Wednesday May, 17, 2023 - 5:30 PM
QCBio Special Virtual Event: “Digital Immune Twins: The Future of Healthcare?”
Join us for an illuminating conversation with: Alexander Hoffmann, Director, Institute for Quantitative & Computational Biosciences, Thomas M. Asher Professor of Microbiology, UCLA Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics Elaine F. Reed, Daljit S. …
Tuesday Apr, 25, 2023 - 1:30 PM
W23: Advanced Cytoscape
The workshop will cover experimental approaches to protein interaction determination; processing and presentation of interaction data available from online resources, and the role of interaction data in the interpretation of …
Friday Mar, 24, 2023 - 12:30 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Nicholas Wang (Boutros), Grad Student, Bioinformatics
TITLE: “Germline structural variants shape prostate cancer clinical and molecular evolution.” ABSTRACT: Inherited genetic variation profoundly influences cancer risk and outcome. While the impact of germline single nucleotide polymorphisms has …
Friday Mar, 24, 2023 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Dongyuan Song (Li JJ), Grad Student, Bioinformatics IDP
TITLE: “ClusterDE: a post-clustering differentially expressed (DE) gene identification method robust to false-positive inflation caused by double-dipping” ABSTRACT: In typical single-cell RNA-seq data analysis, first, a clustering algorithm is applied …
Friday Mar, 17, 2023 - 12:30 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Helena Winata (Boutros), Grad Student, Bioinformatics IDP
TITLE: “Efficient, Multi Sample Inference of Cancer Phylogeny.” ABSTRACT: Cancer is characterized by the ongoing accumulation of somatic mutations that may lead to dysregulated cellular proliferation. The selection of advantageous …
Friday Mar, 17, 2023 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Jessica Ding (Yang), Grad Student, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology
TITLE: “Multi-tissue single-cell level understanding of Alzheimer’s disease points to the therapeutic potential of nutritional and metabolic modulation.” ABSTRACT: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by extracellular amyloid …
Monday Mar, 13, 2023 - 4:00 PM
QCBio/Bioinformatics/Human Genetics seminar: Min Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computational Biology Department, Co-Director, MS in Computational Biology Program, Carnegie Mellon University
TITLE: “Automatic analysis of cryo-electron tomography using computer vision and machine learning.”
Friday Mar, 10, 2023 - 12:30 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Brandon Tsai (Boutros), Grad Student, Human Genetics
TITLE: “Exercise and tumor genomic landscapes in 2,702 patients with cancer” ABSTRACT: Approximately two-thirds of cancer diagnoses globally are attributed to modifiable lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and inactivity. Conversely, …
Friday Mar, 10, 2023 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Daniel Ha (Yang), Postdoc, Dept. Integrative Biology and Physiology
TITLE: ““Cross-tissue multiomics studies reveal gutbrain interactions mediating the effect of Akkermansia muciniphila in counteracting fructose-induced obesity” ABSTRACT: The gut bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila (A. muciniphila) has been implicated in anti-obesity effects, but a systems level understanding …
