Events for May 17, 2026

QCBio Research Seminar: Jessica Ding (Yang), Grad Student, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology

ZOOM CA

TITLE: "Multi-tissue single-cell level understanding of Alzheimer’s disease points to the therapeutic potential of nutritional and metabolic modulation." ABSTRACT: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by extracellular amyloid plaque deposition and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles. The direct cause of abnormal protein accumulation and aggregation is largely unknown, and no treatments exist to effectively delay […]

QCBio Research Seminar: Helena Winata (Boutros), Grad Student, Bioinformatics IDP

ZOOM CA

TITLE: "Efficient, Multi Sample Inference of Cancer Phylogeny." ABSTRACT: Cancer is characterized by the ongoing accumulation of somatic mutations that may lead to dysregulated cellular proliferation. The selection of advantageous mutations leads to clonal expansions of progressively more aberrant and fit cancer cells. Reconstructing the evolutionary history of a tumor allows us to understand key […]