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Workshop and Seminar

CPRIT Biomedical Informatics, Genomics, and Translational Cancer Research Training Program (BIG-TCR) Undergraduate Summer Internship Seminar

 

Seminar Schedule
Date Time Where Speaker
June 10, 2022 Friday 12:00pm-1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room

Topic: Advancing Drug Discovery and Repurposing with Machine Learning

Dr. Xiaoqian Jiang
Professor, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston
Director of Center for Secure Artificial intelligence For hEalthcare (SAFE).

June 17, 2022 Friday 12:00pm-1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room

Topic: Understanding the emerging roles of onco-ribosomes in cancer development and metastasis

Catherine Denicourt, Assistant Professor
McGovern Medical School
UTHealth Houston

July 1, 2022
Friday
12:00pm-1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room

Topic: Career seminar on Academic and Industrial Path

Dr. Hua Xu, The Glassell Family Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Translational AI in Medicine, Associate Dean for Innovation, School of Biomedical Informatics

Dr. Sam Chen, Professor
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston

July 8, 2022 Friday 12:00pm-1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room

Topic: Graduate School Application and Fellowship opportunities

Melissa Glueck
Director, Keck Center, Gulf Coast Consortia

Elvis Parada
School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth Houston

Raquel Salinas, PhD
Director, Student Affairs and Career Development, GSBS

July 15, 2022
Friday
12:00pm-1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room

Topic: Analytic and Predictive Modeling with Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data

Dr. Fang Li, Assistant Professor
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston

July 22, 2022
Friday
12:00pm-1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room

Topic: Fighting Cancer: One Cell at a Time

Nicholas Navin, Ph.D. , The Grady F Saunders, PhD,
Distinguished Professorship for Molecular Biology Professor

Damon-Runyon Innovator, AAAS Wachtel Scholar,
Professor The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

July 29, 2022 Friday 12:00pm-1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room

Topic: The non-coding regulators of gene transcription – old folks and new players

Dr. Wenbo Li, Assistant Professor
CPRIT Scholar, Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas
McGovern Medical School

August 12, 2022 Friday 12:00pm-1:00pm (Central Time) E630 Rio Grande Conference room

Topic: the End of the Beginning: New Frontiers in Computational Cancer research

Dr. Huihui Fan, Assistant Professor
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston