QCBio Research Seminar: Jee Yun Han (Boutros), Graduate Student in Gene Regulation, Epigenomics, and Transcriptomics

ZOOM CA, United States

TITLE: "Comprehensive study of gene expression outliers and their regulation mechanisms in pan-cancer." ABSTRACT: Cancer is a disease characterized by remarkable heterogeneity. Gene expression varies drastically between tumours and within cells of a single. This variability can generate extreme outliers: transcripts that show atypically high gene expression in a small percentage of cancers. These outliers […]

QCBio Research Seminar: Mark Xiang (Hoffmann), Graduate Student in Bioinformatics

Boyer Hall 159

TITLE: "Heterogeneity in cell states: Is it important whether cell states are heritable or change rapidly?" ABSTRACT: Cells of the same cell type show molecular and phenotypic heterogeneity. Is the particular cell state of a given cell heritable from one generation to the next?  Previous work in liver cancer cells indicates that the molecular network […]

QCBio Research Seminar: Guanao Yan (Li JJ), Graduate Student in Statistics

Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United States

TITLE: "scReadSim: a single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq read simulator." ABSTRACT: Rapid advances of single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq technologies have propelled the development of many computational tools, benchmarking of which demands realistic simulators. However, few simulators can generate sequencing reads, and none of the existing read simulators aim to mimic real cells, hindering the benchmarking of […]

QCBio Research Seminar: Roni Haas (Boutros), Postdoc in Human Genetics

Boyer Hall 159

TITLE: "Proteogenomic characterization of the molecular determinants of prostate cancer radioresistance." ABSTRACT: Prostate Cancer (PC), the second most common cause of cancer death in men, is frequently treated using radiotherapy with curative intent. Despite its effectiveness, radiotherapy often results in aggressive PC relapse characterized by radioresistance. The diversity in therapeutic response to radiotherapy, and the molecular […]

QCBio Research Seminar: Zhiqian Zhai (Li JJ), Graduate Student in Statistics

Boyer Hall 159

TITLE: "Supervised capacity preserving mapping: a clustering guided visualization method for scRNA-seq data." ABSTRACT: Recently, various computational methods have been developed to analyze the scRNAseq data, such as clustering and visualization. However, current visualization methods, including t-SNE and UMAP, are challenged by the limited accuracy of rendering the geometric relationship of populations with distinct functional […]

QCBio Research Seminar: Friedrich Simmel, Department of Bioscience, School of Natural Sciences, TU Munich, Germany

Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United States

TITLE: "Electric actuation of DNA-based molecular machines.” ABSTRACT: A wide range of machine-like molecular assemblies have been generated over the past years. Most of them have been driven (or controlled) by DNA hybridization, utilization of buffer changes, or using chemical modifications such as photoswitches. A more recently explored strategy is the use of electrical fields for the manipulation of DNA devices, which enables fast […]