Calendar of Events

TITLE: "Quantifying response-specificity to diverse immune threats from single cell transcriptomes" ABSTRACT: Innate immune sentinel cells such as macrophages upregulate over a thousand genes in the minutes to hours following an encounter with pathogen invaders or damage signals. Previous bulk transcriptomic studies suggest there is stimulus-specificity in the combinations of genes that are activated. However, bulk […]

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 not scale well to large-scale datasets of genetic variation. I will present a method for variance components analysis that is accurate and efficient: capable of […]

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 asymptotic-numerical method is presented that can calculate the migration velocities of cells in a channel by representing them as a combination singularities and discontinuities. Refinements […]

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 cancer types. My overall goal is to understand the mechanisms by which specific driver mutations and mutational signatures influence rates of tumor proliferation within and […]

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