2021-2022 Seminar Series Schedule
All talks will be from 12:00-1:20pm unless otherwise noted.
Seminars may be in-person or virtual. Please check the schedule each week to confirm location.
CMU in-person seminars will be held in POS A35.
PITT in-person seminars will be held in BST3 6014.
| Date | Speaker | Host | Title |
| September 3, 2021 | [REMOTE] Khanh Dao Duc Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia |
Oana Carja (CMU) | Geometric and transport-based methods for ribosome and cryo-EM studies |
| September 10, 2021 | [SEMINAR CANCELLED] | ||
| September 17, 2021 | [REMOTE] German Enciso Professor in Mathematics and Systems Biology UC Irvine |
Nathan Lord (PITT) | Absolute concentration robustness controllers for stochastic chemical reaction network systems |
| September 24, 2021 | [REMOTE] Mingyao Li Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine |
Kathryn Roeder (CMU) | “Applications of statistical and machine learning methods in spatial transcriptomics” |
| October 1, 2021 | [IN-PERSON] Dina Schneidman Assistant Professor, Institute of Life Sciences and School of Computer Science and Engineering The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Yi Shi (PITT) | “Integrative Structure Modeling in the Age of Deep Learning” |
| October 8, 2021 | [REMOTE] Stephanie Hicks Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University |
Steven Smeal (PITT) | “Scalable statistical methods and software for single-cell and spatial data science” |
| October 15, 2021 | No Seminar (Fall Break) | ||
| October 22, 2021 | Senior Vice Chancellor Seminar Nathan Lord Assistant Professor, Department of Computational & Systems Biology University of Pittsburgh (Register here) |
(PITT) | “Mechanisms of Robust Developmental Patterning” |
| October 29, 2021 | [REMOTE] Rajul Satija Associate Professor of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University |
Ziv Bar-Joseph (CMU) | TBA |
| November 5, 2021 | No Seminar (no classes, CMU) | ||
| November 12, 2021 | [REMOTE] Kerry Geiler-Samerotte Arizona State University |
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis (PITT) | “The genotype-phenotype-phenotype-phenotype-fitness map” |
| November 19, 2021 | [REMOTE] Angela Brooks Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz |
C. Joel McManus (CMU) | “High-throughput and full-length characterization of transcript isoforms, and their function” |
| November 26, 2021 | No Seminar (Thanksgiving Break) | ||
| December 3, 2021 | [REMOTE] Antonia Mey University of Edinburgh |
David Koes (PITT) | “From catalysis to binding affinity predictions: how a molecular dynamics based toolbox can shed light on protein functions and interactions” |
| December 10, 2021 | No Seminar (no classes, CMU) | ||
| December 17, 2021 | No Seminar (Winter Break) | ||
| December 24, 2021 | No Seminar (Winter Break) | ||
| December 31, 2021 | No Seminar (Winter Break) | ||
| January 7, 2022 | No Seminar (Winter break) | ||
| January 14, 2022 | No Seminar (Winter break) | ||
| January 21, 2022 | [REMOTE] Adam Phillippy Senior Investigator, Computational & Statistical Genomics Branch, NHGRI |
Carleton Kingsford (CMU) | TBA |
| January 28, 2022 | [IN-PERSON] Sergei Pond Professor, Department of Biology Temple University |
Maria Chikina (PITT) | Evolution of SARS-CoV-2: past present and future |
| February 4, 2022 | [REMOTE] Galit Alter Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School |
Jishnu Das (PITT) | Using Systems Serology to Define Correlates of Immunity to Respiratory Pathogens |
| February 11, 2022 | [REMOTE]Alison Feder Assistant Professor Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington |
Oana Carja (CMU) | Evolutionary dynamics of HIV drug resistance through space and time |
| February 18, 2022 | HOLD (Possible Open House) | ||
| February 25, 2022 | HOLD (Possible Open House) | ||
| March 4, 2022 | No Seminar (No classes, CMU) | ||
| March 11, 2022 | No Seminar (Spring Break) | ||
| March 18, 2022 | [REMOTE] Dr. Mohammed AlQuraishi Assistant Professor, The Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University |
Olexandr Isayev (CMU) | “Protein structure prediction in a post-AlphaFold2 world” |
| March 25, 2022 | [REMOTE] Anton Bennett Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Comparative Medicine; Co-Director, Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism, Yale School of Medicine |
Robert Murphy (CMU) | “Signaling Mechanisms by Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in Disease” |
| April 1, 2022 | No Seminar (Cancelled as of Thu Mar 31) |
(CMU) | TBA |
| April 8, 2022 | No Seminar (No classes, CMU) | ||
| April 15, 2022 | [REMOTE] Carlos Lopez Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biomedical Informatics Vanderbilt University |
James Faeder (PITT) | From data to knowledge in network-driven cellular processes |
| April 22, 2022 | [REMOTE] Emilia Huerta-Sanchez Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University |
Oana Carja (CMU) | Detecting and characterizing archaic introgression in modern humans |
| April 29, 2022 | [IN PERSON]
Nyasha Chambwe Assistant Professor |
Steven Smeal (CMU) | TBA |