Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Ludmil Alexandrov, Phd, Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego
2024-10-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: TBD
Hosted by Paul Spellman for Genetics & Genomics

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Yin Yi, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCLA
2024-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: TBD
Hosted by Kirk Lohmueller for Bioinformatics

QCBio Research Seminar: Rizal Hariadi, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
2024-10-22 12:30 - 13:30 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: Sensing and applying multi-axial tension to biomolecules using molecular devices built from DNA.
ABSTRACT: DNA nanotechnology enables the construction of molecular devices for diverse biomedical applications. By leveraging DNA’s exquisite positional control, researchers can engineer sophisticated nanostructures that execute a range of tasks. In this talk, I will present 2 DNA-based devices: an amphiphilic double-stranded DNA sensor for non-destructive detection of cytosolic biomarkers and a DNA origami platform for multi-axial mechanical manipulation of biomolecules. In the first part of my talk, I will show synthetic transmembrane devices inspired by G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that transduce signals across cell membranes. These amphiphilic DNA nanodevices detect specific intracellular oligonucleotides, generating fluorescent signals without cell lysis and genetic engineering. In the second half of the talk, I will present some recent results on a Holliday junction, a model system in biophysics, under multi-axial tension using the Multi-Axial Entropic Spring Tweezer along Rigid Origami (MAESTRO). This molecular tool, which exploits the entropic elasticity of single-stranded DNA, uncovers the non-ergodicity of Holliday junction dynamics. The talk concludes with a discussion on the potential applications of these devices, including their use in high-throughput single-molecule biophysics of integrin signaling, cryo-EM structural studies of integrins under tension, and live-cell isolation targeting RNA markers.

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, PhD, Professor, Ophthalmology; Chief, Division of Artificial Medical Intelligence, Ophtalmology; Director, Health Informatics, CCTSI; University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Center
2024-10-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: TBD
Hosted by William Hsu for Medical Informatics

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Julia Salzman, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science and of Biochemistry, Stanford University
2024-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: TBD
Hosted by Nandita Garud for Bioinformatics

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Brenna M. Henn, PdD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology; Co-Director, Northern Cape Tuberculosis Project, UC Davis
2024-11-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: TBD
Hosted by Noah Naitlen for Genetics & Genomics

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Andrea Ganna, PhD, Associate Professor at FIMM and HiLIFE; Research Associate, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
2024-11-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: TBD
Hosted by Sriram Sankararaman for Bioinformatics

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Stephen Montgomery, PhD, Stanford Medicine Endowed Professor of Pathology and Professor of Genetics, Biomedical Data Science and Computer Science, Stanford University
2024-12-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
TITLE: TBD
Hosted by Brunilda Balliu for Genetics & Genomics

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 | 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
