[UCI-CalIT2] Re: UCI-IGB Distinguished Speaker: Russ Altman, Oct 16, 2003 at UCI co-sponsored by Cal-(IT)2

[Beth Cerny]

Hi Eileen,

I posted the following event on http://www.calit2.net/events/index.html.
As soon as the other events on the front page pass (leaving more space to 
post), I willpost this event to the front page.

Thanks,
Beth


At 10:01 AM 9/29/2003, Eileen Algaze wrote:

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>University of California, Irvine
>INSTITUTE for GENOMICS and BIOINFORMATICS
>www.igb.uci.edu
>
>Distinguished Speaker Series 2003-2004
>
>Russ Altman, M.D., Ph.D.
>Associate Professor, Genetics and Medicine
>and Computer Science;
>
>Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program
>
>Stanford University Medical Center
>
>
>"Challenges in Knowledge Management and Discovery in Biology"
>
>Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 4:00pm
>McDonnell Douglas Auditorium, UC Irvine
>
>This presentation is part of the Distinguished Speaker Series
>presented by UCI's Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics,
>and is generously supported by the California Institute for Telecommunications
>and Information Technology {Cal(IT)2}  <http://www.calit2.net/>.
>
>No cost to attend - Open to the public.
>Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis
>Email RSVP is requested to Michele McCrea at:
>michelem@uci.edu
>
>ABSTRACT:
>Bioinformatics and computational biology have emerged primarily in 
>response to the deluge of data from DNA sequencing, mRNA expression 
>analysis, proteomics, and other high throughput data collection 
>techniques. In many ways, the field has been driven be a frenzied need to 
>gather, store and do preliminary analyses on these data. As the field has 
>matured, however, it has begun to set sights on longer term "grand 
>challenges." I believe that the management of biological knowledge--models 
>that are too complex for individual humans to track--will be a primary 
>challenge for biomedical computation. In this talk, I discuss the move 
>from building "power tools" for biologists to building "assistants" for 
>biologists (and then ultimately, perhaps, building biologists?). Some of 
>the infrastructural needs are already clear, although others have not yet 
>been defined.
>
>ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
>Dr. Altman teaches such courses as "Algorithms and Representations for 
>Molecular Biology" and "Physiology for Informaticians," and he lectures in 
>a number of courses in the computer science sequence. He serves on the 
>editorial boards of Computer Applications in the Biosciences, the Journal 
>of the American Medical Informatics Association, and the International 
>Journal of Medical Informatics., and he is an author or coauthor of some 
>30 refereed journal publications, as many refereed conference articles, 
>nine book chapters, and four edited volumes of conference proceedings.  He 
>has also received many academic honors. He was the recipient of a Howard 
>Hughes Institute postdoctoral fellowship (1991), was named a Charles E. 
>Culpeper Foundation Medical Scholar (1993), and was awarded an NSF CAREER 
>grant (1996). In 1997, he became IBM Faculty Scholar and was granted a 
>prestigious U.S. Presidential Early Career Award in a White House 
>ceremony. This year he was named a Stanford Hume Faculty Scholar and 
>received the annual Young Investigator Award of the Western Society of 
>Clinical Investigators.  He also served from 1993 to 1997 on the Steering 
>Committee of SDSC and on the Executive Committee from 1995 to 1997. Altman 
>is an organizer of annual bioinformatics conferences sponsored by the 
>International Society for Computational Biology: the Pacific Symposium on 
>Biocomputing and the conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology .
>
>For more information on the Institute, directions to the campus and the 
>complete series of presentations, visit:  www.igb.uci.edu.