: Coffee room, C. F. Møllers Allé 8: 9.30: Wednesday morning seminar: Yu Qian.
  
• Workshop on stress prevention June 1^st: The working environment committee has arranged a course on preventing and dealing with stress. This half-day workshop takes place on 1 June at 9.30-12.30 in auditorium 223 and will be arranged in cooperation with working environment psychologists Rikke Vedel Brix and Rikke Rosbjerg from CRECEA.
• CANCELLATION:
  
  Please note that this seminar has been cancelled due to illness: Wednesday 25/05/2011: Birc Seminar: Aylwyn Scally, UK: 'Evolution of the great apes in light of the gorilla genome sequence'.
  
  Wednesday 18/05/2011: Coffee room, C. F. Møllers Allé 8: 9.30: Wednesday morning seminar: Neil Bristow will give a talk entitled:'The SR-graph of Chemical Reaction Networks'.
  
• Wednesday 13/04/2011: Coffee room, C. F. Møllers Allé 8: 9.30: Wednesday morning seminar: Paula Tataru: 'Sufficient statistics for CTMCs: Methods, Implementations and Applications'.
• February 9: Birc Seminar: Ludovic Orlando, Paleomix Group, Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen University:  'Ancient DNA: Telling something new about the past'.
• February 2: Birc Seminar: Jesús Fernandez Sanchez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: 'An approach to phylogenetic inference by means of algebraic tools'. Abstract.

2010

• December 8: Aud. 1110-223, C. F. Møllers Allé 8, 14.15 - 15.00:
  Talk by Tomas Marques-Bonet (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva - UPF-CSIC), entitled 'The evolution of human segmental duplications'.

• November 19: Aud. 1110-223, C. F. Møllers Allé 8: Inauguration lectures by three new Associate Professors at BiRC:

  14.15-14.40: Thomas Bataillon:
  Dynamics of adaptation - insights from models and loads of data
  14.40 - 15.05: Asger Hobolth:
  Inferring population genetic parameters from SNP data
  15.05 - 15.30: Thomas Mailund:
  Constructing coalescent hidden Markov models.

  After the lectures BiRC will host a reception in the coffee lounge on the 4th floor.
  
  
• November 18: Science Park, Build. 3120, MBI-3120-Meeting room A:
  Talk by Michael Knudsen entitled 'Mathematical Modeling of Phosphorylation Networks'.

• November 17: BiRC Seminar: Laurent Excoffier, University of Berne, Switzerland will give a talk entitled: 'Genetic consequences of range expansions'.
• Oct. 27: BiRC seminar: Frank Jensen, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University: 'Molecular Modelling / Force Fields. An owerview'.
• Oct. 19: Aud. 1110-223: Talk by Aida Andres, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, entitled 'Balancing selection in the human genome: from genomic signals to individual genes'.
• Sept 29: BiRC Seminar: Jakob Skou Pedersen: Sequencing and analysis of an ancient human genome give surprising insights into genomic organization.
• Sept 28: Lecture room 1111-100: Bogdan Filipic (senior researcher at the Dept. of Intelligent Systems of the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana/associated professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Ljubljana): Challenges of Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization for Engineering and Industry
• Sept 27: PhD Defense Peter Justesen: Distinct Candidates Optimization: A Novel Approach to Applied Evolutionary Multi- and Many-Objective Optimization. Aud. 1110-223, C. F. Møllers Allé 8.
• Sept 24: Structural bioinformatics seminar by professor Mark Sansom (Oxford): 'Transmembrane Alpha-Helices, Lipid Bilayers & Signalling: Coarse Grained MD Simulation Studies'.

• August 12-13, 2010: BiRC Mols Meeting 2010.

• June 25: Part A exam, Hugo Martins: "Viral archeology using genome databases and a digital shovel". Aud. 1110-223, C. F. Møllers Allé 8

• June 9: BiRC Seminar: Jens-Christian Svenning (Biology, Aarhus University): Ecoinformatics: the computing approach to ecology.

• June 2: Master Thesis Exam. Mads Baggesen. Aud 1110-223. C. F. Møllers Allé 8.

• May 12: BiRC Seminar: Ebbe S. Andersen (CDNA, Aarhus University): Design and self-assembly of DNA nanostructures.

• March 11: BiRC Seminar - Gilles Guillot (DTU): A review of statistical methods to infer population structure
• February 17: Shengting Li's Qualification Exam. Progress report "Several genome-wide research topics based on the new high-thoroughput sequencing technology".

2009

• December 11: BiRC Seminar - David Balding (UC London): Analysis of low-copy number forensic DNA profiles
• Nov 11: BiRC Seminar - Roald Forsberg, Building a comprehensive and user-friendly solution for NGS data analysis - challenges and solutions
• Oct 14: BiRC Seminar - Gerton Lunter, Finding indels in 1000 human genomes: first results from the pilot projects
• Sep 16: BiRC Seminar - Alberto Imparato, Manipulation of biopolymers: models and experiments
• Sep 14-15: BioSys course on association mapping.
• Sep 14: Stefan McKinnon Edwards Master's thesis defense, 10:00 in 1110-223
• Aug 13-14, 2009: BiRC Mols Meeting 2009.