Fall 2018 CQB Seminars
Tue 12pm, Hill 260 unless indicated otherwise
(seminar details emailed to listserv subscribers)
09/11/2018 Tiberiu Tesileanu, Flatiron Institute "Environmental adaptation of olfactory receptor distributions" abstract
09/27/2018 CQB student seminar: Leonardo Santana "Analysis and modeling of cancer recurrence via birth-death processes" Thurs 12pm, Hill 260
10/09/2018 Amit Singer, Princeton University "Mathematics for cryo-electron microscopy" abstract
10/23/2018 Alexandra Zidovska, NYU "The "self-stirred" genome: Bulk and surface dynamics of the chromatin globule" abstract [postponed]
10/31/2018 Nir Yakoby, Rutgers University Camden "Patterning the Drosophila eggshell: mechanisms in cis and trans regulation" abstract
11/13/2018 Chris Wiggins, Columbia University "Just do the best you can: statistical physics approaches to reinforcement learning" abstract
11/20/2018 Tomas Gedeon, Montana State University "DSGRN: a bridge between network structure and network dynamics" abstract
11/27/2018 Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM & Mount Sinal School of Medicine "Smaller, Faster and Chip-er: Isolation of exosomes by nanoDLD lab-on-a-chip technology and application to prostate cancer biomarker discovery" abstract
12/04/2018 Alexandra Zidovska, NYU "The "self-stirred" genome: Bulk and surface dynamics of the chromatin globule" abstract
12/11/2018 Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard University "Extracting reaction co-ordinates to understand the dynamics of early human and mouse development" abstract
Spring 2019 CQB Seminars
Tue 12pm, Hill 260 unless indicated otherwise
02/05/2019 Johannes Friedrich, Flatiron Institute "Goal-directed decision making with spiking neurons" abstract
02/19/2019 Luis Aparicio, Columbia University "Random Matrix Theory applications in single-cell biology" abstract
02/26/2019 Valentina Boeva, INSERM, Institut Cochin TBD [postponed]
04/02/2019 Bill Saidel, Rutgers University Camden "Insight into the activities of groups of birds" abstract
04/09/2019 Pablo Camara, UPenn "Going beyond cell-type identification with single-cell transcriptomics" abstract
04/23/2019 Jeanne Salje, Rutgers PHRI, Newark "Cells within cells: obligate intracellular bacteria and their differentiation within host cells" abstract
04/30/2019 Ioannis Androulakis, Rutgers University "Allostatic adaptation to stress and personalized physiological trade-offs in the circadian regulation of the HPA axis" abstract
Fall 2019 CQB Seminars
Tue 12pm, Serin 385 unless indicated otherwise [NOTE LOCATION CHANGE]
09/10/2019 Yanis Bahroun, Flatiron Institute "Exploration & Extension of The Similarity Matching Framework: Feature Learning & Nonlinear Methods & Transformation Learning" abstract
10/08/2019 Jae Kyoung Kim, KAIST/University of Michigan "Mathematical models to analyze dynamic data from molecule to behavior" abstract
10/22/2019 Nikolai Chapochnikov, Flatiron Institute "Neural computations for stimulus whitening by the olfactory system" abstract
11/19/2019 David Schwab, CUNY Graduate Center "How noise affects the Hessian spectrum in overparameterized neural networks" abstract
12/03/2019 Gabor Balazsi, Stony Brook University, "Interactions between gene network dynamics and evolution" abstract
Spring 2020 CQB Seminars
Mon 12pm, Hill 525 unless indicated otherwise [NOTE DATE AND LOCATION CHANGE]
02/17/2020 Paul Falkowski, Rutgers University, "Light to Life: The origin of metabolic catalysis" abstract [LOCATION: Serin 330W]
03/09/2020 Jason Yang, Rutgers University, "Interpretable machine learning insights into the coupling between antibiotic lethality and bacterial metabolism" abstract
Fall 2020 CQB Online Seminars
Mon 12.00-1.00 pm, Zoom links provided through the mailing list (email to
09/28/2020 Philipp Altrock, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, "Modeling eco-evolutionary interactions between engineered and wildtype T cells to quantify therapeutic success of anti-CD19 CAR T cell therapy" abstract
10/12/2020 Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University, "DSGRN: An efficient tool for understanding regulatory networks" abstract
10/26/2020 Ilya Nemenman, Emory University, "Berg-Purcell bound, revisited" abstract
11/09/2020 Mohammad Kohandel, University of Waterloo, "From mechanistic to machine learning approaches in computational biology of cancer" abstract
12/07/2020 John Barton, UC Riverside, "Viral evolution through the lens of statistical physics" abstract
Spring 2021 CQB Online Seminars
Mon 12.00-1.00 pm, Zoom links provided through the mailing list (email to
01/25/2021 Tahir I. Yusafaly, UCSD, "Whole-Body PET/CT Radiomics to Predict Treatment Failure in Cervical Cancer Patients" abstract
02/08/2021 Jason Rocks, BU, "Memorizing without overfitting: Bias, variance and interpolation in over-parameterized models" abstract
03/08/2021 Kshitij Wagh, LANL, "Hitting the sweet spot - exploiting HIV glycan shield for effective AIDS vaccines" abstract
03/22/2021 Tal Korem, Columbia U, "The microbiome, metabolome, and host health" abstract
04/19/2021 James Greene, Clarkson U, "Induced drug resistance in cancer: modeling and control" abstract
05/03/2021 Sang-Hyuk Lee, Rutgers U, "Single-molecule study of DNA bending by mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM)" abstract
Fall 2021 CQB Online Seminars
Mon 12.00-1.00 pm, Zoom links provided through the mailing list (email to
10/04/2021 Shanshan Qin, Harvard U, "Unveiling the dynamics and structure of drifting neural representations" abstract
10/18/2021 Jamie Morton, Flatiron Institute, "Scalable estimation of microbial co-occurrence networks with Variational Autoencoders" abstract
Spring 2022 CQB Online Seminars
Mon 12.00-1.00 pm, Zoom links provided through the mailing list (email to
03/21/2022 Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers U, "Specialized ribosomes, in health and disease" abstract poster
04/04/2022 Shiva Farashahi, Flatiron Institute, "Coordinated drift of receptive fields during noisy representation learning" abstract [postponed]
04/18/2022 Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers U and Flatiron Institute, "Neural optimal feedback control with local learning rules" abstract
05/09/2022 Kevin Ellis, Cornell U, "The role of higher-level knowledge in discovery problems: programs and hierarchical Bayes" abstract
Fall 2022 CQB Online Seminars
Mon 12.00-1.00 pm, Zoom links provided through the mailing list (email to
10/24/2022 David Lipshutz, Flatiron Institute, "Neuroscience-inspired online learning algorithms" abstract
11/07/2022 Yongfeng Zhang, Rutgers U, "Explainable AI for Science" abstract
11/14/2022 Siavash Golkar, Flatiron Institute, "Explorations in NeuroAI, paths less trod" abstract
12/05/2022 Elias Puchner, University of Minnesota, "Exploring intra-cellular processes at the nanoscopic length scale with quantitative single-molecule microscopy in living cells" abstract
