Brown University Center for Computational Molecular Biology

The Genome and the Computational Sciences:
The Next Paradigms

Distinguished Lectures Series

December 6th

~Leon Cooper
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics, Brown University
Is Theory Possible in Neurosciences?

~David Barker
Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Illumina
Capturing Common Variation in the Human Genome on a Single Microarray

~Craig Venter
President, J. C. Venter Institute
Genomics: from Medicine to the Environment

~Stephen Hoffman
CEO and President, Sanaria
The Journey from Genomics, Molecular Immunology and
DNA Vaccines to an Attenuated Whole Parasite Malaria Vaccine


December 7th

~Jeffrey Skolnick
Professor, Director, Center for the Study of Systems Biology, Georgia Tech
Prediction of Protein Structure, Function and Druggability on a Proteomic Scale

~Jonathan King
Professor of Molecular Biology, MIT
Why deciphering the Amino Acid Sequence Rules for Protein Folding
is so difficult: The Case of the Beta-sheet Fold

~David E. Shaw
Chief Scientist, D. E. Shaw Research
New Architectures for a New Biology

~Eric Kronstadt
Director, Deep Computing Institute, IBM
Tools of the Trade: The next Generation of Supercomputers

~Pavel A. Pevzner
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science, University of California - San Diego
The Third Rebuttal of the Random Breakage Theory


December 8th

~Jonathan W. Yewdell
Chief, Biology Section National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Gained in Translation: The Immunoribosome Hypothesis of Immunosurveillance

~Jeremy Smith
Director, Center for Molecular Biophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dynamics of Protein Binding, Reaction and Structural Change

~Christopher Johnson
Distinguished Professor and Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
Computational Bioimaging and Visualization: Challenges and Opportunities

~David Altshuler
Professor, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Human Genome Sequence Variation and the inherited Basis of Disease


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