Talks

  1. Machine Learning approaches for small Ns: a challenge working at the intersection of clinical trial data scientific approaches and artificial intelligence. Statistics in Pharmaceuticals (SiP 2023), Storrs CT, Aug 2026

  2. DataLink: An Integrated Data Platform for End-to-End Data Analysis of Relevance to Cell Therapy. Bristol Myers Squibb Drug Development Expo, Princeton NJ, May 2026

  3. Exploratory analysis of patient and disease characteristics with patient response in JCAR-17004 trial. Bristol Myers Squibb R&D Symposium, Princeton NJ, Nov 2023

  4. Data scientific practices – an example of translational biomedical work for sensory neurons. Statistics in Pharmaceuticals (SiP 2023), Storrs CT, Aug 2023

  5. Discovery of pain-associated neuroimmune protein interaction networks from sex differential neuronal and immune gene expression profiles in human DRGs. Peripheral Nerve Society Annual Meeting (PNS 2022), Miami FL, May 2022. [presentation here]

  6. Drug target identification in the human dorsal root ganglia using high throughput sequencing assays and machine learning. Functional Genomics section, National Institute of Craniofacial and Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, Dec 2019. [presentation here]

  7. Decoding gene co-expression networks in the human peripheral nervous system 3rd Texas Pain Research Consortium Conference, San Antonio TX, Sept 2019. Abstract published digitally. [presentation here]

  8. Investigating the molecular make-up of human DRGs: what genomics and machine learning can tell us, Human DRG Consortium meeting, Richardson TX, August 2019.

  9. Deciphering human chronic pain and baseline transcriptomes in the peripheral nervous system. School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham UK, May 2019. [presentation here]

  10. Predictive models for jointly inferring pain state and sex from human dorsal root ganglia RNA abundance profiles of autosomal genes yield insights into functions of gene co-expression modules. 7th International Congress on Neuropathic Pain (NeuPSIG), London UK, 2019.

  11. Key overlapping pathways are upregulated in human DRG transcriptomes with neuropathic pain-associated dermatomes, with putative sex-differential gene expression. Gulf Coast Consortium Translational Pain Research 8th Annual Symposium, Houston TX, 2018. [presentation here]

  12. Analyzing human and mouse dorsal root ganglia transcriptomes: uncovering the molecular biology of pain and putative therapeutic targets using information theory. 1st Texas Pain Research Consortium Conference, Richardson TX, 2015.

  13. DIRECTION: An integrative toolkit for classification of epigenetic marks - a study on DNA 5-hmC + 5-mC marks in H1 and derived lineages. Epigenomics 2013: A roadmap to the living genome, Boston, 2013. Extended abstract published in Proceedings of Epigenomics 2013: A roadmap to the living genome.

  14. DISCOVER: a feature-based discriminative method for motif search in complex genomes. 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2009), Stockholm Sweden, 2009. [presentation here, recording here]

  15. BAYCIS: a bayesian hierarchical HMM for cis-regulatory module decoding in metazoan genomes. 12th annual international conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB 2008), Singapore, 2008. [presentation here]