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March 24, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET

Mohammad Sahraeian, Ph.D.

Accurate detection of somatic mutations is challenging but critical to understanding how cancer forms and progresses. In this Data Science Seminar, Dr. Mohammad Sahraeian will demonstrate how a neural network called NeuSomatic can outperform conventional detection approaches that involve low coverage, low mutation frequency, damaged DNA, and/or ambiguous genomic regions.

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March 17, 2021 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET

Dr. Meenakshi Anurag

In this webinar, Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. Meenakshi Anurag will focus on two aspects of integrative analysis and translational research in the field of ER+ breast cancer research.

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March 16, 2021 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Susan Gregurick, Ph.D.

In this lecture, Dr. Susan Gregurick will share her personal journey as a data scientist while also spotlighting other women leaders at NIH whose similar intentions are to work toward a modern data ecosystem at the largest biomedical research agency in the world.

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March 10, 2021 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET

Matthew Trunnell

Matthew Trunnell will discuss the concept of a capability maturity model and describe how this model can be applied to today’s data commons to create a more comprehensive data ecosystem in the future.

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March 01, 2021 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET

Kate Crawford, Ph.D.

In her talk, Dr. Crawford shares insights on historical origins, labor practices, infrastructures, and epistemological assumptions that underlie the production of artificial intelligence. In doing so, she hopes to then offer new paths for thinking through the research ethics and policy implications associated with machine learning.

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March 01, 2021 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET

Eben Rosenthal, MD

During the March installment of NCI’s Imaging and Informatics Community Webinar Stanford Cancer Center Director Dr. Eben Rosenthal will present on the potential impact of intraoperative molecular imaging (IMI) for head and neck cancer patients.

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February 24, 2021 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Dennis A. Dean II. Ph.D.

In this upcoming Cancer Genome Cloud (CGC) monthly webinar, Dr. Dennis Dean will share his experience working with members of the Patient-Derived Xenografts Development and Trial Centers Research Network (PDXNet) teams to make the data available through the CGC.

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February 22, 2021 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Bill Wysocki, Ph.D. and Tara Lichtenberg, Ph.D.

The latest NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) monthly webinar series will demonstrate how to work with the many types and formats of The Cancer Genome Atlas genomic and clinical data available in the GDC.

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February 18, 2021 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET

Sam Payne, Ph.D.

In this webinar, Brigham Young University’s Dr. Sam Payne will discuss how CPTAC-generated proteogenomic data and methods for multi-omics data analysis can be used to improve cancer care.

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February 04, 2021 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET

L. Ebony Boulware, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Duke University’s Dr. L. Ebony Boulware will present, “Where Clouds Meet the Ground: Democratizing Health Data to Address Community Health Equity,” at the upcoming National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Seminar.