POSTPONED Learning, engineering, and targeting cell states in cancer w Ava Amini

Cancers are complex ecosystems that necessitate systems-level understanding and intervention. Cancer is often treated using a reductionist approach: distilled to an individual subtype, mutation, or phenotype. Addressing this problem is equal parts biology and computer science.

In Project Ex Vivo, a joint cancer research collaboration between Microsoft Research and the Broad Institute, we are envisioning a new, constructionist paradigm for precision oncology, one powered by the bottom-up integration of computation and experimentation to understand the complexity of cell state ecosystems in cancer.

In this talk I will share our recent efforts to build AI models to better define, model, and therapeutically target cell states in cancer.

This event has been postponed to September 25 due to the speaker's illness.

Please register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/2617430876221/WN_Msf8F_LXTcSD2mWpDeVx5A

Indicate on the registration form if you plan to attend in person. This will help us determine whether the room is close to reaching capacity. We plan to serve light refreshments from about 6:30 pm.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

We may make some auxiliary material such as slides and access to the recording available after the seminar to people who have registered.

This is a joint meeting of the GBC/ACM (http://www.gbcacm.org) and the Boston Chapter of the IEEE-CS.