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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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
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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”
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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”
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Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Jian Ma, PhD, Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
2026-02-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
“Learning cellular organization and function across scales”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Yuan Luo, PhD, Chief AI Officer and Professor, Northwestern University
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
“EPIC Multi-modal AI for Health Care”

Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: William Stafford Noble, PhD, Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
2026-03-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
“Foundation models for chromatin 3D architecture and proteomics mass spectrometry”
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Jeff Saucerman (University of Virginia) - Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
2026-03-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
Jeff Saucerman, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Network drivers of cardiac inflammation-fibrosis coupling
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Sanja Vickovic (Columbia University) - Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
2026-04-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
Sanja Vickovic, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Spatial technologies for deconvolving disease phenotypes
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Cui Tao (Mayo Clinic) - Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
2026-04-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
Cui Tao, Mayo Clinic
From Algorithms to Bedside: Harnessing AI and Informatics in Biomedical & Clinical Endeavors
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Stephanie Hicks (Johns Hopkins) - Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
2026-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
Stephanie Hicks, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
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Leng Han (Indiana University School of Medicine) - Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
2026-04-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
Leng Han, David Brown Chair Professor in Genomic Medicine
Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science
Brown Center for Immunotherapy, Indiana University School of Medicine
Harnessing Big Data for Precision Medicine
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Daniella Meeker (Yale University) - Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
2026-05-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
Daniella Meeker, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Chief Research Information Officer, Yale New Haven Health System

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Dmitri Petrov (Stanford University) - Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
2026-05-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
Dmitri Petrov, Professor, Stanford University
Real and Not Just Hopeful Monsters: Evolution by Very Large Jumps
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Bianca Dumitrascu (Columbia University) - Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
2026-06-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Boyer Hall 159
Bianca Dumitrascu, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Spatial technologies for deconvolving disease phenotypes
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