Events and Awards

TXSC Weekly Seminar Series

The core organizes a weekly seminar series on Fridays from 4 to 5 p.m. at MD Anderson Cancer Center that focuses on research related to single cell genomics. The seminar series is open to all researchers in the Texas Medical Center (TMC) and includes attendees and speakers from Baylor, University of Houston, Texas A&M, Houston Methodist and Texas Children’s Hospital.

To inquire about joining the mailing list to receive a Zoom link for these meetings, or if you are interested presenting your single cell research, please contract Anna K. Casasent.

Gulf Coast Consortium (GCC) for Single Cell Omics

The GCC is a cluster of researchers across the Texas Medical Center (TMC) institutes who are interested in developing and applying single cell sequencing technologies for research applications. The GCC organizes a yearly single cell symposium and networking activities and has regular meetings with members across the TMC. The GCC is chaired by Rui Chen (Baylor), Nicholas Navin (MD Anderson) and Luay Nakhleh (Rice University).

For more information, please visit the GCC Single Cell Omics website.

Single Cell Data Analysis Workshop

The workshop is currently on hold until the core and Navin lab have moved to the Zayed building. We will announce the workshop dates and open for registration when we have a date. 

The in-person Single Cell Omics Data Workshop required an application and covered the use of different single cell analysis tools for single cell DNA, RNA and epigenetic analysis. The in-person workshop was capped at 30 people. 

Yearly workshops are planned and will occur at the end of the summer beginning of the fall term. Updated requirements will be posted here and emailed out the Gulf Coast Consortium mailing list when the workshop applications open each year. General application requires are listed below.

Applicant Eligibility: Applications are open to students, postdocs, fellows, staff, principal investigators and others. Trainees (student, postdocs, fellows) at GCC (Gulf Coast Consortium) institutions will be given preference. Beginners are welcome. However, they should complete an R programming online course first, and basic unix/linux experience is strongly suggested. 

If you have any questions, please email Anna K. Casasent.

This workshop is currently supported by our Grant CPRIT Core grant RP180684 and the Gulf Coast Consortium Single Cell Omics Group. 

User Grant Winners during CPRIT Funding 

2022

Oscar Villarreal from Scott Kopetz Lab in Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology 
Rui Ye from Steven Lin Lab in Radiation Oncology & Nick Navin Lab in System Biology 
Zeyu Jin from Jihye Yun Lab in Genetics
Chibawanye Ene from Neurosurgery
Li Cai from Ronald DePinho Lab in Cancer Biology

2021

Wen-Hao Hsu from Ronald DePinho Lab in Cancer Biology
Tin Chanh Pham from Georgios Karras Lab in Genetics
Yiyun Lin from Nick Navin Lab in Genetics
Yuehui Zhao from Nick Navin Lab in Genetics
Carl Michael Gay from Thoracic Head & Neck Medical Oncology
Elshad Hasanov from the Cancer Medicine Fellowship Program
Jovanka Gencel-Augusto from Gigi Lozano Lab in Genetics
Cullen Taniguchi from Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology
Kalie Wang from Nick Navin Lab in Genetics
Sofia Mastoraki from Khandan Keyomarsi Lab in Experimental Radiation Oncology

2020

Pravesh Gupta from Krishna Bhat Lab in Translational Molecular Pathology
Dali Li from Funda Meric-Bernstam Lab in Investigational Cancer Therapeutics
Yohei Yoshihama from Ronald DePinho Lab in Cancer Biology
Dhiraj Kumar from Filippo Giancotti Lab in Cancer Biology
Ruli Gao from Stephen Lai Lab from Head and Neck Surgery & Nick Navin Lab in Genetics
Sofia Mastoraki from Khandan Keyomarsi Lab in Experimental Radiation Oncology
Rui Ye from Steven Lin Lab in Radiation Oncology & Nick Navin Lab in Genetics
Erika Yanil Faraoni from Micheal Kim Lab in Surgical Oncology
Xiaoping Wang from Naoto Ueno Lab in Breast Medical Oncology