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, …
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) …
