BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:VEVENT UID:187034@bioscience.fi DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20261022T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20261022T130000 DTSTAMP:20260916T121940Z URL:https://bioscience.fi/events/frontiers-of-science-prof-william-staffor d-noble/ SUMMARY:Frontiers of Science: Prof. William Stafford Noble DESCRIPTION:Frontiers of Science\n\n22nd October at 12:00\nOnsite event\nin Presidentti auditorium\, BioCity\nAutumn 2026 poster\n\nProf. William Sta fford Noble\, University of Washington\, USA\nMaking sense of genomic and proteomic data with machine learning\n\nHost: Balazs Balint (balazs.balint @utu.fi)\n\nCoffee and sandwich served at 11:45\, first come first serve!\ n\n \;\n\nSix PhD researchers and early-career postdocs are welcome to have a lunch and discuss with Prof. Noble after the seminar. This is a gr eat possibility to learn hosting skills in a friendly environment and crea te connections for future. Everyone is welcome to join\, BioCity Turku wil l offer the lunch.\n\nIf you got interested\, please send an email to bioc ityturku@bioscience.fi\n\n \;\n\nNoble research group develops and app lies computational techniques for modeling and understanding biological pr ocesses at the molecular level. Their research emphasizes the application of statistical and machine learning techniques\, such as hidden Markov mod els and support vector machines. The team applies these techniques to vari ous types of biological data\, including protein and DNA sequences\, data from high-throughput genomic assays such as ChIP-seq and Hi-C\, and tandem mass spectrometry. Prof. Noble’s research group is currently developing methods for analyzing shotgun proteomics data\, for characterizing protei n function\, structure and interactions\, and for understanding the struct ure and regulatory influence of chromatin.\n\nWilliam Stafford Noble is a Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences and in the Paul G. Allen Sc hool of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He received the Ph.D. in computer science and cognitive science from Unive rsity of California\, San Diego in 1998. Dr. Noble's research applies stat istical and machine learning methods to the analysis of complex biological data sets. He is the author of more than 350 peer reviewed publications a nd has advised 39 postdoctoral fellows and 31 PhD students. William is the recipient of the International Society for Computational Biology Innovato r award\, the US Human Proteome Organization Gilbert S. Omenn Computationa l Proteomics Award\, and is a Fellow and former member of the Board of Dir ectors of the ISCB.\n\n \;\n\nSelected publications\n\nJha A\, Hristov B\, Wang X\, Wang S\, Greenleaf WJ\, Kundaje A\, Aiden EL\, Bertero A\, N oble WS. Prediction and functional interpretation of inter-chromosomal gen ome architecture from DNA sequence with TwinC. Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 20. in press\n\nSanders J\, Wen B\, Rudnick PA\, Johnson RS\, Wu CC\, Riffle M\, Oh S\, MacCoss MJ\, Noble WS. A transformer model for de novo sequencing of data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry data. Nat Methods. 2025 Jul\;22(7):1447-1453.\n\nSanders J\, Wen B\, Rudnick PA\, Johnson RS\, Wu CC\, Riffle M\, Oh S\, MacCoss MJ\, Noble WS. A transformer model for de n ovo sequencing of data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry data. Nat Methods. 2025 Jul\;22(7):1447-1453.\n\nBittremieux W\, Noble WS. Self-sup ervised learning from small-molecule mass spectrometry data. Nat Biotechno l. 2026 Apr\;44(4):538-539.\n\n \;\n\nGeneral information\n\n Registr ation is not needed\, participation list is circulated in the audience.\n If you are a student and later wish to get a certificate of attendance fr om the Frontier of Science seminars (BKEM1020\; UTU)\, print out the semin ar diary and after the seminar ask the BioCity coordinator to sign it http s://seafile.utu.fi/d/44a70f80ac1e46a9ad0a/\n Please note that any audio o r video recording of the seminars is strictly forbidden.\n Autumn 2026 im age credits to Samuel Svärd: Whole mount immunofluorescent staining of th e mouse retina. Image acquired on 3i CSU-W1 Spinning disk with 10x objecti ve.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bioscience.fi/wp-content/uploads/2026/09 /noble-thumbnail.jpg CATEGORIES:Turku Bioscience Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T040000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR