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Thesis Defense – Michelle Dai

Kresge 201

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.

Department of Environmental Health 22nd James L. Whittenberger Lecture – Unraveling the Multifaceted Intergenerational Health Effects of Environmental Exposures: from Harvard Six Cities Study to Boston Birth Cohort Study

HSPH, Kresge G2 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

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

Thesis Defense – Yuelai Wang

HSPH FXB G10

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

HSPH FXB G10

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

HSPH FXB G10

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.

HCMPH Center Symposium: The Microbiome and Cancer

KRSG G1 (Kresge)

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...