The Computational Biology Seminar is a weekly series of seminars on topics in computational biology presented by invited speakers, Duke faculty, and CBB doctoral and certificate graduate students.
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Spring 2024 Schedule
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Place: 4233 French Family Science Center
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 22 | Josh Granek | Duke University | Kuei-Yueh Ko |
The Microbes Less Traveled: Genomic Technologies for Non-Model Microbes |
| Jan. 29 | Ziv Bar-Joseph | CMU | Nhat Duong | AI / ML in big pharma – omics, molecular design and clinical data analysis |
| Feb. 5 | Fran Supek | IRB Barcelona | Hana Wasserman | Distribution of Mutation Risk Across the Human Genome |
| Feb. 19 | Yi Zhang | Duke University | Changxin Wan | Data-driven understanding of the single-cell space in tumor microenvironment |
| Feb. 26 | Anne-Frances Miller | University of Kentucky | Niven Singh | Quantum Computational Insights Into the Chemical Versatility and Spectral Signatures of Flavins |
| March 4 | Matt Engelhard | TBD | Duke | Methods for Long-Horizon Event Prediction from Electronic Health Record Data |
| March 18 | Hae Kyung Im | U Chicago | Kalyani Kottilil | Incorporating deep learning methods to complex trait genetics |
| March 25 | Jessica Li | UCLA | Kevin Moyung | Enhancing Statistical Rigor in Single-Cell and Spatial Omics Data analysis Using Synthetic Negative Controls |
| April 1 | Britt Adamson | Princeton | Shengyu Li | Mapping the Cellular Determinants of Genome Editing in Human Cells |
| April 8 | Kevin Lin | UW | Anru Zhang | Single-cell paired RNA & ATAC: Surveying broad multi-modal coordination in development and cancer resistance |
| April 15 | Liana Lareau | Berkeley | Stephanie Hoyt | Engineering poison exons to treat Huntington’s disease |
Fall 2023 Schedule
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Place: 4233 French Family Science Center
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 28 | Rohit Singh | Duke University | Raluca Gordan | Machine Learning for Precise Diagnostics and Therapeutics |
| Sept. 11 | Hannah Carter | University of California San Diego | Shengyu Li | Common Variants Influence Immunotherapy Response |
| Sept. 18 | Gilad D. Evrony | NYU | Harshit Sahay | High-fidelity DNA sequencing of the single-strand origins of mutations |
| Sept. 25 | Jeff Headd | Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson | Danting Jiang | Driving Impact in Healthcare through Data Science at Scale |
| Oct. 2 | Mustafa Khasraw, MD | Duke University | Jichun Xie | Longitudinal Bioinformatics Analysis to Correct the Drug Development Paradigm in Oncology |
| Oct. 9 | Omer Bayraktar | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | Odmaa Bayarra | Mapping the Rules of Glioblastoma using Single Cell and Spatial Genomics |
| Oct. 23 | Ferhat Ay | La Jolla Institute | Raluca Gordan | Computational Methods for Studying the 3D Organization of the Human Genome |
| Oct. 30 | Teresa M. Przytycka | NIH | Andrew Soborowski | Computational approaches to delineate interactions between mutagenic signatures, cellular processes, and environment |
| Nov. 6 | Cole Trapnell | University of Washington | Miko Liu | Embryo-Scale Reverse Genetics at Single-Cell Resolution |
| Nov. 13 | Amy Gladfelter | Duke University | TBD | Encoding Physical Properties of the Cytosol |
| Nov. 20 | Geoff Schiebinger | University of British Columbia | Sarah Van Dierdonck | Towards a Mathematical Theory of Development |
| Nov. 27 |
Hamish King Note different time: virtual only @ 3:00pm |
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne | Cymfenee Dean-Phifer | Single-cell genomics to predict the cellular etiology of autoimmune risk loci |
Previous Seminars
Spring 2023 Schedule
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Place: 4233 French Family Science Center
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 30 | Annis Richardson | University of Edinburgh | Sarah Van Dierdonck | How Do Grasses Grow? |
| Feb. 6 | Carl de Boer | University of British Columbia | Cymfenee Dean-Phifer | Biochemical activity is the default DNA state in eukaryotes |
| Feb. 20 | Alex Rubinsteyn | University of North Carolina | Jameson Blount | Towards neoantigen targeting personalized cancer immunotherapies which actually work |
| Feb. 27 | Kelly Ruggles | New York University | Yiling Liu | Using computational multiomics to inform cardiovascular disease, cancer and autoimmunity |
| March 6 | Andrew Allen | Duke University | Scarlett Zou | Using CRISPR to identify genomic regions that control gene expression |
| March 20 | Sushmita Roy | University of Wisconsin - Madison | Shengyu Li | Deciphering Gene Regulatory Networks Of Cell Fate Specification From Bulk And Single Cell Omic Data |
| March 27 | Jason Yang | Rutgers University | Amy Schmid | Systems Biology Insights Into Antimicrobial Resistance Evolution and Physiology |
| April 3 | Quaid Morris | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Hana Wasserman | RBPzoo: The Motifs, Binding Interface and Evolution History of 30,000 Eukaryotic RNA-binding Proteins (RBPs) |
| April 10 | Anoop Patel | Duke University | Miko Liu | Multiomic characterization of cell state heterogeneity in human brain tumors |
| April 17 | Sean Gibbons | Institute for Systems Biology | Ben Neubert | Community-scale metabolic modeling enables precision microbiome engineering |
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Place: 4233 French Family Science Center
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 12 | Anru Zhang | Duke University | Raluca Gordân | Tensor Learning in 2020s: Methodology, Theory, and Biomedical Applications |
| Sept. 19 | David Carlson | Duke University | Raluca Gordân | Learning Electrical Connectomes of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Behaviors |
| Sept. 26 | Nathan Sheffield | University of Virginia | Kevin Moyung | Making sense of non-coding genomic intervals |
| Oct. 10 | Jian Shu | Harvard University | Susan Liu | Decoding cell fates through single-cell genomics and imaging |
| Oct. 17 | Mark Ryser | Duke University | Raluca Gordân | Growth Dynamics of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Recapitulate Normal Breast Development |
| Nov. 7 | Jamie Oaks | Adaptive Biotech/Auburn University | Devang Thakkar | Generalizing phylogenetics to infer patterns predicted by processes of diversification |
| Nov. 14 | Golnaz Vahedi | University of Pennsylvania | Devang Thakkar | A multi-enhancer hub at the Ets1 locus endows competence for T cell differentiation |
| Nov. 21 | Didong Li | University of North Carolina | Susan Liu | Interpretable Gaussian process models for genomic data |
| Nov. 28 | Joe Volpe | LabCorp | Harshit Sahay | A Different Track: Being a Scientist in Industry |
| Dec. 5 | Pranam Chatterjee | Duke University | Harshit Sahay | Towards Programmable Genome, Proteome, and Cell Engineering |