Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series

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Previous Bioinformatics Seminars

Spring Quarter 2023

Winter Quarter 2023

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series. Please do so HERE

Fall Quarter 2022 

Monday, September 26 (Boyer Hall 159)
Amjad Askary, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, UCLA
Title: “Searching for patterns in the spatial distribution of cells” 
Hosted by Jason Ernst

Monday, October 3 (Boyer Hall 159)
Graham McVicker, PhD
Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Genetics, Integrative Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute
Title: “Using genome perturbations to decipher genetic variants associated with immune traits“
Hosted by Chongyuan Luo

Monday, October 10 (Zoom Video Conference)
Eleonora Porcu, PhD
First Assistant, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne
Title: “Building the bridge from genotype to phenotype”
Hosted by Bogdan Pasaniuc

Monday, October 17 (Boyer Hall 159)
Fulai Jin, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Title: “Robust and affordable 3D genome mapping at kilobase resolution”
Hosted by Alexander Hoffmann

Monday, October 24 (Mong Auditorium – Engineering VI – First Floor)
Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Title: “Creating the Fourth Chapter of Human Genomics”
Hosted by Valerie Arboleda

Monday, October 31 (Boyer Hall 159)
Feng Yue, PhD
Director, Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine – Center for Advanced Molecular Analysis,
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Title: “Structural variants, epigenomic and 3D genome organization alteration in cancer”
Hosted by Grace Xiao

Monday, November 7 (Boyer Hall 159)
Mary Sehl, MD, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor, Computational Medicine, UCLA
Title: “DNA methylation-based aging biomarkers and cancer risk”
Hosted by: Jason Ernst

Monday, November 14 (Boyer Hall 159)
Elinor Karlsson, PhD
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
Title: “Deciphering the genetics of behavior in pet dogs with an ancestry-inclusive approach”
Hosted by: Noah Zaitlen

Monday, November 21 (Boyer Hall 159)
Arbel Harpak, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
Title: “Sex Difference in Complex Trait Genetics: Effect Size Does Matter”
Hosted by: Jason Ernst

Monday, November 28 (Boyer Hall 159)
David Van Valen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute, CalTech
Title: “Everything as code”
Hosted by: Alex Hoffmann

Spring Quarter 2022 (Subject to Change due to Covid-19 Protocols at UCLA)

Monday, March 28 (Boyer Hall 159 and Zoom Video Conference)
Hongzhe Li (Lee), PhD
Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Title: “Microbiome Data Science – Phylogenetic Tree, Bacterial Growth Rate and Biosynthetic Gene Clusters”
Hosted by Jessica Li

Please note: If you decide to attend in-person, you must wear a mask at all times. Please do not attend if you are sick. If you are sick, the seminar will be presented in our Zoom room as well. If you have not signed up for the Zoom, then please sign up HERE to receive the Zoom information.

Monday, April 4 (Zoom Video Conference Only)
Loic Yengo, PhD
Statistical Geneticist, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland-Australia
Title: “Mapping all the common SNP-based heritability of human height to less than 21% of the genome”
Hosted by Dan Benjamin

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, April 11 (Zoom Video Conference)

Katie Pollard, PhD
Professor, Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, UCSF
Title: “Sequence-structure-function modeling for DNA”
Hosted by Jason Ernst and Dan Geschwind

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, April 18 (Boyer Hall 159 and Zoom Video Conference)
Iuliana Ionita-Laza, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Title: “Knockoff-based statistics for the identification of putative causal loci in genetic studies”
Hosted by Jessica Li

Please note: If you decide to attend in-person, you must wear a mask at all times. Please do not attend if you are sick. If you are sick, the seminar will be presented in our Zoom room as well. If you have not signed up for the Zoom, then please sign up HERE to receive the Zoom information.

Monday, April 25 (Boyer Hall 159 and Zoom Video Conference)
Julien Ayroles, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Title: “Evolutionary mismatch and the role of GxE interactions in human disease”
Hosted by Noah Zaitlen

Please note: If you decide to attend in-person, you must wear a mask at all times. Please do not attend if you are sick. If you are sick, the seminar will be presented in our Zoom room as well. If you have not signed up for the Zoom, then please sign up HERE to receive the Zoom information.

Monday, May 2 (Boyer Hall 159 and Zoom Video Conference)
Charles Farber, PhD
Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Title: “Mouse and Human Approaches to Unravel the Genetics of Osteoporosis”
Hosted by Jake Lusis

Please note: If you decide to attend in-person, you must wear a mask at all times. Please do not attend if you are sick. If you are sick, the seminar will be presented in our Zoom room as well. If you have not signed up for the Zoom, then please sign up HERE to receive the Zoom information.

Monday, May 9 (Boyer Hall 159 and Zoom Video Conference)
Jean Morrison, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Title: “Cross-phenotype analysis of genome-wide association studies for causal inference and biological discovery”
Hosted by Harold Pimentel

Please note: If you decide to attend in-person, you must wear a mask at all times. Please do not attend if you are sick. If you are sick, the seminar will be presented in our Zoom room as well. If you have not signed up for the Zoom, then please sign up HERE to receive the Zoom information.

Monday, May 16 (Zoom Video Conference Only)
Manolis Kellis, PhD
Professor, Computer Science, MIT
Title: “From genomics to Therapeutics: Single-cell dissection of disease circuitry”
Hosted by Paivi Pajukanta/Jason Ernst

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, May 23 (Zoom Video Conference)

Po-Ru Loh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard Medical School
Title: “Protein-altering variants with large phenotypic effects: rare SNPs, common VNTRs, and rare CNVs”
Hosted by: Noah Zaitlen

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Winter Quarter 2022 (Subject to Change due to Covid-19 Protocols at UCLA)

Monday, January 3
Shantanu Joshi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology, Brain Mapping Center, UCLA
Title: “Aligning Shape Data from Brain Imaging: applications to fMRI time series, diffusion tractography”
Hosted by Jason Ernst

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, January 10
Lauren McIntyre, PhD
Professor, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Florida
Title: “Climate change and maize response to pollutants: gene content, expression and regulation“
Hosted by Kirk Lohmueller

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, January 17 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday)
No Seminar

Monday, January 24
Jennifer Wilson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, UCLA
Title: “Deriving network parameters for understanding drug effects”
Hosted by Jason Ernst

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, January 31
Doc Edge, PhD
Assistant Professor, Quantitative and Computational Biology, USC
Title: “The new forensic genetics: ‘long-range’ search and genetic privacy”
Hosted by Nandita Garud

4pm at Boyer Hall 159. Please note: If you decide to attend in-person, you must wear a mask at all times and please do not attend if you are sick. If you are sick, the seminar will be presented in our Zoom room as well. If you have not signed up for the Zoom, then please sign up HERE to receive the Zoom information.

Monday, February 7
Rachel Wang, PhD
Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Title: “scJoint: transfer learning for data integration of atlas-scale single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq”
Hosted by Jessica Li

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, February 14
Leila Jamal, PhD
Genetic Counselor and Bioethicist, Associate Director for Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Institute and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: “Walking the line between progress and paternalism in genetic counseling”
Hosted by Christina Palmer

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, February 21 (President’s Day Holiday)
No Seminar

Monday, February 28
Jason Moore, PhD
Founding Chair of the Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai
Title: “Automated genetic analysis“
Hosted by Nandita Garud

Monday, March 7
King Jordan, PhD
Professor and Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Georgia Tech
Title: “Genomics for precision public health in Colombia“
Hosted by Juan De La Hoz

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Fall Quarter 2021

Monday, September 27
Karen Mohlke, PhD
Professor, Genetics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Title: “Genetic and environmental effects on chromatin accessibility at cardiometabolic trait loci”
Hosted by Paivi Pajukanta

To join Zoom, please click HERE

Monday, October 4
Abigail Bigham, PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology, UCLA
Title: “Omic insights into Andean high-altitude adaptation”
Hosted by Jason Ernst

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, October 11
María C. Ávila Arcos, PhD
Assistant Professor, International Laboratory for Human Genome Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Title: “The genetic legacy of the trans-atlantic slave trade into New Spain”
Hosted by Kirk Lohmueller

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, October 18
Doug Speed, PhD
Professor, Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus University
Title: “New methods for analysing genome-wide association study data, including improved tools for computing polygenic risk scores”
Hosted by Maria Izabel Cavassim

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, October 25
Fabian Theis, PhD
Head of the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Munich, Professor, Technical University of Munich
Title: “Learning cellular state and dynamics in single cell genomics”
Hosted by Jessica Li

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 1
Anya Prince, JD
Associate Professor of Law Member, Genetics Cluster, University of Iowa College of Law
Title: “Regulating Insurer Use of Genetic Information”
Hosted by Christina Palmer                                       

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 8
Eimear Kenny, PhD
Founding Director of the Institute for Genomic Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Title: “Population genetics in an era of genomic health”
Hosted by Christa Caggiano

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 15
Erick Matsen, PhD
Professor, Public Health Sciences Division, Associate Program Head of Herbold Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Title: “Towards Bayesian phylogenetics via systematic search and gradient ascent”
Hosted by Sriram Sankararaman

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 22
Katie Peichel, PhD
Head of the Division Evolutionary Ecology, University of Bern
Title: “The role of chromosome evolution in adaptation and speciation in stickleback fish”
Hosted by Kirk Lohmueller

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 29
Stephen Piccolo, PhD
Associate Professor, Biology, Member of Simmons Center for Cancer Research, Brigham Young University
Title: “Using somatic-mutation signatures to identify BRCA-like genes”
Hosted by Sarah Spendlove

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Spring Quarter 2021

Monday, March 29
Vivian Li, PhD
Assistant Professor-Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers University
Title: “Model-based analysis of alternative polyadenylation using 3′ end reads”
Hosted by Jessica Li

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, April 5
Nanibaa’ Garrison, PhD
Associate Professor, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics
Title: “Building Pathways for Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Genomic Research Policies”
Hosted by Paivi Pajukanta

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, April 12
Martin Kampmann, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF
Title: “CRISPR-based functional genomics for brain diseases”
Hosted by Dan Geschwind

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, April 19
Smita Krishnaswamy, PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics and of Computer Science, Yale School of Medicine
Title: “Geometric and Topological Representations for Biomedical Data Analysis”
Hosted by Jason Ernst

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, April 26
Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, PhD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Genome folding, unfolding, and refolding in the mammalian brain”
Hosted by Hilarly Coller

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, May 3
Aaron Panofsky, PhD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Personnel, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics
Title: “Citizen Scientific Racism: White Nationalist Appropriations of Genetic Research”
Hosted by Christina Palmer

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, May 10
Alexandra Stern, PhD
Associate Dean for the Humanities, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Title: “TBD: History of genetic counseling“
Hosted by Christina Palmer

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, May 17
Viktor Adalsteinsson, PhD
Associate director, Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics, Broad Institute
Title: “Ultrasensitive detection of minimal residual disease“
Hosted by Jasmine Zhou

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, May 24
Raluca Gordân, PhD
Associate Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University
Title: “Transcription factor binding to DNA mismatches – a potential driver of increased mutagenesis at regulatory sites”
Hosted by Jason Ernst

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Winter Quarter 2021

Monday, January 4
Heng Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical informatics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
Title: “The assembly of human pangenomes”
Hosted by Jessica Li

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, January 11
Søren Brunak, PhD
Research Director, Professor, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen
Title: “TBD”
Hosted by David Eisenberg

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, January 18 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday)
No Seminar

Monday, January 25
Aaron Panofsky, PhD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Personnel, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics
Title: “Citizen Scientific Racism: White Nationalist Appropriations of Genetic Research”
Hosted by Christina Palmer

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, February 1
Ali Mortazavi, PhD
Professor, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, UC Irvine
Title: “TBD: long-read RNA-seq”
Hosted by TBD

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, February 8
Sarah Tishkoff, PhD
Professor and Director, Penn Center for Global Genomics and Health Equity, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Genomic Evolution and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Health and Disease”
Hosted by Nandita Garud

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, February 15 (President’s Day Holiday)
No Seminar

Monday, February 22
Mingyao Li, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Translation of single-cell genomics into human health: methods and applications”
Hosted by Michael Gandal

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, March 1
Magnus Nordborg, PhD
Scientific Director, Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria
Title: “The Genetics of Epigenetics in Arabidopsis”
Hosted by Kirk Lohmueller

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Monday, March 8
Augustine Kong, PhD
Professor, Statistical Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
Title: “Genome-scan without Phenotypes”
Hosted by Michael Gandal

Please note: If the seminar series does not provide a zoom link, then you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE.

Fall Quarter 2020

Monday, October 5
Keolu Fox, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCSD
Title: “Rewriting Human History and Empowering Indigenous Communities with Genome Editing Tools”
Hosted by Paivi Pajukanta

To join Zoom, please click HERE

Monday, October 12
Daniel Tward, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology and Computational Medicine, UCLA
Title: “Quantifying neurodegeneration patterns in early Alzheimer’s disease with neuroimage informatics”

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, October 19
Yi Yin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human Genetics, UCLA
Title: “High-throughput single-cell sequencing for studying homologous recombination partner choice”

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, October 26
Loes Olde Loohuis, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatric Genetics, UCLA
Title: “Characterizing psychiatric disease trajectories using genetic and phenotypic signatures”

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 2
Harold Pimentel, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Human Genetics, UCLA
Title: “Model driven design and analysis of quantitative phenotype screens”

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 9
Daniel Benjamin, PhD
Professor, Human Genetics and Anderson School of Management, UCLA
Title: “Polygenic prediction within and between families from a 3-million-person GWAS of educational attainment”

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 16
Gillian Belbin, PhD
Director-Population Genetics, Institute for Genomic Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Title: “Leveraging Fine-scale Population Structure in Health Systems for Biomedical Discovery”
Hosted by Christa Caggiano

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 23
Mark Robinson, PhD
Associate Professor, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich
Title: “Flexible differential analyses of single cell RNA-seq data”
Hosted by Jessica Li

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, November 30
Kin Fai Au, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University
Title: “Long-read sequencing and its applications on transcriptomics and epigenetics”
Hosted by Jessica Li

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Monday, December 7
Adam Phillippy, PhD
Senior Investigator, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute
Title: “Finally finishing the human genome”
Hosted by Hilary Coller

Please note: If seminar series does not provide zoom link, you must register only once to attend all seminar series.
Please do so HERE

Spring Quarter 2020

UCLA Bioinformatics IDP will return with seminars this coming Fall 2020 Quarter

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and current UCLA protocols, there will be no Bioinformatics IDP Seminars for the Spring 2020 Quarter! Sorry for the inconvenience.

Winter Quarter 2020

Monday, January 6
Olivier Harismendy, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, UCSD
“Genomics of Pre-Cancerous Lesions”
Hosted by Paul Boutros

Monday, January 13
Frank Alber, PhD
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics and QCBio, College of Life Sciences, UCLA
“Mapping the spatial organization of genomes and cells”

Monday, January 20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday)
No Seminar

Monday, January 27
Morgan Levine, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology, School of Medicine, Yale University
“DNA Methylation Landscapes in Aging & Disease”
Hosted by Matteo Pelligrini

Monday, February 3
Gavin Ha, PhD
Assistant Member, Computational Biology Program Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center
“Genomic alterations in advanced prostate cancer revealed by tumor and cell-free DNA sequencing”
Hosted by Paul Boutros

Monday, February 10
Yaping Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s, University of Cincinnati
“Cell-free DNA fragmentation patterns: from 1D to 3D”
Hosted by Jasmine Zhou

Monday, February 17 (President’s Day Holiday)
No Seminar

Monday, February 24
Zhiping Weng, PhD
Director, Program in Bioinformatics & Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
“An atlas of polymerase III-transcribed Alu elements across human cell types and tissues”
Hosted by Grace Xiao

Monday, March 2
Oana Carja, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
“On topologies that suppress or amplify selection: the role of spatial structure in evolutionary dynamics”
Hosted by Nandita Garud

Monday, March 9
Chongyuan Luo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human Genetics, Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA
“Single nucleus multi-omics uncovers regulatory diversity of brain cell types and diseases”

Fall Quarter 2019

Monday, September 30
Abraham Palmer, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry, School of Health Sciences, UCSD
Title: “Genetic and genomic studies using more than 10,000 genetically heterogeneous rats: progress, challenges and goals”
Hosted by Jason Ernst

Monday, October 7
Aaron Meyer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Samueli School of Engineering, UCLA
Title: “Using Models in Drug Development: Engineering Cell Type-Selective Cytokines”

Monday, October 14
Shenshen Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biophysics-Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
Title: “Evolving generalists in changing landscapes”

Monday, October 21
Olivier Gevaert, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) and Biomedical Data Science, School of Medicine, Stanford University
Title: “Multi-scale modeling of complex diseases”
Hosted by William Hsu

Monday, October 28
No Seminar

Monday, November 4
Ronglai Shen, PhD
Associate Attending Biostatistician, Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Title: “Harnessing rare somatic variants for tumor classification”
Hosted by Paul Boutros

Monday, November 11 (Veteran’s Day Holiday)
No Seminar

Monday, November 18
Wei Wang, PhD
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Medicine,
University of California, San Diego
Title: “Fundamental and translational aspects of epigenomics”
Hosted by Grace Xiao

Monday, November 25
Gustavo Stolovitzky, PhD
Program Director, Translational Systems Biology and Nanobiotechnology, IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Title: “Isolation, tissue specific RNA markers and early cancer detection studies in circulating extracellular vesicles from prostate and liver cancer patients”
Hosted by Paul Boutros

Monday, December 2
Yoseph Barash, PhD
Associate Professor, Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Modeling RNA Splicing – from “Big Data” RNASeq quantifications to interpreting predictive deep learning models”
Hosted by Grace Xiao

Spring Quarter 2019

Monday, April 1
Su-Li Lee, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
Title: “Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine”
Hosted by Eleazar Eskin

Monday, April 8
Lana Garmire, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Title: “TBD”
Hosted by Matteo Pellegrini

Monday, April 15
Xiang Zhou, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Title: “TBD”
Hosted by Sriram Sankararaman

Monday, April 22
Yun S. Song, PhD
Professor, UC Berkeley
Title: “TBD”
Hosted by Jessica Li

Monday, April 29
Christina Leslie, PhD
Associate Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Title: “TBD”
Hosted by Grace Xiao

Monday, May 13
Paul L. Auer, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Title: “TBD”
Hosted by Bogdan Pasaniuc

Monday, May 20
Sally Blower, PhD
Professor, UCLA
Title: “TBD”

Winter Quarter 2019

Monday, January 7
Han Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston
School of Biomedical Informatics
“Efficient genetic association tests for correlated samples from large-scale whole genome sequencing studies”

Monday, January 14
Hannah Carter, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics
University of California, San Diego
“MHC genotype shapes the oncogenic landscape”

Monday, January 21 (MLK Day)
No Seminar

Monday, January 28
Ran Blekham, PhD
Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development
University of Minnesota
“Functional and Population Genomics of host-microbiome interactions”

Monday, February 4
Vicky Yao, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton University
“Integrative network-based approaches to understand human disease”

Monday, February 11
Wei Li, PhD
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
“Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer Driver Genes”

Monday, February 18 (Presidents Day)
No Seminar

Monday, February 25
Nandita Garud, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept
University of California, Los Angeles
“Rapid Adaptation in Natural Populations: Lessons from Drosophila and the Human Microbiome”

Monday, March 4
Steven Brenner, PhD
Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology Dept
University of California Berkeley
“Sequencing Newborn Genomes”

Monday, March 11
Chaolin Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Columbia University Medical Center
“An RNA-centric view of neurodevelopment: from single nucleotide resolution maps to functions”