Events for November 13, 2020 - October 23, 2020
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Brunilda Balliu, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Computational Medicine at UCLA
ZOOM CA, United StatesTITLE: "FastGxC: a statistical framework for mapping context-specific regulatory variants using bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data." ABSTRACT: Recent studies suggest that context-specific eQTLs underlie genetic risk factors for complex diseases. However, methods for identifying […]
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Eric Deeds, Associate Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology – Vice Chair, Life Sciences Core at UCLA
Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTITLE: "A lack of distinct cellular identities in scRNA-seq data: revisiting Waddington’s landscape." ABSTRACT: Single-cell RNA sequencing is revolutionizing our understanding of development, differentiation and disease. Analysis of this data is often […]
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Xia Yang, Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA
Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTITLE: "Single Cell Multiomics Integration to Understand Complex Diseases." ABSTRACT: Recent advances in single cell multiomics technologies such as single cell RNA-seq, single cell ATAC-seq, and spatial transcriptomics have brought […]
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCLA
Boyer Hall 159TITLE: "Liquid Biopsies for Precision Oncology." ABSTRACT: Liquid biopsies are new diagnostic approaches to profile molecular features of solid tumors by blood, saliva, urine, and other body fluids. Such approaches […]
BIG Summer Research Seminar: Jimmy Hu, Assistant Professor in the Division of Oral Biology & Medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry
Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTITLE: "Building a tooth from transcriptome to tissue morphogenesis" ABSTRACT: During craniofacial development, the oral epithelium begins as a morphologically homogeneous tissue that gives rise to locally complex structures, including […]
QCBio Research Seminar: Andras Gyorgy, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering – NYU Abu Dhabi
Boyer Hall 130TITLE: “Inducible plasmid copy number control and a blueprint for a synthetic genetic feedback optimizer” ABSTRACT: The ability to control gene expression has been paradigm shifting for all areas of biological research, especially for […]
Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Seth Bordenstein, PhD, Director, One Health Microbiome Center, Huck Endowed Chair in Microbiome Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University
Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTITLE: "human microbiome variation across ethnicity and race” Hosted by Nandita Garud for Genetics & Genomics
Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Stefen Canzar, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTITLE: "Algorithms or experiments? How to improve transcriptome analysis” Hosted Jingyi Jessica Li for Bioinformatics
Research-in-Progress (RIP) Seminar: Amantha O’Keeffe (Park), Graduate Student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
ZOOM CA, United StatesTITLE: "Quantification of Absolute Metabolite Concentrations in T cells by Shotgun Metabolomics." ABSTRACT: Quantitative understanding of immunometabolism underlies improving immune functions and developing successful immunotherapies. Kinetic and thermodynamic laws rely on […]
