Sunday, April 12, 2009

FSSHH still in water!

Need a pregame(?) before the cruise?

This Friday 4/17 Hannah will be presenting at Homewood Clark 110 from 5:00 though 6:00pm (5:00 for food and 5:30 for the talk). We still need a volunteer for food and drinks, so if you are interested in it, please contact me (cho.yoonju@jhmi.edu) or Luke (luke.johnson@jhu.edu).

This is going to be AWESOME so just come and enjoy some 1st light dinner for the day before your 2nd light dinner at the cruise :)

See you all there!

April 17, 2009; Homewood, Clark 110
-- Hannah Carter

In cancer, normal cells are transformed through accumulated genetic alterations that confer a selective advantage. Somatic missense mutations are one form of genetic aberration that contribute to tumor initiation and progression. Each tumor harbors a set of these mutations, but it is unclear which are drivers, causally associated with the tumor's progression, and which are passengers, neutral in the context of selective advantage for the cancer cell. We have applied modern machine learning techniques to develop a high-throughput method for discriminating between driver and passenger somatic missense mutations identified in large scale tumor sequencing studies.