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CompMed Research in Progress

Mary Ellen Jones 3112 116 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC

Presenter: Xiaoqi Li (Yun Li Lab) Talk Title: "VAE-PRS: A deep learning based approach to compute polygenic risk score"

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Bioinformatics Building, Room 1131 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Presenter Christian Cuba-Samaniego, PhD University of California Los Angeles Talk Title: Adapting feedback control and pattern recognition paradigms for biotechnological applications Engineering synthetic networks with desired behavior for robust adaptation or complex decision-making is challenging. Current approaches rely on different negative regulation techniques or logic-based operators, which suffer from suboptimal performance. To address this limitation, … Read more

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Bioinformatics Building, Room 1131 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Presenter: Irene Kaplow, PhD Carnegie Mellon University Talk Title: Relating enhancer genetic variation across mammals to complex phenotypes using machine learning Lecture abstract: Advances in the genome sequencing have provided a comprehensive view of cross-species conservation across small segments of nucleotides.  These conservation measures have proven invaluable for associating phenotypic variation, both within and across … Read more

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Bioinformatics Building, Room 1131 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Talk Title: "Interpretable deep learning for cancer personalized medicine" Dr. María Rodrίguez Martίnez is the Technical Leader of Systems Biology at IBM Research Europe (Switzerland) and an associated member of the Department of Biology at ETH since 2014. A theoretical physicist by training, she became interested in the development of computational and statistical approaches to … Read more

CompMed Research in Progress

Mary Ellen Jones 3112 116 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC

Presenter Peyton Kuhlers (Hoadley Lab) Talk Title: "Repeatability of Gene Expression between Patient Matched Tissue and Tissue Models"