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3rd Annual Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Symposium

Mar 31, 2017 - 8:30 AM
to Mar 31, 2017 - 4:30 PM
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The 3rd Annual Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Symposium will be held at Reiman Gardens on March 31 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Three excellent keynote speakers will be sharing their work.

Dr. Stephen Altschul, senior investigator at NCBI: "Dirichlet Mixtures, the Dirichlet Process, and the Topography of Amino-Acid Multinomial Space."

Dr. Zhiping Weng, professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at University of Massachusetts Medical School: "ENCODE Encyclopedia: Featuring a Registry of Candidate Regulatory Elements and the Visualization Tool SCREEN for Searching Them."

Dr. Scott Emrich, director of bioinformatics at Notre Dame University: "Integrating Diverse Data for Improved Computational Genomics."

In addition, there are opportunities for student participation in the form of poster presentations and 10-minute talks, with prizes available for exemplary presentations.

Register here by March 30 to attend and March 26 to present: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDTnfxvogviff-kp4__VYpQ5op2Qojm3oAomNmCKWoOLHf1Q/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=send_form