Past Events › Special Seminar

The UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Lunch and Learn Seminar Series welcomes Richard Allen, Senior Principal Scientist at Pfizer on Monday, February 25, 2019 at 12noon.  The title of this talk is "Modeling Fructose Metabolism: Insights into Modeling and Simulation Careers in Biopharma". Pizza will be served. Everyone welcome.

The GMB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Amy K Schmid, Associate Professor of Biology at Duke University on Friday, March 29, 2019. Dr. Schmid’s talk title is "Calm under stress: gene regulatory networks in archaeal extremophiles". The UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Curriculum Graduate Students host this talk. This talk is in UNC's Bioinformatics Building in room 1131.

The GMB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Gregory T Reeves, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University on Friday, April 12, 2019. Dr. Reeves’ talk title is “Quantitative Models of Cell-Cell Signaling in Development”. The UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Curriculum Graduate Students host this talk. This talk is in UNC’s Bioinformatics Building in room 1131.

The GMB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Ting Wang, Distinguished Professor of Medicine in Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine on Friday, April 26, 2019. Dr. Wang’s talk title is “Transposable elements and epigenome evolution”. Yun Li, Associate Professor of Genetics and Biostatistics hosts this talk with the UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Curriculum. PLEASE NOTE: This talk is in UNC’s Medical Biomolecular Research Building in room G202.

The GMB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Jonathan Pritchard, Professor of Biology and Genetics at Stanford University on Friday, May 3, 2019. Dr. Pritchard's talk title is “Many weak trans eQTLs drive omnigenic architecture of human complex traits”. The UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Curriculum Graduate Students host this talk. This talk is in UNC’s Bioinformatics Building in room 1131. *This is the final talk of the Spring 2019 GMB Friday Seminar Series.

The Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology welcomes home 2015 BCB graduate Grace Silva as our next guest in the BCB Alumni Seminar Series.  This special lunch and learn event is open to BCB Students, Faculty, and guests.  This event will be held in 3116 Mary Ellen Jones Building.

The G&MB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Anne Yoder, Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Duke University on Friday, January 31, 2020. Dr. Yoder’s talk title is “Unraveling complex patterns of speciation in Madagascar’s mouse lemurs: a computationally enabled genomics approach“. Dr. Yoder is hosted by UNC’s Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Students. This talk will be held in UNC’s Bioinformatics Building in room 1131.

The G&MB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Julia Oh, Assistant Professor, the Jackson Laboratory on Friday, March 6, 2020. Dr. Oh’s talk title is “From metagenomes to therapeutics: the human microbiome”. Dr. Oh is hosted by UNC’s Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Students. This talk will be held in UNC’s Bioinformatics Building in room 1131.