BOSTON UNIVERSITY BIOINFORMATICS GRADUATE PROGRAM OPEN HOUSE - 2008
Friday, February 22nd to Saturday February, 23rd

24 Cummington Street - Life Sciences and Engineering Building - Room 103

Schedule is subject to change - For invited students only

Friday, February 22

AM  8:30 Breakfast in LSEB 103
  9:00 Scott Mohr, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Bioinformatics
  9:15 Dr. Gary Benson, Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Director of IGERT
  9:30 Itai Yanai, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, BU Bioinformatics
  10:15 BU Experience Multimedia Presentation (Blanford Street)
  10:45 Depart for the BU School of Medicine (outside of LSEB)
  11:10 BUSM Tour with Adam Gustafson, PhD Candidate
  11:30 Avrum Spira, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics

PM  12:30 Return to main campus
  1:00 Lunch in the Bioinformatics Student Lounge (LSEB 102)
  2:00 Applicant Interviews (itinerary to follow)
  4:00 Poster Session presented by current PhD students (LSEB lobby)
  6:00 Dinner at the Castle (225 Baystate RD)
  9:00 Social activities with current students


Saturday, February 23

AM  9:00 Breakfast in LSEB 103
  9:30 Yu Xia, Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics
  10:00 Daniel Segrè, Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics
  10:30 Rich Roberts, Nobel Laureate and Research Scholar In Bioinformatics; Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs
  11:00 Applicant Interviews
PM 12:00 Bagged lunch available from 12:00-1:00 in LSEB 103