KTH Data-driven Life Science Fellow Candidate Seminars
These public presentations are linked to the recruitment of two tenure-track assistant professor positions in data-driven life science (DDLS) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology: "Data-driven Precision Medicine and Diagnostics" at the Department of Protein Science, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, and “Data-driven Cell and Molecular Biology” at the Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering Sciences.
Time: Tue 2022-03-08 09.30 - 17.00
Location: Digital by Zoom
Video link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/
The presentations are given by the invited applicants for the corresponding positions. Each presentation is 25 min followed by 5 min Q&A.
Meeting ID: 686 6993 7651
Password: AliceBall
09:30-11:45 – Presentations by invited candidates to the position within data-driven precision medicine and diagnostics
Host: Cecilia Williams, Head Department of Protein Science, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH.
- 9:30 – Welcome by Cecilia Williams, Head of Department, KTH
- 9:40 – Presentation by Fredrik Edfors, KTH “Next-generation precision medicine: Proteomic data-integration in a new era of preventive medicine”
- 10:10 – Presentation by Cheng Zhang, KTH“Application of systems biology in drug development for NAFLD”
- 10:40 – Presentation by Fabian Froehlich, Harvard Medical School “Dynamic Models for Data-Driven Drug Sensitivity Prediction”
- 11:10 – Presentation by Md Saifur Rahman Khan, University of Toronto“Unbiased data analytics and bioinformatics for drug discovery
13:30-14:30 – Public presentations by candidates to the positions within data-driven precision medicine and diagnostics and data-driven cell and molecular biology
Host: Lucie Delemotte, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering Sciences, KTH.
- 13:30 – Presentation by Wei Ouyang, KTH“Towards AI-powered Data-driven Whole-cell Modeling”
- 14:00 – Presentation by Rocío Mercado, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Data-driven therapeutics development: from de novo drug design to precision medicine applications”
14:30-16:30 – Public presentations by candidates the position within data-driven cell and molecular biology
Host: Lucie Delemotte, Associate Professor at Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering Sciences, KTH.
- 14:30 – Presentation by Björn Forsberg, Oxford University“Cell-surface receptor function by cryo-EM: more than a structure".
- 15:00 – Presentation by Robin Lindsay, Uppsala University“Cellular motility and function within tissues: what causes it to change and how can this help us?”
- 15:30 – Presentation by David Unnersjö-Jess, University Hospital of Cologne “Automated Quantitative Analysis of High-resolution Microscopy Data for Biomedical Applications”
- 16:00 – Presentation by Jens Magnusson, Stanford University “Data-driven multi-gene regulation for precision cell engineering”