Talk title: The impediments to high-risk, high-return research Presenter: Carl Bergstrom, Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Washington Dr. Bergstrom is a Professor of Biology at the University of Washington. The unifying theme of his work is the concept of information; how communication evolves and how the process of evolution encodes information in...
Thesis Defense: Mian Zhao Time: Thursday May 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94566387781 Mian will present the thesis titled “Phenotypic and genome evolution after radiation induced DNA damage”. The thesis committee is chaired by Cheng-Zhong Zhang and includes Spektor Alexander and John Quackenbush.
Thesis Defense: Michelle Dai Time: Thursday May 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92102482641 Michelle will present the thesis titled “Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Schizophrenia Drug Repurposing”. The thesis committee is chaired by Jukka-Pekka Onnela and includes Marinka Zitnik and John Quackenbush.
With Dr. Xiaobin Wang, Zanvyl Krieger Professor in child health, and Director of the Center on the Early Life Origins of Disease at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Professor of pediatrics and a board-certified pediatrician at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Xiaobin Wang, Zanvyl Krieger Professor in child health, and Director of the Center on the Early Life Origins of Disease at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Professor of pediatrics and a board-certified pediatrician at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will present her seminar titled "Unraveling the Multifaceted Intergenerational Health Effects...
Thesis Defense: Yuelai Wang Time: Friday May 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G10 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97625956716 Yuelai will present the thesis titled “Hidden Markov Modeling of Somatic Mutations in Human Melanoma Cancer”. The thesis committee is chaired by Felix Dietlein and includes Junwei Lu and John Quackenbush.
Thesis Defense: Ruixin Chen Time: Friday May 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G10 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93482835782 Ruixin will present the thesis titled “Understanding Tissue Permissivity in Cancer Development”. The thesis committee is chaired by Kevin Haigis and includes Martin Hemberg and John Quackenbush.
Thesis Defense: Xiaohe Tian Time: Friday May 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G10 https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97604026268 Xiaohe will present the thesis titled “Deciphering the Effect of chr17q21.31 Haplotype on Transcriptional Regulation Using Large-scale AMP-PD Cohorts”. The thesis committee is chaired by Xianjun Dong and includes Heng Li and John Quackenbush.
The pandemic is the direst public health crisis the global population has faced in recent times. However, as the world attempts to reset itself, we must acknowledge irreparable fissures created in the health care workforce that cannot be repaired with time. The trauma experienced by health care workers and a dynamic shift in the balance...
We’re delighted to welcome everyone for the sixth annual Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health center symposium, which this year will be run in tandem with a partner Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center workshop. Of the many health-relevant aspects of microbiome science, its role in cancer has become particularly critical. Not only is it one...
