{"id":5828,"date":"2014-03-21T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/?page_id=5828"},"modified":"2015-01-21T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:30:40","slug":"2014-student-organized-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/2014-student-organized-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Student-Organized Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Annual Boston University Bioinformatics Program<\/h2>\n

Student-Organized Symposium
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\u00a0Wednesday, June 4, 2014<\/p>\n

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The SoS 2014 featured the following distinguished speakers:<\/h2>\n

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\"Abraham<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian Abraham, PhD<\/a><\/h2>\n

2013 BU Bioinformatics alum<\/h4>\n

Postdoctoral Associate, Young Lab<\/h4>\n

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research<\/h4>\n

Super-Enhancers in the Control of Cell Identity and Disease<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Martha\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Martha L. Bulyk, PhD<\/a><\/h2>\n

Professor of Medicine<\/h4>\n

Brigham & Women’s Hospital<\/h4>\n

Harvard Medical School<\/h4>\n

Noncanonical Diversification of the DNA Binding Specificities of Transcription Factor Paralogs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"headshot<\/a><\/p>\n

Dana Pe’er, PhD<\/a><\/h2>\n

Associate Professor<\/h4>\n

Departments of Biological Sciences and Systems Biology<\/h4>\n

Columbia University<\/h4>\n

Exploring heterogeneity between and within tumors<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"JR_people\"<\/a><\/p>\n

John L. Rinn, PhD<\/a><\/h2>\n

Assistant professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology<\/h4>\n

Harvard Medical School<\/h4>\n

Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard<\/h4>\n

Long Noncoding RNAs : From Molecules to Mice<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Snyder_Michael\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Snyder, PhD<\/a><\/h2>\n

Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics<\/h4>\n

Stanford University<\/h4>\n

Director, Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine<\/h4>\n

Personalized Medicine: Personal Omics Profiling for Healthy and Disease States<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

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Opening remarks were given by Eric Franzosa, PhD<\/a>,\u00a0 2011 BU Bioinformatics alum and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Huttenhower Lab at the Harvard School of Public Health<\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

The SoS 2014 Organizing Committee<\/h4>\n

Tanggis Bohnuud, Daniel Gusenleitner, \u00a0Scott Mottarella,\u00a0Andy Rampersaud and\u00a0Ania Tassinari<\/h4>\n

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Previous SoS:<\/h4>\n

2013 –\u00a0https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/news\/2013-student-organized-symposium<\/a>\/<\/p>\n

2012 –\u00a0https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/news\/annual-student-organized-symposium<\/a>\/<\/p>\n

2011 –\u00a0https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/specialevents\/student-symposium-2011<\/a>\/<\/p>\n

2010 –\u00a0https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bioinformatics\/studentsymposium-2010<\/a>\/<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"NSF\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The 2014 SoS was sponsored by BU Bioinformatics and an IGERT grant from the National Science Foundation<\/p>\n

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