Bioinformatics Colloquium
2024-2025: |
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February 7, 2025 Dr. Byung-Jun Yoon, Dr. Byung-Jun Yoon, Scientist, Department of Applied Mathematics, Computing and Data Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, and Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
Title: Enabling Small-Data AI for Science |
Time: 10:00 a.m. |
Remote: Please click here to pre-register for the Zoom meeting |
(We acknowledge the Sustainable Horizons Institute and DOE national laboratories for organizing this Computational Research Leadership Council Seminar Series.) |
January 24, 2025 Dr. Guo-Wei Wei, MSU Research Foundation Professor, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
Title: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematical AI in Biosciences |
Time: 3:00 p.m.; Place: Biosciences Research Building 2.168 |
Remote: https://utep-edu.zoom.us/j/87220236692 |
Hosted by Dr. Lin Li, Department of Physics, and Dr. Ming-Ying Leung, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP |
This presentation is part of the Mathematical Sciences and Bioinformatics 2025 Colloquium Series and is supported by the Fessinger-Springer and Margo Louise Springer Memorial Lectureship endowment. |
November 15, 2024 Dr. Chongming Jiang, Assistant Professor, Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Los Angeles, CA |
Title: Immunomics and AI Machine Learning in Medical Immunology |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
Remote: https://utep-edu.zoom.us/j/82901391798 |
Hosted by Dr. Cai Xu, Bioinformatics Program, UTEP |
November 8, 2024 Dr. Jianming Qiu, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS |
Title: Human Parvovirus Replication and Vector Delivery in Airway Epithelia |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
Remote: https://utep-edu.zoom.us/j/82901391798 |
Hosted by Dr. Chuan Xiao, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UTEP |
October 18, 2024 Dr. Shailly Tomar, Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee - 247667, Uttarakhand, India |
Title: Dual Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 PLpro for Enhanced Antiviral Efficacy and Immune Restoration |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
Remote: https://utep-edu.zoom.us/j/82901391798 |
Hosted by Dr. Mahesh Narayan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UTEP |
2023-2024: |
August 15, 2024 (Thursday) Dr. Daniel G. S. Capelluto, Associate Professor, Protein Signaling Domains Laboratory (Capelluto Lab), Department of Biological Sciences, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, and Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA |
Title: Insights into the Structure and Regulation of Endosomal Cargo Transporters |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
Remote: https://utep-edu.zoom.us/j/84309137130 |
Hosted by Dr. Chuan Xiao, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UTEP |
April 19, 2024 Dr. Silvia Crivelli, Program Manager, Applied Computing For Scientific Discovery Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA |
Title: AI for Healthcare and Biomedicine |
Time: 11:00 a.m. |
Remote: Please click here to pre-register for the Zoom meeting |
(We acknowledge the Sustainable Horizons Institute and DOE national laboratories for organizing this Computational Research Leadership Council Seminar Series.) |
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December 1, 2023 Dr. Jean-Pierre Llored, Associate Professor, Ecole Centrale Casablanca, Morocco, and Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Ecole CentraleSupélec, France |
Title: Reflecting on AI: Some Historical, Epistemological and Ethical Insights |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Remote: Click on this link to join via Zoom |
Hosted by Dr. Anass Bouchnita, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP |
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November 10, 2023 Dr. Yi He, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Art and Science, and Associate Director, Center for Computational Chemistry, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Title: In Silico Modeling of PICK1 Protein Dynamics and Interactions: Pathway to Peptide-based Therapies for Substance Use Disorders |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
Hosted by Dr. Lin Li, Department of Physics, UTEP |
(Also available remotely: Click on this link to join via Zoom) |
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October 29, 2023 Dr. Joshua N. Adkins, Laboratory Fellow and HHS Sector Manager |
Title: The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and its NIH Programs |
Dr. Christopher S. Oehmen, Group Leader, Computational Biology, Biological Sciences Division. |
Title: Biological sciences as a bridge to broad applications |
Dr. Ernesto Nakayasu, Novel ubiquitination pathways in host-pathogen interactions |
Title: Novel ubiquitination pathways in host-pathogen interactions |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
(Also available remotely: Click on this link to join via Zoom) |
September 29, 2023 Dr. Cai Xu, Assistant Professor of Research, Bioinformatics Program and Border Biomedical Research Center, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas |
Title: Opportunities at the Intersection of Patient Reported Outcomes and Artificial Intelligence |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
(Also available remotely: Click on this link to join via Zoom) |
2022-2023: |
April 21, 2023 Dr. Ray Luo, Professor of Structural Biology/Biochemistry/Biophysics, Chemical and Materials Physics, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA |
Title: Biomolecular Simulation: Methodology Advancements and Applications |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
Hosted by Dr. Lin Li, Department of Physics, UTEP |
(Also available remotely: Click on this link to join via Zoom) |
March 24, 2023 Dr. Weitao Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology (ICQMB), University of California, Riverside, CA |
Title: Multiscale Modeling to Understand Mechanisms of Robustness of Stem Cell Maintenance. |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
Hosted by Dr. Anass Bouchnita, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP |
(Also available remotely: Click on this link to join via Zoom) |
February 17, 2023 Dr. Shan Zhao, Professor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Alabama,Tuscaloosa, AL |
Title: Numerical Algorithm Developments for the Poisson-Boltzmann Models in Biomolecular Electrostatics |
Time: 10:00 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
Hosted by Dr. Lin Li, Department of Physics, UTEP |
(Also available remotely: Click on this link to join via Zoom) |
February 3, 2023 Dr. Jay Lofstead, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Department of Scalable System Software, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM |
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Title: Ethics in Machine Learning | |
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January 27, 2023 Dr. Arvind Ramanathan, Computational Biologist, Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, and Senior Scientist, University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering (CASE), Lemont, IL |
Title: AI-driven multi-scale simulations for COVID-19 drug discovery |
Time: 10:00 a.m. Remote only: Please pre-register at https://www.utep.edu/science/bioinformatics/colloquium/zoom |
September 9, 2022 Kumar Sharma, M.D., Hillis Endowed Distinguished Chair in Medicine, Director, Center for Precision Medicine, Chief, Division of Nephrology, and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas |
Title: Multi-omic Analysis of Kidney Disease for Precision Medicine |
Time: 1:30 p.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
(Also available remotely at https://utep-edu.zoom.us/j/81575107921) |
2021-2022: |
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April 8, 2022 Dr. Liang Ma, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas |
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Title: | Functional Genomics Studies of Human Brain Diseases |
Time: | 10:00 a.m.; Virtual: Click on this link to join via Zoom |
March 4, 2022 Dr. George Luta, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC |
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Title: | Statistical Methods to Construct Confidence Intervals for Measures of Health Disparities |
Time: | 3:00 p.m.; Virtual: Click on this link to join via Zoom |
(Co-hosted with the Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTEP) | |
October 22, 2021 Dr. Sam Jacobs, Computer Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, |
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Title: | Learning and Learning to Learn at Scale |
Time: | 10:30 a.m.; Virtual: Please click to register for remote access |
2019-2020: Colloquium Chair: Chuan "River" Xiao, Department of Chemistry |
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October 25, 2019 Dr. Chunqiang Li, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, UTEP |
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Title: | Deep Learning Based Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation in Biomedical Imaging |
Time: | 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
October 11, 2019 Dr. Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Associate Professor of Informatics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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Title: | Myths and Misconceptions: Social Media Mining for Health Research |
Time: | 2:00 p.m.; Place: CCSB 1.0202 |
(Hosted by Department of Computer Science, UTEP) |
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October 4, 2019 Dr. Emil Alexov, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC |
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Title: | Modeling the Role of Electrostatics in Macromolecular Recognition |
Time: | 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
September 13, 2019 Dr. Jun Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
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Title: | Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology of Antivirals Targeting Drug-resistant and Emerging Viruses |
Time: | 10:30 a.m.; Place: Bell Hall 143 |
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