Whitehead Innovation Initiative Seminars

Previous seminars:

The causes and consequences of plasticity during tumor progression (April 29, 2025) 
Presented by Dana Pe’er, Chair, Computational and Systems Biology Program, SKI; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Alan and Sandra Gerry Endowed Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Structure and function of the norepinephrine system (March 4, 2025) 
Presented by Karel Svoboda, Director, Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics

Perturb-Multimodal: A platform for pooled screens with ultra-rich phenotypes in intact mammalian tissue (Jan 30, 2025) 
Presented by Reuben Saunders, Weissman Lab 

Analyzing perturbed cell morphologies using deep learning (Nov 20, 2024)
Presented by Matteo Di Bernardo, Cheeseman Lab, Whitehead Institute

Interpretable neural networks for single cell RNA sequencing analysis (Nov 20, 2024)
Presented by Hunter King, Reddien Lab, Whitehead Institute

Machine Learning-Driven Analysis Reveals Distinct Genetic and Epigenetic Insights into Opioid Usage or Overdose (Sept 20, 2024) 
Integrating Foundation Models with Chromatin QTL Analysis Uncovers Distinct Genetic-Epigenetic Associations in Opioid Overdose 
Presented by Fatir Qureshi, Corradin Lab, Whitehead Institute

AI Forum: Inferring Cell-Cell Communication Statistically (May 24, 2024)
Presented by Nicolas Hutchins, Pulin Li Lab

WII Kick Off: Chemical codes promote selective compartmentalization of proteins (April 16, 2024)
Presented by Henry Kilgore, Rick Young Lab, Whitehead Institute and Itamar Chinn, Regina Barzilay Lab, MIT