Spring 2020
January 30
Nicole Vega, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Emory University
Title: Microbiome ecology in a C. elegans model
BU Host: Mo Khalil
February 6
Brian Cleary, PhD
Broad Fellow, Broad Institute
Title: Studying cell and tissue physiology with random composite experiments
BU Host: Pankaj Mehta
February 13
Tara L. Deans, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
Title: Engineering stem cells to create novel delivery vehicles
BU Host: Mo Khalil
February 27
Joel S. Freundlich, PhD
Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, and of Medicine
Rutgers University
Title: Engineering Platforms for Infectious Disease Research
BU Host: Bioinformatics Program
March 5
Elham Azizi, PhD
BU Bioinformatics PhD Alum
Herbert & Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research, in Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
Title: Machine Learning for Modeling the Complex Tumor Microenvironment
BU Host: Simon Kasif
March 12 – University Spring Break
March 19 * Rescheduled to October 1
Megan McClean, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Title: Single-cell measurement and control to unravel yeast gene expression heterogeneity
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
March 26 *Rescheduled to October 22
Roy Wollman, PhD
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Integrative Biology and Physiology
UCLA
Title: TBA
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
April 2
*Rescheduled Date TBA
Karen E. Kasza, PhD
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University
Title: TBA
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
April 16
*Rescheduled Date TBA
Gregory Babbitt, PhD
Associate Professor
Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences
Bioinformatics Program
Rochester Institute of Technology
Title: Machine learning-based detection of functionally conserved binding interactions in molecular dynamic simulations
BU Host: Tom Tullius
April 23
*Rescheduled Date TBA
Livant Jerby, PhD
Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Postdoctoral Fellow, Aviv Regev Lab
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Title: TBA
BU Host: Simon Kasif
April 30
*Rescheduled Date TBA
Brian Chow, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
Title: TBA
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
Fall 2019
October 17
Einat Segev, PhD
Principal Investigator
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Weizmann Institute of Science
Title: Biogeochemistry of Algal-Bacterial Interactions
BU Host: Daniel Segrè
October 24
Jeffrey J. Tabor, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Rice University
Title: Repurposing bacterial two-component systems as sensors for synthetic biology applications
BU Host: Mary Dunlop
November 7
Max Leiserson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Methods for Characterizing the Activity of Mutational Processes in Cancer
BU Host: Mark Crovella
November 14
Alberto Cruz-Martin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Boston University
Title: Defining transcriptional networks in early life stress models and schizophrenia
BU Host: Bioinformatics Program
November 21
Antonina Mitrofanova, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers School of Health Professions
Title: New frontiers in predicting markers of treatment response in cancer patients
BU Host: Simon Kasif
December 5
Samuel Brown, PhD
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Georgia Tech
Title: Evolution-proof drugs: conditional treatment strategies for effective and evolutionarily robust infection control
Host: Kirill Korolev
Spring 2019
January 24
Daniel Cohen, PhD
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
Title: Crowd Control: swarm approaches to engineer collective cell behaviors
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
January 31
Tonya Colpitts, PhD
Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Factors influencing arbovirus transmission
Hosted by the Bioinformatics Program
February 7
Kimberly Glass, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Title: Multi-Omic Data Integration in Gene Regulatory Networks
BU Host: Simon Kasif
February 21
Charles Fisher, PhD
Founder and CEO, Unlearn.AI
Title: Deep learning for comprehensive forecasting of Alzheimer’s Disease progression
BU Host: Pankaj Mehta
February 28
Postponed due to weather
March 14
no seminar – spring break
March 21
Peter Park, PhD
Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Title: Searching for Somatic Mutations in the Brain
Host: Simon Kasif
March 28
Herb Levine, PhD
University Distinguished Professor
Departments of Physics and Bioengineering
Northeastern University
Title: What is epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity and why is it important for metastasis?
BU Host: Kirill Korolev
April 4
Michael Baym, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Title: Evolutionary Approaches to Antibiotic Resistance
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
April 11
Esther Rheinbay, PhD
2012 BU Bioinformatics PhD Alum
Member of the Faculty of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Harvard Medical School
Title: Regulatory Drivers in Cancer
Host: Simon Kasif
April 18
Sara Mostafavi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Statistics and Medical Genetics
University of British Columbia
Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
Title: Statistical deconvolution of gene expression in the brain
BU Host: Simon Kasif
April 25
Qiong Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biophysics
University of Michigan
Title: From molecules to development: analyzing topology-function relationship and pattern formation of biological oscillators
BU Host: Allyson Sgro
May 2
Bree Aldridge, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Title: The long and the short of it: paths to engineering TB treatment
BU Host: Mary Dunlop
Fall 2018
September 27
Hyonho Chun, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Math & Statistics
Boston University
Title: A nonnegative robust linear model for deconvolution of proportions
BU Host: Bioinformatics Program
October 4
Qiang Cui, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Boston University
Title: Understanding biomolecular functions with multi-scale computations
BU Host: Bioinformatics Program
October 18
Richard A. Bonneau, PhD
Professor of Biology and Computer Science;
Director, NYU Center for Data Science
Title: Contrasting model-driven and data driven machine learning methods to explore and use biodiversity
BU Host: Simon Kasif
October 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
October 25
Warren Ruder, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Modeling Emergent Behavior in Synthetic Biological Systems
BU Host: Wilson Wong
November 8
Nelson Lau, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Can we bioinformatically predict piRNA precursor transcripts?
BU Host: Bioinformatics Program
November 15
Kimberly Glass, PhD
Instructor of Medicine
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Title: TBA
BU Host: Simon Kasif
November 29
Shirley Liu, PhD
Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics
Harvard & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Title: Mining and Integrating Large-scale Tumor Molecular Profiles to Inform Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
BU Host: Simon Kasif
December 6
Matthew Weirauch, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
University of Cincinnati
Title: Gene Regulation in Health and Disease
BU Host: Trevor Siggers
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