Academic:Invited Speaker Series
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[edit] What is the Invited Speaker Series?
Started in Fall 2008, the GenBioOrg ISS invites outside speakers to discuss their perspectives on advances in the field of genetics, bioinformatics, and computational biology. Talks are broad in scope and intended for anyone interested in a thematic view of the field. It is designed to complement, not compete with, the regular weekly GBCB seminar, which is often research-oriented and intended for specialists. The GenBioOrg ISS is free and open to the public, and funded in part by the Virginia Tech Student Activities Office.
[edit] Speaker Archives
[edit] Spring 2009
[edit] Prof. Malcolm Campbell (Davidson College)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
3:00 pm
VBI Conference Room
Virginia Tech
Biology with Math and Other Syn-full Collaborations.
Synthetic biology blends biology, mathematics, computer science and engineering. My talk will show you some projects my students have developed. I will end with a discussion of how to prepare students for biology as a science and not a foreign language class.
About the speaker:
Dr. Campbell is professor of biology at Davidson College (NC), where he teaches genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, and synthetic biology. He is senior editor of the journal Cell Biology Education, and co-author of the textbook "Discovering Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics" now in its second edition. Dr. Campbell is, according to his own students, a truly exceptional teacher, and is dedicated to promoting science education from curriculum to classroom. His list of accomplishments is impressive, but equally impressive is what Dr. Campbell's students have done under his tutelage. More information can be found on his Web site.
[edit] Fall 2008
[edit] Deepak Singh, Ph.D. (Amazon Web Services)
[edit] Talk Information
| Speaker | Deepak Singh, Ph.D., Amazon Web Services |
|---|---|
| Title | Science Big. Science Connected |
| Date | Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| Time | 3:00-4:30 PM |
| Location | Torgersen 2150 |
[edit] Abstract
We are going through some big changes that impact the life sciences. We are moving to a world where "petascale" will not be a strange, exotic term, a world in which science will be done across the globe, leveraging the power and connectivity of the web, and where computing is available when we need it, where we need it. In this talk, we will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities driven by these developments and what we should be doing as a community.
[edit] About the speaker
As a member of Amazon Web Services, Dr. Deepak Singh works to promote and enable scientific cloud computing using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). A proponent of leveraging web technologies for dissemination of scientific information and techniques, Dr. Singh co-founded Bioscreencast, a site for scientists to engagingly present their research using multimedia. Dr. Singh also writes prolifically on topics ranging from open notebook science to personalized medicine in his blog "business|bytes|genes|molecules", and records a weekly podcast, "Coast to Coast Bio" with co-host Dr. Hari Jayaram.
[edit] Archived Video
- Part 1 of 2 on Vimeo (Presentation)
- Part 2 of 2 on Vimeo (Question and Answer)
