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Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Don Fox, PhD

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Don Fox, PhD, Duke University of Medical Center, October 4, 2024. Dr. Fox’s talk title is “Super-sized cells and not-so-silent mutations in organ development”. Dr. Fox is hosted by Greg Matera, Professor of Biology and Genetics.

Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Zachary McCaw, PhD

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Zachary McCaw, PhD, Staff Machine Learning Scientist at Insitro, October 11, 2024. Dr. McCaw’s talk title is “Synthetic surrogates improve power for genome-wide association studies of partially missing phenotypes in population biobanks”. Dr. McCaw is hosted by Xihao Li, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics.

Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Shi-Yong Sun, PhD

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Shi-Yong Sun, PhD, Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, October 25, 2024. Dr. Sun’s talk title is “Managing the challenge issue of acquired resistance to third generation EGFR-TKIs in the treatment of lung cancer”. Dr. Sun is hosted by Pengda Liu, Associate Professor of Biochemistry … Read more

Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Elizabeth Plender

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Elizabeth Plender, Graduate Researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Washington, November 8, 2024. Dr. Plender’s talk title is “Stuck in the MUC: analysis of structural genetic variation in mucin genes using long-read sequencing to reveal disease-associated polymorphisms”. Dr. Plender is hosted by Wanda O’Neal, … Read more

Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Wenli Yang

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Wenli Yang, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director, iPSC Core Facility, University of Pennsylvania, November 15, 2024. Dr. Yang’s talk title is “Interrogating type 2 diabetes GWAS targets in muscle using muscle cells, iPSCs and mouse”. Dr. Yang is hosted by Karen Mohlke, Professor & Associate … Read more

Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Louis-Marie Bobay

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Louis-Marie Bobay, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University, November 22, 2024. Dr. Bobay’s talk title is “Impact of recombination rate on the evolution of bacterial genomes”. Dr. Bobay is hosted by Qingyun Liu, Assistant Professor of Genetics.

Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Jeffrey Bailey

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Jeffrey Bailey, Mencoff Family Associate Professor of Translational Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Brown University, on Friday, January 10, 2025. Dr. Bailey’s talk title is “The genomics and genetics of emerging drug and diagnostic resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa”. Dr. Bailey is … Read more

Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

CANCELLED Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Alexander Gusev

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series - CANCELLED The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Alexander Gusev, Associate Professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, on Friday, January 17, 2025. Dr. Gusev’s talk title is “Leveraging large-scale epigenetic variation to identify novel context-specific disease mechanisms”. Dr. Gusev is hosted by Jason Stein, Associate Professor of Genetics.

Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Peter Castaldi

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Peter Castaldi, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, on Friday, February 7, 2025. Dr. Castaldi’s talk title is “Feeling the Stress: How GWAS Reveals Links Between COPD, Alternative Splicing, and Nonsense-Mediated Decay”. Dr. Castaldi is hosted by Alain Laederach, Professor of Biology.

Event Series GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Matthew Hahn

1131 Bioinformatics Building 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Matthew Hahn, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Computer Science at Indiana University, on Friday, February 14, 2025. Dr. Hahn’s talk title is “The “faulty male” hypothesis: Implications for evolution and disease”. Dr. Hahn is hosted by Dan Schrider, Associate Professor of Genetics.