Seminar Series 2025-2026
Location (NEW for Spring):
Students registered for this course are REQUIRED to attend the seminars being hosted IN PERSON. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class.
- Time: 11:30am
*Out of respect for the speakers, please be on time and in your seat by 11:25am - In order to receive a passing grade, students registered for this course are only permitted 2 unexcused absences per semester. Please email cpcb.seminar@gmail.com if you need to be excused from attending.
- The use of Laptops and any other electronic devices during the talks, are prohibited. Please be courteous of the speakers.
If you are NOT taking this course for credit, you may sign in to view these talks over Zoom:
Zoom link: In email invite
Date |
Speaker |
Host |
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| September 5, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| September 12, 2025 | NO SEMINAR |
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| September 19, 2025 |
好色先生TV |
Nate Lord (PITT) |
"Towards nanoparticle foundries: automating the computational design of DNA and peptide nucleic acid nanoparticles for mechanotechnology"
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| September 26, 2025 | 好色先生TV | Christian Cuba Samaniego (CMU) | "RNA and biomolecular condensates in gene control" |
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October 3, 2025
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UC Santa Cruz |
Andreas Pfenning (CMU) | "Furthering our understanding of human genetic variation: the human pangenome reference project second release" |
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October 10, 2025
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NO SEMINAR
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October 17, 2025
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NO SEMINAR |
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October 24, 2025
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New York University |
Richard Border (CMU) | "What genes are prioritized in genetic association studies?" |
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October 31, 2025
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Nate Lord (PITT) |
"Targetable Risk-associated Topographies in the Breast and Ovary"
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November 7, 2025
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Emory University | John Barton (PITT) | "Computational Approaches for Characterizing Influenza Virus Evolution Within, Between, and Across Hosts" |
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November 14, 2025
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University of Minnesota |
William Yu (CMU) |
"Capturing the Resistome: Improving detection and contextualization of antimicrobial resistance genes in metagenomic samples" |
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November 21, 2025
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University of Wisconsin |
Dannie Durand (CMU)
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"The good, the bad and the ugly of deep learning in phylogenetics"
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| November 28, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | ||
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December 5, 2025
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NO SEMINAR |
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WINTER BREAK |
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January 16, 2026
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University of Chicago |
Oana Carja (CMU) | "Global stability of ecological and evolutionary dynamics via equivalence" |
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January 23, 2026
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Nate Lord (PITT) | "Towards light-guided physiology: optogenetics and biosensors to probe tissue-scale patterning" |
| January 30, 2026 |
UC San Diego |
Jian Ma (CMU) |
"Leveraging multi-ancestry biobanks to understand shared and ancestry-specific factors driving disease risk" |
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February 6, 2026
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Rachel Gottschalk (PITT) | "Engineering protein circuits for cancer therapy" |
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February 13, 2026
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Cornell |
Oana Carja (CMU) | "Incorporating survey-derived information in human heritability estimates" |
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February 20, 2026
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Jishnu Das (PITT) | |
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February 27, 2026
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NO SEMINAR
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March 6, 2026
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NO SEMINAR | ||
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March 13, 2026
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NO SEMINAR |
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March 20, 2026
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CMU | |
| March 27, 2026 | MIT |
David Koes (PITT) | |
| April 3, 2026 |
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Curtis McCloskey (PITT) | |
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April 10, 2026
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NO SEMINAR |