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May
12
Data linkages for pharmacoepidemiology: Case study on effects of herpes zoster vaccination in older adults
Daniel Harris, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Director, Epidemiology PhD Program
University of Delaware
May 12, 2025
May
05
Inferring dysregulated kinases in human diseases using kinase-phosphosite predictions from KSMoFinder
Manju Anandakrishnan
Ph.D. candidate
Bioinformatics Data Science
University of Delaware
May 5, 2025
The Ongoing Impacts of Long COVID: Social Determinants of Health and Associated Biomarkers
Amirah Ellis-Gilliam
Ph.D. student
Bioinformatics Data Science
University of Delaware
May 5, 2025
Apr
28
Toward Improving Fairness in Health LLMs
Rahmat Beheshti, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware
April 28, 2025
Apr
21
A BioGraphy of Life: Modeling Biology with Dots and Lines
John Jungck, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences and Mathematical Sciences
University of Delaware
April 21, 2025
Apr
14
CANCELLED-Systems pathophysiology of organ failure
Raj Vadigepalli, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research in Pathology and Genomic Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University
April 14, 2025
Apr
07
Mar
31
Phylogenetic Analysis of Global Isolates of the Avian Malaria Parasite Plasmodium relictum
Esther Weyer
PhD student, Bioinformatics Data Science
CBCB
University of Delaware
March 31, 2025
Dictionary-Guided Transformer for Mass Spectral Classification of Airborne Pathogens
Kyle Regan
PhD candidate, Bioinformatics Data Science
CBCB
University of Delaware
March 31, 2025
Mar
17
Mar
10
T5-EHR: New Generative Models for Clinical NLP
Saad Althabiti
Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics Data Science
University of Delaware
March 10, 2025
Leveraging BERT and BiLSTM-CRF for Enhanced Extraction of Adverse Drug Events in Clinical Notes
Omar Alharbi
Ph.D. Student, Bioinformatics Data Science
University of Delaware
March 10, 2025
Mar
03
Integrating Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning in Computational Medicine
Yixiang Deng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware
March 3, 2025
Feb
24
High-level Protein Representation Learning with the Annotation Vocabulary
Logan Hallee
Ph.D. candidate Bioinformatics and Data Science, University of Delaware
Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder of Synthyra
February 24, 2025
Predicting the underlying mechanisms driving aniridia-associated keratopathy
Suhotro Gorai
Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics and Data Science
University of Delaware
February 24, 2025
Feb
17
Network modeling for insights into metabolism
Carl Schmidt, PhD
Professor
Department of Animal and Food Sciences
University of Delaware
February 17, 2025
Feb
10
Biofabrication and Biomaterial Approaches for In Vitro 3D Models of Microbial Collectives
Victoria Muir, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Delaware
February 10, 2025
Feb
03
Stress Management 101 and Individual Development plan (For BINF865 students only)
Cecilia Arighi & Amelia Harrison
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Delaware
February 3, 2025
Dec
09
Exploring Neural Correlates of Continuous Speech Production
Vishruta Prashant Yawatkar
Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics Data Science
CBCB
University of Delaware
December 9, 2024
Forecasting Toxic Cyanobacterial Blooms in Delaware Ponds
Anthony Shepherd
PhD Student, Bioinformatics Data Science
BDS T32 Fellow
University of Delaware
December 9, 2024
Dec
02
Non-Thesis Master Student’s presentations
Sri Sai Nandini Ravi, Connor Duroe, Amanda Hodge, Hemanth Potu
December 2, 2024
Nov
18
Gene regulation by alternative polyadenylation: mechanisms and consequences
Bin Tian, PhD
Professor and Program Co-Leader
Genome Regulation and Cell Signaling Program
The Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, USA
November 18, 2024
Nov
11
Application of genomics and bioinformatics in pharma: Focus on myeloproliferative neoplasms
Erin Crowgey, Ph.D
Associate Director of Bioinformatics
InCyte
November 11, 2024
Nov
04
Unconventional signals discovered in plasmodesmal targeting: Lessons from machine learning
Jung-Youn Lee, PhD
Professor of Plant Cell Biology
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Delaware
November 4, 2024
Oct
28
Dispersal and host specificity of avian malaria pathogens and lessons for predicting infectious disease emergence
Vincenzo Ellis, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
University of Delaware
October 28, 2024
Oct
21
Classification of Longitudinal Data with Irregular Intervals: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Hoc Mixture Modeling and Deep Clustering Techniques
Md. Jobayer Hossain
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Biomedical Research
Director of the Biostatistics Program at Nemours
October 21, 2024
Oct
14
Engineering cellular transcriptional state with perturbations
Thomas Norman, PhD
Assistant Member
Computational & Systems Biology Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
October 14, 2024
Oct
07
Knowledge Graphs and Graph Data Science
Dr. Chuming Chen
Research Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Data Science Institute
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Delaware
October 7, 2024
Sep
30
Prediction of Behavioral Determinants of Health Using Domain-Specific BERT Embeddings and BiLSTM: A Study on the MIMIC-III Dataset
Saad Althabiti
Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics Data Science
University of Delaware
September 30, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Driven Characterization and Classification of Spastic Cerebral Palsy through Epigenetic Means
Jonathan Hicks
PhD Candidate and T32 fellow
University of Delaware & Nemours Children’s Health
September 30, 2024
Sep
23
Beyond genomics: Integrative multi-omics in cancer research
Dr. Ana Robles
Program Director in the Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research (OCCPR)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
September 23, 2024
Sep
16
Decoding the Mystery: The Role of ABCA4 Variants in Inherited Retinal Diseases
Esther E. Biswas-Fiss, PhD, MB(ASCP)CM
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Medical and Molecular Sciences
Director, Graduate Programs in Medical Sciences
Director, Programs in Applied Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
University of Delaware College of Health Sciences
September 16, 2024
Sep
09
Fairness and bias in biomedicine AI
Yifan Yang
PhD student in Computer Science
Department at the University of Maryland (UMD)
Visiting fellow at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
September 9, 2024
May
13
Contrastive Learning and Mixture of Experts Enables Precise Vector Embeddings
Logan Hallee
Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics Data Science
University of Delaware
May 13, 2024
Dyport: Dynamic Importance-based Biomedical Hypothesis Generation Benchmarking Technique
Ilya Tyagin
PhD Candidate, Bioinformatics Data Science
University of Delaware
May 13, 2024
May
06
Flash talks MS students
Non-thesis master students, Bioinformatics and Data Science Program
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Delaware
May 6, 2024
Apr
29
Microbial Detection Using Machine Learning on Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
Kyle Regan
PhD candidate, Bioinformatics Data Science program
CBCB, University of Delaware
April 29, 2024
Exploring machine learning models to maximize the predictive potential of omics data in mAb-producing CHO cells
Guna Gurazada
PhD candidate, Bioinformatics Data Science program
CBCB, University of Delaware
April 29, 2024
Apr
22
tRNA gene set evolution
Miguel Pedraza
MS graduate student, Bioinformatics and Data Science program
University of Delaware
April 22, 2024
Mechanisms of cell size homeostasis and consequences for proliferation and gene expression
Cesar Augusto Nieto Acuna
Post-Doctoral Researcher
University of Delaware
April 22, 2024
Apr
15
Heavy metal neuroscience: Tracking somatosensory development with single-cell mass cytometry
Dr. Austin Keeler
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
University of Delaware
April 15, 2024
Apr
08
Examining early stage psychosis through structural equation modeling and multimodal analysis
Kristina Holton
PhD in Bioinformatics Data Science
April 8, 2024
Identification of the substrates and targets of ADAM9 in colorectal cancer using multi-omics integration
Neha Sindhu
Ph.D. candidate in Bioinformatics Data Sciences
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Delaware
April 8, 2024
Apr
01
We are not alone: the role of the intestinal microbiome in the setting of sepsis
Nathan Klingensmith, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Traumatology, University of Pennsylvania
April 1, 2024
Mar
18
Mar
11
Study of disease comorbidity based on incomplete human interactome with machine learning
Li Liao, PhD
Associate Professor
Computer and Information Sciences Department
University of Delaware
March 11, 2024
Mar
04
Functional Annotation of Glycan Motifs via Glycosylation Enzymes and the GlyGen GlycoTree Sandbox
Nathan Edwards, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, and
Clinical and Translational Glycoscience Research Center
Georgetown University
March 4, 2024
Feb
26
Exploring Disease Mechanisms through Gene Expression Analysis: Case Studies on Autoimmune Thyroid Disease and Prader-Willi Syndrome
Karen Ross, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist in the Protein Information Resource
Georgetown University Medical Center
February 26, 2024
Feb
19
Individual Development Plans (IDPs) for Graduate Students
Amelia Harrison
Academic Advisor
CBCB Program, University of Delaware
February 19, 2024
Bacteriophage Alchemy: Turning Genotypic Data into Phenotypic Gold
Dr. Shawn Polson
Associate Professor, Departments of Computer and Information Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Delaware
February 19, 2024
Feb
12
CBCB and Department of Medical and Molecular Sciences Joint seminar: Understanding the Epigenomic and Transcriptomic Basis of Retinal Adaptations to Diet and Lifestyle
Anupam Kumar Mondal, Ph.D.
Neurobiology, Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory,
National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
February 12, 2024
Feb
05
Effective Presentation Strategies Workshop
Oral Communication Consultants of the University of Delaware Writing Center
February 5, 2024
Dec
11
Engineering Root Systems for Climate Resilience
Erin Sparks
Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences Department
Delaware Biotechnology Institute
University of Delaware
December 11, 2023
Dec
04
KSFinder – a Model to Predict Kinases of Phosphorylated Substrates, Its Enhancement, and Applications in Human Diseases
Manju Anandakrishnan
PhD Student, Bioinformatics Data Science Program
CBCB, University of Delaware
December 4, 2023
How Computational Techniques Can Improve CAR-T Therapy
Andrew Fennimore
MS Student Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CBCB
University of Delaware
December 4, 2023
Nanopore CapZyme-Seq, a method for detecting and quantifying metabolite caps on RNA
Venkata Sai Vaishnavi Prathivadi Bhayankaram
MS Student, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CBCB
University of Delaware
December 4, 2023
Nov
27
Breaking Symmetry: Asymmetric Histone Inheritance
Xin Chen, PhD
HHMI Investigator, Professor
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biology
November 27, 2023
Nov
13
Regional-scale microbiome analysis of distinct ecosystems: leveraging phylogenetic and functional genes
Alexa Bennett
PhD student, Bioinformatics Data Sciences Program, University of Delaware
November 13, 2023
Web tool to visualize the global injury response of lens epithelial cells
Suhotro Gorai
PhD student, Bioinformatics Data Sciences Program, University of Delaware
November 13, 2023
Challenges and Opportunities in Continuous Biomanufacturing
Rachel Swamy
MS Student, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware
November 13, 2023
Nov
06
Lineage tracing and spatiotemporal analyses of HSV-I infection reveals heritable host-intrinsic factors dictating viral susceptibility and IFN-I production in the skin
Laura Van Eyndhoven, PhD
Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
November 6, 2023
Oct
30
Prediction of 10-Year Risk for Future Coronary Heart Disease using Machine Learning Algorithms
Anagha Gardane
MS student, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program
October 30, 2023
Responder Vs Non-Responder Analysis at a Subject level of the LILAC study Part A (SLE), a 2-Part, Phase 2, Randomized, Double Blind Placebo Controlled Study
Charitha Sumeet
MS student, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program
October 30, 2023
Unraveling T-cell and endothelial cell interactions through computational analyses
Krithika Umesh
MS student, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program
October 30, 2023
Oct
23
Applying Large Language Models to Biomedicine
Qiao Jin, PhD
Post doctoral researcher, BioNLP group
NCBI/NLM/NIH
October 23, 2023
Oct
16
Exploring Motor Control Deficits in Parkinson’s Disease: Insights from MRI Studies
Roxana Burciu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
University of Delaware
Director of the Motor Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Laboratory and Parkinson’s Disease Registry
October 16, 2023
Oct
09
Hard Microbiology: The microbiome of concrete
Julia Maresca, PhD
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware
October 9, 2023
Oct
02
Utilizing and Evaluating Different BERT Models to Predict Patients’ Length of Stay (LOS) and Mortality by Leveraging Only the Initial Nursing Note Assessments
Saad Althabiti
Bioinformatics Data Science PhD Student
University of Delaware
October 2, 2023
Leveraging ClinicalBERT for Hospital Readmission Prediction Using Clinical Notes and Discharge Summaries
Omar Alharbi
Bioinformatics Data Science PhD student
University of Delaware
October 2, 2023
Sep
25
Extracting Suicide Causes and Discovering Annotation Inconsistencies in Death Investigation Notes through NLP Approaches
Yifan Peng, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Health Sciences Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine
September 25, 2023
Sep
18
Tumor Circadian Clock Strength Influences Metastatic Potential and Predicts Patient Prognosis in Luminal A Breast Cancer
Ron Anafi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
September 18, 2023
Sep
11
Communicating Intersections of Data Science and Health Equity Principles through Outreach Activities
Simone Stanley, MS
Outreach and Workforce Development Program Manager
Georgetown University Medical Center
Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics
September 11, 2023
May
15
Pausing Characteristics of People Who Stutter: An Automatic Speech Pause Analysis
Vishruta Yawatkar
Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics Data Science Program
University of Delaware
May 15, 2023
Genetic Insights from Anabaptist Founder Populations: Advancing Translational Medicine for Rare Diseases
Ashlin Callahan
MS student, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program
University of Delaware
May 15, 2023
May
08
Developmental origins of heterogeneity in cancer
Salil Garg, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Yale University
May 8, 2023
Apr
24
The promise of multi-omics and machine learning in modeling CHO cell productivity
Guna Gurazada
Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics Data Science program
April 24, 2023
Local Sensitivity Analysis of A Generic Antiretroviral Drug Pharmacokinetic Model for More Efficient Drug Design
Yasaman (Yasmin) Moghadamnia
PhD Student, Bioinformatics Data Science
CBB T32 Fellow
April 24, 2023
Apr
17
Computational Screen to Identify Potential Targets for Immunotherapeutic Removal of Specific Cell Types
Avi Ma’ayan, PhD
Mount Sinai Endowed Professor in Bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Director, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics
April 17, 2023
Apr
10
Patient-sharing among Diabetes Healthcare Professionals: A Network Analysis Approach to Examine Collaboration
Mina Ostovari, PhD
Lead Research Investigator, Christiana Care Health Services, Inc
Affiliated Faculty, Data Science Institute, UD
April 10, 2023
Apr
03
Detecting Cerebral Palsy from Epigenetic Signals
Jonathan Hicks
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Delaware, Nemours Children’s Health
April 3, 2023
Uncovering Key Predictive Channels and Clinical Variables in the Gamma Band Auditory Steady-State Response in Early Stage Psychosis – a Longitudinal Study
Kristina Holton
Ph.D. candidate in Bioinformatics Data Science, University of Delaware
April 3, 2023
Mar
20
BiSA Career Panel
Panelists: Irene Rombel (BioCurie), Liang Sun (Boston Children’s Hospital), JuniPer Lake (Pacific Bioscience) and Madolyn MacDonald (University of Delaware)
March 20, 2023
Mar
13
Statin for the Prevention of Osteoarthritis
Dr. X. Lucas Lu
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
March 13, 2023
Mar
06
Using NLP to Explore Long-term Functional Outcomes in Children following COVID-19
Drs. Cara Reedy and H. Timothy Bunnell
Research Data Scientist (Reedy)
Director, Center for Pediatric Auditory and Speech Sciences (Bunnell)
Neumors Children’s Hospital, Wilmington Delaware
March 6, 2023
Feb
27
Feb
20
Pursuit for Better Berries: Integration of Natural and Technological resources
Dr. Kalpalatha Melmaiee
Associate Professor at Delaware State University
February 20, 2023
Feb
13
The Delaware Microbiome Project
Alexa Bennett
Ph.D. candidate, Bioinformatics Data Sciences, UD
February 13, 2023
Biochemical and structural insights to marine viral phenotype from metagenomic sequence data
Rachel Keown
Graduate Student and CBB T32 Fellow, Bioinformatics Data Science, UD
February 13, 2023
Feb
06
A tale of two eggs: Application of small and big data in zebra shark conservation.
Dr. Jennifer Wyffels
Post Doctoral Researcher, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, UD
February 6, 2023
Dec
05
Personalized Medicine: Will It Work for Decreasing Age Related Morbidities?
Dr. Christopher Martens
Assistant Professor, Neurovascular aging lab, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, UD
December 5, 2022
Nov
28
Optical Pooled Multi-omic Single Cell Screening
Dr. Jellert T. Gaublomme
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Columbia University, NY
November 28, 2022
Nov
14
Role of ADAM9 in Colorectal Cancer
Neha Sindhu
PhD Student in Bioinformatics Data Science
November 14, 2022
Prediction of kinase-substrate phosphorylation interaction using knowledge graph embedding and machine learning technique
Manju Anandakrishnan
PhD Student in Bioinformatics Data Science
November 14, 2022
Nov
07
Influenza virus evolution and epidemiology: an overview
Dr. Anastasia Nikolskaya
Staff Scientist, NCBI, National Library of Medicine, NIH, MD
November 7, 2022
Oct
31
SPIDR: a novel and highly multiplexed method for mapping RNA-protein interactions to comprehensively study post-transcriptional gene expression regulation
Dr. Marko Jovanovic
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Columbia University, NY
October 31, 2022
Oct
24
Data integration and evidence tracking in biomedical knowledgebases such as GlyGen and OncoMX
Dr. Raja Mazumder
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and Co-Director of The McCormick Genomic Proteomic Center at The George Washington University, DC
October 24, 2022
Oct
14
A Night in the Lentiviral Natural History Museum: How HIV and SIV Hijack Host Membrane Biology
Dr. James Hurley
Professor, University of California Berkeley, CA
October 14, 2022
Oct
10
Artificial intelligence and Natural Language Processing for Digital Epidemiology: Overcoming the Challenges of Real World Data
Dr. Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
Vice Chair Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, CA
October 10, 2022
Oct
03
Data Harmonization and Integration in the Common Fund Data Ecosystem
Dr. Michelle Giglio
Associate Professor, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore, MD
October 3, 2022
Sep
26
Hypothesis Generation with AGATHA: Accelerate Scientific Discovery with Deep Learning
Ilya Tyagin
PhD Student in Bioinformatics Data Science
September 26, 2022
Segmentation of Mouse Social Behavior Using an Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach
Joel Turk
PhD Student in Bioinformatics Data Science
September 26, 2022
Sep
19
Lens wound healing and the pathogenesis of posterior capsular opacification: Insights from RNAseq profiling
Dr. Melinda Duncan
Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Delaware
September 19, 2022
Sep
12
Modeling drug delivery in the lymph node
Dr. Ryan Zurakowski
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware, DE
September 12, 2022
Aug
29
Bioinformatics Graduate Student Orientation
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
August 29, 2022
Aug
26
Aug
09
To view seminars from previous years, visit the Past Seminars page.