Cancer Biology, Genomics and Bioinformatics (NYGC-CBGB)

Agenda for the CBGB meeting

Bi-weekly, Thursday 2pm

NYGC “Training room (628)” 6th floor

Archive 2018

Date	Group	Speaker	Title
01/11/2018	CompBio	Quaid Morris (U. Toronto)
01/25/2018	Imielinski	Xiaotong Yao	Exploring cancer graph genomes with gGnome
02/08/2018	CANCELLED
02/22/2018	Landau	Asaf Zviran	Updates on Liquid Biopsy
03/08/2018	CompBio	Alice Fang	Association between HLA subtypes and occurrence of EGFR mutation-driven lung cancer in different populations
03/22/2018	Imielinski	Kofi Gyan and Aditya Desphande	Single cell atlas of lung adenocarcinoma
04/05/2018	Landau	Kyu-Tae Kim	Single-cell genotyping with transcriptome profiling
04/19/2018	Landau	postdoc candidate seminar (1PM)	Spatio-temporal genomic architecture informs Glioblastoma’s cellular history
05/03/2018	Compbio	Molly Johnson Rashesh Sanghvi Jennifer Shelton	Journal Club: Pathogenic Germline Variants in 10,389 Adult Cancers http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30363-5
05/17/2018	Imielinski	Evan Biederstedt	Walking tour of m-ski lab github
05/31/2018	Landau	Sunil Deochand	Journal Club: The Repertoire of Mutational Signatures in Human Cancer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/15/322859
06/14/2018	Compbio	Molly Johnson Giuseppe Narzisi Nicolas Robine	Highlights of 2 recent publications from the group Organoid profiling identifies common responders to chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer http://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2018/05/30/2159-8290.CD-18-0349 YES1 amplification is a mechanism of acquired resistance to EGFR inhibitors identified by transposon mutagenesis and clinical genomics http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/06/05/1717782115
06/28/2018	Imielinski	Marcin Imielinski	fishHook demo
July-August	SUMMER BREAK
09/20/2018	Compbio	Molly Johnson Kanika Arora Minita Shah Rashesh Sanghvi	Three Cell Lines, Two Sequencers, One Pipeline
10/04/2018	Landau	Steven Hill	Quality control for ultra-sensitive ctDNA detection in cell-free DNA
10/18/2018	Ben Raphael Lab	Simone Zaccaria	HATCHet
11/01/2018	CANCELLED
11/15/2018	Imielinski	Xiaotong Yao	Identifying complex rearrangement events in the cancer genomes with JaBbA/gGnome packages
12/13/2018	CANCELLED

Archive 2017

Date	Group	Speaker	Title
2/23/17	CompBio	Minita Shah and Jennifer Shelton	– Minita Shah (Characterization of copy-number artifacts in FFPE (and non-FFPE) samples) – Jennifer Shelton (Estimating telomere length in cancer samples with Telomeasure.)
3/9/17	Imielinski	Kevin Hadi & Peter Waltman	WGS of two rare cancer cases
3/23/17	Landau	Asaf Zviran	Confronting tumor evolution with liquid biopsy analysis
4/6/17	CompBio	Nicolas Robine Kaz Wrzeszczynski	A few words on TESLA #AACR17 recap
4/20/17	Imielinski	Evan Biederstedt
5/4/17	Landau	Federico Gaiti	Defining epigenetic diversification and evolution in chronic lymphocytic leukemia using single cell DNA methylomics
5/18/17	???	CANCELLED
6/1/17	CompBio	Rashesh Sanghvi, Sunil Deochand and Steven Hill	Somatic signature benchmark and Ceoptim
6/15/17	Imielinski	Kevin Hadi	Towards a Simulation of Cancer Genomes for Benchmarking Structural Variant Algorithms
summer		CANCELLED
8/24/17	Landau	Guest speaker: Davide Risso (Cornell)	Statistical challenges in single-cell RNA-seq: normalization and dimensionality reduction
9/7/17	???	CANCELLED
9/21/17	CompBio	Nicolas Robine	Virus and cancer
10/5/17	Landau	Guest speaker: Alex Graudenzi (University of Milan-Bicocca)	Learning statistical models of cancer evolution from genomic data
10/19/17	Imielinski	Julie Behr	Methods for read-backed haplotype reconstruction and phasing
11/2/17	Landau	CANCELLED
11/16/17	Landau	Steven Hill
11/30/17	Landau	Bryan Ngo
12/14/17	Imielinski	Aditya Deshpande	Towards the eradication of wavy, noisy, and/or otherwise non-uniform coverage in cancer exomes and genomes
01/11/18	CompBio	Guest Speaker: Quaid Morris (Toronto)

Organizers:

Nicolas Robine, Dayna Oschwald, Dan Landau, Marcin Imielinski