Name: Sriram Sankararaman, Professor of Computer Science, Human Genetics and Computational Medicine – UCLA
Start: 2026-08-08T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-08T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Boyer Hall 159

Naill M. Mangan (Northwestern University) – Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series

September 28 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Boyer Hall 159

Sriram Sankararaman, Professor of Computer Science, Human Genetics and Computational Medicine – UCLA

August 8 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Boyer Hall 159

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1 workshop 30 1 workshop, 30 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm QCBio Distinguished Speaker 2026 (part I): Dr. Qing Nie, Department of Mathematics, Department of Systems Biology, University of California, Irvine November 30 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm QCBio Distinguished Speaker 2026 (part I): Dr. Qing Nie, Department of Mathematics, Department of Systems Biology, University of California, Irvine From Models to AI: Learning the Spatiotemporal Organization of Cells (Parts I) Modern biology faces a fundamental observability barrier: we can measure a biological tissue deeply or watch it evolve, ...