{"id":4955,"date":"2013-04-26T20:10:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T00:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/?page_id=4955"},"modified":"2013-06-22T18:58:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T22:58:41","slug":"2013-student-organized-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/news\/2013-student-organized-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Student-Organized Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Sixth Annual Boston University Bioinformatics Program<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>June 5,\u00a02013 | 9:30AM to 5:30PM | Life Science and Engineering Building, Room B01,\u00a024 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Featuring\u00a0 Five Distinguished Speakers:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/Mariano-Alvarez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"252\" width=\"213\" src=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/Mariano-Alvarez-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mariano Alvarez\" title=\"Mariano Alvarez\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5003\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" \/><\/a>Mariano Alvarez <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h2>\n<h4><em>Research Scientist<\/em><em><br \/>\nColumbia Initiative in Systems Biology<\/em><em><br \/>\nColumbia University<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Assembling and interrogating the cell regulatory logic to elucidate mechanisms of tumor initiation, progression, and chemosensitivity<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/slava_epstein.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"191\" width=\"213\" src=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/slava_epstein.png\" alt=\"slava_epstein\" title=\"slava_epstein\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4950 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Slava Epstein<\/h2>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><em>Professor of Biology<br \/>\nDepartment of Biology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Northeastern University <\/em><\/h4>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/biology\/people\/faculty\/slava-epstein\/\">Slava Epstein Web Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advanced cultivation, state-of-the-art meta-omics, and the holy grail of microbial ecology<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/steve_salzberg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"286\" width=\"213\" src=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/steve_salzberg.png\" alt=\"steve_salzberg\" title=\"steve_salzberg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4951 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h2>Steven Salzberg<\/h2>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><em>Professor of Medicine, Biostatistics, and Computer Science<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Director, Center for Computational Biology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ccb.jhu.edu\/people\/salzberg\/Salzberg\/Salzberg_Lab_Home.html\">Steven Salzberg Web Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Computational Challenges of Next-Generation DNA Sequencing<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/cole_trapnell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"233\" width=\"213\" src=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/cole_trapnell.png\" alt=\"cole_trapnell\" title=\"cole_trapnell\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4952 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h2>Cole Trapnell<\/h2>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><em>Postdoctoral Research Fellow<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Rinn Lab<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Harvard University<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/~cole\/\">Cole Trapnell Web Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The role of long, noncoding RNAs in cellular programming<\/p>\n<h4><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/tim_reddy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"285\" width=\"213\" src=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/tim_reddy.png\" alt=\"tim_reddy\" title=\"tim_reddy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4953 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/tim_reddy.png 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/tim_reddy-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h2>Tim Reddy<\/h2>\n<h4><em>Assistant Professor <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Department of Biostatistics &amp; Bioinformatics<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Duke University School of Medicine<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.genome.duke.edu\/directory\/faculty\/reddy\/\">Tim Reddy Web Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genetics and genomics of gene expression<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><b>SoS 2013\u00a0is free and open to the public <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sponsored by BU Bioinformatics and by<\/b><b> <\/b><b>an IGERT<\/b><b> <\/b><b>grant from the National Science Foundation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/NSF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"151\" width=\"150\" src=\"\/bioinformatics\/files\/2013\/04\/NSF.jpg\" alt=\"NSF\" title=\"NSF\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4970 aligncenter\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<h4><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixth Annual Boston University Bioinformatics Program June 5,\u00a02013 | 9:30AM to 5:30PM | Life Science and Engineering Building, Room B01,\u00a024 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 Featuring\u00a0 Five Distinguished Speakers: \u00a0 Mariano Alvarez Research Scientist Columbia Initiative in Systems Biology Columbia University Assembling and interrogating the cell regulatory logic to elucidate mechanisms of tumor initiation, progression, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1251,"featured_media":0,"parent":2604,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4955\/revisions\/4957"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}