<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><span style="font-family: 'Californian FB', serif; "> </span></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-family: 'Californian FB', serif; background-color: yellow; ">Professor Yu-Ping Wang</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Californian FB', serif; ">Monday, February 16, 2015 from 12pm noon to 1pm<br>
SEC 204 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b>Title</b>: Multi-scale genomic and image data integration<o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Speaker</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">: Yu-Ping Wang, Department of Biomedical Engineering & Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Tulane University<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><p style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>Abstract</b>: In this talk, I will present our recent efforts on the development of novel computational and statistical approaches such as sparse models for multi-scale and multi-modal genomic and image data analysis. I
will show a variety of examples on the detection of genomic variations from next generation sequencing data, the correlation between genomic and image data, and the integration of genomic, imaging and biological knowledge for biomarker discovery. The models
and methods that we developed have found successful applications to the diagnosis of mental disorders such as schizophrenia and the detection of genes associated with complex diseases (e.g., osteoporosis).
<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Californian FB', serif; background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Professor M.R. Abidian</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Californian FB', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Californian FB', serif; ">Friday, February 20, 2015 from 12pm noon to 1pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Californian FB', serif; ">SEC 204<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Californian FB', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Mohammad Reza Abidian is currently an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Materials
Science and Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. He directs the laboratory Advanced Regenerative Biomaterials and Therapeutics for Neural Interfaces, which investigates at the interface of biomaterials and electronic devices to develop the next-generation
of neural interfaces. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">His lab utilizes interdisciplinary approaches
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">for development of low cost and high throughput medical devices and technologies
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">for regenerative engineering, diagnosis, and treatment with an emphasis on neural interfaces and neurological diseases</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">,
in particular for neural recording and stimulation, neural tissue regeneration, drug delivery to brain tumor, and neurochemical sensing.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "> Prof. Abidian has received many awards and
honors including </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Materials Research Society Silver Award, the University of Michigan Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, College of Engineering Student Distinguished Achievement Award,
and Plenary Speaker in 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">US-Turkey Advanced Study Institute on Healthcare Challenges, sponsored by the NSF in Antalya, Turkey</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">.
His research has been featured several times on the cover of frontier journals including
<i>Advanced Materials</i> and <i>Advanced Functional Materials</i>, and <i>Advanced Healthcare Materials</i>. Prof. Abidian received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Michigan. He completed his postdoctoral training in the Center for Neural Communication Technology and Plastic Surgery Department at the University of Michigan.
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