Computational Cancer Genomics Working Group Evening Lecture

The Computational Cancer Genomics Working Group is led by Simon Tavaré, PhD, NYGC and Columbia University, and Sohrab Shah, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This group will build collaborations that apply novel statistical approaches and population-level analyses to major cohorts in cancer genomics.

Discussion and Q&A will take place after each speaker presents.

Any questions on this event, contact events@nygenome.org.

Speakers

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  Fabian Theis, PhD

  Institute Director and Research Group Leader
  Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Munich

  “Learning Large-Scale Perturbation Effects in Single Cell Genomics”

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  Sohrab Salehi, PhD

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Shah Lab
  BC Cancer, Vancouver

  “Clonal Fitness Inferred from Timeseries Modeling of Single Cell Cancer Genomes"

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  Richard Bonneau, PhD

  Group Leader for Systems Biology, CCB
  Flatiron Institute
  Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science
  New York University
  Affiliate Member
  New York Genome Center

  “Integrating Spatial, Temporal and Chromosomal Gradients to Enable Next Generations of Network Inference”

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  Simon Tavaré, PhD

  Senior Associate Core Member
  New York Genome Center
  Director, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
  Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences
  Columbia University