Events

The Department of Environmental Health Sciences is pleased to announce a seminar in the Environmental Health Sciences Distinguished Professor Lecture Series, which honors faculty promotion and showcases impactful research. On April 1st, Dr. Ami Zota will inaugurate the series with her presentation, Where Science Meets Justice: Environmental Health as a Catalyst for Social Change. Join in-person at Hess Commons or via Zoom (register here for zoom information). In-person attendance is only available to Columbia affiliates. Affiliates outside of Columbia are welcome to attend via Zoom. 

The Center for Public Health System (CPHS) Spring Seminar: Authors Joanne Kenen, Lymari Morales, and Joshua M. Sharfstein will speak about their book Information Sick: How Journalism's Decline & Misinformation's Rise Are Harming Our Health--& What We Can Do About It. The book discusses the decline of traditional news structures and the lack of accountability in digital spaces, and the impact these changes have had on public health.  Talk and Q&A in ARB 8th Floor Auditorium. A reception will follow. 

Etiology, Management, and Multidisciplinary Approach  Register through Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. Format: Lecture. Live Virtual, via Zoom. Starts 8PM ET / 7PM CT / 5PM PT 2 hours - CDE Credits: 2    Course Fee: $69 for all registrants Audience: All Dental Professionals Details and to register   Inquiries: CDM CE Office for assistance. Presenter: Jacy Stauffer, DMD, FAAPD, AADSM-Qualified Dentist - Program Director, Pediatric Dentistry, Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry Learning Objectives At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to: Understand the medical and dental etiology of OSA. Identify and screen patients for OSA. Familiarize yourself with medical and dental modalities of treatment of OSA. Play an active role on a multidisciplinary care team, collaborating among various medical and dental professionals. ------------- Held in partnership with ACDE and 37 member dental schools as part of the 2026 Joint Provider Live Webinar Series.

The Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics will continue its seminar series on the topic of mathematical sciences underpinning cancer research. The monthly seminars take place on the second Wednesday of the month, 2:00-3:00 PM EST. The presentations are open to the Columbia community (in person and online) and to researchers outside Columbia (via Zoom). On Wednesday, April 8th (2:00 PM ET), IICD welcomes Dr. Andrea Sottoriva from Human Technopole. Seminar hosted by Dr. Sanja Vickovic. The seminar will take place in person in Schermerhorn Hall 603 (Morningside Heights campus). If you wish to attend the seminar remotely, please register using the following link: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/HPHK-ZXRSqeujCopJt6h-g Title: Measuring and Predicting Cancer Evolution with Population Genetics and Machine Learning Abstract: Cancers evolve following Darwinian rules. Predicting and potentially controlling disease evolution requires appropriate measuring of evolutionary processes in human samples and model systems. This can only be done by combining data collection with computational and mathematical modelling of evolutionary dynamics. Moreover, cancer evolution is not only driven by genetic mutations, but also by epigenetic alterations that, when heritable, can fuel Darwinian selection. I will present approaches that combines multi-omic data collection from patients and patient-derived model systems with computational methods to extract evolutionary biology from cancer genomic and epigenomic data. Bio: The Sottoriva Lab focusses on deciphering the dynamics of cancer growth, progression and treatment resistance using computational approaches applied to multi-omic data, with the objective of predicting and controlling the disease. We also develop experimental evolution approaches to study cancer drug resistance, bringing the theory+experiment approach to biology. BSc in Computer Science (University of Bologna, 2006), MSc in Computational Sciences (University of Amsterdam, 2008), PhD in Computational Biology (University of Cambridge, 2012), after postdoctoral work at the University of Southern California, he started his lab at the Institute of Cancer Research in London in 2013, where in 2018 he became the Deputy Director of the Centre for Evolution and Cancer and then Director in 2020. He is now the Head of the Computational Biology Research Centre at Human Technopole in Milan, Italy. If you would like to meet one-on-one (possibly via Zoom) or attend the lunch or dinner with the speaker, please contact the event organizer.