CCAM Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Daniel Lobo, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Title: "Regulatory mechanisms of cell differentiation and body shape formation: from phenotypes to models" Abstract: Multicellular organisms develop tissues and body shapes through cell differentiation, proliferation, and migration. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms controlling spatial and dynamical patterns is a current challenge due to the complex feedback loops between molecular signals, mechanical forces, and the emergent cell types and tissue shapes they control. I will present our bioinformatics and systems biology approach, which integrates molecular assays, dynamic mathematical modeling, and de novo machine learning inference algorithms, to understand cell differentiation and body shape regulation. We demonstrated this methodology by understanding the whole-body regulation of planarian worm shapes, differentiation of human hematopoietic stem cells, and pattern formation of developmental synthetic biology systems. Location: Grossman Auditorium  Via Webex: https://uchc.webex.com/uchc/j.php?MTID=mf22ff6a646a108fce2728863c3525d53 (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uchc.webex.com/uchc/j.php?MTID=mf22ff6a646a108fce2728863c3525d53__;!!Cn_UX_p3!jBUDSpwbSN_rW_NLEPwhm91Y0XBLQU5WXfOfDkC0s_Ji81eVoYhcZaxabbLEwHaaFOOePOvRPWWqqG_ykxo$) Meeting number (access code): 2863 037 1820 Meeting password: CCAMseminars Guest Host: Dr. Michael Blinov

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Art exhibit highlighting creative the creative talent of UConn Health Employees from across the organization.

"Expressions in Multimedia" by Martha G. Trask "Secondary Effects" by Jeff Ostergren Join us for a reception Thursday, May 22, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Celeste LeWitt Gallery. (north side of the food court)Martha G. Trask is an expressive mixed media artist who happens to work in our library.Jeff Ostergren infuses his paint with actual medications to tell stories about the intertwined histories of pharmaceuticals and color.

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Title of dissertation: Optimal Subsampling Methods and Their Applications for Rare-events and Transfer-learning Doctoral field of study: Methodology of statistics, Subsampling algorithms, Rare-events analysis, Data fusion and transfer-learning.