Our seminars in Precision Medicine introduce and discuss recent advances, frontier technologies, case studies, and future direction in precision medicine. The topics cover precision medicine, bioinformatics, systems biology, pharmacogenomics, genetics, genomic medicine, study design, methodologies and computational tools.
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2016 - 2017
CPH Seminar: Exploring Disease Mechanisms using Genetically Regulated Endophenotypes
Hae Kyung Im, Ph.D.
12/8/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Special Seminar: Diffusion MRI of the Brain: Principles and Applications in Neuroscience
Rodrigo de Luis Garcia, Ph.D.
12/4/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Evaluating the Evaluation of Cancer Driver Genes
Rachel Karchin, Ph.D.
12/1/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Post GWAS Schizophrenia Study: What we do now?
Xiangning (Sam) Chen, Ph.D.
11/10/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Special Seminar: Integrative Analysis of Long Noncoding RNA and Transcription in Neural Cell Fate Determination and Spinal Cord Injury
Jiaqian Wu, Ph.D.
11/3/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Special Seminar: Integrating Proteomics with Drug Screen Provides Novel Information Content
Wei Zhao, Ph.D.
10/13/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Special Seminar: Identification of genome-wide non-canonical spliced regions, including IRE1a targeted regions with Read-Split-Fly algorithm
Yongsheng Bai, Ph.D.
10/6/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Using Artificial Intelligence to Plan and Conduct Bioinformatics Analyses
Jeffrey T. Chang, Ph.D.
9/29/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Integrated Analysis of TCGA Genomic Data Reveals Clinically important Subtypes in Ovarian and Endometrial Cancer
Yuexin Liu, Ph.D.
9/22/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Annotating Regulatory Variants for Precision Medicine
Dr. Junwen Wang, Ph.D.
9/15/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXI. CPH Seminar: TissGDB: Tissue specific Gene Database in Cancer
Pora Kim, Ph.D.
II. CPH Seminar: Genetic Variants in microRNSA Genes and Targets associated with Cardiovascular Disease risk factors in the African American population
Chang Li, Ph.D.
9/8/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Special Seminar: Match up Nature Products with Cancer Targets in the Era of Precision Medicine
Dr. Wendong Huang, Ph.D.
8/18/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Special Seminar: Privacy-Preserving Sharing and Analyzing Sensitive and Biomedical Data
Dr. Xiaoqian Jiang, Ph.D.
6/30/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Data-Driven Approaches For Efficient Drug Discovery
Dr. WanKyu Kim, Ph.D.
6/23/2017, 3 p.m., UCT1412, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Using The Blueprint Of the Human Genome To Understand The Causes Of Metabolic Disease
Luca Lotta, Ph.D.
6/1/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1412, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Progression and Subtypes of Prediabetes with Metabolomics Profiling in Starr County Mexican Americans
Jun Goo, Ph.D.
5/5/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: FunSPU: an adaptive multiple functional annotations-based association test of whole genome sequencing data
Peng Wei, Ph.D.
4/28/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Biomarker selection for personalized medicine: Prediction-Oriented Marker Selection (PROMISE)
Soyeon Kim, Ph.D.
4/21/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Emerging Aspects of Personalized Biomedical Data Analysis
Arif Ozgun Harmanci, Ph.D.
4/14/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX
THE 2017 PRECISION MEDICINE DAY
I. CPH Seminar: The UTHealth Biobank and The UT System Health Biobank (UTSHB) Consortium – A Brief Introduction
Jennifer Sanner, Ph.D.
II. CPH Seminar: Biomarkers of Illness Pathophysiology in Patients with Schizophrenia
Olaoluwa Okusaga, Ph.D.
4/7/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Identification genomic variants predispose individuals to thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection
Dongchuan Guo, Ph.D.
3/31/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Computationally efficient hybrid rare variant association test for complex study samples
Han Chen, Ph.D.
3/10/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Visualizing Human Genome in Time and Space
Wenjin "Jim" Zheng, Ph.D.
3/3/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Extensive cryptic splicing upon loss of RBM17 and TDP43 in neurodegeneration models
Zhandong Liu, Ph.D.
2/24/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Dissection novel genetic elements in cancer from The Cancer Genome Atlas
Leng Han, Ph.D.
2/17/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Population-specific imputation of gene expression for pharmacogenomics
Assaf Gottlieb, Ph.D.
2/10/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Pushing the limits of low coverage WGS for population genomics
Fuli Yu, Ph.D.
2/3/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Challenges in HTS Data Analysis and Clinical Applications
Yuriy Fofanov, Ph.D.
1/27/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Bayesian modeling and integration for NGS data analysis
Jason Jianhua Xuan, Ph.D.
1/13/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX
2016 CPH Seminars
THE 2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
The 2016 International conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2016) will be held at BioScience Research Collaborative, Houston Texas from DEC 8-10, 2016. The physical address is 6500 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77030. Please visit Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) for more information on registration, travel etc.
CPH Seminar: Genomic analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates and identification of drug resistant mutations
Wen-Hsiung Li
12/23/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXI. CPH Seminar: Application of Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) in Modern Drug Discovery: The Path from Protein Sequences to Drug Candidates
Pinyi Lu, Ph.D., M.S.
II. CPH Seminar: Investigation of complex trait and disease correlations using GWAS summary data
Hua Sun, Ph.D., M.S.
12/16/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Leukocyte Telomere Length as Predictor of Metabolic Disease in Latinos
Janet Wojcicki, Ph.D.
12/02/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Managing Data as a Product -- Digging by-products in cancer genomic sequencing data pipelines
Jiayin Wang, Ph.D.
11/18/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: An exome-wide sequencing study of lipid response to high-fat meal and fenofibrate in Caucasians: the GOLDN cohorts
Xin Geng, Ph.D.
11/11/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Bioinformatics Analysis of Fusion Genes in Cancer Genomes
Pora Kim, Ph.D,MS
CPH Seminar: Transcriptome analysis of Alzheimer’s disease
Guangchun Han, Ph.D.
11/04/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Functionally oriented association tests in complex traits
Dr. Jennifer “Piper” Below, Ph.D.
10/28/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Genomic drug repositioning leads to new targets for breast cancer metastasis
Jeffrey Chang, Ph.D.
10/14/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Whole exome and whole genome functional annotation using dbNSFP and WGSA
Xiaoming Liu, Ph.D.
9/13/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Transcription factor and miRNA co-regulatory network analysis and its application in complex diseases
An-Yuan Guo, Ph.D.
9/16/2016, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX -
2018 - 2019
CPH Seminar: Large-Scale Determination of Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Human and Other Organisms
Speaker: Wen-Hsiung Li
12/03/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: FiMap: A Fast Identity by Descent Mapping Test for Biobank-Scale Cohorts
Speaker: Han Chen
11/22/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Deep Learning in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing
Speaker: Lukas Simon, Ph.D.
11/15/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Benchmarking at Scale: Comparing Analysis Workflows for Single-Cell Genomic Data
Speaker: Jun Li.
11/08/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Learning Brain Imaging Patterns from Temporal and Spatial Differences
Speaker: Luca Giancardo, Ph.D.
11/01/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Special Seminar: “Harnessing Machine Learning and Omics Big Data to Discover Novel Risk Loci of Complex Human Diseases"
Speaker: Zhaohui “Steve” Qin, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health Emory University, Atlanta, GA
10/15/2019, 4 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Special Seminar: The Opium Poppy Genome and Morphinan Production
Speaker: Kai Ye, Research Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis
10/15/2019, 4 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: No Seminar
Speaker: Guangsheng Pei and Yulin Dai
10/11/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: “Psychiatric GWAS, PsychENCODE and After"
Speaker: Chunyu Liu, Ph.D.
10/04/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: “Dissect the Biology and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities of p53 (R249S) Mutant Liver Cancer”
Speaker: Jian Tu and Zijun Huo
09/27/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: “OMICs Approaches to Studying Autoimmunity”
Speaker: Chandra Mohan
09/20/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: The Promise of Interoperable Clinical Decision-Support with Contemporary Health IT Standards and Technologies
Speaker: Dr. Aziz Boxwala President of Elimu Informatics, Inc
09/13/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Deciphering the Role of DNA Methylation in Bipolar Disorder
Speaker: Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.
09/09/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Genetics, Epigenetics and Single Cell Genomics in the Retina
Speaker: Rui Chen, PhD
08/30/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX
2018 CPH Seminars
CPH Seminar: Characterization of Genomic Alterations in Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas
Yoshua Esquenazi, MD
12/07/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Yoshua Esquenazi, MD
12/07/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Genome-wide characterization of risk genes reveals spatiotemporal heterogeneity of mental disorders
Yulin Dai, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
11/30/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Guangsheng Pei & Yulin Dai
11/30/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Tissue-Specific Enrichment Analysis (TSEA) to Decode Tissue Specificity
Guangsheng Pei, Postdoctoral Fellow
11/30/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: No Seminar
THANKSGIVING BREAK
11/23/2018CPH Seminar: Towards Automated Eligibility for Endovascular Stroke Therapy using CT-Angiography and Symmetry-sensitive Convolutional Neural Networks
Arko Barman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
11/16/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Arko Barman
11/16/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TACC resource introduction
William J. Allen
11/09/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Texas Advanced Computing Center: Overview of Capabilities and Services
William J. Allen, Ph.D.
11/09/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Sheng Pan
11/02/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Gindy Bekhet, Laila R
10/26/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Penalized Weighting Methods for Robust Copy Number Variation Detection
Xiaoli Gao
10/19/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Yi-Ching Tang
10/12/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Xinyu Wang
10/05/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Degui Zhi
9/28/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Arif Harmanci
9/21/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Yang Xie
9/14/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: TBA
Yidong Chen & Yufei Huang
9/07/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Informatics approaches to identifying cancer mutations and genes for drug repurposing
Zhongming Zhao
8/31/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Proteogenomics: A New Avenue for Cancer Research
Bing Zhang, Ph.D.
3/30/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Computational epigenetic methods to uncover driver genes for cell lineage specification
Kaifu Chen, Ph.D.
3/9/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Helping clinicians in the era of precision medicine: Overview of the TREC 2017 Precision Medicine Track
Kirk Roberts, Ph.D.
2/16/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Identification of disease genes for rare and undiagnosed disorders through an integrative multiomics approach
Shan Chen, Ph.D.
2/9/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: The Potential of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Balancing Anti-aging and Anti-tumor
Ying Luo, Ph.D.
2/2/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Representation learning of 3D brain angiograms, an application for stroke research
Seymanur Capoglu
1/19/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: Alternative Splicing Links Histone Modifications to Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Decision through Cell Cycle-dependent Mechanisms
Yungang Xu, Ph.D.
1/12/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCAPABILITIES AND APPLICATIONS OF NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HOUSTON
University of Texas Houston and Illumina are pleased to invite you to participate in an upcoming seminar on next-generation sequencing.
Topics include:
- Get acquainted with Illumina informatics solutions, including BaseSpace® Sequence Hub and BaseSpace® Informatics Suite
- Learn the basics of RNA-Seq and how your lab can get started
- Combine transcriptomics and epigenetics to gain more insights into human biology and disease
- Learn about the latest methods for whole genome, exome and targeted resequencing
Speaker:
Mehdi Keddache, PhD, Sequencing Specialist, Illumina Inc.
When:
Thursday, January 11, 2018
12:00 PM - 2:00 PMWhere:
University of Texas Houston
6431 Fannin Street, MSB 2.006, Houston, Texas 77030, USALunch will be provided.*
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2020 - 2021
Date: 12/10/2021
Speaker: Astrid M. Manuel
Topic: TBDDate: 12/3/2021
Speaker: Chi-Ren Shyu, PhD
Topic: Explainable and Actional Artificial Intelligence (X2AI) in Drug Repositioning and Outcome ResearchDate: 11/26/2021
Speaker: Thanksgiving BreakDate: 11/19/2021
Speaker: Yulin Dai
Topic: Characterizing Human Complex Traits/Phenotypes and Cell Type Associations Using Gene-Based Rare Variant Association Analysis and Single-Cell RNA-Seq DataDate: 11/12/2021
Speaker: Bing Yu, PhD
Topic: Multi-omics approaches to study the etiology of cardiometabolic diseasesDate: 11/05/2021
Speaker: Jubao Duan, PhD
Topic: Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (hiPSC) and Precision Medicine: from Functional Genomics to Disease BiologyDate: 10/29/2021
Speaker: Hyun-Hwan Jeong, PhD
Topic: Characterizing Retrotransposons in Alzheimer's Disease by Mining Large-Scale Human Brain Transcriptome DataDate: 10/22/2021
Speaker: Yi-Ching Tang
Topic: From Cell Lines to Pharmacogenomics. Transferring Deep Learning Drug Response Prediction Models from Cell Lines to Personalized Therapy Through Molecular PathwaysDate: 10/15/2021
Speaker: Jake Chen, PhD
Topic: Integrative Systems Biology Modeling for Precision OncologyDate: 10/08/2021
Speaker: Casey Overby Taylor, Ph.D.
Topic: Clustering to uncover patient profiles to enable more meaningful research and clinical engagementDate: 10/01/2021
Speaker: Degui Zhi, PhD
Topic: Genetics of Deep-Learning-Derived Neuroimaging Endophenotypes for Alzheimer's DiseaseDate: 9/24/2021
Speaker: Andi Liu
Topic: Module search of brain region-specific proteome in Alzheimer’s diseaseDate: 9/17/2021
Speaker: Joshua Shulman, PhD
Topic: The Brain Transcriptome in Aging and Alzheimer’s DiseaseDate: 9/10/2021
Speaker: Jim Zheng, PhD
Topic: Presence of Complete Murine Viral Genome Sequences in Patient-Derived XenograftsDate: 9/3/2021
Speaker: Peng Wei, PhD
Topic: Integrative Analysis of Multi-Omics Data for Complex DiseaseDate: 4/30/2021
Speaker: Anil Korkut
Topic: Precision Combination Therapies Based on Recurrent Oncogenic Co-AlterationsDate: 4/23/2021
Speaker: Jun Wan
Topic: Updated Trends in SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Variants and Mortality AssociationDate: 4/16/2021
Speaker: Prahlad T. Ram
Topic: Whole Genome 4D/CRSPR Screen Identifies Early Network Events In MetastasisDate: 4/9/2021
Speaker: Ziqiang An
Topic: Antibody therapies for the treatment of COVID-19Date: 4/2/2021
Speaker: Tao Wu
Topic: A New Type of Epigenetic Modification in Mammalian DNADate: 3/26/2021
Speaker: Astrid M. Manuel
Genetic and Epigenetic Factors Inferred Gene Regulatory Network in Multiple SclerosisDate 3/26/2021
Speaker: Fangfang Yan
Topic: EmptyNN: A neural network based on positive-unlabeled learning to remove cell-free droplets and recover lost cells in single-cell RNA sequencing dataDate: 3/12/2021
Speaker: Degui Zhi
Topic: Recent progress in efficient population genetic informatics from the perspective of IBD segmentsDate: 3/5/2021
Speaker: Lei Wei
Topic: Applications of Ultradeep Sequencing in Translational ResearchDate: 2/26/2021
Speaker: Ruli Gao
Topic: Single cell genomics for analyzing tumor cell lineages & cell fatesDate: 2/19/2021
CANCEL
Cancelled due to Winter StormDate: 2/19/2021
CANCEL
Cancelled due to Winter StormDate: 2/12/2021
Speaker: David Wheeler Topic: Exceptional Responders: Inferences from N of 1 experimentsDate: 2/5/2021
Speaker: Su Wang
Topic: XPack-reads: Model-based Compression of Gene Read Count MatricesDate: 1/29/2021
Speaker: Yejin Kim
Topic: Drug Repurposing for COVID-19 Using Graph Neural Network with Genetic, Mechanistic and Epidemiological ValidationDate: 1/22/2021
Speaker: Ziyi Li Topic: Dissecting High-Throughput Signals from Heterogeneous SampleDate: 1/22/2021
Speaker: Ziyi Li Topic: Dissecting High-Throughput Signals from Heterogeneous SampleDate: 01/15/2021
Speaker: Yulin Dai
Topic: Transcriptome-wide analysis pinpoints host genetic factor on CXCR6 expression underlying the severity of COVID-19Date: 01/15/2021
Speaker: Zhongming Zhao
Differential expression of viral transcripts from single-cell RNA sequencing of moderate and severe COVID-19 patients and its implications for case severity.
2020 CPH Seminars
CPH Seminar: Genealogical history inference at biobank scale
Speaker: Ardalan Naseri
01/31/2020, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TXCPH Seminar: EpiSAFARI: Sensitive detection of valleys in epigenetic signals for enhancing annotations of functional elements
Speaker: Arif O. Harmanci
01/17/2020, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX -
2022 - 2023
DATE SPEAKER TOPIC 12/08/2023 Rastko Stojsin & Ye-Lin Son 12/01/2023 Huihuang Yan Functional Analysis of Inherited Risk loci in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Thanksgiving Break 11/17/2023 Hui Li 11/10/2023 Weiyi Peng Revealing Mechanisms of Tumor Immune Evasion by High-Throughput Genetic Screens 11/03/2023 Dr. Uifei Huang Comprehensive analysis reveals single cell resolution dysregulation of retrotransposons in neurodegenerative diseases 10/27/2023 Poonam Desai
Kohong LinApplying single-cell analysis to clinical trials: Evaluating the combination therapy of Azactidine, Venetoclax, and Magrolimab in TP53-mutated AML patients. Drug Repurposing for Neurological Disorder using Graph Neural Network 10/20/2023 Ece (Gamsiz) Uzun Genomic Insights into Cancer Subtypes and Autism Status Prediction: Unveiling Molecular Complexity 10/13/2023 Asaf Gottlieb Tissue-Specific Map of Trans-Models for Gene Regulation Elucidates Complex Regulation Patterns 10/06/2023 Toufeeq Syed 09/29/2023 Rastko Stojsin
& Ye-Lin SonDeep Learning Informed Discovery of Gene Phenotype Association and Gene Function Via in Silico Gene Perturbations
Transcriptome Analysis for Predicting Response to Immunotherapy in Lung Adenocarcinoma09/22/2023 Guangyu Wang Deep Learning Reveals Cell State Transition 09/15/2023 Le Chang Deciphering Genetic Architecture of Human Metabolism and Regulatory Interactions 09/08/2023 Zhongming Zhao Decoding Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation by Tissue and Cell-Type Specificity and Single-Cell Omics 04/28/2023 Kohong Lin, Wendao Liu, Rastko Stojsin Integrating Comorbidity Knowledge for Alzheimer's Disease Drug Repurposing using Multi-task Graph Neural Network
scRNA-Seq Reveals Pre-Existing Lung Cancer Conditions Linked to Increased COVID-19 Risk
Perturbation Based Inference of Phenotype Specific Gene-Gene Interaction Networks from Expression Data04/21/2023 Tanjida Kabir, Jiajinlong Kang Astrid Manuel Development of a Reliable and Operator-independent Deep Segmentation Model to Measure Residual Tumor Volume in Follow-up MRIs for Glioblastoma
Investigating Cellular Heterogeneity at the Single-Cell Level by the Flexible and Mobile Extrachromosomal Circular DNA
Emulating Clinical Trials with Retrospective Health Claims Data to Investigate Montelukast as a Repurposable Drug for Multiple Sclerosis04/14/2023 Shin-Fu Chen, Poonam Desai, Sseu-Pei Hwang Structural and Functional Insights into the Human CDK8 Kinase Module
Single-Cell Profiling of CD8 T Cells in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Reveals a Continuous Spectrum of Differentiation and Clonal Hyper Expansion
Single-Cell Profiling of CD8 T Cells in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Reveals a Continuous Spectrum of Differentiation and Clonal Hyper Expansion Mechanisms of Specialized Onco-ribosome Production in Cancer04/07/2023 Mengyu Zhang Toshi Itai Robust Mixed Model Association Test for Gene-Environment Interactions
Elucidating Gene Functions and Single-Cell Expression Profiles Specific To De Novo Variants in Non-Syndromic Orofacial03/31/2023 Assaf Gottlieb From Cell Lines to Patients. Transferring Deep Learning Drug Response Prediction Models from Cell Lines to Personalized Therapy through Molecular Pathways 03/24/2023 Zhao (Virtual) Statistical Learning Methods for Neuroimaging Data Analysis with Applications 03/10/2023 Zeynep H. Coban Akdemir (Virtual) Identification And Characterization of Transcripts That May Cause Disease Due to Potential Gain-Of-Function or Dominant-Negative Effects Using Multi-Omics Approaches 03/03/2023 Xiaoning Qian Modeling, Learning, and Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Systems 02/24/2023 Jude Savarraj Improving the Prediction of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in the Neurocritical Care Unit 02/17/2023 Chloe Sarnowski Leveraging Multi-Ancestry and Genomic Data to Improve Our Understanding of The Genetic Architecture of Neurological Traits 02/10/2023 Panagiotis (Takis) Benos Interpretable Machine Learning Models and Multi-Scale Medical Research 02/03/2023 Sayed Rzgar Hosseini CCSynergy: An Integrative Deep-Learning Framework Enabling Context-Aware Prediction of Anti-Cancer Drug Synergy 01/27/2023 Retreat Retreat 01/20/2023 Laila Rasmy Learning Based Modeling for Structured Clinical Data 01/13/2023 Zhongming Zhao Computational Approaches for Cancer Drug Target Identification and Accurate Drug Response Prediction 2022 CPH Seminars
DATE SPEAKER TOPIC 12/09/2022 Toshiyuki Itai, Brisa Fernandes, and Tanjida Kabir TBD 12/02/2022 Zhifu Sun TBD 11/18/2022 Jinchuan Xing TBD 11/11/2022 Pora Kim TBD 11/04/2022 Toshiyuki Itai De novo mutations underlying the development of orofacial clefts 10/28/2022 Benxia Hu and Poonam Desai Dissecting the Enhancer and Promoter Recognition Code in Cancer Genome / Dissecting the single-cell landscape of T cells in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia 10/21/2022 Hui-Wen Lo Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis: Biology and Therapy 10/14/2022 Oliver Lichtarge Unraveling complex diseases: forbidden gene paths in the mutational landscape 10/07/2022 Sunil Krishnan Predicting and Overcoming Resistance of Cancers to Radiotherapy 09/30/2022 Kai Wang Quantification and Allele-Specific Characterization Of Short Tandem Repeats From Nanopore Sequencing 09/23/2022 Assaf Gottlieb Expanding genetically regulated gene expression discovery techniques. A story in two acts 09/16/2022 Avisha Das, and Su Wang Leveraging NLP for Mining Biomedical Data: Domain-specific Transformer Models for Drug-Protein Relation Extraction Improving Gene Expression Data Utility by Statistical Modeling 09/09/2022 Xiaoming Liu MetaRNN: Differentiating Rare Pathogenic and Rare Benign Missense SNVs and InDels Using Deep Learning 09/02/2022 Malik Yousef G-S-M: Grouping, Scoring and Modeling Approach. Integration of Biological Domain Knowledge to Machine Learning Based Gene Expression Data Analysis for Selecting Affected Gene Sets -
2024
DATE SPEAKER TOPIC 12/20/2024 TBD TBD 12/13/2024 TBD TBD 12/06/2024 Fang Li Canceled Thanksgiving Break 11/22/2024 Eva M Sevick Harnessing the lymphatic vasculature to tailor immune responses 11/15/2024 Yang Chen, Ph.D. Single-cell transcriptomics revealing the tumor-stroma crosstalk in pancreatic cancer 11/08/2024 Kaichen Tang An Innovative Pipeline for Individualized 3D Visualization and prediction in Facial Surgery 11/01/2024 Xiaomin Liang RAovSeg: Automatic Ovary Segmentation Pipeline for Endometriosis Based on MRI 10/25/2024 Dennis Lal Translating Genomic Discoveries into Clinical Practice: Advances in Bioinformatics for Rare Genetic Disorders 10/18/2024 Devanshi Pratiher Zhongming Zhao AI-Driven Breast Cancer Semantic Segmentation/GENetic data Exploration and Visualization via Intelligent interactive Console 10/11/2024 Qin Ma, OSU and Yongshen Bai Graph representation learning of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data/Annotating Genome Sequencing Data using SNPAAMapper-Python 10/04/2024 Reiri Sono SpliceAI accurately predicts splicing alteration of pathogenic single nucleotide variants 09/27/2024 Honghuan Lin Precision Digital Medicine: Data-Driven Insights into Alzheimer's Disease 09/20/2024 James J. Cai Exploring Advanced Frontiers in Single-Cell Bioinformatics: Moving Beyond Differential Expression Analysis 09/13/2024 Andrew W. Pountain Microbial single cell transcriptomics enables quantitative phenotyping of bacterial physiology and gene regulation 09/06/2024 Medhat Mahmoud Long Read Sequencing: Exploring New Avenues for Medical Research 08/30/2024 Citu Citu Unraveling the Role of Viral Transcriptional Regulators in Human Diseases: An Integrative Genome-Wide Approach 04/26/2024 Kaixiong (Calvin) Ye, PhD TBD 04/19/2024 Jiyang Yu, PhD TBD 04/12/2024 Yiping Chen, PhD Discovery and functional assessment of a novel population of adipocytes in mammals 04/05/2024 Jinyin Zhao TBD 03/29/2024 Professor Kuang-Lei Tsai TBD SPRING BREAK 03/15/2024 Wei Chen, PhD TBD 03/08/2024 SSeu-Pei Hwang
& Anthony DonmezTBD 03/01/2024 Jonathon Cummock TBD 02/23/2024 Zhongming Zhao Deep Learning for Predicting the Response to Chemical and Genetic Perturbations of Cancer 02/16/2024 Professor Hyun-Eui Kim Exploring Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) Interactions Among Organelles 02/09/2024 Shraddha Subramanian Targeting Cancer Stem Cell Plasticity to Overcome Colorectal Cancer Resistance and Relapse 02/02/2024 Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D. Regulation of 3D Genome in Normal Hematopoiesis and Leukemia 01/26/2024 Professor Qingyun (Jim) Liu Signaling Mechanism and Therapeutic Targeting of LGR4/5/6 for Cancer Treatment 01/19/2024 Professor Jinlian Wang Enhanced NGS Data Analysis: A Robust Filtering Framework for the Prioritization of Mutations in Precision Targeted 01/12/2024 Peter Kochunov Overlap between Metabolic Illnesses and Neuropsychiatric Disorders -
2025
2025 Seminars DATE SPEAKER TOPIC Final Exams 5/2/2025 Xiangdong Lyu Stressing Out Therapy-Resistant Cancers 4/25/2025 Trinh Phan & Kaichen Tang A Deep Learning Framework for Contactless Blood Pressure and Oxygen Saturation Estimation via PPG/Decoding and Targeting YTHDF2 in p53-Mutant Osteosarcoma 4/18/2025 Hui Li Trajectory Inference of Macrophage Fate During Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury 4/11/2025 Pora Kim Bioinformatics studies to develop precision medicine for fusion oncogenes aided by AI 4/4/2025 Yubin Zhou Protein Engineering for Biomedical Applications: Insights from Natural Evolution and AI-Driven Design 3/28/2025 Mariana Najjar & Jihyun Park A novel BBB-permeable agent for therapeutic efficacy in breast cancer brain metastases/Strategies to treat glioblastoma targeting TREM2 3/21/2025 Jinlian Wang LIVES: A Living Evidence Synthesis System for Rare Disease Treatment Efficacy and Safety Spring Break 3/7/2025 Qian Liu Enhancing Methylation Biomarker Discovery for Alzheimer’s Disease Using Long-Read Sequencing Technologies 2/28/2025 Jianguo Wen mRNA therapeutics and mRNA sequence optimization 2/21/2025 Yang Liu Autophagy Cargo Selection in Health and Disease 2/14/2025 W. Jim Zheng AI agent network enabled Large Language Model for community-based gene set and cell type annotation 2/7/2025 Yan Hu & Ko-Hong Lin Information Extraction from Clinical Notes: Are We Ready to Switch to Large Language Models?/ Transformer-based glioma patient recurrence prediction model infers novel genetic markers 1/31/2025 Xiaoling Zhang Genetics and Functional Genomics Study of Alzheimer’s Disease 1/24/2025 Xiaobo Zhou Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Medicine: Current and Future Perspectives 1/17/2025 Wei Li Deciphering Human Disease through Tandem Repeats and Epigenetic Liquid BiopsyThis table lists our 2025 seminars.