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

 

10/11 – Open Date

 

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

 

11/1 – rescheduled to 11/29

 

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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