Seminar Series 2024-2025
- Location: 125 Frick Fine Arts Building *Students registered for this course are REQUIRED to attend the seminars being hosted IN PERSON. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class.
- Time: 11:30am
*Out of respect for the speakers, please be on time and in your seat by 11:25am - In order to receive a passing grade, students registered for this course are only permitted 2 unexcused absences per semester. Please email cpcb.seminar@gmail.com if you need to be excused from attending.
If you are NOT taking this course for credit, you may sign in to view these talks over Zoom:
Zoom link: In email invite
Date |
Speaker |
Host |
Title |
| September 6, 2024 | Afshin Beheshti University of Pittsburgh |
Nate Lord (PITT) | "From Earth to the Stars: Mitochondrial Stress as the Epicenter of Spaceflight Impact and microRNAs as Promising Countermeasures" |
| September 13, 2024 | Jian Ma (CMU) |
"Statistical Reference free Genomics Solves Myriad Problems in Bioinformatics" |
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| September 20, 2024 |
Trevor Siggers
Boston University |
Robin Lee (PITT) |
"Characterizing transcription factor-cofactor networks to understand gene regulatory logic and the function of non-coding single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)"
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| September 27, 2024 | Greg Johnson *CPCB Alum NewLimit *CANCELLED - To Be Rescheduled |
David Koes (PITT) | "Accelerating Therapeutic Discovery with Epigenetic Reprogramming and Machine Learning at NewLimit" |
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October 4, 2024
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Yana Bromberg Emory University |
David Koes (PITT) | "Learning the Language of Life from DNA and Proteins" |
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October 11, 2024
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Stanford University
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Nate Lord (PITT) | "Switches and Waves in Biology" |
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October 18, 2024
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NO SEMINAR |
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October 25, 2024
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NO SEMINAR | ||
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November 1, 2024
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Christina Boucher |
William Yu (CMU) |
"Building scalable indexes that can be efficiently queried"
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November 8, 2024
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Gili Greenbaum
Hebrew University |
Oana Carja (CMU) | "Bio-engineering entire species in the wild: The eco-evolutionary dynamics of gene drives" |
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November 15, 2024
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NO SEMINAR
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November 22, 2024
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Julia Salzman |
Jian Ma (CMU)
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"Statistical Reference free Genomics Solves Myriad Problems in Bioinformatics"
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| November 29, 2024 | NO SEMINAR | ||
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December 6, 2024
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Lorin Crawford
Brown University |
Maria Chikina (PITT) |
"Statistical opportunities in defining, modeling, and targeting cell state in cancer"
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WINTER BREAK |
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January 17, 2025
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NO SEMINAR
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January 24, 2025
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Lei Li |
David Koes (PITT) | "Generative AI for Functional Protein Design" |
| January 31, 2025 |
Nicholas Boffi |
David Koes (PITT) |
"Generative modeling with stochastic interpolants" |
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February 7, 2025
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Steven McCarroll Harvard Medical School |
Andreas Pfenning (CMU) & Kathryn Roeder (CMU) | "The ticking DNA clock: Somatic DNA-repeat expansion and Huntington's disease" |
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February 14, 2025
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Paul Jensen University of Michigan |
Jose Lugo-Martinez (CMU) | "Exploring phenotypes and genotypes with a robot scientist" |
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February 21, 2025
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Emma Lundberg Stanford University |
Oana Carja (CMU) | "Decoding human cell architectures - from spatial proteomics to AI-powered whole cell modeling" |
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February 28, 2025
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NO SEMINAR
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March 7, 2025
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NO SEMINAR | ||
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March 14, 2025
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Alham Azizi |
Russell Schwartz (CMU) | "Decoding Tumor Microenvironment Dynamics with Machine Learning" |
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March 21, 2025
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Hattie Chung |
Nate Lord (PITT) | "Computational and experimental methods to dissect tissue homeostasis" |
| March 28, 2025 | Sarah Cobey University of Chicago |
John Barton (PITT) |
"Immune memory, viral evolution, and repeated vaccination against influenza" |
| April 4, 2025 |
NO SEMINAR |
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April 11, 2025
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Claudia Solís-Lemus University of Wisconsin-Madison *CANCELLED - To Be Rescheduled |
Dannie Durand (CMU) | "The good, the bad and the ugly of deep learning in phylogenetics" |
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April 18, 2025
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Jing Zhang University of California, Irvine |
Min Xu (CMU) | "Characterizing gene regulatory grammar at a single-cell resolution" |
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April 25, 2025
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Nika Shakiba |
Nate Lord (PITT) | "Probing and programming multicellular systems for regenerative medicine" |