BME Seminar: Dr. Amina Ann Qutub - Modeling Cellular Communication during Growth and Regeneration

Armour College of Engineering's Biomedical Engineering Department will host a seminar featuring Amina Ann Qutub, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University on February 24, 2017. The lecture topic will be Modeling Cellular Communication during Growth and Regeneration.

Speaker Bio

Amina received her PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and UCSF, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University. Following her postdoctoral training in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, she joined Rice University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering.

Her research interests are in systems biology and cell engineering. Her lab’s research vision is to interpret human cells’ communication to understand and improve health. The Qutub Lab develops tightly coupled experimental-computational methods to identify the behaviors of cells during healthy and malignant growth, and how molecular signaling constrains cells as they develop into functional tissue. Amina has authored or coauthored >30 publications, cofounded the data visualization startup DiBS, and served as scientific lead of a 2014-2015 DREAM Biomedical Big Data Algorithm Challenge to develop predictive algorithms for acute myeloid leukemia. Amina is an NSF CAREER and NSF Neural & Cognitive Systems awardee, and her research is supported by NSF, NIH, the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, the Kleberg Foundation, and the Hamill Foundation.

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