Seminars
CBM Seminar Series 2023-2024
72 East Concord Street
Evans Building, 6th Floor
Room 605 – Hybrid
Tuesdays from 3:00-4:00pm
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
“Spatially informed profiling of stage I lung adenocarcinoma reveals a gene expression signature of extensive vascular invasion”
Dylan Steiner, Ph.D. Candidate, Genetics and Genomics Program, Lab of Jennifer Beane and Lab of Avrum Spira and Marc Lenburg
“Investigating the cellular heterogeneity of carcinogen-induced murine oral tumors via targeted therapy”
Mohammed Muzamil Khan, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Stefano Monti
Moderators: Regan Conrad, Tomoki Motegi
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Regan Conrad, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Jennifer Beane
Tomoki Motegi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Lab of Joshua Campbell
Moderators: Tayeb Jamali, Chonghua Xue
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Tayeb Jamali, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate, Lab of Ignaty Leshchiner
Chonghua Xue, Ph.D. Candidate, Electric and Computer Engineering, Lab of Vijaya Kolachalama
Moderators: Yu-Chen Liu, Junxiang Xu
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Táchira Pichardo, Ph.D. Candidate Molecular and Translational Medicine, Lab of Sarah Mazzilli
Junxiang Xu, Ph.D. Candidate, Candidate Molecular and Translational Medicine, Lab of Joshua Campbell and Lab of Ruben Dries (Hematology and Oncology)
Moderators: Yichi Zhang, Edward Ruiz
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Edward Ruiz, PhD Candidate, Genetics and Genomics program, Lab of Ruben Dries (Hematology and Oncology)
Yichi Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Jennifer Beane and Lab of Vijaya Kolachalama
Moderators: Anastasia Leshchyk Táchira Pichardo
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Zhan Hao (Charley) Xi, Ph.D. Candidate, Molecular and Translational Medicine, Lab of Sarah Mazzilli
Anastasia Leshchyk, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Stefano Monti
Moderators: Lingyi Xu, Varuna Jasodanand
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Lingyi Xu, Ph.D. Candidate, Computing & Data Sciences Program, Lab of Vijaya Kolachalama
Varuna Jasodanand, Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience Program, Lab of Vijaya Kolachalama
Moderators: Zhan Hao (Charley) Xi, Jason Weis
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Roxana Pfefferkorn, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Lab of Joshua Campbell and Lab of Sarah Mazzilli
Jason Weis, Ph.D. Candidate, Molecular and Translational Medicine Program, Lab of Sarah Mazzilli and Lab of Ruben Dries (Hematology and Oncology)
Moderators: Emily Green, Andrew Chen
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Emily Green, MS, Pathology Laboratory Sciences, Lab of Sarah Mazzilli
Andrew Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Stefano Monti
Moderators: Diala Lteif, Roxana Pfefferkorn
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Matthew O’Brien, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Ruben Dries (Hematology and Oncology)
Yi Zheng, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, Lab of Vijaya Kolachalama
Moderators: Meagan Lauber, Jiaji (George) Chen
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Meagan Lauber, Ph.D. Candidate, Neuroscience. Lab of Vijaya Kolachalama
Jiaji (George) Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Program in Genetics and Genomics, Lab of Ruben Dries (Hematology and Oncology)
Moderators: Anqi Zou, Matthew O’Brien
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Anqi Zou, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Lab of Chao Zhang
Jason Wong, Postdoctoral Associate, Pulmonary Fellow, Lab of Marc Lenburg and Ehab Bilatos
Moderators: Yi Zheng, Yohana Kefella
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Cailyn Kirkaldy, MS Candidate, Pathology Program, Lab of Sarah Mazzilli
Yohana Kefella, MS, Bioinformatics Analyst, Lab of Jennifer Beane
Moderators: Jason Wong, Irzam Sarfraz
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Amulya Shastry, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Joshua Campbell, Lab of Jay Mizgerd (Pulmonary), and Lab of Stefano Monti
Natasha Gurevich, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Joshua Campbell
Moderators: Cailyn Kirkaldy, Tao Guo
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Irzam Sarfraz, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Josh Campbell
Ming Liu, MS, Bioinformatics Analyst, Lab of Joshua Campbell
Moderators: Osman Berke Guney, Amulya Shastry
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Eliezer Lichter, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Lab of Ignaty Leshchiner
Osman Berke Guney, Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical & Computer Engineering Program, Lab of Ruben Dries (Hematology and Oncology)
Moderators: Yibing Michelle Wu, Natasha Gurevich
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Anna Parfenenkova, Research Fellow, Lab of Ignaty Leshchiner
Yibing Michelle Wu, Ph.D. Candidate, Molecular and Translational Medicine Program, Lab of Ruben Dries (Hematology and Oncology)
Moderators: Natasha Gurevich, Eliezer Lichter
Past Seminars
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
“Effect of mucus plugging on bronchial gene expression”
Whitney Souery, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Marc Lenburg and Lab of Ehab Billatos
“Molecular Characterization of Premalignant Lung Adenocarcinoma Lesions”
Kelley Anderson, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Jennifer Beane and Lab of Avrum Spira and Marc Lenburg
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
“Analyze Cell-Type Proportion Changes with Age Using Cell-Type Deconvolution in LLFS Whole Blood RNAseq Data”
Mengze (Vanessa) Li, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Stefano Monti
“Learning 3D Medical Image Representations with Self-supervised Pre-Training”
Diala Lteif, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Graduate Program, Lab of Vijaya Kolachalama
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
“Comparison and characterization of the tumor and lymph node immune microenvironment in early non-small cell lung cancer through multimodal single cell sequencing”
Yusuke Koga, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Joshua Campbell
“Graph neural diffusion in scRNA-seq analysis”
Yu-Chen Liu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Lab of Chao Zhang
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
“Elucidating age-specific characteristics of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma through a single-cell atlas”
Lina Kroehling, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Stefano Monti
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
“Utilizing computational tools for single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis reveals a novel molecular mechanism of kidney fibrosis”
Simon Lu, Bioinformatics Analyst, Lab of Chao Zhang
Tuesday, November 21, 202
“Characterization of the persistent effects of smoking on nasal gene expression”
Minyi Lee, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Program, Lab of Avrum Spira and Marc Lenburg
“The role of the B-cell receptor repertoire in lung squamous premalignant lesions”
Darren Chiu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Lab of Jennifer Beane and Lab of Sarah Mazzilli