Agenda

The symposium will include a virtual poster session and thematic sessions of talks.

Confirmed Speakers

All times listed in Pacific Time (UTC-8hrs).

9 a.m. (15 minutes)

	Steve Rosen Provost and Director, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

	Nagarajan Vaidehi Chair, Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope

9:15 a.m.

Session Chair: Nagarajan Vaidehi

	Jeannine McCune A QSP Model for Predicting Lymphocyte and Acute Graft Versus Host Disease to Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide in Allogeneic HCT Patients Department of Hematologic Malignancies Translational Science, City of Hope

	Wei (David) Dai Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Modeling of COVID-19 Immune Response Scientist, Pfizer

10 a.m.

Session Chair: Hilary Coller

	Megan Franke Forcing cells to change lineage by cell-cell communication Ph.D. Student, Adam MacLean Lab, University of Southern California

	Heather Zinn Brooks Pattern formation in a hybrid reaction-transport model (with applications to synapse density in C. elegans) Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College

	Angela Pitenis Mechanosensing in monolayer Assistant Professor, Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Session Chair: Russell Rockne

12 to 1 p.m.

1 p.m.

Session Chair: Rena Edmond

	Jin Zhang Using ENCODE Data for Disease Genome Mining Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

	Andrei Rodin Evolution of protein-protein interaction networks in vertebrates Associate Professor, Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope

	Hannah Carter Using networks to improve functional variant prioritization Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

2 p.m.

Session Chair: Ravi Salgia

	Heyrim Cho Informing Effective Scanning Protocols to improve prediction in Cancer treatment Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside

	Russell Rockne Translational systems biology in oncology: from bench to bedside Assistant Professor, Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope
	Ed Stites Mechanism based systems biology for personalized medicine Assistant Professor, Salk Institute

3 p.m.

Session Chair: Arthur Lander

	Shenshen Wang Immune learning in uncertain conditions: from evolutionary landscapes to seascapes Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

	Ajay Gopinathan Collective motion of malignant lymphocytes Professor, University of California, Merced