Seminars
Computational Biology Seminar Series
The Computational Biology Seminars are generally held on the first Mondays of every month (with occasional exceptions) at 11 a.m. Our series has completed the Spring seminars and picks back up in the Fall.
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Upcoming Seminars
Past Seminars
- 5/5/2025: "The Roles and Consequences of Randomness in Biological Systems" by Linda Petzold, Ph.D.
- 4/7/2025: "Sequence-basis of transcription initiation in the human genome" by Jian Zhou, Ph.D.
- 3/3/2025: "Computational modeling of emergent spatiotemporal cell population dynamics" by Neda Bagheri, Ph.D. Host: Gaudenz Danuser, Ph.D.
- 2/3/2025: "Using neural Networks to Explore Waddington's Landscape" by Madhav Mani, Ph.D. Host: Milo Lin, Ph.D.
- 1/13/2025: "Systems approaches to measure, model, predict and improve heterogenous responses to cancer therapies" by Mohammad Fallani-Sichani, Ph.D. Host: Hanieh Mazloom-Farsibaf, Ph.D.
- 2024 Seminars List
Causality Journal Club
This series highlights important publications on Causal Inference and is presented by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for stimulating discussion and exchange of ideas. The Journal Club is held in-person at G9.250A on the third Tuesday of every month at 9 a.m. This is a departmental journal club for interested members of the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics and Green Center for Systems Biology. If you are interested in attending, please prapti.mody@utsouthwestern.edu.
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| 6/24/2025 | Double Feature: Synthetic Difference in Differences and Tangent Space Causal Inference leveraging Vector Fields for Causal Discovery In Dynamical Systems |
| 5/20/2025 | Canceled |
| 4/15/2025 | Disentangled Representation Learning for Causal Inference With Instruments |
| 3/18/2025 | CausalFormer: An Interpretable Transformer for Temporal Causal Discovery |
| 2/25/2025 | Canceled |
| 1/21/2025 | DAG-GNN: DAG Structure Learning with Graph Neural Networks |