Thank you to everybody who contributed to the conference that was held June 6-7 at UC Irvine and made it such a success. Organized by Adam and Luca Pinello, we welcomed 160 people through the doors, heard 19 talks and presented >50 posters over two days. In all, we learnt a lot about mathematical and computational methods for single-cell biology!
Congratulations to students Megan and Xiaojun who both passed their screening exams this week! They now will join the lab to pursue PhDs. Megan is working on multiscale models of cell-cell communication; Xiaojun is developing methods to dissect transition dynamics from single-cell data.
Our recent study into the effects of EMT on immune-regulated tumorigenesis is now on the bioRxiv. We discovered that EMT dramatically affects epithelial-immune interactions and should be taken into account in models of carcinomas. The study was also featured in this week’s #mathonco newsletter maintained by Jeffrey West.
Adam visited Caltech today to give a seminar hosted by the Caltech Center for Single Cell Profiling and Engineering. He spoke about “The dynamics and regulation of cell state transitions inferred from single-cell transcriptomics.”
Adam attended the annual winter q-bio conference in the rather striking location of Ko Olina on O’ahu, Hawai’i. He presented recent work on ‘Single-cell communication network inference to reveal distinct temporal patterns of control during stem cell differentiation.’
Adam gave an invited talk today at the 8th regional SoCal SysBio Conference at UC Irvine on “The dynamics of gene regulatory networks that control stem cell differentiation.”
Adam gave a talk today at UCLA hosted by QCBio and the Biomathematics dept as a part of the seminar series ‘Frontiers in Quantitative and Systems Biology.’
Megan Franke and Xiaojun Wu have joined the lab on rotation projects; both are in their first year of the CBB PhD program run by QCB. Welcome Megan and Xiaojun!
