Current Seminars

Modeling Cellular Heterogeneity: Computational Tools and Applications in Cancer Research
Michael Saint-Antoine
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Spatiotemporal Root Map in Shade
Stephen Smith
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Bracing for Sustainable Agriculture: Multiple Brace Root Phenotypes Promote Anchorage and Limit Root Lodging in Maize
Ashley Hostetler
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Sparks Lab
University of Delaware

Decoding Mouse Ultrasonic Communication During Social Behavior
Josh Neunuebel
Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of Delaware

The Role of ADAM9 in Colorectal Cancer
Congyu Lu
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Urinary Biomarkers of Chemical Exposures in School-aged Asthmatic Children
Medina Jackson-Browne
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
University of Delaware

Application of Machine Learning to Study Opioid Addiction
Sachin Gavali
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

BiSA Alumni Career Panel

SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS

'Decoding' mechanisms of ovarian cancer metastasis the cell signaling way
Mythreye Karthikeyan
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Molecular Cellular
University of Alabama at Birmingham

A Pipeline to Extract Information on Plant Stress Response from Scientific Literature
Rita Hayford
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

***SPECIAL SEMINAR - DATE AND TIME ARE CHANGED*** Argos: a regulatory-grade database for hypothesis-free infectious disease detection with a BioCompute framework
Jonathon Keeney
Assistant Research Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
George Washington University

Prediction of ATF4 function in the developing lens using RNA-Seq analysis
Anthony Pompetti
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Novel isolates of Bacillus Subtilis improved FCR and cecum microbiota in broilers challenged with clostridium perfringens
Shweta Ghimire
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

ADAM9 differentially regulates Wnt and mTOR signaling downstream of Akt in colorectal cancer cells
Congyu Lu
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

DNA methylation patterns in blood cells of children with cerebral palsy and epilepsy show conserved and identifiable patterns with potential diagnostic capability
Jonathan Hicks
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Viral Metagenomics and Deep Learning: The Perfect Pairing
Mahdi Belcaid
Assistant Research Professor, CIS
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Mathematical modeling of ARVs diffusion into the lymph nodes to investigate drug transport mechanisms
Yasaman Moghadamnia
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Graph Encoder Embedding and Graph Semi-supervised learning
Xihan Qin
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

The Graduate Student Travel Award Explained
Yasaman Moghadamnia
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Estimating a Cost-Effective Individual Treatment Rule (CEITR) based on machine learning
Qing Zhang
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Complex Systems Approaches to Cognition in Epilepsy
Rodney Scott
Division Chief of Neurology and Director, Nemours Neuroscience Center
Nemours AI DuPont Hospital for Children

How the Kidney Negotiates a Tubule Packing Conflict During Development
Alex Hughes
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering in Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania

Marker-free Biomechanical Analysis from Laboratory to Real World
Xi Peng
Assistant Professor, Computer & Information Sciences
University of Delaware

Data Science Applications in Aeroecology: Using Weather Radar to Track Migrating Birds
Jeff Buler
Associate Professor, Entomology & Wildlife Ecology
University of Delaware

The Delaware Microbiome Project
Alexa Bennett
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

An Investigation into Opioid Prescriptions & ED Visits in Delaware
Carter English
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

The aging lens transcriptome in humans and mice: Implications for age related cataract
Adam P. Faranda
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Control of Embryonic Genome Activation and Hierarchical Onset of Germ Layer Patterning
Matthew Good
Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania

Text Mining for Scientific Discovery
Ilya Safro
Associate Professor, Computer & Information Sciences
University of Delaware

Urinary biomarkers of chemical exposures in school-aged asthmatic children
Medina Jackson-Browne
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
University of Delaware

Thanksgiving Break

The Role of Exosomes in Marek's Disease Virus Vaccine Responses
Aksana Dallakoti
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Introduction to Network Inference with Applications in Cancer Research
Michael Saint-Antoine
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

What are the Ethics of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence?
Thomas Powers
Associate Professor
University of Delaware

Modeling Latent Classes of Variation using High-throughput Data to Describe Hepatic Development in the Post-hatch Broiler Chick
Heidi Van Every
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Network Biology
Lars Juhls Jensen
Professor, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research
University of Copenhagen

Bioinformatics Alumni Career Panel
BiSA Alumni Panel

University of Delaware

Genomics-powered approaches to domesticate anaerobic fungi for direct biomanufacturing from renewable plant biomass
Kevin Solomon
Assistant Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Delaware

Viral-host relationships in HIV: Who controls who?
Roy Dar
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign

Metabolic Heterogeneity and Antibiotic Tolerance in Bacterial Biofilms
Lars Dietrich
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Columbia University

UD "RE-COOP DAY" - NO CLASS

Improving the genomic knowledge and access to soybean root-nodulating bradyrhizobia
Menolin Sharma
Graduate Student
University of Delaware

Unraveling the mechanism of 3D genome folding by high-throughput FISH
Eric Joyce
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Penn Epigenetics Institute, Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Bacterial growth and division control under stress
Shiladitya Banerjee
Assistant Professor, Physics
Carnegie Mellon University

Global, organism-scale views of cell state heterogeneity & dynamics via novel single cell profiling techniques
Junyue Cao
Assistant Professor
The Rockefeller University