2016 Student-Organized Symposium

BU Bioinformatics
Student-Organized Symposium

 

June 1, 2016 | 9:30AM to 5:30PM | Life Science and Engineering Building, Room B01, 24 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215

 

Featuring the following distinguished speakers:

 

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Jeremiah Faith, Ph.D.

BU Bioinformatics Alumnus

Assistant Professor, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Immunology Institute,

Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai

REVERSE ENGINEERING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OUR DIETS, OUR GUT MICROBES, AND HEALTH

 

 

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Julie Segre, Ph.D.

Chief & Senior Investigator

Translational and Functional Genomics Branch, NHGRI

MICROBIAL GENOMICS: HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND SKIN MICROBIOME

 

 

 

Richard M. Myers, Ph.D.Portrait4

President, Director, & Faculty Investigator

HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology

USING GENOMICS AND GENETICS TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE

 

 

 

Portrait2David Relman, MD

Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor,

Departments of Medicine, and Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University

EXPLORATIONS OF SPACE AND TIME IN THE HUMAN MICROBIOME

 

 

 

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Christopher Voigt, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Engineering

MIT

 CELLO: A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR CELLS

 

 

 

Student Organizing Committee:
Demarcus Briers
Anastasia Gurinovich
Vinay Kartha
Tisha Melia
Emily Speranza

 

 

 

The 2016 SoS is sponsored by the Bioinformatics Program at Boston University.