Conferences & Events

2016-2017 Lecture Series

November 2, 2016

Elizabeth Purdom, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
University of California at Berkeley
Robust strategies for the analysis of single-cell mRNA-Seq data

January 11, 2017

Jan Korbel, Ph.D.
Group Lead & Senior Scientist
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelburg, Germany
From genomic variation to molecular mechanism
 

March 8, 2017

Jüri Reimand, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Driver and pathway analysis of 2500 whole cancer genomes with network information
 

March 15, 2017

Keith Baggerly, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Vitamin D, recommendations, reproducibility, and controversy

March 29, 2017

Hongyu Miao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
UTHHSC
Houston, Texas
Statistical inference of genome-wide regulatory landscapes from temporal gene expression data

April 12, 2017

Yi Xing, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Elucidating mRNA isoform complexity in cancer transcriptomes using massive RNA-seq data

April 19, 2017

Christina Curtis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genetics
Co-Director, Molecular Tumor Board
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Delineating the mode and tempo of tumor evolution through spatial computational modeling

April 26, 2017

Bo Li, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard SPH
Boston, Massachusetts
Computational approaches for dissecting interactions between a tumor and the immune system

May 3, 2017

Yuexin Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Immune characterization and prognostic relevance in endometrial cancer

May 10, 2017

G. Traver Hart, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Advancing the state of the art in CRISPR screening for cancer targeting

May 17, 2017

Arvind Rao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Exploring morphological heterogeneity in high-throughput screenings and whole slide pathology

June 7, 2017

Bo Peng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
SoS: An interactive, cross-platform and cross-language workflow system for reproducible data analysis

June 14, 2017

Yiwen Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Integrative approaches for decoding canonical and noncanonical functions of long noncoding RNAs
 

Wednesday, June 21, 2017
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
FC1.2002

Anil Korkut, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Overcoming resistance to targeted cancer therapy with network pharmacology

Room locations

• ACB1.2345 is the Telehealth Conference Room on the first floor of the Ambulatory Clinic Building / Lowry and Peggy Mays Clinic
• ACB1.2325 is a room adjacent to the Telehealth Conference Room
• CPB8.3059 is a conference room on the eighth floor of the Cancer Prevention Building / Dan L. Duncan Building
• FC1.2002 is the AT&T Classroom on the first floor of the Mendelsohn Faculty Cenr
• FCT conference rooms are in the T. Boone Pickens Academic Tower