Presentations, Invited Talks, and Workshops

2008-2009:  
November 4-6, 2009 Sixth Biennual Meeting "PSM: Advancing the Nation's Competitiveness and Innovation Agenda" Sponsored by Professional Science Master's Association and Council of Graduate Schools, Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.
August 14, 2009 Lecture on "A Journey Through Mathematics"; Ming-Ying Leung, Guest Speaker, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, Texarkana, Texas
July 7-11, 2009 Invited Participant, Workshop on “Graduate Education at the Interface between Mathematics and Biology,” University of California at Davis, Davis, California
June 18, 2009 Inversion distribution in RNA sequences; Ming-Ying Leung, Statistical Genomics Workshop, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
June 17-24, 2009 Invited Participant, Statistical Genomics Workshop, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
March 26, 2009 Webinar on "Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Capabilities and Needs of RCMI Program at The University of Texas at El Paso" by Ming-Ying Leung, Webinar Series on the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Capabilities and Needs of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions, NIH-RTRN Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Working Group
March 20, 2009 The RNAVLab Web-server and Graphical User Interface; J. Mohl, A. Licon, R. Martz, M. Taufer, K. L. Johnson, and M.-Y. Leung, New Mexico Bioinformatics Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico
February 4-5, 2009 Invited Participant, Clinical and Translational Informatics Networking Meeting, Sponsored by National Center for Research Resources, the Informatics Working Group, and hosted by Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona
October 7, 2008 Compound Poisson Process Approximation of Palindrome Length Score in Herpesviruses; Ming-Ying Leung, Biostatistics Seminar Series, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
July 10, 2008 Stochastic Approaches to Predict Replication Origins in DNA Viral Genomes; Chew, D.S.H., Choi, K.P., and Leung, M.Y. , 2008 International Workshop for Applied Probability, July 2008, Compiegne, France
March 6, 2008 Statistical Tool to Identify Inversions in Nucleotide Sequences; Aguilar, C., Cruz-Cano, R., Mireles, D., Leung, Ming-Ying, New Mexico Bioinformatics Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005-2007:  
November 11, 2007 RNAVLab: A unified environment for computational RNA structure analysis based on grid computing technology; M. Taufer, M-Y. Leung, A. Licon, D. Mireles, T. Solorio, D. Gomez-Leon, R. Araiza, K.L. Johnson, International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Reno, Nevada
June 24, 2007 Towards Optimal Scheduling for Global Computing under Probabilistic, Interval, and Fuzzy Uncertainty, with Potential Applications to Bioinformatics; Araiza, R., Taufer, M., Leung, M.Y., Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, San Diego, California
October 18, 2006 Palindromes in Viral Genomes; Ming-Ying Leung, Division of Quantitative Sciences, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
May 16, 2006

 

Poisson Process Approximation for Palindrome Occurrences in Random DNA Sequences; Ming-Ying Leung, 2006 International Workshop on Applied Probability, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
February 10, 2006 Poisson Process Approximation for Palindrome Occurrences in Random DNA Sequences; Ming-Ying Leung, BH 143, UTEP Mathematical Sciences; Time: 3:00 p.m.
November 14, 2005 Predicting Replication Origins in Herpesvirus using Repeat Frequencies; Rhys M. Adams, Deepak Chandran, and Ming-Ying Leung, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California
January 5, 2005 Predicting RNA Secondary Structures for Frameshifting in the Expression of Overlapping Viral Genes; Ming-Ying Leung and Prathapan Thiruvilangam, 9th INFORMS Computing Society Conference, Annapolis, Maryland
2003-2004:  
November 19, 2004 Improving the Algorithm to Predict RNA Structures for Frameshifting in the Expression of Overlapping Viral Genes; Ming-Ying Leung, CS 221, TRACS, UTEP Computer Science; Time: 12:30 p.m.
October 29, 2004 Poisson Approximation and Viral Replication; Ming-Ying Leung, BH 143, UTEP Mathematical Sciences; Time: 3:30 p.m.
June 25, 2004 Predicting RNA Structures for the Expression of Overlapping Genes; Ming-Ying Leung,

 

Place: Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong
June 17, 2004 Palindromes in SARS and Other Coronaviruses; Ming-Ying Leung,

 

Place: Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong
June 15, 2004 Nonrandom Clusters of Palindromes in Herpesvirus Genomes; Ming-Ying Leung,

 

Place: Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong
June 11, 2004 Finding Mathematics in Genes and Diseases; Ming-Ying Leung,

 

Place: Faculty of Science, University of Hong Kong
May 14, 2004 A Journey Through Mathematics; Ming-Ying Leung
  Place: Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas
May 10, 2004 Palindromes in Sars and Other Coronaviruses
D. Chew, National University of Singapore, Singapore; K.P. Choi*, National University of Singapore, Singapore; H. Heidner, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.; M.Y. Leung, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA

 

Place: International Conference on Analysis of Genomic Data, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
May 10, 2004 Frameshifting Mechanism for ORFs X1 and X2 in the SARS Coronavirus
Prathapan Thiruvilangam* and Ming-Ying Leung, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA.

 

Place: International Conference on Analysis of Genomic Data, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
May 10, 2004 More Accurate Prediction of Replication Origins in Herpesvirus Genomes; David S.H. Chew1, Kwok Pui Choi2, Ming-Ying Leung*3;  National University of Singapore, Singapore1; National University of Singapore, Singapore2; The University of Texas at El Paso3, USA

 

Place: International Conference on Analysis of Genomic Data, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
April 14, 2004 Palindromes in SARS and other Coronavirus; Ming-Ying Leung,
  Place: UT Houston School of Public Health, El Paso Regional Campus, El Paso, Texas
February 24, 2004 Palindromes in SARS and other Coronavirus; Ming-Ying Leung,

Place: Department of Mathematics, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
October 21, 2003 Palindromes in SARS and other Coronavirus Genomes; Ming-Ying Leung,

 

Place: INFORMS Annual Meeting 2003, Alanta, Georgia