NEWS

QCB postdoc Dr. Maxime Tortora (left) from Dr. Geoff Fudenberg's (right) lab co-led the study published in Molecular Cell, titled "Cohesin cofactor dosage sets the rate of loop extrusion, rendering genome folding tunable yet vulnerable to genetic disruption". This joint work with the group of Dr. Elphege Nora at UCSF uncovers how the kinetic properties of cohesins, the molecular motors organizing our genomes in interphase, are regulated. By comparing simulations with data, th

QCB joint faculty member and structural biologist Dr. Cornelis Gati was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Biological Sciences. Dr. Gati works on structural aspects of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) function and pharmacology using cryo-electron microscopy at the Michelson Center for Convergent Biosciences. Congrats, Cornelius!

Final student presentations for QBIO 490: Multi-Omic Data Analysis, led by Erika Li and Jeanne Revilla, will be hosted in RRI 101 on Friday, May 1st from 5-7 pm.

Two QCB alumni, professors Haixu Tang (left) and Sophie Schbath (right), were named ISCB fellows this year. Dr. Schbath, who was a postdoc with QCB founder Dr. Michael Waterman in 1996, is globally recognized as a distinguished statistical bioinformatician, heading MalAGE laboratory in INRAE and Migale bioinformatics facility in France. Dr. Tang, Indiana University, who was a postdoc with Dr. Waterman in 1999-2001, made pioneering contributions to genomics, metagenomics, prot

QCB joint faculty Dr. Nicholas Mancuso (left) as the corresponding author and Dr. Steven Gazal (right) published a paper in Nature Genetics titled “Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of severe pregnancy nausea and vomiting”. Please read the paper here.

The QCB seminar series has concluded for the academic year. We had another year of fantastic seminars and speakers who are leaders in the field. Dr. Andrej Sali (UCSF) who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (top) and Dr. Jussi Taipale (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and University of Helsinki, Finland) who is a member of the Nobel Assembly that awards the Nobel Prize (bottom) gave seminars this month.

QCB advisory board member Dr. Bin Yu from UC Berkeley was interviewed about teaching veridical data science. The interview can be found here. Dr. Yu previously published a book "Veridical Data Science: The Practice of Responsible Data Analysis and Decision Making" which can be accessed here.

QCB joint faculty Dr. Andrei Irimia published a paper in Geroscience titled “Interpretable deep learning reveals spatiotemporal MRI features of brain aging that align with neurodegeneration.” Please read the paper here.

CBB graduate Dr. Yibei Jiang (top left) from the Rohs lab with contributions by Alexandra "Lexi" Shewchuk (top right), Dr. Tsu-Pei Chiu (bottom left), and Dr. Jinsen Li (bottom right), and collaborators Drs. Judith Kribelbauer-Swietek and Nicolas Gompel (not pictured) published in Biophysical Journal a study of the cooperative binding of Hox transcription factors and their cofactors to DNA targets, proposing a new computational pipeline AlphaFold 3-Molecular Dynamics-DeepPBS

QCB faculty Dr. Adam MacLean (center) co-organized the 15th annual SoCal SysBio meeting at UCLA and chaired the afternoon session. MacLean lab members presented posters, and Jonathan Martinez (left) gave a lightning talk on catastrophe theory as related to stem cell dynamics. Please read more here.

QCB joint faculty Dr. Naomi Levine published a paper in Science Advances titled “Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs.” Please read the paper here.

Dr. Remo Rohs presented a talk "AI for Molecular Biology" at the USC Age Tech Symposium hosted by the Leonhard Davis School of Gerontology and the Viterbi School of Engineering and participated in a panel discussion "Interface between AI and Biotechnology". Symposium speakers (pictured from left to right): Drs. Andrei Irimia, Berenice Benayoun, Remo Rohs, and Sheng Li. See more here.