Friday Jul, 08, 2022 - 4:00 PM
QCBio/BIG Summer Research Seminar: Dr. Nandita Garud, Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
TITLE: “Evolutionary dynamics in the human gut microbiome from infancy through adulthood.” ABSTRACT: While the ecological dynamics of the infant gut microbiome have been intensely studied, relatively little is known …
Friday Jul, 01, 2022 - 4:00 PM
QCBio/BIG Summer Research Seminar: Dr. Harold Pimentel, Assistant Professor in Computational Medicine & Human Genetics, UCLA
TITLE: “Model driven design and analysis of functional screens” ABSTRACT: A little over a decade ago biomedicine was revolutionized by a conceptually simple insight: DNA sequencers could be used as …
Wednesday May, 25, 2022 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Ha Vu (Ernst), Graduate Student in Bioinformatics
TITLE: “Universal annotation of the human genome through integration of over a thousand epigenomic datasets.” ABSTRACT: Genome-wide maps of chromatin marks such as histone modifications and open chromatin sites provide …
Wednesday May, 25, 2022 - 11:30 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Connor Razma (Hoffmann), BS/MS Student
TITLE: “Baseline MEthylation Patterns prior to flu vaccination.” ABSTRACT: Influenza affects millions worldwide each year with responses varying from individual to individual. Influenza can be broken down into subtypes specifically H1N1, …
Wednesday May, 18, 2022 - 12:30 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Jackson Chin (Meyer), Graduate Student in Bioengineering
TITLE: “Tensor Factorization for Interpreting the Mechanisms of MRSA Persistence.” ABSTRACT: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria is an increasingly common and life-threatening infection. While some antibiotics resolve MRSA infections in …
Wednesday May, 18, 2022 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Yue Wang (Chou), Postdoc, Department of Computational Medicine
TITLE: “Stochastic Model and Optimization of SELEX.” ABSTRACT: Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment (SELEX) is a process to select the best aptamer sequence in a huge aptamer library …
Wednesday May, 11, 2022 - 12:30 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Heather Zhou (Li JJ), Graduate Student in Statistics
TITLE: “PCA outperforms popular hidden variable inference methods for QTL mapping.” ABSTRACT: Estimating and accounting for hidden variables is widely practiced as an important step in quantitative trait locus (QTL) …
Wednesday May, 11, 2022 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Keunseok Park (Park), Grad Student, Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering
TITLE: “G-Flux: a metabolic flux and free energy analysis software for interpreting 13C, 2H, 18O, and 15N isotope tracing data.” ABSTRACT: Metabolic fluxes offer insights into pathway utilization, kinetics, and …
Tuesday Apr, 12, 2022 - 12:00 AM
W28: Introduction to Phylogenetics
Phylogenetics – the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of a the variety of species known to us, is among the most fundamental and traditional tasks in Biology. With the dramatic …
Saturday Apr, 02, 2022 - 10:00 AM
11th Annual Southern California Systems Biology Symposium
https://socalsysbio.qcb.ucla.edu
