Bioinformatics Core and Program in Quantitative Genomics Calendar
Community Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Events Calendar
2009-2010 Bioinformatics Core Forum
Public Health interventions have been deeply impacted by key discoveries in nutrition, environment, infectious disease or human biology. Today's research tools in public health increasingly employ high dimensional surveys across large numbers of subjects- requiring development of new analytical methods but, importantly, driving the relationship between biology and the information sciences. Bioinformatics embraces the interface between biology and information- allowing discoveries from complex data driven by biological insight.
The HSPH Bioinformatics Core Forum will meet monthly to explore and explain the role of bioinformatics in impacting public health. We will cover key bioinformatics activities in areas such as gene expression, epigenetics, next generation sequencing technologies, molecular epidemiology or infectious agents, human variation, and population level genomics.
NEXT FORUM: Tuesday November 10, 2009
FXB G12, 12-1:30pm
Fritz Roth
Associate Professor,
Tutor in Biochemical Sciences
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
A Systems Genetics Sampler
The talk will survey several topics:
- A quick update on large-scale quantitative function annotation for human genes;
- How a computational analysis of human 5'UTR introns led us to find that mRNAs encoding mitochondrial proteins use a non-canonical mRNA export pathway;
- Identifying synergistic drug combinations by mining genetic interaction networks; and
- Barcode Fusion Genetics (BFG), a new technology that identifies genetic interactions via large-scale parallel sequencing.
Future Forum Dates:
11/10/2009 - Fritz Roth, HMS
12/8/2009 - Ben Voight, the Broad Institute
2/16/2010 - Owen White, University of Maryland
3/30/2010 - Lincoln Stein, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
4/13/2010 - Rami Kantor, Brown University
5/11/2010 - Atul Butte, Stanford University
3rd Annual Conference in Quantitative Genomics
(Nov 11-13, 2009)
The theme for the 2009 Conference in Quantitative Genomics: "Human Genetic Variation, Health and Disease: New Knowledge, New Quantitative Challenges." The conference will bring together researchers from multiple disciplines (including geneticists, epidemiologists, statisticians and bioinformaticians) to discuss what we have learned and what we have yet to learn from genome-wide association studies, as well as emerging techniques for studying different types of genetic variation. Please see the conference page for details and registration.
2009-2010 PQG Seminar Series
The Program in Quantitative Genomics at Harvard School of Public Health is launching a regular monthly seminar series starting in the fall. The seminar series alternates on a bi-weekly basis with the Bioinformatics Forum.
The mission of the PQG is to improve health through an interdisciplinary study of genetics, behavior, environment and medicine. The mission includes the development and application of quantitative methods, especially for high dimensional data, as well as the training of quantitative genomic scientists. The PQG seminar series encourages exchanging ideas, and promoting interaction, collaboration, and research in quantitative genomics.