2020-2021 Seminar Series Schedule
All talks will be from 12:00-1:00pm unless otherwise noted.
All CMU seminars are virtual
All PITT seminars are virtual
| Date | Speaker | Host | Title |
| September 4, 2020 | Debbie Winter Northwestern University |
Andreas Pfenning (CMU) | “Modelling the Gene Regulatory Networks of Microglia and Other Macrophages in Health and Disease.” |
| September 11, 2020 Pitt SVC Seminar (optional) Registration Required: https://bit.ly/3hDMgIo |
Maria Chikina University of Pittsburgh |
University of Pittsburgh | “Finding Concise Descriptors in Genomic Data” |
| September 18, 2020 | Judy Day University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
Yoram Vodovotz (Pitt) | “Insights from mathematical modeling of inflammation: from sepsis to COVID-19″ |
| September 25, 2020 | Denise Okafor Pennsylvania State University |
Omer Acar (Pitt) | “Ligand interactions that determine transcriptional outcomes” |
| October 2, 2020 | Julia Mahamid | Min Xu (CMU) | “Molecular views into cellular functions by in-cell cryo-electron tomography.” |
| October 9, 2020 | Tongli Zhang University of Cincinnati |
Jianhua Xing (Pitt) | “Integrating mechanistic modeling and machine learning to understand complex biological systems with ‘small data’” |
| October 16, 2020 | No Seminar (no classes, CMU) | ||
| October 23, 2020 | No Seminar | ||
| October 30, 2020 | Daisuke Kihara | Min Xu (CMU) | “Protein 3D structure modeling for medium-resolution cryo-EM density maps” |
| November 6, 2020 | Aaron Streets UC Berkeley |
James Faeder (Pitt) | “Imaging and sequencing single cells – microfluidics for multi-modal single-cell analysis” |
| November 13, 2020 | Jessica Gibson Ariel Precision Medicine |
Joseph Ayoob / James Faeder (Pitt) | “Challenges and Opportunities for Modeling Complex Systems in a Clinical Product” |
| November 20, 2020 | Donald Hamelberg Georgia State University |
Ivet Bahar (Pitt) | “Perturbing the Conformational Ensemble to Understand and Tune Protein Function” |
| November 27, 2020 | No Seminar (Thanksgiving Break) | ||
| December 4, 2020 | Kevin Janes University of Virginia |
Rachel Gottschalk (Pitt) | “Complete kinetic modeling of an RNA pathogen” |
| December 11, 2020 | No Seminar (no classes, PITT) | ||
| December 18, 2020 | No Seminar (Winter Break) | ||
| December 25, 2020 | No Seminar (Winter Break) | ||
| January 1, 2021 | No Seminar (Winter Break) | ||
| January 8, 2021 | No Seminar (Winter break) | ||
| January 15, 2021 | No Seminar (Winter break) | ||
| January 22, 2021 | No Seminar (No classes, CMU) | ||
| January 29, 2021 | No Seminar (No classes, CMU) | ||
| February 5, 2021 | Chaitanya Gokhale Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology |
Oana Carja (CMU) | “Eco-evolutionary dynamics | from cells to societies” |
| February 12, 2021 | David Van Valen California Institute of Technology |
Jianhua Xing (Pitt) | “Single-cell biology in a software 2.0 world” |
| February 19, 2021 | No Seminar (Open House) | ||
| February 26, 2021 | No Seminar | ||
| March 5, 2021 | Tae Hyun Hwang Cleveland Clinic |
Russell Schwartz (CMU) | “Spatial transcriptome, single cell and digital pathology approaches to understand mechanisms of response and resistance to Immunotherapy and cell therapy: Opportunities and challenges for machine learning and AI scientists” |
| March 12, 2021 | Tzviya Zeev Ben Mordehai University of Oxford |
Min Xu (CMU) | “The remarkable multi-scale architecture of mammalian sperm and implications for motility” |
| March 19, 2021 | No Seminar (No classes, CMU) | ||
| March 26, 2021 | Claudia Bank Gulbenkian Institute & Universität Bern |
Oana Carja (CMU) | “Fitness landscapes and the predictability of evolution” |
| April 2, 2021 | Shilpa Garg University of Copenhagen |
Min Xiu (CMU) | Efficient, high-resolution bioinformatic approaches for integrative sequencing analysis of complex diseases |
| April 9, 2021 | Sandra Safo University of Minnesota |
Omer Acar (Pitt) | SIDA and SIDANet: New Discriminant Analysis Methods for Multi-class, Multi-view Structured Data |
| April 16, 2021 | No Seminar (no classes, CMU) | ||
| April 23, 2021 | John Hogenesch Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
Bokai Zhu (Pitt) | Computational problems in circadian biology |
| April 30, 2021 | Aly Azeem Khan Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago |
Hatice Osmanbeyoglu (Pitt) | New computational approaches to understand immune function |