Are you interested in computers and biology? Have you ever wondered what’s at the intersection of computers and the life sciences? Or how researchers study large data sets? How do scientists use genomics data to tell a story? What are the tools used by scientists in the field of computational biology and are they accessible for you?
The Center for Excellence in Education and Illumina present an introduction to computational biology. Join us as expert scientists provide an overview of the tools and databases used by researchers around the world to evaluate genomes.
April 12, 2022 from 6 - 7pm, ET
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Speakers
Scott Rifkin, Ph.D. is a Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego. His lab studies how stochastic, genetic, and environmental variation is filtered through development and physiology to produce phenotypic variation and how evolutionary forces shape that process. We work primarily at the level of gene expression, taking advantage of technologies for visualizing gene expression dynamics at single-transcript resolution, among others. Current projects in the lab include probing the dynamics and robustness of the genetic networks underlying sex-determination and intestinal specification in nematodes and investigating how natural variation affects the dynamic properties of signaling and regulatory networks in yeasts.
Heidi Norton, is a Senior Software Product Manager at Illumina where she works to build software solutions for accurate and efficient analysis of sequencing data. Prior to her work at Illumina, Ms. Norton was a software developer and R&D scientist at Biomeme, a company that makes portable molecular diagnostic solutions. Ms. Norton studied Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford, where she did research applying protein engineering to molecular diagnostics and Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied the 3D folding of the genome. She is passionate about applying scientific discoveries to build products that have an impact in human health.