W12: Intro to MATLAB

529 Boyer Hall 611 Charles E Young Dr E,, Los Angeles, CA, United States

MATLAB is a powerful, high-level programing language for numerical computation, visualization, and application development. This workshop will start by introducing the MATLAB environment and then cover working with arrays and matrices, loops and conditional statements, writing your own functions, working with files and visualizing your data. The final day will briefly introduce utilizing MATLAB to […]

Research-in-Progress (RIP) Seminar: Amantha O’Keeffe (Park), Graduate Student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

ZOOM CA, United States

TITLE: "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 absolute, not relative, metabolite concentrations to map metabolism. However, until now, comprehensive absolute metabolite quantification has been inaccessible due to the need for iterative analytical […]

Research-in-Progress (RIP) Seminar: Alexis Weber (de la Torre-Ubieta and Geschwind), Graduate Student in Human Genetics

ZOOM CA, United States

TITLE: "Defining molecular dysregulation in Down Syndrome neocortex and neural progenitor cells." ABSTRACT: Down syndrome (DS) is the most common form of genetic, intellectual disability, which occurs 1 in 700 newborns and presents in patients as cognitive deficits, particularly diminished in learning, memory, and language development.1,2,3 DS symptoms result from impaired cortical development, which is […]

Research-in-Progress (RIP) Seminar: Jonatan Hervoso (Xiao), Graduate Student in Bioinformatics

ZOOM CA, United States

TITLE: "Splicing-specific transcriptome-wide association uncovers novel genetic mechanisms for Schizophrenia." ABSTRACT: Recent studies have highlighted the essential role of RNA splicing, a key mechanism of alternative RNA processing, in establishing connections between genetic variations and disease. Genetic loci influencing RNA splicing variations show considerable influence on complex traits, possibly surpassing those affecting total gene expression. Dysregulated RNA […]

Research-in-Progress (RIP) Seminar: Xiaolu Guo (Hoffmann), Postdoc in Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics

ZOOM CA, United States

TITLE: "Modeling the heterogenous NFκB dynamics of single immune cells." ABSTRACT: Macrophages function as immune sentinel cells, initiating appropriate and specialized immune responses to a great variety of pathogens.  The transcription factor NFκB controls macrophage gene expression responses, and its temporal dynamics enable stimulus-specificity of these responses.  Using a fluorescent reporter mouse our laboratory recently […]