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Keynote Speakers

 

Michael Becich, M.D., Ph.D.,

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Shadyside Hospital/Hillman Cancer Center

Presentation Title: The Role of Biomedical Informatics in Next Generation Sequencing - View presentation abstract
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Michael Becich is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is jointly appointed in Pathology, Information Sciences/Telecommunications and Clinical/Translational Research. He is Associate Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Co-Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Becich's research interests are focused on the interface between clinical informatics and bioinformatics. His research is funded by the NCI, NCRR, NLM, NIDCR, CDC, TATRC and the DOD and includes clinical phenotyping of patients for genome wide association studies, tissue banking informatics and bioinformatics with a special emphasis on data sharing.

 

Elodie Ghedin, Ph.D.,

Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh

Presentation Title: Comparative Genomics in Infectious Diseases and the Study of Host-Pathogen Interactions
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Elodie Ghedin is an Assistant professor in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her B.S. and Ph.D. from McGill University in Canada. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (1998-2000) until she joined The Institute for Genomic Research where she stayed until 2006. Dr. Ghedin is also a member of the Center for Vaccine Research.

The underlying theme in Dr. Ghedin’s research is the genomics of infectious diseases. She has worked on the causative agents for African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, cutaneous and visceral leishmaniases, and lymphatic filariasis. During her time at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) Dr. Ghedin led the Viral Genomics group, working on the design of high throughput pipelines for virus discovery and characterization.

 

Alfred Hero, Ph.D.,

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan

Presentation Title: Pattern Discovery from High Throughput Biological Data
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Alfred Hero is the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He also holds the position of Digiteo Chair at the Digiteo research institute in France. At the University of Michigan his primary appointment is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and he has secondary appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Statistics. He is also affiliated with the UM Program in Biomedical Science (PIBS) and the UM Graduate Program in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics (AIM).

Richard Lenski

Michigan State University

Presentation Title: Dynamics of Genome Evolution During a Long-Term Experiment with E. coli
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Richard Lenski is the John Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University.  His research examines the genetic mechanisms and ecologicalprocesses that cause evolutionary change.  Unlike most evolutionary biologists, Prof. Lenski employs an experimental approach using bacteria to study evolution in action.  In one experiment that he started 22 years ago, Prof. Lenski and his students have been watching 12 populations of E. coli while they evolve in the laboratory for over 50,000 generations, allowing them to quantify evolutionary dynamics with unprecedented precision.  In addition to his work on bacteria, Prof. Lenski collaborates with researchers from computer science and other fields to study ‘digital organisms’ – computer programs that replicate, mutate, and evolve – and the emergence of complex functions and communities.  Prof. Lenski was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.