BCBC 2018 Symposium
The BCBC is excited to host its first symposium on May 8, 2018!
The Symposium will showcase the many applications of computational biology and bioinformatics across the tree of life with talks from leading researchers in these areas. See below for our full line-up of speakers.
Space is limited, so please register here if you plan to attend.
Schedule
8:30 – 9:00 AM | Symposium Registration | BTI Atrium |
9:00 AM | Opening Remarks – Suzy Strickler | BTI Auditorium |
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Symposium Talks | BTI Auditorium |
12:00 PM | Break for Lunch (lunch not provided) | |
1:30 – 4:15 PM | Symposium Talks | BTI Auditorium |
4:30 – 5:30 PM | Happy Hour for speakers and attendees | BTI Atrium |
Live Video of Seminars
Part 3: Afternoon Speakers
Part 1: 9 – 10:15am, Opening Remarks, David Bonter
Part 2: 10:30am – 12pm, Carla Gomes, Carol Huang
Morning Speakers
David Bonter – 9:30am
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
“Generating ‘big data’ via public engagement: data acquisition, validation, and visualization at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology”
Afternoon Speakers
Paul Flicek – 1:30pm
EMBL-EBI
“The opportunities and challenges of sequencing thousands of vertebrate species”
Carla Gomes – 10:30am
Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University
“Computation Sustainability”
Jenny Kao-Kniffin – 2:15pm
Cornell University
“Extending Microbiome Science to Agricultural Systems”
Carol Huang – 11:15am
New York University
“Learning new biology from genome-wide maps of regulatory elements”
Oliver Fiehn – 3:30pm
UC Davis
“Using cheminformatics in plant metabolomics”