Previous events
Dr. Oscar Rueda, Group Leader at the MRC Biostatistics Unit and a CRUK Career Establishment Awardee, UK, will present his current research on "Biologically-informed models to improve prediction in cancer."
Dr Marcel Schulz, Professor for Computational Biology at the Goethe University and Uniklinikum, Frankfurt, will present his current research on "Digital twins for modelling gene expression: applications to association studies and personalized drug recommendation."
Dr. Laura Cantini, CNRS researcher, chair in the Paris Institute of AI (PRAIRIE) and junior group leader heading the Machine Learning for Integrative Genomics group at the Institut Pasteur, will present her current research on "Breaking Silos in Single-Cell Biology: Towards a Unified Cellular View."
Dr. David Knowles, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, will present his research on "Dissecting complex disease mechanisms with causal inference and deep learning." This seminar co-organized as part of the NCMBM International, BiLS, and Furberg seminar series.
Dr. Aziz Khan, assistant professor of computational biology at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, will present the work on the "Polyclonal origins of human premalignant colorectal lesions."
Dr. Dariusz Plewczynski is professor at University of Warsaw, and heads the Laboratory of Functional and Structural Genomics at the Center of New Technologies. His research is focussed on functional and structural genomics and he aims to make use of the vast wealth of data produced by high-throughput genomics projects. He will lecture on "Applications of deep learning methods in 3D genomics”.
Dr. Jacob Schreiber, upcoming Assistant Professor in the Genomics and Computational Biology Department at UMass Chan Medical School, USA, and currently visiting scientist at the Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria, will present his current research on "Understanding and designing regulatory DNA using machine learning."
This seminar is a joint contribution to the NCMBM International Seminar Series and the Sven Furberg Seminar Series, in association with Oslo Chromatin Club.
Dr. Wyeth Wasserman, Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia, and Senior Scientist in the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada, will present his research on "A journey towards equity in rare disease diagnosis for Indigenous peoples of Canada: Creation of the Indigenous Background Variant Library."
This seminar is a joint contribution with the Oslo Chromatin Club.
Dr. Damir Baranasic, Research Associate at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, will present his research on "Integrated annotation and analysis of genomic features reveal new functional elements in the developing zebrafish and other models."
This seminar is a joint contribution with the Oslo Chromatin Club.
Dr. Maxim Greenberg, Group Leader of the Chromatin dynamics in mammalian development group at the Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France, will present his research on "Non-canonical functions of DNA methylation in mammals."
This seminar is a joint contribution to the NCMBM International Seminar Series and the Sven Furberg Seminar Series, in association with Oslo Chromatin Club.
Dr. Michael Hoffman, Chair of the Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, and Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, will present his research on "Identifying transcription factor binding using open chromatin, transcriptome, and methylation data."
Dr. Bruno Contreras Moreira, Principal Investigator at the computational & structural biology group, estación experimental de aula dei, Spanish National Research Council, Zaragoza, Spain, will present his research on "Genome alignments for gene annotation at the population level."
We will host a combined Sven Furberg and Oslo Chromatin Club seminar with lectures from Drs. Servant, Papantonis, and Herrmann.
Dr. Boris Lenhard, Professor of Computational Biology at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London, UK, will present his research on "Promoter architectures and responsiveness to enhancers in long-range developmental regulation."
Dr. Jotun Hein, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, will present his research on "Algorithms for Recombination Detection with an Application to SARS CoV-2."
Dr. Julien Gagneur, Professor in Computational Molecular Medicine at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, will present his research on "Detecting and predicting aberrant splicing in human and Species-aware DNA language modeling."
Dr. Marta Melé, group leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain, will present her research on "The anatomy of expression and alternative splicing variation across human traits."
Dr. Renée Beekman, Group Leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain, will present her lecture "Understanding early lymphoma formation from a single-cell epigenomics and 3D chromatin perspective."
Dr. Bart Deplancke, Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, will present his lecture "Resolving the molecular mechanisms underlying regulatory variation-mediated phenotypic diversity."
Dr. Fran Supek, Group Leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain, will present his work on "Mutation clusters in cancer genomes: causes, consequences and opportunities."
Dr. Chloé-Agathe Azencott, Researcher at the Centre for Computational Biology (CBIO) of Mines ParisTech, Institut Curie, and INSERM, Paris, France, will present her work on "Network-guided genome-wide association studies."
Dr. Wilbert Zwart, Group Leader at The Netherlands Cancer Institute, will present the lecture "Functional epigenomics in prostate cancer: for basic biology to clinical trials, and back again."
Dr. Marcel Schulz, Professor for Computational Biology, Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration, Uniklinikum and Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, will present the talk "Understanding gene expression regulation by integration of epigenome and RNA data."
Dr. Esti Yeger-Lotem, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry & Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, will present her lecture "Elucidating disease mechanisms via their tissue-selectivity."
Dr. Juho Rousu, Professor in Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland, will present the lecture "Machine Learning of Drug Combination Responses."
