Bioinformatics Seminar Series 2021

Po-Ru Loh,
Bioinformatics Seminar Series: Uncovering hidden genetic variants and their effects on human traits
Speaker(s): Po-Ru Loh
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location:
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Trey Ideker, University of California San Diego
Predicting drug response and synergy using deep learning models of human cancer
Speaker(s): Trey Ideker
Date: Wednesday, March 03, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Katie Pollard, University of California San Francisco
Sequence-structure-function modeling for DNA
Speaker(s): Katie Pollard
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Melissa Gymrek, University of California San Diego
Dissecting the role of tandem repeats in complex human phenotypes
Speaker(s): Melissa Gymrek
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Chris Sander, Harvard Medical School
TBA
Speaker(s): Chris Sander
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Sarah Teichmann, Welcome Sanger Institute
Multi-modal data integration for cell atlas-ing
Speaker(s): Sarah Teichmann
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Alexis Komor, University of California San Diego
Enabling the functional genomics field with base editors
Speaker(s): Alexis Komor
Date: Wednesday, April 07, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
David Jones, University College London
AlphaFold2 - the end of the protein folding problem or the end of the beginning?
Speaker(s): David Jones
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Fabian Theis, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich
Latent space learning in single cell genomics
Speaker(s): Fabian Theis
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Vineet Bafna, University of California San Diego
Extrachromosomal and other mechanisms of oncogene amplification in cancer
Speaker(s): Vineet Bafna
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Evan E. Eichler, Department of Genome Sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Structural variation and the assembly of more complete human genomes
Speaker(s): Evan E. Eichler
Date: Wednesday, May 05, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Cole Trapnell, Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.
MASSIVELY MULTIPLEXED, WHOLE-EMBRYO DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS AT SINGLE-CELL RESOLUTION
Speaker(s): Cole Trapnell
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Serena Nik-Zainal, University of Cambridge
Harnessing the value of whole genome sequencing in human cancers
Speaker(s): Serena Nik-Zainal
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/91842580282
Contact: Patrice Macaluso, 617-253-3037, macaluso@csail.mit.edu
Liana Lareau, UC Berkeley
Identifying cell state associated alternative splicing events and their co-regulation
Speaker(s): Liana Lareau
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Sarah Nyquist, 6173122993, nyquist@mit.edu
Ben Raphael, Princeton University,
Ben Raphael: Quantifying Tumor Heterogeneity across Time and Space
Speaker(s): Ben Raphael, Princeton University
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Christina Leslie, Sloan Kettering Institute,
Christina Leslie: Advances in predictive models for regulatory genomics
Speaker(s): Christina Leslie, Sloan Kettering Institute
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Jeffrey Taft, jmtaft@mit.edu
Stacey D. Finley, University of Southern California,
Stacey D. Finley: Mechanistic modeling of immune cell activation in cancer
Speaker(s): Stacey D. Finley, University of Southern California
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Jeffrey Taft, jmtaft@mit.edu
Aaron Streets, University of California, Berkeley,
Aaron Streets: Single-cell multimodal analysis of thymocyte development reveals drivers of CD4/CD8 lineage commitment
Speaker(s): Aaron Streets, University of California, Berkeley
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Jeffrey Taft, jmtaft@mit.edu
Nima Aghaeepour, Stanford University,
Nima Aghaeepour: Multiomics Analysis of the Immunome, Transcriptome, Microbiome, Proteome, and Metabolome in Term Pregnancy
Speaker(s): Nima Aghaeepour, Stanford University
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Jeffrey Taft, jmtaft@csail.mit.edu
Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford,
Charlotte Deane: Machine learning for early stage drug discovery
Speaker(s): Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Jeffrey Taft, jmtaft@csail.mit.edu
Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),
Jane Thornton: Computational Enzymology: Towards using knowledge of structure and function to predict enzyme transformations and mechanisms.
Speaker(s): Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Jeff Taft, jmtaft@mit.edu
Elodie Ghedin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH,
Elodie Ghedin: Shedding light in a dark place: Microbial ecology of the airways in respiratory infections
Speaker(s): Elodie Ghedin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Date: Wednesday, December 01, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Jeff Taft, jmtaft@mit.edu
Arjun Raj, University of Pennsylvania,
Arjun Raj: Emergent cellular ecosystems in melanoma revealed by single cell analysis
Speaker(s): Arjun Raj, University of Pennsylvania
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94668502175
Contact: Jeffrey Taft, jmtaft@mit.edu