Blood-Based Monitoring of Cancer Using DNA in Blood

Speaker: Motoki Tataku and Bappa

Bio:

Dr. Motoki Takaku is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences and founder of Detectology. His laboratory investigates genetic and epigenetic regulation in cancer and develops cell-free DNA-based approaches to capture cancer-specific DNA signatures. His recent work combines cfDNA sequencing and interpretable machine learning to improve cancer prediction and treatment monitoring. His team has also developed a nanowire device that can efficiently capture cfDNA.

Dr. Bappa Ghosh is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Takaku Laboratory at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Program Lead at Detectology. His research focuses on next-generation sequencing approaches to understand three-dimensional chromatin structure and gene regulation in cancer. He has expertise in bioinformatics and genomic data analysis, and he works with Detectology to translate complex scientific technologies from a customer and user perspective.