Conferences & Events
2017-2018 Lecture Series
June 20, 2018
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
FCT2.4142, Room B
Ekta Khurana, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Weill Medical College
Cornell University
New York, New York
Shedding light on dark matter data: Noncoding genetic variation in cancer
June 13, 2018
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
FCT2.4144, Room A
Yiwen Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Integrated multi-omic approaches for decoding the function and mechanism of nucleo-cytoplasmic transport
June 6, 2018
Yuexin Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Thermodynamic modeling of microRNA–target binding interaction
May 30, 2018
Han Xu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Epigenetics & Molecular Carcinogenesis
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Computational approaches for drug target discovery from CRISPR functional screens
May 9, 2018
Bo Peng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
SoS + JupyterHub: A cost-effective approach to reproducible data analysis
April 23, 2018
Peter Van Loo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics
University of Leuven
Flanders, Belgium
Molecular archeology of cancer
April 20, 2018
Jonas Demeulemeester, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cancer Genomics
The Francis Crick Institute
London, UK
Leaping through tumor evolution: A ride on the back of chromothripsis, chromoplexy, and kataegis
April 11, 2018
Paul Boutros, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology
and Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The origins of tumor aggressivity
April 4, 2018
Courtney Hodges, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Dominant-negative SMARCA4 (BRG1) mutations alter the accessibility landscape of tissue-unrestricted enhancers
March 30, 2018
Emek Demir, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular & Medical Genetics
Computational Biology Program
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
Causal, mechanistic pathway-based analysis of 'omic profiles
March 21, 2018
Traver Hart, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Where are all the essential genes? Lessons from 400 whole-genome CRISPR screens in cancer cells
March 7, 2018
Pankaj Singh, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Spatial organization and molecular correlation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes; Quality control and reproducibility of experiments in the classification of endocrine disrupting chemicals
February 16, 2018
Shan Chen, Ph.D.
Instructor, Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Identification of disease-related genes associated with rare and undiagnosed disorders through an integrative multi-omic approach
February 14, 2018
Trey Ideker, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics, Department of Medicine
Director, National Resource for Network Biology
University of California, San Diego
Toward structural/functional simulation of a cancer cell
February 7, 2018
Anil Korkut, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Statistical challenges, opportunities and strategies in large-scale medical studies
January 31, 2018
BCB Group Presentation
Han Liang, Ph.D.
Wenyi Wang, Ph.D.
Rehan Akbani, Ph.D.
Xiaoping Su, Ph.D.
Department of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
December 13, 2017
Jiaying Tan, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Editor
Cell
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hacking the editorial process
November 15, 2017
Hongtu Zhu, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Statistical challenges, opportunities, and strategies in large-scale medical studies
November 8, 2017
Wenyi Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Robust subclonal architecture reconstruction from ~2,700 cancer genomes
November 1, 2017
Hua Xu, Ph.D.
Robert H. Graham Professor
Director, Center for Computational Biomedicine
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Natural language processing: Methods, tools, and applications in the medical domain
October 18, 2017
Bing Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Democratizing cancer proteogenomic data
October 4, 2017
Rehan Akbani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
A comprehensive TCGA pan-cancer molecular study of gynecologic and breast cancers
September 20, 2017
Xiaoping Su, Ph.D.
Profesor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
DNA methylation profiling analysis in TCGA clear cell renal cell carcioma (ccRCC)
September 13, 2017
Han Liang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
The metabolic cost of amino acids decreases in cancer evolution and demonstrates clinical utility
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