No Meeting – Research in Progress
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, no meeting today.
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Faculty Candidate Seminar
Presenter: Christopher Park Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute, New York Center for Computational Biology Talk Title: The impact of RNA-binding protein dysregulation on psychiatric disorder risk Christopher Park is a Flatiron Research Scientist at the Flatiron Institute, a research division of the Simons Foundation. Christopher’s background is at the intersection of computational biology, human genetics … Read more
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Bioinformatics Building, Room 1131 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPresenter: Peng He, PhD European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Sanger Institute Talk Title: Deciphering human organogenesis principles with single-cell and spatial technologies Dr. Peng He had his Bachelor’s in Statistics and Biochemistry at the University of Hong Kong, after which he earned his PhD in genetics at California Institute of Technology. He now holds a … Read more
CompMed Research in Progress
Mary Ellen Jones 3112 116 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NCPresenter: 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 StatesPresenter 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