#BlackInCompBio Seminar Series: David Van Valen, Ph.D. (Caltech)

Research in the Van Valen lab focuses on developing machine-learning methods for studying single cells and understanding interactions between viruses and their hosts. "Viruses are in constant conversation with the cells they infect, and the information exchanged can be used by the host or the virus to guide their respective behaviors," says Van Valen. "To understand how this happens, my lab combines ideas from cell biology and physics with recent advances in imaging, machine learning, and genomics to make novel measurements of host–virus interactions