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 …
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 …
