Events

Multi-omics and Data Integration - Wednesday December 4, 2024 - Rood Pavilion

  • 2:30 - 3:00   Sha Cao, PhD, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, OHSU, "Integrating multi-omics data for sparse latent space detection"
  • 3:00 - 3:30   Emek Demir, PhD, Associate Professor, Molecular and Medical Genetics, OHSU, "How can we leverage the inherent parallelism and heterogeneity in biological systems to  build foundation models of cancer?"
  • 3:30 - 4:00   Coffee
  • 4:00 - 4:30    Zheng Xia, PhD, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, OHSU, "Multi-modality data integration for clinical prognosis"
  • 4:30 - 5:00  Olga Nikolova, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Oncological Sciences, OHSU, "Untangling drug response with data-driven models"

For information: qsb@ohsu.edu

Bytes and Bites June 6, 2024 - Quantitative Modeling for Translational Research

  • 11:00 - 11:30  Jose Garcia-Tirado, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Bern, Switzerland (Virtual), "myLoop – Genesis: Individualize or not Individualize, that is our question"
  • 11:30 - 12:00  Valentina Roquemen-Echeverri, BSc, PhD Student AIMS Lab, BME OHSU, "A Physiology-guided Artificial Intelligence Digital Twin Framework for Replicating Glucose Dynamics in Type 1 Diabetes"
  • 12:00 - 12:30  Lunch
  • 12:30 - 1:00    Robert Dodier, PhD,  Assistant Staff Scientist AIMS Lab, BME OHSU, "Modeling glucoregulatory physiology with ordinary differential equations in diabetes research and treatment"
  • 1:00 - 1:30 Benjamin Young, MD, Assistant Professor Ophthalmology, OHSU, "Cellular Automata for Retinal Degenerations and Vascular Disease"

Location: KCRB Auditorium

Bytes and Bites - Focus on Spatial Omics - February 20, 2024

  • 11:00 – 11:30 Cameron Watson (Computational biologist, BME): “Approaches for Multimodal and Spatial Characterization of Metastatic Breast Cancer”
  • 11:30 – 12:00 Cigdem Ak (postdoctoral fellow, CEDAR): "Analysis of spatial heterogeneity and sample size effects in prostate cancer progression"
  • 12:00 – 12:30 Lunch
  • 12:30 – 1:00 Ana Cristina Lima (Senior Research Associate, Conrad Lab): "The testicular landscape by spatial transcriptomics: A user perspective on multiple platforms”
  • 1:00 – 1:30 Dirk Petersen, Advanced Computing Center, OHSU “Research Computing Updates”

Location:  KCRB Auditorium

Bytes and Bites - Focus on Molecular Engineering - December 5, 2023

  • 11:00 - 11:25 – Prof. Wassana Yantasee (Biomedical Engineering)
  • 11:25 - 11:40 – Dr. Julia Warren, postdoc fellow (Xiao and Li Lab)
  • 11:40 - 11:55 – Dr. Scotland Farley, postdoc fellow (Schultz and Tafesse lab)
  • 11:55 - 12:10 - Aleksandra Dagunts, M.D./Ph.D. Program Student (Lobingier lab)
  • 12:10 - 12:40 - Lunch break
  • 12:40 – 1:05 - Prof. Kimberly Beatty (CPB)
  • 1:05 - 1:30 - Prof. Xiangshu Xiao (CPB)

Location: KCRB Auditorium

Bytes and Bites - Tuesday October 3, 2023 - Focus on Spatial Systems Biology

  • 11:00 - 11:30    Prof. Alexander Davies, “Towards understanding single cell growth factor perception-response dynamics in complex tumor microenvironments”
  • 11:30 - 12:00    Prof. Summer Gibbs, "Quantifying Therapeutic Efficacy with a Novel Fluorescence Imaging Platform"
  • 12:00 - 12:30    Lunch
  • 12:30 - 1:00       Prof. Laura Heiser, "A systems approach to therapeutically control tumor ecosystems"
  • 1:00 - 1:30          Prof. Xiaolin Nan, "Toward the 3M (multiplexed, multiscale, and multiomic) era of spatial biology"

Location: Rood Pavilion

Bytes and Bites - May 16, 2023 - Focus on Digital Health and Translational Research

  • 11:00 - 11:25 - Dr. Sai Pooja Mahajan (Prescient Design - Genentech)
  • 11:25 - 11:50 - Dr. Travis Redd (OHSU Casey Eye Institute)
  • 11:50 - 12:20 - Lunch
  • 12:20 - 12:45 - Dr. Dr. Acner Benech (Genentech)
  • 12:45 - 13:10 – Dr. Taisa Kushner (Galois Inc.)

Location: Rood Pavilion - RPV 1215

Bytes and Bites - February 16, 2023 - Focus on Omic Technologies and Analysis

  • 11:00 - 11:20 - Dr. Andrew Adey (Molecular and Medical Genetics)
  • 11:20 - 11:40 - Dr. Andrew Emili (Knight Cancer Institute)
  • 11:40 - 12:15 - Lunch
  • 12:15 - 12:35 - Dr. Sara Gosline (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
  • 12:35 - 12:55 - Dr. Gurkan Yardimci (CEDAR)

Location: Rood Pavilion (RPV) Room A (1217)

Bytes and Bites - December 8, 2022 - Focus on Molecular Engineering

  • 11:00 - 11:15 – Landon Bayless-Edwards, MD/PhD student (Haining Zhong lab)
  • 11:15 - 11:30 – Daniel Sanderson, graduate student (Mike Cohen Lab)
  • 11:30 - 11:45 – Dr. Taisuke Furusho, postdoc fellow (Hiroyuki Nakai lab)
  • 11:45 - 12:00 - Jed Syrenne, graduate student (Swetha Murthy lab)
  • 12:00 - 12:30 - Lunch break
  • 12:30 – 12:55 - Prof. James Frank (CPB)
  • 12:55 - 13:20 - Prof. Bingbing Li (CPB)

Location: MAC 3198

'Bytes and Bites' September 12, 2022 - Focus on Image Analysis

  • 11:00 - 11:20 - Dr. Tristan Hormel (COOL Lab, Ophthalmology)
  • 11:20 - 11:40 - Dr. Jeremy Copperman (Damon Runyon fellow, Biomedical Engineering)
  • 11:40 - 12:15 - Lunch break
  • 12:15 - 12:35 - Prof. Xubo Song (Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology)
  • 12:35 - 12:55 - Prof. Young Hwan Chang (Biomedical Engineering)

Location: Rood Pavilion

QSB Sympoisum - September 20, 2021 (virtual)

9:00-9:05am              Owen McCarty, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering

                                        Opening Remarks

9:05-9:20am               Daniel Zuckerman, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director, Quantitative and Systems Biology 

                                      QSB at OHSU, and a physical/statistical approach to molecular and cellular problems

9:20-9:30am               Joe Gray, PhD, Gordon Moore Endowed Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering

                                        Systems Biology – What is it and why now

9:30-9:40am               Shannon McWeeney, PhD, Professor and Associate Director, Computational Biomedicine

                                         Crossing the Chasm in Computational Biomedicine

9:40-9:50am               Break and Discussion

9:50-10:00am             Peter G. Jacobs, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

                                        Computational Diabetes; Leveraging Physiologic Models to Design Automated Drug Delivery and Decision                                             Support Systems

10:00-10:10am           Yali Jia, PhD, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering

                                         GPU-assisted real-time OCTA and AI-aided quantitative OCTA

10:10-10:20am           Vlad Petyuk, PhD, Data Scientist, Computational Biology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

                                        Capabilities of the PNNL’s Modeling and Simulation Team

10:20-10:30am           Bill Rooney, PhD, Professor and Director, Advanced Imaging Research Center

                                         Disease Progression Modelling using MRI Biomarkers

10:30-10:40am           Break and Discussion

10:40-10:50am           Kimberly Beatty, PhD, Associate Professor, Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering

                                      Genetic Tags for Quantitative Imaging

10:50-11:00am           Emek Demir, PhD, Associate Professor, Molecular and Medical Genetics

                                        Talk Title TBA

11:00-11:10am           Don Conrad, PhD, Associate Professor and Chief, Division of Genetics, Oregon National Primate Research Center

                                        Talk Title TBA

11:10-11:20am           David Dorr, M.D, M.S, Professor and Chief Research Information Officer, Vice Chair, Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology

                                        Strategic Investments in Research Informatics and Research Computing at OHSU

11:20-11:30am           Mandy Terrill and Marion Hakanson, Director of Research Applications and Technology and Supervisor, Advanced Computing Center

                                        Research Support Services

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