Diary

Title: Introducing LeedsOmics to new members of our community Speakers: Drs Julie Aspden and Elton Vasconcelos

Title: "Vitamin A metabolites sensitize triple-negative breast cancer cell lines to chemotherapy"; Speaker: Alex Rzeszutek - PhD candidate @ School of Food Science and Nutrition; PI:  Dr Christine Bosch  

Topic: Handling TCGA data for ad-hoc meta-analysis Moderators: Elton Vasconcelos and Eilidh Ward

Topic: Regular expression and pattern search Moderators: Elton Vasconcelos and Eilidh Ward

Topic: Accessing and Downloading data from public databases

Topic: Building Computational Pipelines Moderators: Elton Vasconcelos and Eilidh Ward

Speaker:  Dr Kaixiong (Calvin) Ye (Associate Professor at the Dept of Genetics, UGA, USA), Title: Gene-Diet Interaction: genetic factors modifying the health impacts of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids

External speaker: Dr. Joanna Loizou - ICR, South London Title: Targeting Cancer: From Discovery to Functional Validation

Topic: Co-expression networks - construction and interpretation through Cytoscape Moderators: Elton Vasconcelos and Eilidh Ward

Internal Speaker: Dr. Viktor Lukacs (SMCB - FBS) Title: Screening for new sensory receptors in the genome-engineering era