Events
Bytes and Bites: Quantitative and systems biology focus sessions
Focus on Spatial Omics - Tuesday February 20, 2024- KCRB Auditorium
- 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”
For more information, or to reserve lunch, contact qsb@ohsu.edu
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. Lisa Karstens (Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology)
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
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