Wednesday Dec, 07, 2022 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Guanao Yan (Li JJ), Graduate Student in Statistics
TITLE: “scReadSim: a single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq read simulator.” ABSTRACT: Rapid advances of single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq technologies have propelled the development of many computational tools, benchmarking of which demands …
Wednesday Dec, 07, 2022 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Mark Xiang (Hoffmann), Graduate Student in Bioinformatics
TITLE: “Heterogeneity in cell states: Is it important whether cell states are heritable or change rapidly?” ABSTRACT: Cells of the same cell type show molecular and phenotypic heterogeneity. Is the …
Friday Dec, 02, 2022 - 2:30 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Jee Yun Han (Boutros), Graduate Student in Gene Regulation, Epigenomics, and Transcriptomics
TITLE: “Comprehensive study of gene expression outliers and their regulation mechanisms in pan-cancer.” ABSTRACT: Cancer is a disease characterized by remarkable heterogeneity. Gene expression varies drastically between tumours and within …
Friday Dec, 02, 2022 - 2:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Matthew Soldano, Staff Research Associate for the Pellegrini Bioinformatic’s Lab
TITLE: “Predicting Biological Aging from Epigenetics.” ABSTRACT: Epigenetics are a proven measure of cellular health. Therefore, a field of research has emerged that utilizes epigenetics to measure, treat, and potentially …
Wednesday Oct, 26, 2022 - 1:30 PM
W4: Galaxy for NGS Data Analysis
Galaxy (https://usegalaxy.org/) is a web-based infrastructure for bioinformatics application. First, this workshop introduces participants to using Galaxy for analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing data. Next, this workshop covers the structure of …
Tuesday Oct, 25, 2022 - 9:00 AM
W22: Intro to Cytoscape
The workshop introduces Cytoscape (https://cytoscape.org/) – an open source platform for retrieval and visualization of complex biological interactions that are available from public interaction resources: The IMEx Consortium (https://www.imexconsortium.org/), STRING …
Friday Aug, 05, 2022 - 4:00 PM
QCBio/BIG Summer Research Seminar: Dr. Michael Wells, Assistant Professor, Human Genetics, UCLA
TITLE: “Exploration of human genetic and phenotypic diversity through cell villages”. ABSTRACT: Our species is characterized by an immense diversity in neurological and psychological traits. Common and rare genetic variants have …
Friday Jul, 29, 2022 - 4:00 PM
QCBio/BIG Summer Research Seminar: Dr. Xia Yang, Professor, Dept. Integrative Biology & Physiology, UCLA
TITLE: “Integrative systems analysis, applications, and challenges of single cell multiomics.” ABSTRACT: Recent advances in single cell multiomics technologies such as single cell RNA-seq, single cell ATAC-seq, and spatial transcriptomics …
Friday Jul, 22, 2022 - 4:00 PM
QCBio/BIG Summer Research Seminar: Dr. Eleazar Eskin, Professor and Chair Department of Computational Medicine, UCLA
TITLE: “Swab-Seq: Detecting COVID-19 with Genomic Sequencing: From bench to vending machine.” ABSTRACT: At UCLA we developed one of the only novel technologies for COVID-19 diagnostic testing that was deployed …
Friday Jul, 15, 2022 - 4:00 PM
QCBio/BIG Summer Research Seminar: Dr. Eric Deeds, Associate Professor – Vice Chair, Life Sciences Core, 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 challenging, however, …
