Frontiers in Computational Biomedicine Seminar Series

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (**except where noted)

Thursday, February 5, 2026 (BRB Gaulton Auditorium)
Genevieve Wojcik, PhD, MHS
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

**Thursday, March 19, 2026 (John B. Reunion Auditorium)
Lior S. Pachter, PhD
Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences
California Institute of Technology

Thursday, April 2, 2026 (BRB Gaulton Auditorium)
Jonathan Flint, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Fellow of the Royal Society, Director of Depression
Grand Challenge
UCLA

Thursday, April 23, 2026 (BRB Gaulton Auditorium)
Harold Pimentel, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Human Genetics
Director, Biomathematics PhD Program
UCLA

**Tuesday, April 28, 2026 (CRB Austrian Auditorium) 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Andrea Ganna, PhD 
Group Leader, Helsinki University and FinnGen, Instructor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

**Thursday, May 7, 2026 (CRB Austrian Auditorium) 3:00 - 4:00 PM 
Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD
Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Associate Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center
Director, National Genomics Infrastructure, Sweden

Thursday, May 21, 2026 (BRB Gaulton Auditorium)
Peter Kraft, PhD
Director, Trans-Divisional Research Program, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NIH
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Fall 2025 

Thursday, December 4, 2025
Lisa Bastarache, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Scientific Director PheWAS
Vanderbilt University
Title: Uncovering Hidden Patterns of Monogenic Diseases through EHR Data Mining

Thursday, November 20, 2025
Alexis Battle, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Genetic Medicine
Director, Data Science and AI Institute
Johns Hopkins University
Title: Machine Learning for Understanding the Genetics of Gene Regulation in Disease

Thursday, November 6, 2025
Mike I. Love, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Genetics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: Reproducible and tidy omics: linking data to metadata and applying complex biological data

Thursday, October 2, 2025
Sriram Sankararaman, PhD
Professor of Computer Science, Human Genetics and Computational Medicine
UCLA
Title: Biobank-scale methods to understand the evolutionary genetic architecture of human complex traits

Thursday, September 4, 2025
Nilanjan Chatterjee, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University
Title: Advancing Polygenic Risk Scores for Predictive Health and Causal Discovery

Thursday, August 25, 2025
Yun S. Song, PhD
Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, Director, Center for Computational Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Title: AI-driven prediction of variant effects in proteins and non-coding DNA