Saturday Aug, 08, 2026 - 4:00 PM
Sriram Sankararaman, Professor of Computer Science, Human Genetics and Computational Medicine – UCLA
“Insights into the evolutionary and genetic architecture of human complex traits from biobank-scale data” The quest to understand the interplay between evolution, genes and traits has been revolutionized by the …
Friday Jul, 31, 2026 - 4:00 PM
Aaron Meyer, Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering – UCLA
“Building an Integrative View of Immunity with Data Tensors” High-throughput technologies now allow us to characterize immune responses with comprehensive scale and detail. While profiling cells across parameters like time, …
Friday Jul, 24, 2026 - 4:00 PM
Amy Goldberg, Associate Professor, Human Genetics, UCLA
TITLE: “Evolutionary perspectives on malaria” Pathogen genomics increasingly guides public health decisions, yet organisms with complex life cycles can produce genealogies that violate assumptions of standard population genetic methods. Similarly, …
Friday Jul, 17, 2026 - 4:00 PM
Neil Lin Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – UCL
“Unraveling Signaling Pathway Crosstalk Using LLMs” Living cells do not process information through isolated, linear pathways. Instead, they rely on an intricate network of signaling crosstalk to make critical fate …
Friday Jul, 10, 2026 - 4:00 PM
Eric Deeds Professor, Vice Chair, Life Sciences Core – UCLA
“A lack of distinct cellular identities in scRNA-seq data: revisiting Waddington’s landscape” Single-cell RNA sequencing is revolutionizing our understanding of development, differentiation and disease. Analysis of this data is often …
Tuesday Jun, 02, 2026 - 1:30 PM
W33: Electronic Health Records Analysis
UCLA Health serves well over half a million patients annually, and as a result, UCLA possesses a vast database of Electronic Health Records (EHR). The stemming Discovery Data Repository (DDR) …
Tuesday Jun, 02, 2026 - 9:00 AM
W20: Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis with R
This workshop aims to introduce the basic concepts and algorithms for single-cell RNA-seq analysis. It will help participants obtain a better idea of how to use scRNA-seq technology, from considerations …
Wednesday May, 20, 2026 - 9:00 AM
W5b: RNA-Seq II Analysis
RNA-seq II aims to provide tools for analysis of gene expression data from read counts to biology using R. To facilitate learning, the workshop will use a real case study …
Monday May, 18, 2026 - 12:00 PM
Dmitri Petrov (Stanford University) – Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
Dmitri Petrov, Professor, Stanford University Real and Not Just Hopeful Monsters: Evolution by Very Large Jumps Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A
