The CCMB Graduate Research Symposium is an opportunity for CCMB graduate students to learn about their peers’ research and to practice sharing their work with colleagues. CCMB will host similar symposia each semester, giving all graduate students the opportunity to share their work with colleagues do and foster collaboration between graduate students.

This fall, Cecile Meier-Scherling, Leah Darwin, Jazeps Medina Tretmanis, and Tuan Pham each gave presentations on their current projects.

Cecile Meier-Scherling

Advisors: Jeff Bailey and Lorin Crawford

“Predicting Drug Resistance: Computational Modeling of Artemisinin Resistance in Africa.”

Leah Darwin

Advisor: David Rand

“Selective response of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes to an OXPHOS inhibitor in experimental populations of Drosophila”

Jazeps Medina Tretmanis

Advisor: Emilia Huerta-Sanchez

“Joint inference of continental and archaic ancestry: a Deep Learning approach”

Tuan Pham

Advisors: Ritambhara Singh and Erica Larschan

“GRIDOT: A Gene Regulatory Network inference using Optimal Transport and Granger Causality with Graphs”