CIS Department Talk - November 19, 2008
The Department of Computer and Information Science, The Department of Natural Science and The Science Club Present
| Speaker: | Dr. Stewart Brown, Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine
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| Topic: | Bioinformatics Challenges in High-Throughput DNA Sequencing
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| Date: | November 19, 2008, 2;30pm |
| Place: | LL room 816 |
Bio:
Dr. Stuart Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at NYU School of Medicine, and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University. He has been the Director of the Bioinformatics core facility of the NYU School of Medicine for ten years. He provides guidance to faculty and students on the use of computational methods in molecular biology research and is Course Director for the graduate level Bioinformatics course offered annually by the Sackler Institute. He is the author of textbooks on Bioinformatics and Medical Genomics. He also serves as Director of the Bioinformatics Core for the NYU GCRC, co-Director of the Bioinformatics Core of the NYU Cancer Institute, and Director of the Bioinformatics Core for the NUI National Institute of Environmental Health Services Center of Excellence. Dr. Brown serves as a scientific advisor to the AMDEC consortium in genomics and bioinformatics and is active in AMDEC projects to share data and software across research institutions in New York State.
For more information, contact Ms. Danielle Aprea (718) 817-4480
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