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 December 8, 2009
FXB G12, 12-1:30pm
Ben Voight
Research Scientist, Medical Population Genetics
The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Topic TBA
Abstract TBA
Future Forum Dates:
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
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.