Friday Feb, 12, 2021 - 11:30 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Kexin Li (Li JJ)
TITLE: “scPNMF: sparse gene encoding of single cells to facilitate gene selection for targeted gene profiling.” ABSTRACT: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) captures whole transcriptome information of individual cells. While scRNA-seq …
Friday Feb, 12, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Nicolas Rochette (Campbell-Staton)
TITLE: Cis-regulatory divergence between highland and lowland deer mice populations highlight the essential role of pleiotropic genes for high-altitude adaptation. ABSTRACT: Variation in gene expression regulation contributes extensively to phenotypic …
Friday Feb, 05, 2021 - 12:00 PM
COVID-19 Basic, Translational and Clinical Research Seminar Series
Swab-Seq: Massively scaling SARS-CoV-2 testing using genomic sequencing. The COVID-19 Basic, Translational and Clinical Research Task Forces has created a seminar series each Friday at noon. The purpose of these seminars is to bring together …
Friday Feb, 05, 2021 - 11:30 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Marcus Gallagher-Jones (Rodriguez)
TITLE: Structural interrogation of small open reading frame (sORF) encoded proteins ABSTRACT: Advances in genomics and proteomics have unearthed sequences of a startling number of novel proteins. Despite this, our knowledge …
Friday Feb, 05, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Lingyun (Ivy) Xiong (Garfinkel)
TITLE: “Oncogenic alterations in the p53 pathway abolish oscillatory competence” ABSTRACT: The tumor suppressor p53 displays concentration oscillations in response to DNA damage, a behavior that has been suggested to …
Friday Jan, 29, 2021 - 11:30 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Diane Lefaudeux (Hoffmann)
TITLE: “Determining mRNA nuclear export kinetics reveals a wide range of values associated with innate immune response genes” ABSTRACT: The abundance and stimulus-responsiveness of mature mRNA is known to be …
Friday Jan, 29, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Ariel Wu (Sankararaman)
TITLE: “Fast estimation of genetic correlation for Biobank-scale data” ABSTRACT: Genetic correlation is an important parameter in understanding the shared genetic basis across pairs of complex traits with applications ranging across …
Friday Jan, 22, 2021 - 11:30 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Iris Dror (Plath)
TITLE: “XIST controls X chromosome dampening and autosomal genes in early human development” ABSTRACT: Female human pre-implantation embryos and naïve human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) equalize X-linked gene expression with males …
Friday Jan, 22, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Tevfik Umut Dincer (Ernst)
TITLE: “Genomewide supervised prediction of activating and repressive regions in over hundred cell and tissue types” ABSTRACT: While the vast majority of variants associated with common disease risk are distributed …
Thursday Jan, 21, 2021 - 1:00 PM
Developmental Systems Biology Faculty Search – MCDB | QCBio | BSCRC Seminar: Amjad Askary, PhD, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
TITLE: “Imaging-based genetic recording of developmental histories” ABSTRACT: Systems-level understanding of cell fate decisions has been hampered by limitations of the existing methods to capture developmental history of the cells. Synthetic …
