CPH Seminars

2023 CPH Seminars

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 Lin	Applying 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 Son	Deep Learning Informed Discovery of Gene Phenotype Association and Gene Function Via in Silico Gene Perturbations  Transcriptome Analysis for Predicting Response to Immunotherapy in Lung Adenocarcinoma
09/22/2023	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 Data
04/21/2023	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 Sclerosis
04/14/2023	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 Cancer
04/07/2023	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 Orofacial
03/31/2023	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

2021 CPH Seminars

Date: 12/10/2021
Speaker: Astrid M. Manuel
Topic: TBD

Date: 12/3/2021
Speaker: Chi-Ren Shyu, PhD
Topic: Explainable and Actional Artificial Intelligence (X2AI) in Drug Repositioning and Outcome Research

Date: 11/26/2021
Speaker: Thanksgiving Break

Date: 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 Data

Date: 11/12/2021
Speaker: Bing Yu, PhD
Topic: Multi-omics approaches to study the etiology of cardiometabolic diseases

Date: 11/05/2021
Speaker: Jubao Duan, PhD
Topic: Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (hiPSC) and Precision Medicine: from Functional Genomics to Disease Biology

Date: 10/29/2021
Speaker: Hyun-Hwan Jeong, PhD
Topic: Characterizing Retrotransposons in Alzheimer's Disease by Mining Large-Scale Human Brain Transcriptome Data

Date: 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 Pathways

Date: 10/15/2021
Speaker: Jake Chen, PhD
Topic: Integrative Systems Biology Modeling for Precision Oncology

Date: 10/08/2021
Speaker: Casey Overby Taylor, Ph.D.
Topic: Clustering to uncover patient profiles to enable more meaningful research and clinical engagement

Date: 10/01/2021
Speaker: Degui Zhi, PhD
Topic: Genetics of Deep-Learning-Derived Neuroimaging Endophenotypes for Alzheimer's Disease

Date: 9/24/2021
Speaker: Andi Liu
Topic: Module search of brain region-specific proteome in Alzheimer’s disease

Date: 9/17/2021
Speaker: Joshua Shulman, PhD
Topic: The Brain Transcriptome in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

Date: 9/10/2021
Speaker: Jim Zheng, PhD
Topic: Presence of Complete Murine Viral Genome Sequences in Patient-Derived Xenografts

Date: 9/3/2021
Speaker: Peng Wei, PhD
Topic: Integrative Analysis of Multi-Omics Data for Complex Disease

Date: 4/30/2021
Speaker: Anil Korkut
Topic: Precision Combination Therapies Based on Recurrent Oncogenic Co-Alterations

Date: 4/23/2021
Speaker: Jun Wan
Topic: Updated Trends in SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Variants and Mortality Association

Date: 4/16/2021
Speaker: Prahlad T. Ram
Topic: Whole Genome 4D/CRSPR Screen Identifies Early Network Events In Metastasis

Date: 4/9/2021
Speaker: Ziqiang An
Topic: Antibody therapies for the treatment of COVID-19

Date: 4/2/2021
Speaker: Tao Wu
Topic: A New Type of Epigenetic Modification in Mammalian DNA

Date: 3/26/2021
Speaker: Astrid M. Manuel
Genetic and Epigenetic Factors Inferred Gene Regulatory Network in Multiple Sclerosis

Date 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 data

Date: 3/12/2021
Speaker: Degui Zhi
Topic: Recent progress in efficient population genetic informatics from the perspective of IBD segments

Date: 3/5/2021
Speaker: Lei Wei
Topic: Applications of Ultradeep Sequencing in Translational Research

Date: 2/26/2021
Speaker: Ruli Gao
Topic: Single cell genomics for analyzing tumor cell lineages & cell fates

Date: 2/19/2021
CANCEL
Cancelled due to Winter Storm

Date: 2/19/2021
CANCEL
Cancelled due to Winter Storm

Date: 2/12/2021
Speaker: David Wheeler Topic: Exceptional Responders: Inferences from N of 1 experiments

Date: 2/5/2021
Speaker: Su Wang
Topic: XPack-reads: Model-based Compression of Gene Read Count Matrices

Date: 1/29/2021
Speaker: Yejin Kim
Topic: Drug Repurposing for COVID-19 Using Graph Neural Network with Genetic, Mechanistic and Epidemiological Validation

Date: 1/22/2021
Speaker: Ziyi Li Topic: Dissecting High-Throughput Signals from Heterogeneous Sample

Date: 1/22/2021
Speaker: Ziyi Li Topic: Dissecting High-Throughput Signals from Heterogeneous Sample

Date: 01/15/2021
Speaker: Yulin Dai
Topic: Transcriptome-wide analysis pinpoints host genetic factor on CXCR6 expression underlying the severity of COVID-19

Date: 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.

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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, TX

CPH 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

2019 CPH Seminars

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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: No Seminar
Speaker: Guangsheng Pei and Yulin Dai
10/11/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: “Psychiatric GWAS, PsychENCODE and After"
Speaker: Chunyu Liu, Ph.D.
10/04/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: “OMICs Approaches to Studying Autoimmunity”
Speaker: Chandra Mohan
09/20/2019, 12 p.m., UCT E618, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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

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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, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Yoshua Esquenazi, MD
12/07/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Guangsheng Pei & Yulin Dai
11/30/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: No Seminar
THANKSGIVING BREAK
11/23/2018

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Arko Barman
11/16/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: TACC resource introduction
William J. Allen
11/09/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Sheng Pan
11/02/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Gindy Bekhet, Laila R
10/26/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: Penalized Weighting Methods for Robust Copy Number Variation Detection
Xiaoli Gao
10/19/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Yi-Ching Tang
10/12/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Xinyu Wang
10/05/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Degui Zhi
9/28/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Arif Harmanci
9/21/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Yang Xie
9/14/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH Seminar: TBA
Yidong Chen & Yufei Huang
9/07/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: Proteogenomics: A New Avenue for Cancer Research
Bing Zhang, Ph.D.
3/30/2018, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CAPABILITIES 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 PM

Where:

University of Texas Houston
6431 Fannin Street, MSB 2.006, Houston, Texas 77030, USA

Lunch will be provided.*

To view more details about this event, please click on the "Register" button below.

REGISTER

There is no charge to attend this event. However, registration is required.

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2017 CPH Seminars

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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: Evaluating the Evaluation of Cancer Driver Genes
Rachel Karchin, Ph.D.
12/1/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: Annotating Regulatory Variants for Precision Medicine
Dr. Junwen Wang, Ph.D.
9/15/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

I. 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: Data-Driven Approaches For Efficient Drug Discovery
Dr. WanKyu Kim, Ph.D.
6/23/2017, 3 p.m., UCT1412, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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

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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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: Visualizing Human Genome in Time and Space
Wenjin "Jim" Zheng, Ph.D.
3/3/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: Population-specific imputation of gene expression for pharmacogenomics
Assaf Gottlieb, Ph.D.
2/10/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH Seminar: Challenges in HTS Data Analysis and Clinical Applications
Yuriy Fofanov, Ph.D.
1/27/2017, 12 p.m., UCT1414, 7000 Fannin St., Houston, TX

CPH 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

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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, TX

I. 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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, TX

CPH 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