2022 Seminar Series
Feb. 17, 1 PM.
Rahul Satija, Ph.D., Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center, Associate Professor, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University (NYU)
April 21, 1 PM
Melissa Haendel, Ph.D., Professor and Chief Research Informatics Officer, Marsico Chair in Data Science, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
May 19, 1 PM
Javed Khan, M.D., Deputy Chief, Genetics Branch, Senior Investigator, and Head, Oncogenomics Section, Center for Cancer Research, NCI
2021 Seminar Series
January 28, 1 PM (Recording)
Stephanie Hicks, Ph.D. (stephaniehicks.com)
Title: Scalable Statistical Methods and Software for Single-Cell Data Science
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Faculty member, Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab
March 18, 1 PM (Recording)
Christina Leslie, Ph.D. (Christina Leslie Lab).
Title: Decoding Chromatin States in T Cell Dysfunction and Modeling Gene Regulation
Member, Computational & Systems Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
May 13, 1 PM (Recording)
Elana J. Fertig, Ph.D. (Fertig Lab).
Title: Uncovering Hidden Sources of Transcriptional Dysregulation from Inter and Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity
Co-Director of the Single Cell Consortium.
Associate Director of the Convergence Institute.
Associate Professor of Oncology.
Assistant Director of the Research Program in Quantitative Sciences.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University
June 10, 1 PM (Recording)
Michael Schatz, Ph.D. (Schatz Lab)
Title: Long Read Sequencing for Cancer Genomics and Beyond
The Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering
Department of Biology, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Sydney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine
September 16, 1 PM (Recording) and Slides
Discoveries from the First Truly Complete Sequence of a Human Genome
Adam Phillippy, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, NHGRI
October 14, 1 PM (Recording)
New Functional Approaches in Human Cancer Models
Neville Sanjana, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU School of Medicine and Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center
October 26, 1 PM (Recording)
Computational Tools to Study mRNA Isoform Variation in Cancer
Yi Xing, Ph.D., Francis West Lewis Chair, Executive Director, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Director, Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
November 4, 1 PM (Recording)
Expanding Studies of Centromere Structure and Function in the Era of T2T Genomics
Karen Miga, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Associate Director at the UCSC Genomics Institute. Co-lead of the Telomere To Telomere (T2T) Consortium
2019-2020 Seminar Series
Steven Salzberg, Ph.D.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science and Biostatistics and Director of the Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Oct. 24, 2019, 1 PM, Lipsett Amphitheater
Re-assessing the Human Gene Catalog and Human Genome: How Much Are we Missing?
Videocast link: https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=34578
November, 2019
Max Leiserson, Ph.D.
Leiserson Research Group: https://lrgr.io
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park
Nov. 19, 2019, 11 AM, NIH Bldg 37 Room 2041/2107
Methods for Characterizing the Activity of Mutational Processes in Cancer
Slides available: https://btep.ccr.cancer.gov/classes/max/
WebEx recording:
January 2020
Ben Langmead, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Jan. 16, 2020, 11 AM – noon, NIH Bldg 37, Room 4041/4107
Marshaling Public Data for Lean and Powerful Splicing Studies
Slides available: https://btep.ccr.cancer.gov/classes/langmead/
WebEx recording: https://cbiit.webex.com/cbiit/ldr.php?RCID=da15d3aface8f25f7f478b9a813f6499
February, 2020
Sridhar Hannenhalli, Ph.D.
https://ccr.cancer.gov/cancer-data-science-laboratory/sridhar-hannenhalli
Senior Investigator, Cancer Data Science Lab, Center for Cancer Research, NCI
Feb. 6, 2020, 11 AM – 12 noon, NIH Bldg 37, Room 4041/4107
To Function or Not to Function
Slides available: https://btep.ccr.cancer.gov/classes/hannenhalli/
WebEx Recording: https://cbiit.webex.com/cbiit/ldr.php?RCID=ec72d1923ffe18a82b63ed348b75be0c
April 23, Online Webinar
Istvan Albert, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Director of the Online Graduate Certificate in Applied Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University
April 23, 11 AM – noon, remote only
Bioinformatics Recipes: Creating and Sharing Reproducible Data Analysis Workflows
Slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xtZ9bNvVggY7mnKJfh7B1mYb0yOp3K9LD6SmoOQnsVU/edit?usp=sharing
Webex recording: https://cbiit.webex.com/cbiit/ldr.php?RCID=d212f383485e4b0341264e14995dbc7b
July 9, Online Webinar
NIH Stadtman Investigator, Cancer Data Science Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, NCI/NIH
July 9, 3 PM, online only
Title: Data-driven Approaches to Identify the Regulators of the Anticancer Immune Response
Slides: Report
vBricks Recording: Peng Jiang
