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Dr Huseyin Seker has an invited special session “Bringing big data to its knees – III: Advances in storing, mining and
visualising big bio-medical data in the post-genomic era” at IEEE EMBC 2015 (25-29 August 2015, Milan, Italy). This was
previously organised in Osaka 2013 and Chicago 2014.
Dr Huseyin Seker delivers a keynote speech “Bio-Health Informatics in the Post-Genomic Era: Challenges in Bringing SelfGrowing Bio-Health Data to its Knees” at ICCIT 2015 (28-29 April 2015, Ankara, Turkey)
Fully funded PhD position for the research project “Dynamic Fuzzy Deep Learning for Mining Big Biological Data” (Deadline
for application: 31 March 2015)
CISAPS webserver is now available. This is a part of the recently accepted journal paper “Complex Informational Spectrum
for the Analysis of Protein Sequences” in Advances in Bioinformatics. The webserver along with its user manual can be
accessed at http://sproteomics.com/cisaps/default/index.
Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to participate in “Engineering and Control of Natural and Synthetic
Microbial Communities Workshop” at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, The University of Cambridge
in 26-28 November 2014
AIHLS2014 chaired by Dr Huseyin Seker, has taken place successfully
Dr Huseyin Seker has two invited special sessions at IEEE EMBC 2014 (Chicago, USA, 26-30 August 2014).
(1) "Bringing big data to its knees - II; Advances in storing, mining and visualising big bio-medical data in the post-genomic era"
(2) "Skin Cancer Imaging and Image Classification”
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Dr Huseyin Seker has received an invitation and full funding from the University of Cambridge - Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences to attend the workshop on "Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Aspects of the New Science of
Metagenomics" (24-28 March 2014).
The group members (H.Seker, A. Orun and E. Goodyear) have been awarded a project funding to work on “Development of
novel non-invasive diagnostic tools for early signs of diseases by use of comprehensive laser speckle imaging methods and
computational intelligence”. The project will last 9 months commencing in October 2013.
AIHLS2013, chaired by Dr Huseyin Seker, has taken place successfully.
IABC2013, Intensive Applied Bioinformatics Course, organised and coordinated by Dr Seker, has taken place successfully.
Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to act as the co-chair of special track "Informatics in Biological Systems" at IFMBE
International Conference on Health Informatics in Vilamoura, Portugal on 7-9 November, 2013. IFMBE (The International
Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering) is the world largest organization focusing on biomedical engineering.
Dr Huseyin Seker is charing a panel discussion on "The Analysis of Big Bio-Medical Data: Industrial and Academic
Views" at IEEE EMBC 2013. EMBC 2013 is the 35th annual conference of IEEE EMBS being the most prestigious and largest of its
kind.
Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to be the Special Session Chair for IEEE BIBE 2013 being one of the most prestigious and well
established conferences in its field.
Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to give a talk on "Information Fusion and Data Mining Makes Biosensors Even Smarter"
in Graduate Summer School on ‘Recent Advances in Biosensor Design and Applications’ (1-8 September 2013, Bodrum, Turkey).
Dr Huseyin Seker is chairing the International Conference on Applied Informatics for Health and Life Sciences (9-11 September
2013, Istanbul, Turkey).
Dr Huseyin Seker, in collaboration with DONEGENETIK and Istanbul University, has organised “Intensive Applied Bioinformatics
Course” (7-8 September 2013, Istanbul, Turkey).
IEEE EMBC 2013 Invited Special Session: Dr Huseyin Seker is organising the invited special session “Bringing big data to its
knees; Advances in computational discovery of life-saving knowledge from big bio-medical data” at IEEE EMBC 2013 (Osaka,
Japan, 3-7 July 2013).
New research funding: The research team (Dr Goodyear, Dr Seker and Dr Smith) has won a research funding to work on
computational identification of skin types. This will help further extend the previously funded project “Expert System
Development for the Detection of Melanoma (Skin Cancer)” led by Dr Smith and Dr Seker.
Group members succesfully defended their PhDs: Group members, Norbert Nwankwo and Charalambos Chrysostomou,
successfully defended their PhDs. We congratulate Dr Nwankwo and Dr Chrysostomou on their hard work and success, and wish
them very best for the future.
Invited Speaker at International Congress of Molecular Medicine: Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to give a talk on
Computational Discovery of Biomarkers in Molecular Medicine in the Post-Genome Era at the 5th International Congress of
Molecular Medicine(Elazig, 27-30 June 2013).
Keynote speaker at Molecular Biology and Genetics Student Congress: Dr Huseyin Seker delivered his keynote speech at
the International ITU 6th Molecular Biology and Genetics Student Congress (Istanbul, 27-30 August 2012).
IEEE EMBC 2012 Special Session: Dr Huseyin Seker has orginised and is charing the special session on Recent Advances and
Challenges in Data Mining in Bio-Medicine at the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health
Informatics (Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China, 5-7 January, 2012).
Speaker at MEDILINK: Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited to give a talk at MEDILINK East Midlands Bioinformatics and Biomarker
Discovery Special Interest Group
Attended to Uni. of Cambridge workshop funding: Dr Huseyin Seker received full funding from Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences (University of Cambridge) to attend four workshops on Inverse Problems and Design of Experiments in
July-September 2011.
Professor James Bezdek's visit: Professor James Bezdek, who is our research collaborator, visited the university and delivered a
talk on Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring in 22-26 August 2011.
BBC news for the skin cancer project: BBC news for the skin cancer project funded by HOPE foundation and supervised by Dr
Geoff Smith and Dr Huseyin Seker
HOPE research project funding: Dr Geoff Smith and Dr Huseyin Seker have been awarded a research project funding by the
HOPE foundation to work on Expert System Development for the Detection of Melanoma (Skin Cancer). Mr. Martin MuellerHoltz has been found successful to work on the project as a PhD researcher. The three-year project started in April 2011.
Keynote speaker at ICMM 2011: Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited as a key note speaker at the 4th International Congress of
Molecular Medicine (27-30 June 2011) to give a talk on Recent Advances in Bioinformatics for Molecular Medicine. He also
organised and chaired a special session on
Bioinformatics in Molecular Medicine: Recent Applications, Developments and Challenges
Keynote speaker at ICBB 2011: Dr Huseyin Seker has been invited as a key note speaker at The International Congress on
Bioinformatics and Biomics (18-22 May 2011) to give a talk on recent advances and challenges in the computational discovery of
biomarkers for genomics, proteomics and metabolomics.
Uni. of Cambridge workshop funding: Dr Huseyin Seker received funding from University of Cambridge - Isaac Newton Institute
for Mathematical Sciences to attend the workshop on Statistical Challenges Arising from Genome Re-sequencing
IEEE EMBC 2010 Special Session: Dr Huseyin Seker organised a special session on “Advances in Signal and Image Processing and
Computational Intelligence Methods in the Post-Genome Era” at the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Argentina, 30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2010)
IEEE WCCI 2010 Special Session: Dr Huseyin Seker, in collaboration with Prof. James Bezdek, organised a special session on
“Advances in clustering methods and their applications” at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (Spain, 18-23
July 2010)