[PRL] National Academy of Sciences speaker on Thursday

[Karl Lieberherr]

It is not frequent that we have a member of the Institute of Medicine
of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences speaking to us.

Please come to get a new perspective on biology and computer science.

-- Karl Lieberherr

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From: Rachel Kalweit <rachelb at ccs.neu.edu>
Date: Sep 27, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: [Colloq] REMINDER: Distinguished Speaker Series - Mark
Boguski, Thursday, Sept. 28
To: colloq at lists.ccs.neu.edu


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. Boguski 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.