Research Seminars
All seminars are held from noon to 1 p.m. at the University Center Tower 7000 Fannin Street, room 1414, Houston, TX 77030.
Individuals who are unable to attend in person can watch the seminar afterward by clicking the seminar titles below, which link to the recorded presentations.*
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Research Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Advisor/Introducer | Topic |
| 01/15/2014 | Dr. Ming Zhan | Jiajie Zhang, PhD. | Integrated omics and systems biology to explore stem cell fate control and microenvironment |
| 01/22/2014 | Todd Johnson/Zhiguo "Stanley" Yu | Elmer V. Bernstam, MD.,MSE. | DELVE: A Document Exploration and Visualization Engine for PubMed |
| 01/29/2014 | Kevin Cohen | Hua Xu, PhD. | In the context of natural language processing, doing "software testing" is otherwise known as doing linguistics** |
| 02/04/2014 | James Langabeer II | Jiajie Zhang, PhD | Outcomes, Analytics, and Opportunities for Bioinformatics |
| 02/05/2014 | Lucila Ohno - Machado | Elmer V. Bernstam, MD., MSE. | Data Sharing, Patient Privacy, and Clinical Data: How Informatics Solutions Can Satisfy Multiple Stakeholders |
| 02/12/2014 | Jimeng Sun | Hua Xu | Do it once, do it right- Building a Scalable Predictive Modeling Platform for Biomedical Research |
| 02/19/2014 | Rachel Karchin | Elmer V. Bernstam, MD., MSE. | Tools to interpret genomic variation |
| 02/26/2014 | Melissa Resnick | Patricia Mullen | PIG In MUD: Innovation and Idea Generation In the Health Sciences |
| 03/05/2014 | Gilad Kuperman | Elmer V. Bernstam, MD.,MSE | Care Coordination (and Health Information Exchange) |
| 03/12/2014 | Spring Break (3/10-14) | ||
| 03/19/2014 | Scott Sittig | Amy Franklin, PhD. | TBA |
| 03/26/2014 | Dina Demner Fushman | Melissa Resnick | "Extraction of clinical variables using information retrieval and natural language processing" |
| 04/02/2014 | John C. Frenzel, MD.,MS | Elmer V. Bernstam, MD., MSE. | TBA |
| 04/09/2014 | Tyler Carruth | Sriram Iyengar, PhD. | TBA |
| 04/16/2014 | Sandor Szalma | Wenjin Jim Zheng | TBA |
| 04/23/2014 | Jianbo Lei | Hua Xu | Study of named entity recognition in Chinese clinical text |
| 04/30/2014 | Franck Diaz Vasquez | Todd Johnson, PhD. | TBA |
| 05/07/2014 | FINALS WEEK |
*Past seminars recorded before January 2014 can be viewed on the School of Biomedical Informatics webcast.
**The audio malfunctioned on this video, so there is not a recorded presentation to view.
