2021 Student-Organized Symposium
BU Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium
June 2, 2021
SoS 2021 Distinguished Speakers:
David Jenkins, PhD
BU Bioinformatics Program Alumnus
Associate Principal Scientist
Oncology Bioinformatics at AstraZeneca
Interactive Visualization of Combination Benefit in High-throughput Drug Combination Screens
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, PhD
Dodge Professor, NETSI Professor, and Distinguished Professor
Physics Department
Northeastern University
From Network Medicine to Identifying Drug Repurposing Opportunities for COVID-19
Hector Corrada Bravo, PhD
Senior Scientist
Research and Early Development
Genentech
So Meta, So Epi(c); So Academic, So Industrial: Interactive Genomic Data Analysis
Anne E. Carpenter, PhD (she/her)
Institute Scientist and Senior Director of the Imaging Platform
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The Power of Images in Drug Discovery
Noah Fierer, PhD
Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Colorado at Boulder
From Iowa to Antarctica: exploring the adaptations of soil microbes to resource limitation
Student Organizing Committee:
Shruthi Bandyadka
Aishwarya Deengar
Brie Odom
Lucas Schiffer
Jacquelyn Turcinovic