Friday Apr, 02, 2021 - 11:30 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Xinzhou Ge (Li JJ)
TITLE: “Clipper: p-value-free FDR control on high-throughput data from two conditions.” ABSTRACT: High-throughput biological data analysis commonly involves identifying “interesting” features (e.g., genes, genomic regions, and proteins), whose values differ …
Friday Apr, 02, 2021 - 11:00 AM
QCBio Research Seminar: Arjun Bhattacharya (Pasaniuc)
TITLE: “Distal mediator-enriched placental transcriptome-wide association studies reveal genetic mechanisms supporting the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.” ABSTRACT: As the master regulator of the intrauterine environment, the placenta is …
Thursday Apr, 01, 2021 - 3:00 PM
QCBio Academic Jobs – Postdoc Career Development Series: “Introduction – How to Apply for an Academic Job?”
Panelists: Noa Pinter-Wollman & Alexander Hoffmann
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 …
