Mark your calendars! The Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology (GGSB) graduate program is thrilled to announce our upcoming symposium:
AI in Genomics
Friday, May 8, 2026
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103
Reception to be held at 4:40 pm
Join us for an exceptional day exploring the cutting-edge intersection of artificial intelligence and genomics, with our featured Speakers:
- Katie Pollard, PhD, Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco
- Andrew Kern, PhD, University of Oregon
- Alex Lu, PhD, Microsoft Research
- Arjun Krishnan, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Siwei Chen, PhD, University of Chicago
- Aly Khan, PhD, University of Chicago
Full program details coming soon! For questions, please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu
January 29, 2026
- Mark Minogue & Paschalis Kratsios: Single-cell brain organoid screening identifies developmental defects in autism. Nature 621, 373–380 (2023).
- Caden Proctor & David Pincus: Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization. Science. 6 Feb 2025. Vol 387, Issue 6738. pp 1095-1101.
February 12, 2026
- Daniel Lee & Jian Zhou: Computational Design of Conformation-Biasing Mutations to Alter Protein Functions
- Mei Knudson & Xin He present: ChromBPNet: bias factorized, base-resolution deep learning models of chromatin accessibility reveal cis-regulatory sequence syntax, transcription factor footprints and regulatory variants.
March 5, 2026
- Axel Zagal Norman & Maanasa Raghavan: Paper coming soon
- Zining Qi & Sebastian Pott: Paper coming soon
April 2, 2026
- Mady Scherr & Ivan Moskowitz: Paper coming soon
- Roxana Wu & Faculty: Paper coming soon
April 16, 2026
- Hao Yu & Jingxin Wang: Paper coming soon
- S’Khaja Charles & Faculty: Paper coming soon
April 30, 2026
- Riley Xin & Faculty: Paper coming soon
- Michelle Sun & Faculty: Paper coming soon
May 21, 2026
- Gabe Hatto & Faculty: Paper coming soon
- Mingrui Yu & Faculty: Paper coming soon
Please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information
January 15, 2026: Dylan Cook (Oni Basu Lab) Title: "Disturbed flow emerges in the cephalic arch of hemodialysis patients before fistula maturation" & Geena Woo (Yoav Gilad Lab) Title: "Characterization of inter-individual and cell-type-specific responses to treatment with ALK inhibitors"
February 19, 2026: Dylan Stermer (Yang Li Lab) Title: "Mapping Functional Impact of Alternative Splicing Coupled Nonsense-Mediated Decay" & Karl Tayeb (Matthew Stephens Lab) Title: "Generalizing the sum of single effects regression"
March 12, 2026: Alexander Chen (Yoav Gilad Lab) Title: "Characterizing gene expression variability within and between species" & Kellen Riall (Jeremy Berg Lab) Title: "Pleiotropic stabilizing selection obscures signals of directional selection against complex disease"
March 26, 2026: Pinky Lee (Ronan O’Malley Lab) Title: "Elucidating the Interplay between Human Transcription Factors and the Epigenomic Landscape" & Temi Adeluwa (Haky Im Lab) Title: Coming soon
April 9, 2026: Hyunkyung Kim (Andy Dahl Lab) Title: "A Bayesian Matrix Factorization Framework for Dissecting Trait-Specific Genetic Architecture" & Josh Sodicoff (David Pincus Lab) Title: "Molecular and ecophysiological basis of cross-acclimation in phototrophs"
April 23, 2026: Ernesto Gagarin (Ronan O’Malley Lab) Title: Coming Soon
May 14, 2026: Ashish Thakur (Francois Spitz Lab) Title: Coming Soon & Raven Moten (Sebastian Pott Lab) Title: "Characterizing Cis-Regulatory Control of Cellular Differentiation with Long-Read Single-Molecule Footprinting"
Please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103: Tina Lasisi, PhD, University of Michigan. Title: “Interpreting and designing regulatory DNA with deep learning”
Please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information