Lecture Series

2025 Special Lectures

Topic	Lecturer	Date	Flyer	Video	Slides
"Systems Biology Approaches to Understanding Cancer Complexity"	Dr. Marian Waterman Deputy Director Co-Director of Center for Cancer Systems Biology Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCI	Tuesday, July 8 9:00 am - 10:15 am (PDT)
"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)
"Leveraging Advanced Metabolism Knowledge to Fight Cancer"	Dr. Daniel Raftery Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine Director, Northwest Metabolomics Research Center Adjunct Professor, Chemistry University of Washington	Thursday, July 10 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)
"Deciphering Human Disease through Tandem Repeats and Epigenetics Liquid Biopsy"	Dr. Wei Li Grace B. Bell Endowed Chair Professor of Bioinformatics Division of Computational Biomedicine Department of Biological Chemistry UCI School of Medicine	Friday, July 11 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)
"Research Integrity Matters"	Dr. Georg Striedter Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior UC Irvine	Monday, July 14 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm (PDT)
"Utilizing QIAGEN IPA for biological interpretation of omic data and in-silico research"	Dr. Araceli Cuellar QIAGEN	Thursday, July 17 8:00 - 9:00 am (PDT)
"The Impact of Big Data on Cancer Research & Treatment"	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	Thursday, July 17 1:00 - 2:15 pm (PDT)
Career Develop Panel Discussion	Panelists: Sean Davis, Michelle Digman, Richard Van Etten, Melanie Oaks, Daniel Raftery, Suzanne Sandmeyer,	Thursday, July 10 6:00 - 7:00 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)