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Tuesday April 8, 2025, 3:30 P.M.

Hughes Auditorium (Reception to follow in
the Ryan Family Atrium)

Hosted by Yogesh Goyal

Dana Pe’er is the Alan and Sandra Gerry Endowed Chair of the
Computational and Systems Biology Program and Scientific
Director of the Single-cell Analytics Innovation Lab at the Sloan
Kettering Institute. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Investigator. The Pe’er lab develops foundational machine learning
approaches to derive cell states, trajectories and cell-cell
interactions from single-cell genomics and spatial profiling data.
Using these tools, the lab investigates the roles of cellular plasticity
in embryonic development, tumor heterogeneity, and adaptation
during tumor spread and resistance to treatment, and studies how
cancer cells remodel their local environment and interact with
immune cells. Dr. Pe’er earned her Ph.D. with Dr. Nir Friedman at
the Hebrew University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship
with Dr. George Church at Harvard University. She received
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award, NSF CAREER award, NIH
Director’s New Innovator and Pioneer awards, Packard Fellowship
in Science and Engineering, Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award, and
ISCB Overton Prize and Innovator Awards for her contributions,
and was inducted as Fellow of the AACR Academy. Dr. Pe’er led
the NCI Human Tumor Atlas Network center at MSK and is on the
Organizing Committee of the Human Cell Atlas.