Sixth Annual Boston University Bioinformatics Program

June 5, 2013 | 9:30AM to 5:30PM | Life Science and Engineering Building, Room B01, 24 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215

Featuring  Five Distinguished Speakers:

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, and chemosensitivity

Slava Epstein

Professor of Biology

Department of Biology

Northeastern University

Slava Epstein Web Page

Advanced cultivation, state-of-the-art meta-omics, and the holy grail of microbial ecology

Steven Salzberg

Professor of Medicine, Biostatistics, and Computer Science

Director, Center for Computational Biology

McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Steven Salzberg Web Page

Computational Challenges of Next-Generation DNA Sequencing

Cole Trapnell

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Rinn Lab

Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Harvard University

Cole Trapnell Web Page

The role of long, noncoding RNAs in cellular programming

Tim Reddy

Assistant Professor 

Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Duke University School of Medicine

Tim Reddy Web Page

Genetics and genomics of gene expression

SoS 2013 is free and open to the public

Sponsored by BU Bioinformatics and by an IGERT grant from the National Science Foundation