Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Iman Hajirasouliha, PhD., Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
2025-01-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “Somatic structural variation detection with deep learning and a core modular analysis pipeline“

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Imon Banerjee, PhD, Associate Professor & Consultant, Department of Radiology, Department of Artificial Intelligence & Informatics (AI&I), and Lead AI Scientist, Mayo Clinic Arizona
2025-01-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “TBD”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Gary Bader, PhD, Professor, The Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto
2025-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Katie Hoadley, PhD, Associate Professor, Genetics, UNC-Chapel Hill
2025-02-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Karthik Sarma, MD, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, SimX; Computational Medical Scientist and Clinical Psychiatrist, UCSF
2025-02-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159

Computational Pathology Faculty Candidate Presentation - Dr. Matthew Jones
2025-02-20 08:00 - 09:00 | AS-260
Matthew Jones, PhD
Computational Pathology Faculty Candidate
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine
TITLE: “Unraveling The Evolutionary Principles of Cancer”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Aik Choon Tan, PhD, Senior Director of Data Science, Huntsman Cancer Institute: Jon M. and Karen Huntsman Endowed Chair in Cancer Data Science and Professor, University of Utah
2025-02-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Jianzhi "George" Zhang, PhD, Marshall W. Nirenberg Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Christian Huber, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, Penn State University
2025-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159

QCBio's New Quarterly Faculty Research Forum
2025-03-18 10:30 - 13:30 | Hershey Hall
We are excited to launch a quarterly QCBio Faculty Research Forum—a new initiative to spark innovation and collaboration, and shape the future of UCLA computational biosciences.
We invite you to join us for the inaugural event on March 18, 2025, from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM in Hershey Hall Grand Salon.
We have terrific line-up of Faculty speakers:

Chongyuan Luo
Roy Wollman
Jamie Lloyd-Smith
Elisa Franco
Alan Garfinkel

If interested, fill out the registration form. Please make sure you respond by March 10, 2025.

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Brenna Henn, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Co-Director: Northern Cape Tuberculosis Project - UC Davis
2025-03-31 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “Why study human genomic diversity in African populations?”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Adam Yala, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computational Precision Heath, Statistics and EECS - UC Berkeley and UCSF
2025-04-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “AI for personalized cancer care”

https://qcb.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/03/Yala_Adam_Edited-Recording-1.mp4

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Xuebing Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences - Columbia University
2025-04-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “Illuminating the Twilight Zone: The Noncoding Genome Lost in Translation”
https://qcb.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/03/Wu_Xuebing_Edited.mp4

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, Alex and Susie Algard Endowed Professor, Microbiology & Immunology - Stanford University
2025-04-21 12:30 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “The Predicament of the Industrialized Gut Microbiome”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Tiffani Bright, PhD, Co-Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education; Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Biomedicine - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
2025-04-28 12:00 - 17:00 | ZOOM, CA, United States
TITLE: “Fair AI for Health: Reducing Bias in Predictive Models”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Mark Gerstein, PhD, Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, of Computer Science, and of Statistics & Data Science - Yale
2025-05-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Roy Wollman, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry, Structural and Computational Biology, Systems Biology and Biological Regulation - UCLA
2025-05-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “Spatial Single-Cell Mapping of Transcriptional Differences Across Genetic Backgrounds in Mouse Brains”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Carl Veller, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolution - University of Chicago
2025-05-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “Chromosome-scale drift under stabilizing selection, with evolutionary implications”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Lixing Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ben May Department of Cancer Research - University of Chicago
2025-06-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “The Causes and Consequences of Somatic Structural Variations in Human Cancer”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Genevieve Konopka, PhD, Professor & Chair, Department of Neurobiology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
2025-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer 159, 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
TITLE: “Cell type-specific transcriptional networks in brain evolution and disease”
Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Yuzhe Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine & Computer Science, UCLA
2025-10-13 12:00 - 13:00 | ZOOM, CA, United States
TITLE: “Multisensory AI for Personalized Healthcare”
Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Amy Goldberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Human Genetics, UCLA
2025-10-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: “Evolutionary perspectives on malaria”
Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Jian Zeng, PhD, Group Leader - Centre for Population and Disease Genomics - Institute for Molecular Bioscience The University of Queensland - Australia
2025-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 | ZOOM, CA, United States
TITLE: “Leveraging functional annotations to enhance trait prediction and biological discovery”
Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Kalli Kappel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA
2025-11-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer 159, 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
TITLE: “Decoding RNA and protein sequence-organization-function relationships”
Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A

QCBio Special Seminar: Thomas Kammertöns, PhD, Institute for Cancer Immunology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 554
TITLE: ““The role of IFN-γ in Tumor Immunity – Mechanisms and TCR Gene Therapy”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Yi Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University
2025-11-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer 159, 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
TITLE: “Interpretable machine learning methods to understand tissue heterogeneity using large-scale single-cell genomics and high-definition spatial transcriptomics”
Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Eric Deeds, Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA
2025-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 130
TITLE: TBD
Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Casey Overby Taylor, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology) and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
2026-01-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
“Real-World Evidence for Guideline-Directed Genomic Medicine”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Melissa Gymrek, PhD, Associate Professor, Division Chief of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
2026-02-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
“Leveraging multi-ancestry biobanks to understand shared and ancestry-specific factors driving disease risk”
Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Victoria Yao, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rice University
2026-02-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
“Embedding strategies for understanding genes, pathways, and phenotypes”
Watch recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokAYrjf_TaziPtmn6l4-5A
