Seminars

Upcoming Events

Computational Biology Seminar Series

The Computational Biology Seminars are generally held on the first Mondays of every month (with occasional exceptions) at 11 a.m. Our series has completed the Spring seminars and picks back up in the Fall.

Past Seminars

5/5/2025: "The Roles and Consequences of Randomness in Biological Systems" by Linda Petzold, Ph.D.
4/7/2025: "Sequence-basis of transcription initiation in the human genome" by Jian Zhou, Ph.D.
3/3/2025: "Computational modeling of emergent spatiotemporal cell population dynamics" by Neda Bagheri, Ph.D. Host: Gaudenz Danuser, Ph.D.
2/3/2025: "Using neural Networks to Explore Waddington's Landscape" by Madhav Mani, Ph.D. Host: Milo Lin, Ph.D.
1/13/2025: "Systems approaches to measure, model, predict and improve heterogenous responses to cancer therapies" by Mohammad Fallani-Sichani, Ph.D. Host: Hanieh Mazloom-Farsibaf, Ph.D.
2024 Seminars List

Systems Biology Lectures

We invite renowned scientists to deliver insightful lectures on Systems Biology topics 4 times a year. As lectures are scheduled, they will populate in our events widget above.

Causality Journal Club

This series highlights important publications on Causal Inference and is presented by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for stimulating discussion and exchange of ideas. The Journal Club is held in-person at G9.250A on the third Tuesday of every month at 9 a.m. This is a departmental journal club for interested members of the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics and Green Center for Systems Biology. If you are interested in attending, please prapti.mody@utsouthwestern.edu.

Date	Paper
6/24/2025	Double Feature: Synthetic Difference in Differences and Tangent Space Causal Inference leveraging Vector Fields for Causal Discovery In Dynamical Systems
4/15/2025	Disentangled Representation Learning for Causal Inference With Instruments
3/18/2025	CausalFormer: An Interpretable Transformer for Temporal Causal Discovery
1/21/2025	DAG-GNN: DAG Structure Learning with Graph Neural Networks

BioHPC

New User Trainings

These sessions are mandatory for recently registered and soon-to-register BioHPC users. BioHPC staff will provide an overview of BioHPC services and systems, teach you how to get started and use your account effectively. You'll also get to meet the team!
Date: First Wednesday monthly
Time: 10:30 AM to 12 PM
Location: ND11.218 (in-person only)

Coffee Sessions

These walk-in coffee sessions are on topics about high-performance computing, new tools, softwares, or informative subjects that are relevant for our users at UTSW. Upcoming events will populate in widget on top of the page or you can check out our events page.
Date: Last Wednesday monthly
Time: 10:30 AM to 12 PM
Location: ND11.218