Dear VanBUGger,
I hope you had a wonderful holiday break. VanBUG is returning on Thursday, February 12th at 6pm with Dr. Nick Loman from the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at University of Birmingham. Dr. Loman’s talk is titled: “Genomes from metagenomes: new technologies and algorithms”.
Bio: Dr. Loman is an Independent Research Fellow in the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham. His research explores the use of cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and surveillance of infectious disease. He has so far used high-throughput sequencing to investigate outbreaks of important bacterial pathogens. He was involved in the crowd-sourced analysis of genomics data from the Shiga-toxin producing E. coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany. He helped to spark a flurry of crowd-sourced analysis by putting the initial genome assembly on his blog for anyone to access. A more general aim in his group is to develop bioinformatics tools to aid the interpretation of genome and metagenome-scale data in routine clinical practice.
Dr. Loman will also give two other talks during his visit. The first is taking place at BC Centre for Disease Control Grand Round at noon on Feb 12th. The talk is entitled “Prospective outbreak surveillance with real-time whole-genome sequencing”. The second talk (“Microevolution in Pseudomonas in patients and hospitals”) will take place at the Life Sciences Institute, UBC on Feb 13th at 2pm. More details to follow.
For the rest of the season:
March 12 (Thursday) 2015: Dr. Titus Brown, UC Davis.
April 9th (Thursday) 2015: Dr. Martin Hirst, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia
Seminar is followed by complementary pizza, refreshments and great networking.
For updates on seminar topics and abstracts, please check out our website at http://vanbug.org.
Please note:
Trainees are invited to meet with the VanBUG speaker for open discussion
of both science and career paths. This takes place 4:30-5:30pm in either
the Boardroom or Lunchroom on the ground floor of the BCCRC
Location:
675 West 10th Avenue
Gordon and Leslie Diamond Family Theatre
BC Cancer Agency
Date/Time:
See above for this year’s dates
Start Time: 6:00 PM (except for the film screening which will starts at 7 PM)
End Time: 7:30 PM (followed by pizza and drinks)
Contact Name:
William Hsiao
dev@vanbug.org
http://vanbug.org
The VanBUG team:
Cedric Chauve
Rodrigo Goya
William Hsiao
Kieran O’Neill
Raunak Shrestha
Shing Hei Zhan
Amy Lee
VanBUG is generously sponsored by the CIHR Bioinformatics Training Program, BCCDC Foundation, MITACS, GenomeBC, and the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops. We thank our major sponsors CIHR Bioinformatics Training Program and welcome a new major sponsor, the BCCDC Foundation.
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