Events for November 13, 2020 - October 23, 2020
QCBio/Center for Biological Physics: Gregoire Altan-Bonnet, Principal Investigator – Immunodynamics group Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology NCI, NIH, Bethesda MD
Boyer Hall 130TITLE: “Stochasticity in cancer immunotherapies: identifying the T cell subset that sparks tumor eradication” ABSTRACT: We use an ex vivo model of tumor eradication to dissect the fundamental variability of clinical outcomes in […]
QCBio Research Seminar: Gregoire Altan-Bonnet, Principal Investigator – Immunodynamics group Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology NCI, NIH, Bethesda MD
Boyer 159TITLE: "Stochasticity in cancer immunotherapies: identifying the T cell subset that sparks tumor eradication" ABSTRACT: We use an ex vivo model of tumor eradication to dissect the fundamental variability of clinical outcomes in cancer immunotherapies. […]
QCBio/Bioinformatics/Human Genetics seminar: Zoltán Kutalik, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Lausanne
Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTITLE: “Pushing the boundaries of causal inference.”
QCBio Research Seminar: Daniel Ha (Yang), Postdoc, Dept. Integrative Biology and Physiology
ZOOM CA, United StatesTITLE: "“Cross-tissue multiomics studies reveal gutbrain interactions mediating the effect of Akkermansia muciniphila in counteracting fructose-induced obesity” ABSTRACT: The gut bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila (A. muciniphila) has been implicated in anti-obesity effects, but a systems level understanding […]
QCBio Research Seminar: Brandon Tsai (Boutros), Grad Student, Human Genetics
ZOOM CA, United StatesTITLE: "Exercise and tumor genomic landscapes in 2,702 patients with cancer" ABSTRACT: Approximately two-thirds of cancer diagnoses globally are attributed to modifiable lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and inactivity. Conversely, […]
QCBio/Bioinformatics/Human Genetics seminar: Min Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computational Biology Department, Co-Director, MS in Computational Biology Program, Carnegie Mellon University
Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTITLE: “Automatic analysis of cryo-electron tomography using computer vision and machine learning.”
QCBio Research Seminar: Jessica Ding (Yang), Grad Student, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology
ZOOM CA, United StatesTITLE: "Multi-tissue single-cell level understanding of Alzheimer’s disease points to the therapeutic potential of nutritional and metabolic modulation." ABSTRACT: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by extracellular amyloid […]
QCBio Research Seminar: Helena Winata (Boutros), Grad Student, Bioinformatics IDP
ZOOM CA, United StatesTITLE: "Efficient, Multi Sample Inference of Cancer Phylogeny." ABSTRACT: Cancer is characterized by the ongoing accumulation of somatic mutations that may lead to dysregulated cellular proliferation. The selection of advantageous […]
QCBio Research Seminar: Dongyuan Song (Li JJ), Grad Student, Bioinformatics IDP
ZOOM CA, United StatesTITLE: "ClusterDE: a post-clustering differentially expressed (DE) gene identification method robust to false-positive inflation caused by double-dipping" ABSTRACT: In typical single-cell RNA-seq data analysis, first, a clustering algorithm is applied […]