Wednesday April 6
Public Talks, 6:00 – 7:30, at Mount Baker Theatre
| Dr. Lee Hood Institute for Systems Biology |
Scientific Wellness and Big Data are Transforming your Healthcare
Dr. Hood’s outstanding contributions have had a resounding effect on the advancement of science since the 1960s. Throughout his career, he has adhered to the advice of his mentor, Dr. William J. Dreyer: “If you want to practice biology, do it on the leading edge, and if you want to be on the leading edge, invent new tools for deciphering biological information.” |
| Dr. Kristin Tolle Microsoft Research Outreach |
Saving Lives Through Big Data Interoperability
Dr. Tolle is the Director of the Data Science Initiative in Microsoft Research Outreach and has over 20 years of experience in industry and research computing. She manages global, multi-organizational, cloud-based research and development (R&D) projects. As a co-author and co-editor of “The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery”, she has been monitoring the “big data” movement from its inception. |
| Martin Krzywinski BC Cancer Agency |
Quality of Quantity
Martin works on problems in data visualization applied to cancer research and genome analysis. His work is guided by a need to rationalize, make things pretty, combine science with art, mince words, find good questions and help make connections between ideas. All while exercising snark. |
Thursday April 8
Workshops for WWU students and faculty
| 9:00-4:00 AW 306 |
Chris Plaisier Institute for Systems Biology |
Introduction to Systems Biology using a Cancer Model The goal of this course is to introduce the core concepts of systems biology and their application to systems biomedicine. We will demonstrate the importance of cross-disciplinary interactions for the success of systems biology programs. |
| 9:00-11:00 AW 210 |
Martin Krzywinski BC Cancer Agency |
Data Visualization – Effective Scientific Communication Participants submit figures or visualizations that have vexed them and Martin will do a redesign and present the process. |
| 1:00-4:00 CF 165/167 |
John Huddleston University of Washington |
Introduction to Bioinformatics using Unix-Based Tools The goal of this course is to introduce participants to standard bioinformatic tools to identify genomic variants from sequence data, interpret and evaluate the quality of the genomic data in standard form, and investigate and use other tools that rely on standard genomic formats |
Friday April 8
Scientific Talks for WWU students and faculty
| 9:00-9:50 AW 204 |
Dr. Spencer Wood University of Washington, Center for Creative Conservation |
Social Media as Big Data on Nature-Based Tourism and Environmental Change |
| 10:00-10:50 AW 204 |
Dr. Kai Chan University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability |
Smart Data and Unlocked Mysteries of Sea Otters, Kelp Forests, and Coastal Communities |
| 11:15-12:45 AW 204 |
Lunchtime Career Panel w/ pizza! |
Spencer Wood, Kai Chan, Lisa McFerrin, Raymond Ng, John Huddleston |
| 1:00-1:50 AW 204 |
Dr. Lisa McFerrin Solid Tumor Translational Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Oncoscape: an open source solution for exploring and visualizing biomedical data |
| 2:00-2:50 AW 204 |
Dr. Raymond Ng University of British Columbia Dept of Computer Science, PROOF Centre of Excellence for the Prevention of Organ Failures |
Biomarker Discovery in Personalized Medicine |
| 3:00 – 5:00 AW Foyer |
Reception | |
Wednesday April 13
Public Talk, 6:00-7:00 in AW 204
Dr. Jeff Carroll, WWU Psychology Department
Genomic Research of Huntington’s Disease
Wednesday April 20
Public Talk, 6:00-7:00 in AW 204
Dr. Brian Hutchinson, WWU Computer Science Department
Scaling Machine Learning to Big Data Problems
Wednesday April 27
Public Talk, 6:00-7:00 in AW 204
Dr. Robin Kodner, WWU Biology Department
Environmental Genomics of Bellingham Bay