Institute for Genome Sciences

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Exchanging scientific ideas and exploring the latest scientific research is one of our Institute's priorities. Towards that end, we host a variety of events for all types of audiences. Anyone is welcome to attend these events, and we hope you will join us.

In our IGS seminar program, we host internationally recognized scientists, as well as our own faculty, who are sharing their research in genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology and personalized medicine. For more information, please contact David Serre PhD and Jacques Ravel PhD scientific co-chairs of the Seminar Committee, or Riham Keryakos, administrative co-chair. All seminars are held in the Health Sciences Facility III Lecture Hall 1010 from 11am to noon, unless otherwise noted.
In our Omics Basics Lunchtime Learning Series we provide information to those who are novices in the areas of genomics and bioinformatics to give them an introduction to these approaches and how they might be useful for their research programs. For more information please visit our Omics Basics web page.
IGS offers in-depth, multi-day Training Workshops on several areas of omics and bioinformatics where attendees engage in hands-on activities aimed at giving them real-world experience they can apply to their research. For more information please visit our workshops page.

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Jan 14 2016	Cynthia Sears, MD Johns Hopkins University "Bacteria, Biofilms and Genetics in Colon Cancer Pathogenesis"	Host: Emmanuel Mongodin, Ph.D.
Feb 08 2016	Seth A. Ament, Ph.D. Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle WA "Systems Genetics of Neuropsychiatric Disorders"	Faculty Candidate Seminar
Feb 25 2016	Carl Yeoman, Ph.D. Montana State University "Biogenic animes: Biomarkers of bacterial vaginosis or precursors to vaginal dysbiosis"	Host: Rebecca Brotman, Ph.D., MPH
Mar 10 2016	David Nelson, Ph.D. Indiana University "Chlamydial pathogenesis and interactions with the urogenital microbiome"	Host: Rebecca Brotman, Ph.D., MPH
Mar 17 2016	Daniel E. Neafsey, Ph.D. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard "Profiling malaria genomic diversity to inform vaccine development"	Host: Joana Carneiro Da Silva, Ph.D.
Apr 07 2016	Carlos Orihuela, Ph.D. University of Alabama "Myocardial invasion followed by cardiomyocyte death during pneumococcal pneumonia"	Host: Hervé Tettelin, Ph.D.
Apr 14 2016	Andrew Neuwald, Ph.D. Institute for Genome Sciences "Improved protein multiple sequence alignment and covariant analysis: Identifying acetyl transferase functional determinants"
Apr 21 2016	Irene Newton, Ph.D. Indiana University "Mi casa es su casa: how an intracellular symbiont maintains a persistent infection"	Host: Julie Dunning Hotopp, Ph.D.
May 05 2016	Deborah Hogan, Ph.D. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth "Microbial Interactions in chronic lung infections associated with cystic fibrosis"	Host: Vincent Bruno, Ph.D.
May 12 2016	Mogens Kilian, DMD, D.Sc., D.Hc Director, iPSYCH, Professor Emeritus, Medical Microbiology, Aarhus University "iPSYCH: Exploiting the Danish population as a cohort for large-scale genetic and environmental studies of psychiatric diseases"	Host: Hervé Tettelin, Ph.D.
Jun 07 2016	PacBio User Group Meeting This workshop will cover updates to products, applications and sample preparation recommendations. New for this year, we’re including interactive group breakout discussions about specific applications of SMRT Sequencing. Demonstrations of the use of introductory data analysis tools in SMRT Link for attendees with limited bioinformatics experience will also be presented. "Sample Preparation Best Practices and SMRT Link Basics Workshop"
Jun 08 2016	PacBio User Group Meeting Reception to follow. "User Group Meeting"
Jun 09 2016	PacBio User Group Meeting The workshop will introduce SMRT Analysis 3.x. We will cover how to use the SMRT Link GUI for data management and analysis, and discuss some command line use cases. New features and changes from SMRT Analysis 2.3 will be reviewed. "PacBio User Group Meeting: Bioinformatics Workshop"
Jun 15 2016	Atul Butte, MD, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco "4th Annual Frontiers in Genomics"	Host: Claire M. Fraser, Ph.D.
Sep 15 2016	Carl Yeoman, Ph.D. Animal and Range Sciences (Microbiology), Montana State University "Biogenic amines: Biomarkers of bacterial vaginosis or precursors to vaginal dysbiosis"	Host: Rebecca Brotman, Ph.D., MPH
Oct 12 2016	Thomas Rattei, Ph.D. Head of the Division of Computational Systems Biology, University of Vienna "The million genomes challenge: large-scale annotation and phenotype prediction for microbial genomes"	Host: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
Oct 20 2016	Aaron Darling, Ph.D. University of Technology Sydney "Toward resolving strain level genomic variation in natural microbial communities"	Host: Bing Ma, Ph.D.
Dec 08 2016	A. Murat Eren, Ph.D. Department of Medicine - University of Chicago "Genome-resolved metagenomics: A perfect mixture of opportunities and challenges"	Host: Pawel Gajer, Ph.D.