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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Previous Events

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Jan 17 2019		Adam Phillippy, Ph.D. Investigator, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, NHGRI "Can nanopore sequencing finally finish the human genome?" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D.
Jan 24 2019		Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Alfred & Jill Sommer Professor and Chair, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health "Thoughts on the origin of virulence." A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Claire M. Fraser Ph.D.
Jan 31 2019	Jonathan H. Badger, Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Center for Cancer Research (CCR), NCI, NIH "Microbiome-based approaches to cancer and immunological studies" A video of this seminar is available at:		Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D.
Feb 07 2019		David Glahn, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, YALE University School of Medicine "Genetic Insights into Psychopathology"	Host: Seth Ament Ph.D.
Feb 14 2019		Michail S. Lionakis, M.D., Sc.D. Chief, Fungal Pathogenesis Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases "Of Mice and Humans: Host Control of Fungal Disease" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D.
Mar 14 2019		Duccio Medini, Ph.D. Senior Director, Head Data Science and Clinical Systems, GSK Vaccines R&D "Data Science for Vaccines R&D" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Herve S.G. Tettelin Ph.D.
Mar 28 2019		Scott J. Hultgren, Ph.D. Helen L. Stoever Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis "Understanding Complexity at the Host-Pathogen Interface in UTI Pathogenesis: Blueprint for Antibiotic-sparing Therapeutics"	Host: David Rasko Ph.D.
Apr 11 2019		Thomas B. Nutman, M.D. Chief, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health "Post-Genomic Insights Into Pathogenesis of Filarial Diseases and Their Treatment" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Julie Dunning Hotopp Ph.D.
Apr 17 2019	Rosalinda C. Roberts, Ph.D. Kathy Ireland Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, Director, Alabama Brain Collection, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. "Is there a human brain microbiome?"		Host: Claire M. Fraser Ph.D.
May 02 2019		Rupert Kaul, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Immunology, University of Toronto "The genital microbiome and HIV risk: can we intervene?"	Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D.
May 09 2019		Jason Jianhua Xuan, Ph.D. Professor, The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech Research Center - Arlington "Bayesian Machine Learning for Integrated Analysis of Cancer Genomics" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Andrew Neuwald Ph.D.
May 23 2019		Alison K. Criss, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology "Neutrophilic inflammation in the pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae"	Host: Herve S.G. Tettelin Ph.D.
May 30 2019		Harmit S. Malik, Ph.D. Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center "Molecular arms races between host and viral genomes"	Host: Julie Dunning Hotopp Ph.D.
Jun 17 2019		Dr. Javier Alfaro, Ph.D. Informatics Group Leader for the International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science, University of Edinburgh "Characterizing genomic biases in immunopeptidome landscapes"	Host: David Rasko Ph.D.
Sep 19 2019		James A. Perry, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine "OASIS - Omics Analysis, Search and Information System for Amish Studies, TOPMed, Biobanks, and more!"	Host: Owen White Ph.D.
Sep 23 2019		Silvia Portugal, Ph.D. Heidelberg University, German Center for Infection Research "Dry season Plasmodium falciparum reservoir"	Host: Joana Carneiro Da Silva Ph.D.
Oct 10 2019		Maria L Marco, Ph.D. Professor, Chair, Food Science Graduate Group, Department of Food Science & Technology, University of California, Davis "Using Lactobacillus to understand and improve our intestinal ecosystems"	Host: Claire M. Fraser Ph.D.
Nov 07 2019		Jeffrey Bryan Carroll, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, WWU - Western Washington University "Novel Nuclear Roles for Huntingtin Provide Insight Into Huntingtons Disease Pathology" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Seth Ament Ph.D.
Nov 14 2019		Norman H Lee, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, Director, PhD Program in Cancer Biology, Program Leader of Cancer Biology, GW Cancer Center, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences "Interrogating the RNA Splicing Landscape: Novel Oncogene Splice Variants Drive" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Claire M. Fraser Ph.D.
Dec 05 2019		Bing Ma, Ph.D. Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine and faculty member, Institute for Genome Sciences "Microbial biomarker of intestinal barrier maturation in early preterm neonates"	Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D.