Lecture Series

2025 Special Lectures

Topic	Lecturer	Date	Registration	Flyer	Video	Slides
The Bioconductor Project: Software for comprehending high-throughput biology	Dr. Sean Davis Professor of Medicine University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	Wednesday, July 9 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)

Past Lectures

2024

Topic	Lecturer	Date	Registration	Flyer	Video	Slides
Tracking Exposure and Spread of Infectious Diseases	Dr. Phillip Felgner Professor of Biophysics and Medicine UC Irvine	Monday, July 15 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)	Register
Systems Biology Approaches in Cancer Research	Dr. Marian Waterman Deputy Director Co-Director of Center for Cancer Systems Biology Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center	Tuesday, July 16 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)	Register
Big Data and Cancer: Where are we going?	Dr. Richard Van Etten Professor of Medicine and Biological Chemistry Director & Senior Associate Dean & Associate Vice Chancellor, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Endowed Director’s Chair in Cancer Research & Treatment, University of California, Irvine	Wednesday, July 17 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)	Register
Research Misconduct: From Definitions to Prevention	Dr. Georg Striedter Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior UC Irvine	Thursday, July 18 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)	Register
Overview of Bioconductor for Cancer Research	Dr. Sean Davis Professor of Medicine University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	Friday, July 19 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)	Register
Integrating Data Types to Understand the Impact of Early-Life Experiences	Dr. Hal S. Stern Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics University of California, Irvine	Monday, July 22 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)	Register
UC Irvine and HHS/NIH Health Ecosystem	Dr. Steve A. N. GoldStein Vice Chancellor, Health Affairs Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology & Biophysics, and Pharmaceutical Sciences Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences University of California, Irvine	Tuesday, July 23 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm (PDT)
Around the Corner: Peering into the Future for Personalized Precision Health	Dr. Eric Stahlberg Director of Cancer Data Science Initiative at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research	Tuesday, July 23 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)	Register
Utilizing Data to Make Advancements for Cancer	Dr. Jill Barnholtz-Sloan Associate Director for Informatics and Data Science Program in the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology	Wednesday, July 24 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)	Register

Public Lecture: IPA- Biological interpretation & Analysis of NGS data

Flyer: UC Irvine Qiagen Lunch Learn CLC IPA Seminar

2023

Topic	Lecturer	Date	Registration	Flyer	Video	Slides
Bioconductor: software for orchestrating high-throughput genomics data analysis	Dr. Sean Davis University of Colorado	Saturday, May 20, 2023, 1:00 - 2:15 PM (EDT)	This event occurred in the past.
What do Cancer, Retinal Diseases and Inflammatory Bowel Disease have in common? --One target multiple diseases: A trip from the bench to biotech startup to clinical trials.	Dr. Mark Kelley Indiana University	Sunday, May 21, 2023, 1:00 - 2:15 PM (EDT)	This event occurred in the past.
Contemporary RI Topics: Mentoring, Research Security, IDPs and Generative AI	Dr. James Mohler	Monday, May 22, 2023, 1:00 - 2:15 PM (EDT)	This event occurred in the past.
Endogenous and exogenous mutational processes in lung cancer	Dr. Maria Teresa Landi National Cancer Institute (NCI)	Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 1:00 - 2:15 PM (EDT)	This event occurred in the past.		No Video	No Slides
An Overview of Cancer Data Repositories	Dr. Warren Kibbe Duke University	Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 1:00 - 2:15 PM (EDT)	This event occurred in the past.
Role of RNA helicase DDX5 in Hepatitis B Virus hepatocellular carcinoma and treatment	Dr. Ourania M. Andrisani Purdue University	Thursday, May 25, 2023, 1:00 - 2:15 PM (EDT)	This event occurred in the past.

2022

Topic	Lecturer	Date	Registration	Flyer	Video	Slides
Targeting Myeloid Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment	Dr. Timothy Ratliff Purdue University	Monday, May 16, 2022, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)
Data Management and Record Keeping	Dr. James Mohler Purdue University	Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)
Orchestrating high-throughput biological data analysis with Bioconductor	Dr. Sean Davis University of Colorado	Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)			No Video
Data Matters – Leveraging Big Data for Impact on Cancer	Dr. Jill Barnholtz Sloan National Cancer Institute (NCI)	Thursday, May 19, 2022,1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)
Biomedical Digital Twins: A Collaborative Landscape of Incredible Opportunity with Exciting Challenges	Dr. Eric Stahlberg Frederick National Laboratory	Friday, May 20, 2022, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)			No Video
The NCI Childhood Cancer Data Initiative – learning from the every childhood cancer patient	Dr. Warren Kibbe Duke University	Monday, May 23, 2022, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)			No Video
Scalable Analysis of Large Biobanks and Whole Genome Sequencing Studies	Dr. Xihong Lin Harvard University	Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)			No Video	No Slides
Predictability, stability, and causality with a biomedical case study	Dr. Bin Yu University of California, Berkeley	Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)			No Video
Translating basic science discoveries for patients: Use of bioinformatics to discover new pathways for targeting APE1/Ref-1 for cancer treatments	Dr. Mark Kelley Indiana University	Thursday, May 26, 2022, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)			No Video

2021

Topic	Lecturer	Date	Flyer	Video	Slides
The future of AI-driven science	Dr. Rebecca Doerge Carnegie Mellon University	Monday, June 7th, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)			No Slides
Why Networks Matter	Dr. John Quackenbush Harvard University	Tuesday, June 8th, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)
Genomic Studies of Health Effects Following the Chernobyl Accident: Lessons Learned and Public Health Implications	Dr. Stephen Chanock National Cancer Institute (NCI)	Wednesday, June 9th, 2021, 1:30 - 3:00 PM (EDT)			No Slides
Research Issues: Reproducibility and Data Management	Dr. James Mohler Purdue University	Thursday, June 10th, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)
Microbiome Data Science - Phylogenetic Tree, Bacterial Growth and Biosynthetic Gene Clusters	Dr. Hongzhe Li University of Pennsylvania	Monday, June 14th, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)
Using the National COVID Cohort Consortium for understanding COVID-19 outcomes for Cancer Patients	Dr. Warren Kibbe Duke University	Tuesday, June 15th, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)
Comprehensive molecular characterization of the APE1/Ref-1 enzyme and its functions	Dr. Mark Kelley Indiana University	Thursday, June 17th, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)
Increasing value of public high-throughput datasets with software and engineering	Dr. Sean Davis University of Colorado	Friday, June 18th, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)			No Slides

2020

Topic	Lecturer	Date	Flyer	Video	Slides
The Role of the Tumor Microenvironment in Promoting Tumor Growth	Dr. Timothy Ratliff Purdue University	Monday, June 8th, 2020, 1-2:30 PM (ET)
Using Polygenic Risk Scores to Inform Cancer Screening	Dr. Peter Kraft Harvard University	Tuesday, June 9th, 2020, 1-2:30 PM (ET)			No Slides
Cloud Computing Forms a Foundation for Collaborative Big Biomedical Data Science	Dr. Sean Davis The National Cancer Institute	Friday, June 12th, 2020, 1-2:30 PM (ET)
Harnessing Metabolomics for Biomarker Discovery in Colon Cancer: Opportunities and Challenges	Dr. Daniel Raftery University of Washington	Monday, June 15th, 2020, 1-2:30 PM (ET)
Machine Learning in Diagnostic Imaging - Methodologic Considerations	Dr. Constantine Gatsonis Brown University	Tuesday, June 16th, 2020, 1-2:30 PM (ET)		No Video
Out of the Lab and into the Clinic: Translating Basic Science Discoveries into New Treatments for Patients	Dr. Mark Kelley Indiana University	Thursday, June 18th,2020, 1-2:30 PM (ET)
Understanding the Trajectory of Cancer Through Data: the Human Tumor Atlas Network as a Lens into Premalignant Cancer to Metastasis	Dr. Warren Kibbe - Duke University	Friday, June 19th,2020, 1-2:30 PM (ET)