Seminar Series
The Department of Computational Biology holds two regular seminar series featuring guests, faculty, and graduate students to highlight topics and the research relevant to the department and its community.
September 22, 2023
Parallel Algorithms for De Novo Long Read Genome Assembly via Sparse Linear Algebra
Featuring Dr. Giulia Guidi, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
It is possible to productively write highly parallel code for irregular genomic computation using the appropriate abstraction.

October 13, 2023
Dr. Kirk Lohmueller
Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Faculty Host:
Dr. Philipp Messer & Dr. April Wei
October 20, 2023
Dr. Adam Pellegrini
Assistant Professor
University of Cambridge
Faculty Host:
Dr. Andrew Hein
December 8, 2023
Dr. Joshua Akey
Professor
Princeton University
Department Host:
CB Graduate Students
Graduate Student Seminars
Student Seminar Series
Computational Biology graduate students are required to attend the Friday Student Seminars to support their colleagues who present their research. As well, we encourage all CB field faculty to attend, especially the student speaker's special committee chair and members.
1:00 - 2:00pm, 226 Weill Hall
Upcoming Student Seminars
- September 1 | Zhaozhi Li and Brent Basso
- October 6 | Meera Chotai and Shaowen Jiang
- November 3 | Yutong Zhu and Yu Sun
- December 1 | Ziqing Pan and Olivia Lang
- January | No seminars