Distinguished Speaker Series

Distinguished Speaker Series: Bioinformatics challenges in complete genomics and metagenomics

Prof. Pavel A. Pevzner , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego

21 May 2023, 11:15, Jaglom hall, the Senate building, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Infecting and programing brain organoids

Prof.  Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin 

April 20 2023, Jaglom hall, the Senate building, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Estimation of mRNA transcription and decay rates using single-cell RNA sequencing

Prof. David Gresham, Faculty Director of Bioinformatics, Center of Genomics & Systems Biology, New York University 

March 30 2023, Sherman Building, Hall 002, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University

 

*CANCELLED* - Distinguished Speaker Series: Charting γ secretase substrates by explainable AI

Prof. Dmitrij Frishman, Department of Bioinformatics, Technical University of Munich, Germany

March 23 2023, Sherman Building, Room 632, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Predicting protein-protein interactions at low and high resolution

Prof. Barry Honig, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center

March 12 2023, Britannia Building, Hall 006, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Sloppiness in mRNA translation in tumors and its implication on cancer immunotherapy

Prof. Reuven Agami, Oncogenomics Unit, the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI, Amsterdam), Oncode institute, The Netherlands.

January 12 2023, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, room 100, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Docking-based simulation of cell-size protein systems

Prof. Ilya Vakser,  Director, Computational Biology Program and Center for Computational Biology, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Kansas, USA.

December 15 2022, Sherman building, room 632, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Delineating interactions between mutagenic signatures, cellular processes, and environment through computational approaches

Dr. Teresa Przytycka, Head, Algorithmic Methods in Computational and Systems Biology group, NCBI, NLM, NIH Bethesda, MD, USA

December 8 2022, Check Point building, room 420, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Cell state dynamics and plasticity in tumorigenesis and drug resistance

Prof. Itai Yanai, Institute for Systems Genetics & Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine

November 13 2022, Britannia 06, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Computational biology reveals mechanisms of protein-DNA binding

Prof. Remo Rohs, Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

October 24 2022, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, room 123, Tel Aviv University

 

CANCELLED: Distinguished Speaker Series: Algorithmic challenges in complete genomics and metagenomics - CANCELLED  

Prof. Pavel A. Pevzner , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego

19 October 2022, 11:15, Check Point building, room 420, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Mapping the human body: locating cells in space & time

Dr. Sarah Teichmann, Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Director of Research, Cavendish Laboratory, University of  Cambridge

July 20 2022, Room 222, Britannia building, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Open question in recombination detectability

Prof. Jotun Hein, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

April 25 2022, Room 222, Britannia building, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Algorithms for recombination detection with an application to SARS COV-2

Prof. Jotun Hein, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

April 7 2022, Room 222, Britannia building, Life Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Mapping paths of tumor evolution with single cell phylogenetics

Prof. Nir Yosef, Department of Systems Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Department of electrical engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

April 6 2022, Check Point building, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: The Future of Predictive Medicine

Dr. Ben Y. Reis, Director, Predictive Medicine Group, Harvard Medical School

21 July 2021 at 11:15, Melamed Hall 006, Exact Sciences Faculty, Tel Aviv University

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Single-cell transcriptomics based precision oncology

Prof. Eytan Ruppin, Chief, Cancer Data Science Lab, NCI, NIH

3 February 2021, 16:00 (Israel time), Webinar

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Metagenomic Assembly: from metaSPAdes to metaFlye  

Prof. Pavel A. Pevzner , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego

5 November 2020, 16:00 (Israel time), Webinar

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Quantitative microbiome profiling in health and disease

Prof. Jeroen Raes, Bioinformatics and (eco-)systems biology lab, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega institute, KU Leuven.

15 September 2020, 11:00am Israel time (10:00am CEST), Webinar

 

Distinguished Speaker Series:Transmission dynamics of COVID-19: observations from the United States and India

Prof. Joseph Lewnard, School of Public Health and Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley

7 July 2020, 20:30, Webinar

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Global organization and evolution of the virus world

Prof.  Eugene Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

25 February 2020, 14:15

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Not All Experimental Questions Are Created Equal: Accelerating  Scientific Data to Knowledge (SD2K) Transformation via Active Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Simon Kasif, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

26 December 2019, 11:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: A Tale of two tales: Studying (a) the CRISPR risk of mutation selection and (b) extracting cell-type information from bulk expression

Prof. Eytan Ruppin, Chief, Cancer Data Science Lab, NCI, NIH

27 November 2019, 11:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Analytics of single cell RNA-seq: identifying actionable targets in autoimmunity

Prof. Nir Yosef,  Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

25 November 2019, 13:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Integrating 3D structure into Systems Biology

Prof.  Barry Honig,  Columbia University

18 November 2019, 10:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Self-replicating Sets of Molecules in Hypergraphs and Chemical Space 

Prof. Jotun Hein, Chair of Bioinformatics, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, UK 

23 October 2019, 11:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Models and algorithms to identify alterations associated with drug response sensitivity in cancer 

Dorit S. Hochbaum, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley 

14 August 2019, 11:15

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: De novo transcriptome reconstruction from long reads

Prof. Paul Medvedev, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University

26 June 2019, 12:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Design principles for regulating mRNA translation speed and efficiency

Prof. Yun S. Song,  Computer Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley

24 June 2019, 11:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Data structures to represent sets of k-mers

Prof. Paul Medvedev, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University

18 June 2019, 12:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Machine Learning: Trends, Perspectives and Challenges

5 June 2019, 13:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: One complete and one in progress study in phylogenetic analysis

15 April 2019, 10:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Molecular Design for Research and Therapeutics

11 April 2019, 11:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: The role of genetic factors in shaping the gut microbiome

26 March 2019, 14:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: How did we stop HIV evolution?

26 February 2019, 14:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Virtualized drug development for (truly) personalized drug therapy

8 January 2019, 11:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Leveraging Polygenic Architecture of Complex Traits to Inform Biology, Causality and Prediction

23 December 2018, 14:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Three principles of data science: predictability, computability, and stability (PCS)

Prof. Bin Yu, Departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley

20 December 2018, 11:10

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Inferring gene interactions and functional modules beyond standard statistical models

Prof. Haiyan Huang, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley

18 December 2018, 14:00

 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Personalized health – harnessing the power of diversity

Prof. Burkhard Rost, Technische Universitat Munchen

29 October 2018, 10:15