Seminars list
Demystifying Machine and Deep Learning and overview of their applications in biologyArtificial Intelligence is a broad term that is often misunderstood. Its subfields, such as machine and deep learning have achieved astonishing performances, such as some Large Language Models passing the Turing Test or AlphaFold offering a solution to a 50 years old problem. Because new technolo... |
 Friday, May 3rd, 2024 - Seminar Speaker(s) : Anne Brunet (Stanford University School of Medicine) Understanding and modeling agingAging is associated with a decline in tissue function and the onset of a constellation of diseases. We are interested in understanding aging, with a particular focus on brain aging. Because aging is complex, we use organisms with diverse lifespans – the worm C. elegans, the African killifis... |
 Monday, May 13th, 2024 - Seminar Speaker(s) : Jeroen Roose (University of California, San Francisco) Deconstruct-Reconstruct Decode cancer-immune crosstalk & probe with organoids.The Roose team at UCSF studies mechanisms of cell-cell interactions in immunology and cancer1-7, with emphasis on personalized medicine4,8 and single cell approaches9-11. Over the past 7 years, we shifted a large portion of our research efforts to understanding human biology and disease. We are d... |
 Tuesday, May 21st, 2024 - Seminar Speaker(s) : Hironori Funabiki (The Rockefeller University, New York) Nucleosomes and DNA methylation implications for immunodeficiency-centromeric instability-facial anomalies (ICF) syndrome and cancersDNA methylation is a broadly observed epigenetic modification. As genomic DNA methylation profiles dynamically change during development and aging, alterations in DNA methylation patterns are linked to diseases such as cancers and immunodeficiency. ICF syndrome is characterized by hypomethylation... |
 Friday, May 31st, 2024 - Seminar Speaker(s) : Wei Yang (National Institute of Health - NIH) Cutting and Pasting DNA to Create our Adaptive Immune SystemV(D)J recombination is essential for generating the adaptive immune response and unlimited number of different antibodies and antigen receptors. Encoded by multiple V, D and J gene segments, antigen receptors are assembled by programmed double-stranded DNA cleavage and imprecise re-joining. RAG1/... |
 Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 - Seminar Speaker(s) : Jianping FU Bioengineering Human Embryo and Organ ModelsEarly human development remains mysterious and difficult to study. Recent advances in developmental biology, stem cell biology and bioengineering have contributed to a significant interest in constructing controllable, stem cell-based models of human embryo and organs (embryoids / organoids). T... |
Endocytic control of cell plasticity in cancerOver the past two decades, there has been a significant shift in our understanding of the role of endocytosis and trafficking of signaling receptors. It has evolved from being viewed simply as a signal extinguisher (resulting in long-term attenuation) to being recognized as a sophisticated mechan... |