Speaker: Qingda Hu (Botvinick Lab, BME) Title: Detecting force transmission pathways in 3D fibrin networks

Speaker: Alvaro Fletcher (Enciso Lab - Mathematics)

Speaker: Michelle Ngo (Lowengrub & Shahbaba labs) Title: Biclustering with Conjoined Dirichlet Processes

Speaker: Samuel Morabito (Swarup lab)

Speaker: Fairlie Reese (Mortazavi lab)

Speaker: Dr. Jing Chen (Virginia Tech, Department of Biological Sciences) Host: Dr. Jin Yu Title: Who Is to Thank for the Rhythms of My Tail? – A Mathematical Study of Circadian Rhythmicity in Poly(A) Tail Length

Speaker: Jan-Christian Hütter, Broad Institute MIT Title: Inference of gene expression trajectories and statistical optimal transport. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables the collection of rich phenotypic information of individual cells. During this sequencing process, each cell is destroyed, which poses challenges in the analysis of time-course data of heterogeneous populations since cell trajectories need to…

Speaker: Zixuan Cang, UCI Title: Topological and Geometric Data Analysis Meets Data-driven Biology Topological and geometric data analysis (TGDA) is a powerful framework for quantitative description and simplification of datasets' shapes. It is especially suitable for modern biological data that are intrinsically complex and high-dimensional. Traditional topological data analysis considers the geometric features of a…

Speaker: Christopher Miles, NYU Title: Modeling & data science of stochastic organization in the mitotic spindle For cells to divide, they must undergo mitosis: the process of spatially organizing their copied DNA (chromosomes) to precise locations in the cell. This procedure is carried out by stochastic components that manage to accomplish the task with astonishing…

Speaker: Dr. Zheng Shi (Rutgers University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology) Host: Dr. Medha Pathak