The Keck Seminar Series, begun in 1990, focuses on contemporary interdisciplinary science involving quantitative or computational, biomedical informatics and data science, bioinformatics, chemical, and/or physical approaches to biological and biomedical problems. The speakers, selected by a committee of GCC-supported trainees, are drawn from GCC institutions, and institutions nationwide. Everyone is welcome to attend.
The Keck Seminar Series is also a 1-credit graduate course at Rice University, BIOS 592 Topics in Quantitative Biology & Biomedical Informatics. Seminars are also offered online via Zoom; however, trainees affiliated with GCC training programs are required to attend the seminars in person.
Fall 2022 Keck Seminars will begin on Sept. 9, and the final seminar will be on Dec. 2. Seminars take place from 4:00-5:15 pm Fridays in Rice University’s BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) room 280. The exception is the Oct. 21 Keck Annual Research Conference, which will be held in the BRC auditorium. There is no Keck Seminar on the day of the conference. Rice map.
Those not on the Keck Seminar listserv are to please contact Elizabeth Lawrence for the Zoom login information for a particular seminar; it is not the same every week.
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For questions, speaker suggestions, or to join our trainee Keck Seminar planning committee, email Elizabeth Lawrence or Jim Briggs.
Keck Seminar Schedule
Speakers are subject to change.
Keck Seminar, Felicia Skelton, MD
Felicia Skelton, MD Assistant Professor, H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine Title: Advocating for People with Disabilities through Health Services Research
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Holly Beale, PhDLead Computational Biologist, Genomics Institute, Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, UC Santa Cruz Title: Genomics of Charismatic Megafauna
Find out more »32nd Annual Keck Research Conference
This year’s conference focuses on major advancements in structural biology with a specific emphasis on innovations in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM). It brings together experts in the field under one […]
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Keck Seminar, Weiyi Peng, MD, PhD
Weiyi Peng, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston Title: Overcome Immune Resistance by Targeting Tumor Intrinsic Pathways
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Jonathan King, PhD
Jonathan King, PhD Professor, Biology, Trinity University Title: TBD
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Daniel Promislow, PhD
Daniel Promislow, PhD Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Department of Biology, University of Washington School of Medicine Title: TBD
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Truc Cecilia T. Tran, PharmD
Truc Cecilia T. Tran, PharmDAssistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Houston Methodist Research Institute Title: TBD
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Cathy Higgins, PhD
Cathy Higgins, PhDVice President, Scientific Program Management, Stand Up To Cancer Title: Ways to Leverage Skills Towards a Career in Science Management
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Anthony R. Flores, MD, PhD
Anthony Flores, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, UT Health Science Center at Houston Title: Tales From The Bench And Bedside: A Career In The Study Of Pathogenic Streptococci
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Nasos Dousis, PhD
Nasos Dousis, PhDDirector of Protein and RNA Engineering, Tessera Therapeutics Title: There and Back Again: Curing Disease Via the Central Dogma
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Jason Eriksen, PhD
Jason Eriksen, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Studies, UH College of Pharmacy Title: Fit Body, Fit Brain: The Surprising Science of Exercise and Alzheimer’s Disease
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Online Only: Keck Seminar, Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, DASM, PHCNS-BC
Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, DASM, PHCNS-BCAssistant Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, UT Health Science Center at Houston Implementation Science: Research to Practice; Operationalized
Find out more »Online Only: Keck Seminar, Rafael Rosengarten, PhD
Rafael Rosengarten, PhDCEO and co-founder of Genialis, and co-founder of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH) A Million to One: Bridging the Biomarker Chasm from Discovery to the […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Ted Wensel, PhD
Ted Wensel, PhDProfessor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine Emerging Molecular Imaging Approaches to Photoreceptor Cilia
Find out more »Keck Seminar, James Chappell, PhD
James Chappell, PhDAssistant Professor, BioSciences, Rice University Programming “Wild” Microbes and Microbiomes using RNA
Find out more »Online Only: Keck Seminar, Christopher Kearney, PhD
Christopher Kearney, PhD, Associate Professor, Biology, Baylor University. Guided peptides for control of specific target species in a complex population: application to mosquitoes in the field and Helicobacter pylori in […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Pratip Bhattacharya, PhD
Pratip Bhattacharya, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer by Real-time Metabolic Imaging
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Maria L. Marco, PhD
Maria L. Marco, PhD, Professor, Chair, Food Science & Technology, University of California at Davis. Electron Shuttles of Electroactive Lactobacilli
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Lauren Stadler, PhD
Lauren Stadler, PhD, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University. Waste to Action: Wastewater disease surveillance for public health response in Houston, TX
Find out more »Keck Seminar, 2021 Annual Research Conference Poster Winners
PhD Students: Alyssa Emig, BCM, and Shelby Simar, UTHealth Postdocs: Leo Elworth, Rice, and Eva Preisner, BCM
Find out more »Online only: Keck Seminar, Kay Choi, PhD
Kay Choi, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Find out more »Online Only: Keck Seminar, Lori Banks, PhD
Lori Banks, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biology, Bates College The Pursuit of Global Domination
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Keck Seminar, Jane Grande-Allen, PhD
Jane Grande-Allen, PhDProfessor, Bioengineering, Rice University Biophysically Faithful Biomaterial Platforms for Cardiovascular and Intestinal Mechanobiology
Find out more »Keck Seminar and the Innovation & Diversity in Biomedical Science Seminar Series present Damian Young, PhD
Damian Young, PhDAssistant Professor, Pharmacology and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine Connecting a Passion for Chemistry and a Desire to Develop New Medicines
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Neal Waxham, PhD
Neal Waxham, PhDProfessor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Health Science Center at Houston Cryo-EM As A Tool to Investigate Membrane Architecture At the Nanoscale
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Bradley McConnell, PhD, FAHA, FCVS
Bradley McConnell, PhD, FAHA, FCVSProfessor, Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston Toward Understanding Heart Disease: Cardiac Signaling Mechanisms, Reprogrammed Cardiac Conduction Cells, and the UH-HEART Training Program
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Carmen Dessauer, PhD
Carmen Dessauer, PhDProfessor and Vice-Chair, Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, UT Health Science Center at Houston Nanometric Targeting and Function of Adenylyl Cyclase in Heart
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Keck Center Annual Research ConferenceSee website for talk titles and agenda Theme: Infectious Diseases: Emerging Threats and Emerging Technologies Chairs: Theresa Koehler, PhD, Professor and Chair, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Kathryn Patras, PhD
Kathryn Patras, PhDAssistant Professor, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine Group B Streptococcus and the Vaginal Microenvironment
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Andrew Routh, PhD
Andrew L. Routh, PhDAssistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics, UT Medical Branch at Galveston RNA Recombination in SARS-CoV-2
Find out more »Keck Seminar and the Innovation & Diversity in Biomedical Science Seminar Series present Ana María Cárdenas, PhD
Ana María Cárdenas, PhDR&D Associate Director, Solution Analysis, Becton Dickinson (BD) From Local to Global Impact With a Non-Linear Career
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Dima Suki, PhD
Dima Suki, PhDProfessor, Neurosurgery, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Ethical Considerations in Research
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Julian Hurdle, PhD
Julian Hurdle, PhDAssociate Professor, Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Institute for Biosciences and Technology (IBT), Texas A&M Health Science Center Evolution of antibiotic resistance in C. difficile drives new drug […]
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Keck Seminar and the Innovation & Diversity in Biomedical Science Seminar Series present Cesar A. Arias, MD, MSc, PhD
A Physician-Scientist Journey in Translational Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Cesar A. Arias, MD, MSc, PhDProfessor, Herbert L and Margaret W. DuPont Chair in Infectious Diseases, UTHealth McGovern Medical School and […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Wenyi Wang, PhD
Tumor cell total mRNA expression shapes the molecular and clinical phenotype of cancer Wenyi Wang, PhDProfessor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Link to […]
Find out more »POSTPONED: Keck Seminar, M. Neal Waxham, PhD
*Due to blackouts, Dr. Waxham's talk will be rescheduled* M. Neal Waxham, PhDWilliam M. Wheless III, Professor In Biomedical Sciences, Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, UT Health Science Center at Houston […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, George Golovko, PhD
George Golovko, PhDAssistant professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, The Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics (SCSMB), University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Link to register for […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Matthieu G. Gagnon, PhD
Matthieu G. Gagnon, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Cryo-EM structures of ribosome complexes reveal new insights into bacterial translation initiation […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, PhD
Katherine Paige Lemon, MD, PhDAssociate Professor, Pediatric-Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine Picking sides: competition and cooperation in human nasal microbiota Link to register for this […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Junghae Suh, PhD
From Academia to the Deep End of Industrial Drug Discovery Research Junghae Suh, PhDVice President, Gene Therapy Accelerator Unit, Biogen Inc. Link to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlcuqvrzsuEtEyxRL90DF9QmPYQdn574ym Click here […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Robert Tillman, PhD
Robert Tillman, PhDFaculty Development Specialist National Research Mentoring Network Master Facilitator LinkedIn: Where Your Network Works Link to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfu2trzMtGdHAgDYyvSVKobyfrrUEfo7I Click here to download flyer
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Greg Cuny, PhD
Designing RIPK2 kinase inhibitors for blocking NOD cell signaling Greg Cuny, PhDAssociate Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston Link to register for this talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtcuCvrD8qG9OqRHW72vI-CyYx1XYuF6PU Click here […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar and the Innovation & Diversity in Biomedical Science Seminar Series present Rosa Uribe, PhD
Seeing is believing: Unraveling the mysteries of embryonic development one experiment at a time Rosa Uribe, PhDAssistant Professor, Biosciences, Rice University The Innovation and Diversity in Biomedical Science Seminar Series […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Margie Moczygemba, PhD
Margie Moczygemba, PhDAssociate Professor, Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, IBT, Texas A&M University Automated high-throughput flow cytometry-based assays for cancer drug discovery Link to register for the talk: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApdeuurzsvE9HLe-oMaBtM2PV7arUYtGKg
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Keck Seminar, Stephen S. Laurie, PhD
Stephen S. Laurie, PhDSenior Scientist, SANS Discipline Lead, KBR, NASA Johnson Space Center Swelling in the Eye on ISS
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Caroline Ajo-Franklin, PhD
Caroline Ajo-Franklin, PhDProfessor, BioSciences Rice University Engineering Electronic Actuation and Sensing into Microorganisms Using Synthetic Biology
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Joan E. Nichols, PhD
Joan E. Nichols, PhD, Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine, UTMB Big or Small, Simple or Complex:How 3D Human Engineered TissueModels can be used to Study HumanTissue Responses
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Jean Fan, PhD
Jean Fan, Assistant Professor,Dept. BiomedicalEngineering, John HopkinsUniversity Computational Methods forAnalyzing Spatially-resolved SinglecellTranscriptomics Data
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Ricardo Azevedo, PhD
Ricardo Azevedo, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston Sex and The Origin of Species
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Barbara Trautner, MD, PhD
Barbara Trautner, MD, PhD, Professor and Director, Clinical and Health Services Research Imprecision Medicine: TheChallenges in Diagnosis, Treatment,and Antibiotic Stewardship for UTI
Find out more »Career Symposium of the 30th Annual Keck Research Conference, The Keck Center, a Science Odyssey, 2020 and Beyond
Career Symposium for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, featuring a keynote address on biomedical science careers of the future and break-out discussion groups with former Keck Center trainees.
Find out more »30th Annual Keck Research Conference, The Keck Center, a Science Odyssey, 2020 and Beyond
This annual conference recognizes the collaborative research conducted by predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees of the Keck Center. To celebrate the Keck Center’s 30th anniversary, the conference will feature outstanding speakers, Keck alums […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE
Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSEProfessor, Biomedical Informatics and Internal Medicine and The Reynolds and Reynolds Professorship in Clinical InformaticsUT Health Science Center Houston
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Nicholas Navin, PhD
Nicholas Navin, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Dept. of Genetics, Division of Basic Science Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Cancer Evolution Through the Lensof Single Cell Genomics
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Keegan Korthauer, PhD
Keegan Korthauer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of British Columbia 11 20 20 Keegan Korthauer Mining the epigenome: computational tools to interpret DNA methylation data
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Keck Seminar, Anne Churchland
Anne Churchland, Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in conjunction with GCC Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (TCN) Conference Movements Decisions and Wholistic Behavior
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Keck Seminar, Eric Wagner
Eric Wagner, UTMB Associate Eric Wagner, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston Regulated Destabilization of Paused RNA Polymerase II: The Value of a Pair […]
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Keck Seminar, Sheereen Majd
Sheereen Majd, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston Towards Nanomaterials Tailored for Delivery of Therapeutics
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Keck Seminar, Yubin Zhou
Yubin Zhou, Associate Professor, Center for Translational Cancer Research, Inst of Biosciences & Technology, Texas A&M University Optogenetic Engineering for Biomedical Applications
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Keck Seminar, Samuel Shelburne
Samuel Shelburne, MD, PhD, Deputy Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Impact of Large Scale DNA Sequencing […]
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CANCELLED: Keck Seminar, Carmen Dessauer
Carmen Dessauer, Professor, Integrated Biology & Pharmacology, UT Health Science Center Spatial Constraints of Adenylyl Cyclase Signaling
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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Keck Seminar, Richard Baraniuk
Richard Baraniuk, Cameron Chair in Engineering, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Statistics, and Computer Science, Rice University Going Off the Deep End with Deep Learning To watch the livestream seminar, […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Lance Black
Lance Black, TMCx will present The Ampersand (&): Bridging the Communities of Research & Development through Innovation To watch the livestream seminar, go to Zoom link. Click “Join a Meeting”. Enter […]
Find out more »Keck Seminar, Marcie O’Malley
Dr. Marcie O’Malley, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University will present Enhancing Human Performance with Wearable Haptics.
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Keck Seminr, Vasanthi Jayaraman
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will present Allostery at the Single Molecule Level .
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Keck Seminar, Yubin Zhou
Associate Professor, Center for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University will present OptogenetIc Engineering for Biomedical Applications.
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Keck Seminar, Dan Frigo & Leah DiMascio
Dr. Dan Frigo, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center will present Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable in Science . Dr. Leah DiMascio, Chief Operating […]
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Keck Seminar, Amy Franklin
Dr. Amy Franklin,Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will present Cognitive Informatics: Usability, Work-flow, and Decision Support .
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Keck Seminar, Timothy Palzkill
Dr. Timothy Palzkill, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Baylor College of Medicine will present Molecular Basis of β-Lactam Antibiotic Resistance.
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Keck Seminar, Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Professor of Bioengineering, Rice UniversityDesigning and Scaling New Technologies to Improve Newborn Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Keck Seminar, Hans S. Keirstead
Dr. Hans S. Keirstead, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AIVITA Biomedical will present Clinical and Commercial Application of Scaled Human Stem Cell Derivatives (Keynote Lecture, GCC Regenerative Medicine Conference).
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Keck Seminar, H. Courtney Hodges
Dr. H. Courtney Hodges,Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine will present Regulation of Chromatin State in 3D Tissue.
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Keck Seminar, Preethi Gunaratne
Dr. Preethi Gunaratne, Director, University of Houston-Sequencing & Gene Editing Core, Moores Professor, Biology & BiochemistryRemote Sensing Precancerous Lesions and Metastatic Progression through Early Detection using Single Cell Sequencing
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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Linda Watkins, Professor Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder Joint speaker GCC Translational Pain Research Conference
“Listening” and “Talking” to Neurons: Non-neuronal Cells Amplify Pain and Drug Reward
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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Houston, Texas 77030 United States
GCC Regenerative Medicine Conference Speakers
John P. Cooke, M.D., PhDGeorge F. Muschler, M.D.
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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
Lucila Ohno-Machado, Professor of Medicine and Chair Department of Biomedical Informatics, UC San Diego
GCC Keck Center Annual Research Conference Responsible Biomedical Data Sharing: Individual Privacy and Societal Benefit Trade-offs
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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
B. Montgomery Pettitt, Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Also, featuring Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry in Pharmacology and Toxicology Director of the Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics Orderly Signaling from Disordered Proteins
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John Mendelson, Ria Health Can Tech Treat Alcoholism – The Ria Technologically Enabled AUD Treatment Solution
GCC Alcohol and Addiction Research Conference Speaker
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Messenger Metabolites in the Longevity Regulation / Cultivating Relationships: Genetic Landscapes that Shape Microbiome Form and Function
Meng WangProfessor Baylor College of Medicine Messenger Metabolites in the Longevity RegulationBuck SamuelAssistant Professor Baylor College of Medicine Cultivating Relationships: Genetic Landscapes that Shape Microbiome Form and Function
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Stuart Geman, Professor Applied Mathematics, Brown University
(GCC Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Conference)
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Houston, Texas 77030 United States
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