Distinguished Speaker Series

updated: 13.07.2021

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

Prof. Michael I. Jordan, Department of EECS, Department of Statistics, AMP Lab, Berkeley AI Research Lab, UC Berkeley

5 June 2019, 13:00

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

Prof. John Huelsenbeck, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

15 April 2019, 10:00

Distinguished Speaker Series: Molecular Design for Research and Therapeutics

Prof. Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, USA

11 April 2019, 11:00

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

Prof. Michael Shapira, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, USA

26 March 2019, 14:00

Distinguished Speaker Series: How did we stop HIV evolution?

Dr. Pleuni Pennings, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University.

26 February 2019, 14:00

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

Prof. Hans Lehrach, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Dahlem Center for Genome Research and Medical Systems Biology, Alacris Theranostics GmbH

8 January 2019, 11:00

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

Prof. Nilanjan Chatterjee, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

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