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Systems Biology Seminars are held on Thursdays at 12:45 PM<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Life Science and Engineering Building, 24 Cummington Mall, Room 103<\/em><\/p>\n

Join Zoom Meeting<\/a> | Meeting ID: 982 7959 3345 | Passcode: 058586<\/p>\n


Spring 2022<\/span><\/h2>\n

February 3<\/strong><\/span>
\nJeff Marlow<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor
\nDepartment of Biology
\nBoston University<\/p>\n

Title: Hot Spots of Microbial Community Activity in Salt Marsh Sediments<\/em>
\nHost: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

March 17<\/strong><\/span>
\nVinay Kartha, PhD
\nBU Bioinformatics Program Alumnus
\nPostdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and the Broad Institute<\/p>\n

Title: Gene regulatory network inference using single-cell\u00a0multi-omics<\/span><\/i><\/em>
\nHost: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

March 31<\/span><\/strong>
\nGenevieve Housman<\/a>, PhD
\nPostdoctoral Scholar
\nSection of Genetic Medicine
\nThe University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0Investigating human and nonhuman primate functional genomics in the skeleton\u00a0<\/em>
\nHost: Simon Kasif, and Kim McCall<\/p>\n

April 14<\/strong><\/span>
\nJan Funke<\/a>, PhD
\nGroup leader at HHMI\u2019s Janelia Research Campus<\/p>\n

Title: Neurotransmitter Classification from Electron Microscopy<\/em>
\nHost: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

April 21<\/strong><\/span>
\nDileep Bhattacharya, PhD
\nDirector, De Novo Analytics<\/p>\n

Title: Enabling Precision Care with Machine Learning<\/em>
\nHost: Charles DeLisi<\/p>\n

April 28<\/strong><\/span>
\nJulia TCW<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor
\nDepartment of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
\nBoston University School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Title: Cholesterol and matrisome pathways dysregulated in human APOE \u03b54 astrocytes and microglia<\/em>
\nHost: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n


Previous Seminars<\/h2>
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Fall 2021<\/span><\/h2>\n

September 23<\/strong>
\nBioinformatics Challenge Project Presentations<\/p>\n

October 21<\/strong><\/span>
\nLiana Lareau<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor
\nDepartment of Bioengineering
\nUC Berkeley<\/p>\n

Title: Splicing regulation in single cells: the signal and the noise<\/em>
\nHost: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

October 28<\/strong><\/span>
\nZeba Wunderlich<\/a>, PhD<\/span>
\nAssistant Professor
\nDepartment Biology
\nBoston University<\/p>\n

Title: Robustness and evolvability: transcriptional control in development and immunity<\/em>
\nHost: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

November 4<\/strong><\/span>
\nMarc A. Edwards<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor of Biology
\nAmherst College<\/p>\n

Title: A mutually inhibitory Ras- PI(3,4)P2 feedback loop regulates migration in\u00a0Dictyostelium<\/em>
\nHost: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

November 11<\/span><\/strong>
\nMary Elting<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor
\nDepartment of Physics
\nNC State University<\/p>\n

Title: Destructive Testing on the Cytoskeleton: Probing Mechanics of Cell Division by Laser Ablation\u00a0<\/em>
\nHost: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

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Spring 2021<\/span><\/h2>\n

January 28<\/strong><\/span>
\nAna Fiszbein<\/a>, PhD
\nPostdoctoral Fellow, Burge Lab
\nDepartment of Biology
\nMIT
\n*Joining the BU Department of Biology Jan. 2021<\/p>\n

Title: Dynamic determinants of co-transcriptional gene regulation<\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

February 4<\/strong><\/span>
\nAlma Dal Co<\/a>, PhD <\/span>
\nSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences<\/span>
\nHarvard University<\/span><\/p>\n

Title: Interaction networks in microbial communities<\/em><\/span>
\nBU Host: Joe Larkin<\/span><\/p>\n

February 18<\/strong><\/span>
\nLivnat Jerby-Arnon<\/a>, PhD<\/span>
\nAssistant Professor,\u00a0Department of Genetics
\nChan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator
\nStanford University School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Title: Dissecting <\/span>multifactorial\u00a0immune evasion mechanisms in cancer<\/span>: From single-cell data to c<\/span>ombinatorial perturbations<\/span><\/em><\/span>
\nBU Host: Simon KasifAssistant Professor<\/span><\/p>\n

March 11<\/strong><\/span>
\nRuben Dries<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor of Medicine
\nDivisions of Hematology and Oncology\u00a0and Computational Biomedicine
\nAssociate Member, Center for\u00a0Regenerative Medicine (CReM)
\nBoston University School of Medicine<\/span><\/p>\n

Title: Building tools to explore the emerging field of spatial transcriptomics<\/em><\/span>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/span><\/p>\n

March 18<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nMelissa Gymrek<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor of\u00a0Medicine
\nDepartments of Computer Science and Engineering
\nUC San Diego<\/p>\n

Title: Genome-wide characterization of de novo tandem repeat mutations in humans and their contribution to autism spectrum disorders<\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

April 1<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nRyan Logan<\/a>, PhD
\nAssociate Professor
\nDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
\nBoston University School of Medicine<\/span><\/p>\n

Title: Novel Sleep and Circadian Mechanisms Linking Rodents and Humans in Opioid Addiction<\/span><\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/span><\/p>\n

April 8<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nXiaoling Zhang<\/a>, PhD<\/span>
\n BU Bioinformatics PhD Alum<\/span>
\nAssistant Professor of Medicine
\nDepartments of Medicine, and\u00a0Biomedical Genetics<\/span><\/p>\n

Title: From GWAS to Function: Using Functional Genomics to Identify the Mechanisms Underlying Complex Diseases<\/span><\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/span><\/p>\n

April 15<\/strong><\/span>
\nCatherine Freije<\/a>, PhD\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nAssociate, Rice Lab<\/span><\/span>
\nLaboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease<\/span><\/span>
\nRockefeller University<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0Point-of-care and multiplexed CRISPR technologies for SARS-CoV-2 detection<\/span><\/em>
\n*Based on work done in the Sabeti Lab<\/a>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif, and Mo Khalil<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Fall 2020
\n<\/span><\/h2>\n

September 24<\/strong><\/span>
\nDileep Bhattacharya<\/a>, PhD
\nDirector, Denovo Analytics<\/p>\n

Title: Adaptive Intelligence Platform for\u00a0Cancer Care Delivery<\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

October 1<\/strong><\/span>
\nMegan McClean<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Department Biomedical Engineering
\nUniversity of Wisconsin\u2013Madison<\/p>\n

Title: Single-cell measurement and control to unravel yeast gene expression heterogeneity<\/em>
\nBU Host: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

October 15<\/strong><\/span>
\nGyungah Jun<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Biomedical Genetics Section
\nDepartment of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Title: Genome Guided Drug Discovery Framework in Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

November 5<\/strong><\/span>
\n*Rescheduled*
\nAna Fiszbein<\/a>, PhD
\nPostdoctoral Fellow, Burge Lab
\nDepartment of Biology
\nMIT
\n*Joining the BU Department of Biology Jan. 2021<\/p>\n

Title: Dynamic determinants of co-transcriptional gene regulation<\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

November 12<\/strong><\/span>
\nMartin Aryee<\/a>, PhD
\nMerkin Institute Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
\nAssistant Professor, Department of Pathology,\u00a0Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
\nAssistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
\nInstitute Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT<\/p>\n

Title: TBA<\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

December 3<\/strong><\/span>
\nMegan McClean<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Department Biomedical Engineering
\nUniversity of Wisconsin\u2013Madison<\/p>\n

Title: Single-cell measurement and control to unravel yeast gene expression heterogeneity<\/em>
\nBU Host: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

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Spring 2020<\/span><\/h2>\n

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January 30<\/span>
\nNicole Vega<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Department of Biology
\nEmory University<\/p>\n

Title: Microbiome ecology in a C. elegans model<\/em>
\nBU Host: Mo Khalil<\/p>\n

February 6<\/span>
\nBrian Cleary<\/a>, PhD
\nBroad Fellow, Broad Institute<\/p>\n

Title: Studying cell and tissue physiology with random composite experiments<\/em>
\nBU Host: Pankaj Mehta<\/p>\n

February 13<\/span>
\nTara L. Deans<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
\nUniversity of Utah<\/p>\n

Title: Engineering\u00a0stem\u00a0cells to create novel delivery vehicles<\/em>
\nBU Host: Mo Khalil<\/p>\n

February 27<\/span>
\nJoel S. Freundlich<\/a>, PhD
\nAssociate Professor, Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, and of Medicine
\nRutgers University<\/p>\n

Title: Engineering Platforms\u00a0for\u00a0Infectious Disease Research<\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

March 5<\/span>
\nElham Azizi<\/a>, PhD
\nBU Bioinformatics PhD Alum
\nHerbert & Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research, in Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
\nAssistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
\nColumbia University<\/p>\n

Title: Machine Learning for Modeling the Complex Tumor Microenvironment<\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

March 12 – University Spring Break<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

March 19 * Rescheduled to October 1<\/span>
\nMegan McClean<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Department Biomedical Engineering
\nUniversity of Wisconsin\u2013Madison<\/p>\n

Title: Single-cell measurement and control to unravel yeast gene expression heterogeneity<\/em>
\nBU Host: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

March 26 <\/span>*Rescheduled to October 22<\/span>
\nRoy Wollman<\/a>, PhD
\nAssociate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Integrative Biology and Physiology
\nUCLA<\/p>\n

Title: TBA<\/em>
\nBU Host: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

April 2
\n*Rescheduled Date TBA<\/span>
\nKaren E. Kasza<\/a>, PhD
\nClare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
\nColumbia University<\/p>\n

Title: TBA<\/em>
\nBU Host: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

April 16
\n*Rescheduled Date TBA<\/span>
\nGregory Babbitt<\/a>, PhD
\nAssociate Professor
\nThomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences
\nBioinformatics Program
\nRochester Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

Title: Machine learning-based detection of functionally conserved binding interactions in molecular dynamic simulations\u00a0<\/em>
\nBU Host: Tom Tullius<\/p>\n

April 23
\n*Rescheduled Date TBA<\/span>
\nLivant Jerby<\/a>, PhD
\nBurroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Postdoctoral Fellow, Aviv Regev Lab
\nBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard<\/p>\n

Title: TBA<\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

April 30
\n*Rescheduled Date TBA<\/span>
\nBrian Chow<\/a>, PhD
\nAssociate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Title: TBA<\/em>
\nBU Host: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

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Fall 2019<\/span><\/h2>\n

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October 17<\/span>
\nEinat Segev<\/a>, PhD
\nPrincipal Investigator
\nDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences
\nWeizmann Institute of Science<\/p>\n

Title: Biogeochemistry of Algal-Bacterial Interactions<\/em>
\nBU Host: Daniel Segr\u00e8<\/p>\n

October 24<\/span>
\nJeffrey J. Tabor<\/a>, PhD
\nAssociate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
\nRice University<\/p>\n

Title: Repurposing bacterial two-component systems as sensors for synthetic biology applications<\/em>
\nBU Host: Mary Dunlop<\/p>\n

November 7<\/span>
\nMax Leiserson<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor of Computer Science
\nUniversity of Maryland, College Park<\/p>\n

Title: Methods for Characterizing the Activity of Mutational Processes in Cancer<\/em>
\nBU Host: Mark Crovella<\/p>\n

November 14<\/span>
\nAlberto Cruz-Martin<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Department of Biology
\nBoston University<\/p>\n

Title: Defining transcriptional networks in early life stress models and schizophrenia<\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

November 21<\/span>
\nAntonina Mitrofanova<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics
\nDepartment of Health Informatics, Rutgers School of Health Professions<\/p>\n

Title: New frontiers in predicting markers of treatment response\u00a0in cancer patients<\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

December 5<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <\/strong>
\nSamuel Brown<\/a>, PhD
\nAssociate Professor
\nBiological Sciences
\nGeorgia Tech<\/p>\n

Title: Evolution-proof drugs: conditional treatment strategies for effective and evolutionarily robust infection control
\n<\/em>Host: Kirill Korolev<\/p>\n

Spring 2019<\/span><\/h2>\n

January 24<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <\/strong>
\nDaniel Cohen<\/a>, PhD
\nMechanical & Aerospace Engineering\u00a0<\/o:p>
\nPrinceton University<\/p>\n

Title: Crowd Control: swarm approaches to engineer collective cell behaviors<\/em>
\nBU Host: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

January 31<\/strong><\/span>
\nTonya Colpitts<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Microbiology
\nBoston University School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Title: Factors influencing arbovirus transmission<\/em>
\nHosted by the Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

February 7<\/strong><\/span>
\nKimberly Glass<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
\nAssociate Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital<\/p>\n

Title: Multi-Omic Data Integration in Gene Regulatory Networks<\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

February 21<\/strong><\/span>
\nCharles Fisher<\/a>, PhD
\nFounder and CEO, Unlearn.AI<\/p>\n

Title: Deep learning for comprehensive forecasting of Alzheimer’s Disease progression<\/em>
\nBU Host: Pankaj Mehta<\/p>\n

February 28<\/span> <\/strong>
\nPostponed due to weather<\/em><\/p>\n

March 14 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\nno seminar – spring break<\/em><\/p>\n

March 21<\/strong><\/span>
\nPeter Park<\/a>, PhD
\nProfessor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
\nHarvard Medical School<\/p>\n

Title: Searching for Somatic Mutations in the Brain<\/em>
\nHost: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

March 28<\/strong><\/span>
\nHerb Levine<\/a>, PhD
\nUniversity Distinguished Professor <\/span>
\nDepartments of Physics and Bioengineering<\/span>
\nNortheastern University<\/p>\n

Title: What is epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity\u00a0and why is it important for metastasis?<\/em>
\nBU Host: Kirill Korolev<\/p>\n

April 4<\/strong><\/span>
\nMichael Baym<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
\nHarvard Medical School<\/p>\n

Title: Evolutionary Approaches to Antibiotic Resistance<\/em>
\nBU Host: Allyson Sgro<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

April 11<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <\/strong>
\nEsther Rheinbay<\/a>, PhD
\n2012 BU Bioinformatics PhD Alum
\nMember of the Faculty of Medicine
\nMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
\nHarvard Medical School<\/p>\n

Title: Regulatory Drivers in Cancer<\/em>
\nHost: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

April 18<\/strong><\/span>
\nSara Mostafavi<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Departments of Statistics and Medical Genetics
\nUniversity of British Columbia
\nScientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Title: Statistical deconvolution of gene expression in the brain<\/strong><\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

April 25<\/strong><\/span>
\nQiong Yang<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor of Biophysics
\nUniversity of Michigan
\n<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

Title: From molecules to development: analyzing topology-function relationship and pattern formation of biological oscillators<\/strong><\/em>
\nBU Host: Allyson Sgro<\/p>\n

May 2<\/strong><\/span>
\nBree Aldridge<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Microbiology
\nTufts University School of Medicine
\n<\/em>
\nTitle: The long and the short of it: paths to engineering TB treatment<\/em>
\nBU Host: Mary Dunlop<\/p>\n

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Fall 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

September 27\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>
\nHyonho Chun, PhD
\nAssociate Professor, Department of Math & Statistics
\nBoston University<\/p>\n

Title: A nonnegative robust linear model for deconvolution of proportions <\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

October 4 <\/strong><\/span>
\nQiang Cui<\/a>, PhD
\nProfessor, Department of Chemistry
\nBoston University<\/p>\n

Title: <\/em>Understanding biomolecular functions with multi-scale computations<\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

October 18<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/a>Richard A. Bonneau<\/a>, PhD
\nProfessor of Biology and Computer Science;
\nDirector, NYU Center for Data Science<\/p>\n

Title: <\/em>Contrasting model-driven and data driven machine learning methods to explore and use biodiversity<\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

October 23<\/strong><\/span>
\nAlberto Paccanaro<\/a>, PhD
\nProfessor in Machine Learning & Computational Biology Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology &
\nDepartment of Computer Science
\nRoyal Holloway, University of London<\/p>\n

Talk Title: Answering questions in biology and medicine by making inferences on networks<\/em>
\nBU Host: Andrew Emili<\/p>\n

October 25<\/strong><\/span>
\nWarren Ruder<\/a>, PhD
\nAssistant Professor
\nDepartment of Bioengineering
\nUniversity of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n

Title: Modeling Emergent Behavior in Synthetic Biological Systems<\/em>
\nBU Host: Wilson Wong<\/p>\n

November 8<\/strong><\/span>
\nNelson Lau<\/a>, PhD
\nAssociate Professor
\nDepartment of Biochemistry
\nBoston University School of Medicine<\/p>\n

Title: Can we bioinformatically predict piRNA precursor transcripts?<\/em>
\nBU Host: Bioinformatics Program<\/p>\n

November 15<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/a>Kimberly Glass<\/a>, PhD
\nInstructor of Medicine
\nChanning Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine
\nBrigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School<\/p>\n

Title: TBA<\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

November 29<\/span> <\/strong>
\nShirley Liu<\/a>, PhD
\nBiostatistics and Computational Biology
\nCenter for Functional Cancer Epigenetics
\nHarvard & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute<\/p>\n

Title: Mining and Integrating Large-scale Tumor Molecular Profiles to Inform Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy<\/em>
\nBU Host: Simon Kasif<\/p>\n

December 6<\/span> <\/strong>
\n<\/a>Matthew Weirauch<\/a>, PhD
\nAssociate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
\nUniversity of Cincinnati<\/p>\n

Title: Gene Regulation\u00a0in Health and Disease<\/em>
\nBU Host: Trevor Siggers<\/p>\n

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Archive Systems Biology Seminar Fall ’09 – Spring ’18<\/a><\/h4>\n

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