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Workshops and Seminars

CPRIT Biomedical Informatics, Genomics, and Translational Cancer Research Training Program (BIG-TCR) Undergraduate Summer Internship Workshops and Seminars.

Seminar Schedule
Date Time Where Speaker
June 10, 2022 Friday 12:00pm–1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room Topic: Advancing Drug Discovery and Repurposing with Machine Learning
Dr. Xiaoqian Jiang
Professor, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston
Director, Center for Secure Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare (SAFE)
June 17, 2022 Friday 12:00pm–1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room Topic: Understanding the Emerging Roles of Onco-ribosomes in Cancer
Catherine Denicourt, Assistant Professor
McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston
July 1, 2022 Friday 12:00pm–1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room Topic: Career Seminar on Academic and Industrial Path
Dr. Hua Xu, The Glassell Family Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Translational AI in Medicine
Dr. Sam Chen, Professor, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston
July 8, 2022 Friday 12:00pm–1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room Topic: Graduate School Application and Fellowship Opportunities
Melissa Glueck, Director, Keck Center, Gulf Coast Consortia
Elvis Parada, School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth Houston
Raquel Salinas, PhD, Director, Student Affairs and Career Development, GSBS
July 15, 2022 Friday 12:00pm–1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room Topic: Analytic and Predictive Modeling with EHR Data
Dr. Fang Li, Assistant Professor, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston
July 22, 2022 Friday 12:00pm–1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room Topic: Fighting Cancer: One Cell at a Time
Nicholas Navin, Ph.D.
Professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Damon-Runyon Innovator, AAAS Wachtel Scholar
July 29, 2022 Friday 12:00pm–1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room Topic: The Non-coding Regulators of Gene Transcription – Old Folks and New Players
Dr. Wenbo Li, Assistant Professor, CPRIT Scholar
McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston
August 12, 2022 Friday 12:00pm–1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room Topic: The End of the Beginning: New Frontiers in Computational Cancer Research
Dr. Huihui Fan, Assistant Professor, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston