*One-day Event*
Friday, October 14, 2022
Stephen W. Hawking Auditorium
located in the
George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy
*Registration is Closed*
Organizers:
Bani K. Mallick, Chair, Department of Statistics, TAMU
Tapasree Roy Sarkar, Chair, Department of Biology, TAMU
Yang Ni, Department of Statistics, TAMU
Irtisha Singh, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, TAMU
Shreya Raghavan, Department of Biomedical Engineering, TAMU
Schedule:
9:00 am
Welcome and Introduction –
Dr. José Luis Bermúdez, Interim Dean, College of Arts & Science
Dr. Alex Keene, Head, The Department of Biology
Dr. Branislav Vidakovic, Head, The Department of Statistics
Session 1 – CANCER RESEARCH: BASIC SCIENCE TO BIOINFORMATICS
9:30 – 10:00 am
Kathryn O’ Donnell, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Talk Title: “New Mechanisms of Immune Checkpoint Regulation in Lung Cancer“
10:10 – 10:40 am
Kristin Mahan, UT Health McGovern Medical School
Talk Title: “Circadian Rhythms in the Prevention of Liver Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma“
10:50 – 11:20 am
Joseph Taube, Baylor University
Talk Title: “Chromatin Dynamics Underlie Metastasis-Associated Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition”
11:30 – 12:20 pm – Keynote Speaker
Jeffrey Rosen, Baylor College of Medicine
Talk Title: “Leveraging Preclinical Models for Translational Breast Cancer Research”
12:30 – 1:20 pm
Lunch – Mitchell Physics Building Lobby (MPHY)
Session 2 – ONCO-INFORMATICS IN CANCER RESEARCH
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Presentation from Biobox Analytics
2:10 – 3:00 pm – Keynote Speaker
Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
Talk Title: “Estimating cell-type-specific gene co-expressions from single cell and bulk sequencing data”.
3:10 – 3:40 pm
Nidhi Sahni, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Talk Title: “Functional Variomics and Network Perturbation in Human Disease”
3:50 – 4:20 pm
Gen Li, University of Michigan
Talk Title: “Tensor Regression for Incomplete Observations with Application to a Longitudinal Microbiome Study”
4:30 – 5:00 pm
James P. Long, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Talk Title: “Casual Models, Prediction, and Extrapolation in Cell Line Perturbation Experiments”