[Colloq] Distinguished Speaker Series - Mark Boguski, Thursday, Sept. 28

[Rachel Kalweit]

Co-sponsored by
the Biotechnology Initiative and the College of Computer and Information 
Science


College of Computer and Information Science
Distinguished Speaker Series


“The End of the Interlude:  Some Reflections on Bioinformatics, 
Proteomics, Systems Biology and Experimental Medicine”

will be presented by

Mark S. Boguski, PhD
VP and Global Head, Genome and Proteome Sciences
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc.

Thursday, September 28, 2006
3:00 p.m.

310 Behrakis Health Sciences Center

For more information, contact Karl Lieberherr at lieber at ccs.neu.edu

Mark Boguski joined the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research 
(NIBR) in January 2005, both to found and to grow NIBR’s new integrated 
program in genome and proteome sciences.  He is well-known globally for 
his leadership and expertise in bioinformatics. Most recently he served 
as the Director of the Allen Brain Atlas project, in addition to holding 
affiliate faculty appointments at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research 
Center and in the Department of Medicine/Genetics at the University of 
Washington. Prior to that, he was senior vice president of Research and 
Development for Rosetta Inpharmatics, Inc.

Dr. Boguski has authored or co-authored more than 100 scholarly books 
and articles and is the recipient of the Regents’ Award from the 
National Library of Medicine and the Director’s Award from the National 
Institutes of Health.  He is a former editor of Genome Research, has 
served on the board of reviewing editors for Science magazine and is 
currently editor-in-chief of Genomics.

Dr. Boguskis received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Medical 
Scientist Training Program at the Washington University School of 
Medicine in St. Louis and pursued specialty training in pathology.