Friday Jul, 21, 2023 - 4:00 PM
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Jimmy Hu, Assistant Professor in the Division of Oral Biology & Medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry
TITLE: “Building a tooth from transcriptome to tissue morphogenesis” ABSTRACT: During craniofacial development, the oral epithelium begins as a morphologically homogeneous tissue that gives rise to locally complex structures, including …
Friday Jul, 14, 2023 - 4:00 PM
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCLA
TITLE: “Liquid Biopsies for Precision Oncology.” ABSTRACT: Liquid biopsies are new diagnostic approaches to profile molecular features of solid tumors by blood, saliva, urine, and other body fluids. Such approaches …
Friday Jul, 07, 2023 - 4:00 PM
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Xia Yang, Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA
TITLE: “Single Cell Multiomics Integration to Understand Complex Diseases.” ABSTRACT: Recent advances in single cell multiomics technologies such as single cell RNA-seq, single cell ATAC-seq, and spatial transcriptomics have brought …
Friday Jun, 30, 2023 - 4:00 PM
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Eric Deeds, Associate Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology – Vice Chair, Life Sciences Core at UCLA
TITLE: “A lack of distinct cellular identities in scRNA-seq data: revisiting Waddington’s landscape.” ABSTRACT: Single-cell RNA sequencing is revolutionizing our understanding of development, differentiation and disease. Analysis of this data is often …
Friday Jun, 23, 2023 - 4:30 PM
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Brunilda Balliu, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Computational Medicine at UCLA
TITLE: “FastGxC: a statistical framework for mapping context-specific regulatory variants using bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data.” ABSTRACT: Recent studies suggest that context-specific eQTLs underlie genetic risk factors for complex diseases. However, methods for identifying …
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 …
