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Frontiers Symposium 2012 - Introduction

Frontiers in Genomics Symposium - Oct 2012 - Morning Session
Frontiers in Genomics Symposium - Oct 2012 - Afternoon Session

October 18, 2012. The University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute for Genome Sciences hosted "Frontiers in Genomics", a day-long scientific symposium, in honor of the Institute's fifth anniversary. The Symposium was held at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (SON) Auditorium, room 130, from 8:45 am - 3:30 pm.

The program featured four globally recognized experts in genomics and bioinformatics, who traveled to Baltimore from the United Kingdom, Stanford, the National Institutes of Health and Harvard. The featured speakers included Julian Parkhill, Ph.D., Head of Pathogen Genomics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Michael Snyder, Ph.D., Director of the Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine; Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D., Chief and NIH Distinguished Investigator, the National Institutes of Health; and John Quackenbush, Ph.D., Director of the Center of Cancer Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They spoke about new approaches to genomic applications in infectious diseases, pathogenic research and personalized medicine to a diverse audience of researchers, students, and faculty.

"We are so honored to host these well-known scientific genome leaders here for the Frontiers' program," said Claire M. Fraser, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences. "This is also a celebration for Baltimore and the University of Maryland professional schools, as our colleagues here are incorporating genomics into many different kinds of research."

Information and registration for the Frontiers in Genomics symposium is at www.igs.umaryland.edu. The program is open to the public.


Please click on the image thumbnails below to see some photographs from the event:

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