Monday Mar, 29, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Bioinformatics/Human Genetics Seminar Series: Vivian Li, PhD
Assistant Professor-Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers University “Model-based analysis of alternative polyadenylation using 3′ end reads” Hosted by Jessica Li
Friday Mar, 12, 2021 - 11:30 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Alexander Markowitz (Boutros)
TITLE: “A pan-cancer landscape analysis of molecular and functional genomics in tumor proliferation.” ABSTRACT: Rapid proliferation is a central hallmark of cancer and is associated with poor prognosis in most …
Friday Mar, 12, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Sam Christensen (Roper)
TITLE: “Asymptotic-Numerical Method For Cell Focusing in Microfluidic Channel.” ABSTRACT: Inertial microfluidic devices use inertial lift forces to organize the spacing and positions of cells carried by flow. A hybrid …
Friday Mar, 05, 2021 - 11:30 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Ali Pazokitoroudi (Sankararaman)
TITLE: “Efficient variance components analysis across millions of genomes.” ABSTRACT: While variance components analysis has emerged as a powerful tool in complex trait genetics, existing methods for fitting variance components do …
Friday Mar, 05, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Katherine Sheu (Hoffmann)
TITLE: “Quantifying response-specificity to diverse immune threats from single cell transcriptomes” ABSTRACT: Innate immune sentinel cells such as macrophages upregulate over a thousand genes in the minutes to hours following an …
Friday Feb, 26, 2021 - 11:30 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Will Shoemaker (Garud)
TITLE: “Inferring positive selection in the human gut microbiome using signatures of genetic linkage.” ABSTRACT: The human gut microbiome is composed of hundreds of simultaneously evolving species that can affect human …
Friday Feb, 26, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Amandine Gamble (Lloyd-Smith)
TITLE: “Linking exposure dose to infectious disease development using mechanistic models” (using SARS-CoV-2 in a mouse model as an illustration) ABSTRACT: Disease development after exposure to a pathogen does not follow …
Friday Feb, 19, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Igor Nikolskiy (Wollman)
TITLE: “A state space model to characterize the phenotypic variation in a panel of drug treatment time course experiments.” ABSTRACT: As new technologies enable high throughput collection of marker measurements …
Friday Feb, 19, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Maria Izabel Alves Cavassim (Lohmueller)
TITLE: The evolution and co-evolution of PRDM9 across vertebrates ABSTRACT: In sexually reproducing organisms, meiotic recombination is initiated by the deliberate infliction of numerous double-strand breaks (DSBs) in the genome, …