Monday Nov, 22, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Bioinformatics/Human Genetics Seminar Series: Katie Peichel, Head of the Division Evolutionary Ecology, University of Bern
“The role of chromosome evolution in adaptation and speciation in stickleback fish” Hosted by Kirk Lohmueller
Friday Nov, 19, 2021 - 11:00 AM
W26: Careers in Biotechnology for Bachelor’s and Master’s students
The QCB Collaboratory presents the ‘Careers in Biotechnology for Bachelor’s and Master’s students ’ workshop. Moderated by our Director, Dr. Matteo Pellegrini, this workshop features former members of the QCB …
Wednesday Nov, 17, 2021 - 1:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Paheli Desai-Chowdhry (Savage), Grad student in Biomathematics
TITLE: “Asymmetric Branching Scale Factors as Features in Neuronal Cell-Type Classification” ABSTRACT: Neurons are connected by complex branching processes – axons and dendrites – that process information for organisms to …
Wednesday Nov, 17, 2021 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Chloe Yap (Gandal), Visiting Graduate Student, University of Queensland
TITLE: “Restricted diet drives autism gut-microbiome associations, and other tales from the Australian Autism Biobank” ABSTRACT: The Australian Autism Biobank (AAB) is an initiative of the Autism CRC – the …
Monday Nov, 15, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Bioinformatics/Human Genetics Seminar Series: Erick Matsen, Professor, Public Health Sciences Division, Associate Program Head of Herbold Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
“Towards Bayesian phylogenetics via systematic search and gradient ascent” Hosted by Sriram Sankararaman
Wednesday Nov, 10, 2021 - 1:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Guo Xiaohui (Pinter-Wollman), Postdoc in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
TITLE: “Decoding alarm signal propagation of seed-harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex californicus.” ABSTRACT: Alarm signal propagation through social-insect colonies provides an empirically tractable context for analyzing information flow through a natural system, …
Wednesday Nov, 10, 2021 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Mariana Harris Heredia (Garud), Grad student in Biomathematics
TITLE: “Differences in the Signatures of Selection Between the Autosomes and the X Chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster.” ABSTRACT: Sex chromosomes in Drosophila are found in a hemizygous state in males. Thus, deleterious mutations …
Monday Nov, 08, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Bioinformatics/Human Genetics Seminar Series: Eimear Kenny, Founding Director, Institute for Genomic Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
“Population genetics in an era of genomic health” Hosted by Christa Caggiano
Wednesday Nov, 03, 2021 - 1:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Ricky Wolff (Garud), Graduate Student in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
TITLE: “Ecological Stability Emerges at the Level of Strains in the Human Gut Microbiome.” ABSTRACT: The human gut microbiome is a complex community that harbors substantial ecological diversity at the …
Wednesday Nov, 03, 2021 - 12:00 PM
QCBio Research Seminar: Alexander Markowitz (Boutros), Postdoc in Human Genetics
TITLE: “A pan-cancer multi-omic analysis of tumor proliferation.” ABSTRACT: The underlying mechanisms of dysregulated cellular proliferation in cancer remain unclear; however, it is hypothesized that specific mutations, mutational signatures, evolutionary trajectories …
