Friday, January 19, 2018
2 - 3:00pm
James H. Clark - S360
Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the
School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Radiology and of Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford University
Title: Targeting Glyco-Immune Checkpoints for Cancer Therapy
Friday, February 16, 2018
11 - 12:00pm
James H. Clark - S360
Nir Yosef, PhD
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Center for Computational Biology
UC Berkeley
Title: Analytics of Single Cell RNA-Seq: Lessons from Heterogeneity of Immune Cells
Canceled - Will Be Rescheduled
Claudia Fischbach, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Director of Physical Sciences Oncology Center
Cornell University
Title: Engineering Approaches to Study Emerging Roles of ECM Dynamics in Cancer
Friday, April 27, 2018
12:30 - 1:30pm
James H. Clark - S360
Subarna Sinha, PhD
Bioinformatics Program Leader, Biosciences Division
SRI International
Title: Mining Synthetic Lethals from Primary Tumor Genomes: Applications to Precision Cancer Therapy
Friday, May 18, 2018
11-12:00pm
James H. Clark - S360
Rahul Satija, PhD
Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center
Assistant Professor, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
New York University
Title: Integrated Analysis of Single Cell Data Across Modalities, Technologies, and Species
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
11-12:00pm
James H. Clark - S360
Doug Lauffenburger, PhD
Ford Professor, Engineering
Professor, Departments of Biological Engineering, Biology, and Chemical Engineering
Head, Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Title: Systems Analysis of Complex Tissue Microenvironments – Application to Tumor Immune Responses and Immunotherapies
Friday, June 22, 2018
1:30 - 2:30pm
Li Ka Shing - LK120
Zena Werb, PhD
Professor, Department of Anatomy
Vice-Chair, Department of Anatomy
University of California San Francisco
Title: New Insights into Breast Cancer Development and Metastasis
Friday, September 21, 2018
11 - 12:00pm
James H. Clark - S360
Arjun Raj, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Penn Bioengineering
Title: Free Will, Determinism, and Therapy Resistance in Cancer
Friday, October 19, 2018
11 - 12:00pm
James H. Clark - S360
Shannon M Mumenthaler, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine
Laboratory Director, Center for Applied Molecular Medicine
Director, Stephenson Family Personalized Medicine Center
University of Southern California
Title: High-Content Imaging of Tumor-Stromal Cell Dynamics in Cancer
Friday, November 16, 2018
11 - 12:00pm
James H. Clark - S360
Herbert Levine, PhD
Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering
Co-Director, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP)
Director, SSPB
Rice University
Title: What is epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity and why is it important for metastasis?
Friday, December 7, 2018
11 - 12:00pm
James H. Clark - S360
Cole Trapnell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
Title: The Dynamic Transcriptional Landscape of Mammalian Organogenesis at Single Cell Resolution