IICD Newsletter February 2022

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*

February 7th, 2022   Canada UK Foundation Supports the Deployment of Canadian Technology to Cancer Labs In January 2021, Dr. Karol Nowicki-Osuch, a former Canada-UK Fellow at the University of Cambridge, began his independent project as an Associate Research Scientist at the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics. Through a research project supported by the Canada UK Foundation, he aims to widen the use of a new technology, Direct Library Preparation Plus, worldwide and study human cancer samples in unparalleled detail.   Read more Next Speaker in our Virtual Seminar Series Statistics and Geometry for Heterogeneous Data Hosted by Simon Tavaré, FRS Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM (EST) Date: February 17, 2022 Click here to learn more and register   Watch recordings of previous seminars News Elham Azizi Receives a Provost's Grant IICD Faculty Elham Azizi was among the Fall 2021 awardees of the Provost’s Grants Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University. She was awarded a grant for her project titled “Machine Learning for Characterizing Spatial Dynamics in Tumor Tissues.” Read more.   IICD Welcomes a New Graduate Student Edith Zhang is a PhD student in Applied Mathematics, co-advised by Andrew Blumberg (IICD Faculty) and Qiang Du. She is interested in the intersection between statistical mechanics, probability, and geometry, with applications to probabilistic modeling. Her mathematical interests are inspired by patterns and laws in nature.   The Virtual World of Cancer Research Simon Tavaré, IICD Director, and the IMAXT team, an initiative supported by Cancer Grand Challenges, are using virtual reality to visualize tumors in 3 dimensions. Their work was recently featured in the 2021 Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center digital report and in the Columbia University Irving Medical Center news.   They Found a Way to Thematically Sort All of Wikipedia on a Laptop: IICD Associate Member David Blei, received last year the 2021 Test of Time for Research at the NeurIPS conference for scaling his topic modeling algorithm to large datasets including billions of documents. David Blei, and his co-authors, Matthew Hoffman and Francis Bach, were recently featured in an article in Columbia News. Recent Publications from IICD Researchers Conformal Sensitivity Analysis for Individual Treatment Effects. Yin, M.; Shi, C.; Wang, Y.; Blei, D. M. ArXiv 2021. Defining the Dynamics of Naive CD4 and CD8 T Cells Across the Mouse Lifespan. Rane, S.; Hogan, T.; Lee, E.; Seddon, B.; Yates, A. J. BioRxiv 2021. Immune and Malignant Cell Phenotypes of Ovarian Cancer are Determined by Distinct Mutational Processes. Vasquez-Garcia, I. et al. BioRxiv 2021. From IICD Affiliate Member Sohrab P. Shah. Modeling the Cost-Effectiveness of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Stage III Colon Cancer in South African Public Hospitals. Pumpalova, Y. et al. JCO Glob. Oncol. 2021, 7, 1730-1741. From IICD Associate Member Chin Hur. Job Opportunities 1. IICD associate research scientist or research scientist positions in quantitative aspects of cancer research 2. Postdoctoral research scientist position in computational biology 3. Joint postdoc opening in the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and IICD 4. Postdoc opening with Drs. Mijo Simunovic and Elham Azizi 5. Postdoc opening with Dr. Wan Yang: dynamic modeling and statistical inference with applications to cancer diseases 6. Postdoc opening with Dr. Andrew Yates: immunological memory & host-pathogen interactions 7. Postdoctoral research scientist in Dr. Jose McFaline-Figueroa's laboratory Connect with Us See our IICD events Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*, All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|* *|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* Our mailing address is: *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|* *|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. *|IF:REWARDS|* *|HTML:REWARDS|* *|END:IF|*