CSB Seminars | Computational & Systems Biology

Departmental seminars are on Tuesdays, 4:00 – 5:00 PM (unless otherwise noted), refreshments provided. BST3 6014 (unless otherwise noted).

Distinguished Seminar

Date	Speaker/Institution	Title of Talk	Location
October 2, 2018
October 9, 2018
October 16, 2018
October 23, 2018	Edward Marcotte University of Texas	Evolution and the Proteome: Insights into Human Disease From Deeply Conserved Protein Complexes	6014 BST3
October 30, 2018	Luca Ponzoni & James Krieger University of Pittsburgh	Integrated Approach for Pathogenicity Prediction of Missense Variants Normal Mode Sampling Simulations and Electron Microscopy Image Analysis	6014 BST3
November 2, 2018	Robert Jernigan Iowa State University	Improving Protein Sequence Matching to Aid Genome-Based Medicine	6014 BST3 *11AM-12PM
November 6, 2018
November 13, 2018	Agustin Cruz & HongChun Li University of Pittsburgh	Uncovering Properties of Dynamic Signal Propagation in Single Cells Quantitative Systems Pharmacological Analysis of Drugs of Abuse Reveals the Pleiotropy of Targets	6014 BST3
November 20, 2018
November 27, 2018	Aaron Wacholder University of Pittsburgh	Evolution and Function of Proto-genes	6014 BST3
December 4, 2018	Jeffrey Gross University of Pittsburgh	Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Retinal Development	6014 BST3
December 11, 2018	Yang Liu University of Pittsburgh	Super-resolution Imaging of Higher-Order Chromatin Organization in Carcinogenesis	6014 BST3
December 18, 2018	Olivier Lichtarge Baylor College of Medicine	Making Personal Sense of Disease: Machine Learning and Mutational Calculus	1102 Scaife *11AM-12PM
December 25, 2018
January 1, 2019
January 8, 2019
January 15, 2019
January 22, 2019	Sarah Hainer University of Pittsburgh	Profiling Pluripotent Factors in Single Cells and Early Embryos	6014 BST3
January 29, 2019
February 5, 2019	Branden Van Oss University of Pittsburgh	Methionine Starvation in Budding Yeast: Investigation of Strange Phenotypes in a Classic Auxotrophic Strain	6014 BST3
February 12, 2019	Weikang Wang University of Pittsburgh	Single cell morphology trajectory analysis on cell cycle and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal transition	6014 BST3
February 19, 2019	Ipsita Banerjee University of Pittsburgh	Bioengineering and Systems Biology of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells	6014 BST3
February 26, 2019	Yuanyuan Chen University of Pittsburgh	The Roles of Rhodopsin Homeostasis and Signaling in Retinal Diseases	6014 BST3
March 5, 2019	Wynn Meyer University of Pittsburgh	Fantastic Yeasts and What to Feed Them: A genome-wide analysis of metabolic trait evolution across 274 yeasts	6014 BST3 *3:30pm
March 12, 2019	Ali Saglam University of Pittsburgh	Weighted ensemble sampling of rule-based models	6014 BST3
March 19, 2019	Jingyu Zhang University of Pittsburgh	TBA	6014 BST3
March 26, 2019
April 2, 2019
April 9, 2019	Moshe Arditi Cedars Sinai Center	Role of the intestinal microbiome, gut permeability and secretory IgA in the pathogenesis of Kawasaki Disease Vasculitis mouse model	6014 BST3
April 16, 2019	Lillian Chong University of Pittsburgh	The Art of Possibility: Weighted Ensembles of Trajectories	6014 BST3
April 23, 2019
April 30, 2019
July 23, 2019	Sarah Harris University of Leeds	Multiscale Simulations of Biological Macromolecules: from Atoms to the Continuum Limit	3074 BST3
August 26, 2019	Michael Hiller Max Planck Institute		6014 BST3 – 11am-12pm
October 1, 2019	Michael Levine University of Princeton	Visualization of Enhancer-Promoter Communication in Living Drosophila Embryos	6014 BST3
October 22, 2019	Sheeraz Akram University of Pittsburgh	Cancer Detection in Lung CT Scan Using Deep Learning	6014 BST3
October 29, 2019	Weikang Wang University of Pittsburgh	Single Cell Trajectory Analysis of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition	6014 BST3
November 5, 2019	Herbert Levine Northeastern University	Can Physics Help Us Understand Cancer Metastasis?	6014 BST3
November 19, 2019	John Rinn University of Colorado	RNA & Chromatin: It’s Complicated	1104 Scaife Hall – 12pm-1pm
November 25, 2019	Hagai Meirovitch Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel	A Review of Methodologies for Calculating the Entropy and Free Energy in Structural Biology	3073 BST3 – 11am-12pm
December 16, 2019	Luhua Lai Center for Quantitative Biology	From Structure Based to Systems Based Drug Design	BST South: S123 – 11am-12pm
December 17, 2019	Bing Ren UC San Diego	Organization of the Living Genome	6014 BST3
January 28, 2020	Alexander Hoffmann UCLA	Predicting cell fate decisions and immune responses-knowledge-based & data-driven models	S100A, BST South
November 17, 2020	Tamar Schlick New York University	Folding genes at mesoscale resolution	Zoom
November 24, 2020	Tom Misteli Center for Cancer Research	Mapping Genomes in Space and Time	Zoom
October 20, 2020	Shaun Mahony Penn State University	Understanding transcription factor binding specificity during cell fate decisions	Zoom
September 22, 2020	Rong Li Johns Hopkins University	A numbers game: how aneuploidy affects cellular physiology and adaptation to stress	Zoom
May 4th, 2020	Meredith Betterton University of Colorado Boulder	Modeling chromosome alignment and spindle assembly in mitosis	Zoom
March 23, 2021	Rong Stephanie Huang University of Minnesota	Bridging Pre-Clinical Drug Screening with Patient Molecular Profiles for Biomarker Discovery & Drug Development	Zoom
February 23, 2021	Silvia (Shuchang) Liu University of Pittsburgh	Fusion transcripts: detection and association with cancer samples	Zoom
October 26, 2021	Richard Pell Carnegie Mellon University	The Elephant in the Anthropocene: Cataloging PostNatural History
November 30, 2021	Dr Sereina Riniker Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich		Zoom
December 7, 2021	Dr Eldin Jašarević’ University of Pittsburgh & Magee-Womens Research Institute

For a list of seminars from our Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology, please follow this link.