Events for February 8, 2022 - May 28, 2021

  • QCBio Research Seminar: Ali Pazokitoroudi (Sankararaman)

    ZOOM CA, United States

    TITLE: "Efficient variance components analysis across millions of genomes." ABSTRACT: While variance components analysis has emerged as a powerful tool in complex trait genetics, existing methods for fitting variance components do […]

  • QCBio Research Seminar: Sam Christensen (Roper)

    ZOOM CA, United States

    TITLE: "Asymptotic-Numerical Method For Cell Focusing in Microfluidic Channel." ABSTRACT: Inertial microfluidic devices use inertial lift forces to organize the spacing and positions of cells carried by flow.  A hybrid […]

  • QCBio Research Seminar: Alexander Markowitz (Boutros)

    ZOOM CA, United States

    TITLE: "A pan-cancer landscape analysis of molecular and functional genomics in tumor proliferation." ABSTRACT: Rapid proliferation is a central hallmark of cancer and is associated with poor prognosis in most […]

  • Bioinformatics/Human Genetics Seminar Series: Vivian Li, PhD

    ZOOM CA, United States

    Assistant Professor-Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers University "Model-based analysis of alternative polyadenylation using 3' end reads" Hosted by Jessica Li

  • QCBio Research Seminar: Arjun Bhattacharya (Pasaniuc)

    ZOOM CA, United States

    TITLE: "Distal mediator-enriched placental transcriptome-wide association studies reveal genetic mechanisms supporting the  Developmental Origins of Health and Disease." ABSTRACT: As the master regulator of the intrauterine environment, the placenta is […]

  • QCBio Research Seminar: Xinzhou Ge (Li JJ)

    ZOOM CA, United States

    TITLE: "Clipper: p-value-free FDR control on high-throughput data from two conditions." ABSTRACT: High-throughput biological data analysis commonly involves identifying "interesting" features (e.g., genes, genomic regions, and proteins), whose values differ […]

  • QCBio Research Seminar: Casey Barkan (Wang)

    ZOOM CA, United States

    TITLE: "Critical slowing down signals quasi-species extinction in an evolutionary model with environmental heterogeneity." ABSTRACT: Environmental heterogeneity can significantly affect the evolutionary dynamics of a population. A key parameter that […]