Systems Biology Seminars
All talks are held on Thursdays in LSEB 103
24 Cummington Mall at 12:45 PM – Pizza at 12:15
Spring 2019
1/24
Daniel Cohen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
Talk Title:TBA
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
1/31
Tonya Colpitts, PhD
Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Talk Title: Factors influencing arbovirus transmission
Hosted by the Bioinformatics Program
2/7
Kimberly Glass, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Talk Title: Multi-Omic Data Integration in Gene Regulatory Networks
BU Host: Simon Kasif
2/14 – Open Date
2/21
Charles Fisher, PhD
Founder and CEO, Unlearn.AI
Talk Title: Deep learning for comprehensive forecasting of Alzheimer’s Disease progression
BU Host: Pankaj Mehta
2/28 – Open Date
3/7 – Open Date
3/14 – University Spring Break
3/21
Peter Park, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: TBA
BU Host: Simon Kasif
3/28
Herb Levine, PhD
Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering
Co-Director, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP)
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Talk Title: TBA
BU Host: Kirill Korolev
4/4
Michael Baym, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Talk Title:TBA
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
4/11 – Open Date
4/18
Sara Mostafavi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics, and Department of Medical Genetics
University of British Columbia
Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
Talk Title: TBA
BU Host: Simon Kasif
4/25
Qiong Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biophysics
University of Michigan
Talk Title: TBA
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
Fall 2018
9/27
Hyonho Chun, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Math & Statistics
Boston University
Talk Title: A nonnegative robust linear model for deconvolution of proportions
BU Host: Bioinformatics Program
10/4
Qiang Cui, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Boston University
Talk Title: Understanding biomolecular functions with multi-scale computations
BU Host: Bioinformatics Program
10/18
Richard A. Bonneau, PhD
Professor of Biology and Computer Science;
Director, NYU Center for Data Science
Talk Title: Contrasting model-driven and data driven machine learning methods to explore and use biodiversity
BU Host: Simon Kasif
10/23
Alberto Paccanaro, PhD
Professor in Machine Learning & Computational Biology Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology &
Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway, University of London
Talk Title: Answering questions in biology and medicine by making inferences on networks
BU Host: Andrew Emili
10/25
Warren Ruder, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh
Talk Title: Modeling Emergent Behavior in Synthetic Biological Systems
BU Host: Wilson Wong
11/8
Nelson Lau, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Boston University School of Medicine
Talk Title: Can we bioinformatically predict piRNA precursor transcripts?
BU Host: Bioinformatics Program
11/15
Kimberly Glass, PhD
Instructor of Medicine
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: TBA
BU Host: Simon Kasif
11/29
Shirley Liu, PhD
Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics
Harvard & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Talk Title: TBA
BU Host: Simon Kasif
12/6
Matthew Weirauch, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
University of Cincinnati
Talk Title: TBA
BU Host: Trevor Siggers
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