News - Events
Exchanging scientific ideas and exploring the latest scientific research is one of our Institute's priorities. Towards that end, we host a variety of events for all types of audiences. Anyone is welcome to attend these events, and we hope you will join us.
- In our IGS seminar program, we host internationally recognized scientists, as well as our own faculty, who are sharing their research in genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology and personalized medicine. For more information, please contact David Serre PhD and Jacques Ravel PhD scientific co-chairs of the Seminar Committee, or Riham Keryakos, administrative co-chair. All seminars are held in the Health Sciences Facility III Lecture Hall 1010 from 11am to noon, unless otherwise noted.
- In our Omics Basics Lunchtime Learning Series we provide information to those who are novices in the areas of genomics and bioinformatics to give them an introduction to these approaches and how they might be useful for their research programs. For more information please visit our Omics Basics web page.
- IGS offers in-depth, multi-day Training Workshops on several areas of omics and bioinformatics where attendees engage in hands-on activities aimed at giving them real-world experience they can apply to their research. For more information please visit our workshops page.
Upcoming Events
Dec 08 
2023-12-08 14:00
2023-12-08 15:00
America/New_York
Personalized Medicine Based on Deep Human Phenotyping
Professor Eran Segal
Principal Investigator, Weizmann Institute,Tel Aviv
Host: Jacques Ravel PhD
HSFIII, Lecture Room 1010, RSVP is REQUIRED, contact Riham Keryakos at rkeryakos@som.umaryland.edu
Institute for Genome Sciences
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Professor Eran Segal
Principal Investigator, Weizmann Institute,Tel Aviv
"Personalized Medicine Based on Deep Human Phenotyping"
HSFIII, Lecture Room 1010, RSVP is REQUIRED, contact Riham Keryakos at rkeryakos@som.umaryland.edu
2:00pm - 3:00pm
| Host: Jacques Ravel PhD |
| Jan 18
2024-01-18 11:00
2024-01-18 12:00
America/New_York
To be announced
Thomas Hooven, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology/Newborn Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, John G. Rangos Research Center
Host: Herve S.G. Tettelin PhD
HSFIII, Lecture Room 1010
Institute for Genome Sciences
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Thomas Hooven, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology/Newborn Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, John G. Rangos Research Center
"To be announced"
HSFIII, Lecture Room 1010
11:00am - 12:00pm
| Host: Herve S.G. Tettelin PhD |
| Jan 25
2024-01-25 11:00
2024-01-25 12:00
America/New_York
To be announced
Jane Carlton, Ph.D.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
Host: Joana Carneiro Da Silva PhD
HSFIII, Lecture Room 1010
Institute for Genome Sciences
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Jane Carlton, Ph.D.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
"To be announced"
HSFIII, Lecture Room 1010
11:00am - 12:00pm
| Host: Joana Carneiro Da Silva PhD |
| Mar 14
2024-03-14 11:00
2024-03-14 12:00
America/New_York
To be announced
Mostafa Zamanian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Julie Dunning Hotopp PhD
HSFIII, Lecture Room 1010
Institute for Genome Sciences
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Mostafa Zamanian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"To be announced"
HSFIII, Lecture Room 1010
11:00am - 12:00pm
| Host: Julie Dunning Hotopp PhD |
Previous Events
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Brantley Hall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland College Park
"Smart Underwear: a novel tool to measure human and gut microbial metabolites in flatuse announced"
| Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D. |
| Feb 23 2023 |
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Joseph Petrosino, Ph.D.
Chairman, Professor, Director, Molecular Virology and Microbiology Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research Baylor College of Medicine
"Revealing causality with the human microbiome in the era of personalized medicine"
| Host: David Rasko Ph.D. |
| Mar 16 2023 |
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Jessica Prodger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Co-Director, Global Health Systems MMASc Program, Western University, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
"The penile microbiome: an underappreciated determinant of health"
| Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D. |
| Mar 29 2023 |
Omics Basics: Microbiome Research, From Fundamentals to Applications
Dr. Johanna Holm is presenting the next event in our Omics Basics series on microbiome research and applications of microbiome technologies
"Location: HSRF III, room 1010 or Virtual (contact jreceveur@som.umaryland.edu for meeting information)"
| Host: Michelle Gwinn-Giglio Ph.D. | |
| Mar 29 2023 |
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Iqbal Hamza, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis
"Notes from the underground: Lessons from bloodless worms"
| Host: Julie Dunning Hotopp Ph.D. |
| Mar 30 2023 |
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Sander Markx, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York
"SNF Center for Precision Psychiatry and Mental Health: Introducing a Precision Medicine-Based Approach"
| Host: Seth Ament Ph.D. |
| Apr 13 2023 |
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Manoj Duraisingh, Ph.D.
John LaPorte Given Professor, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Team Leader, MESA-International Center for Excellence in Malaria Research
"Red blood cell invasion by malaria parasites: distinct pathways for different species"
| Host: David Serre Ph.D. |
| May 23 2023 |
Introduction to R for bioinformatics workshop
This workshop provides a basic introduction to the R language and visualizing data and provide attendees with essential skills for data manipulation and analysis in R.
"For more information and registration: https://www.igs.umaryland.edu/education/wkshp-intro-to-r-and-data-visualization-for-bioinformatics.php"
| Host: Michelle Gwinn-Giglio Ph.D. | |
| May 30 2023 |
Omics Basics: Revealing the Regulatory Genome with Epigenomics
Seth Ament, PhD
"For more information: https://www.igs.umaryland.edu/education/omics-basics.php"
| Host: Michelle Gwinn-Giglio PhD | |
| Sep 19 2023 |
Microbiome Analysis Workshop
This workshop will provide attendees with in-depth training on analysis of bacterial community sequence data, both whole metagenome shotgun and 16S. Tools for community profiling, gene clustering, and annotation will be explored.
"For more information: https://www.igs.umaryland.edu/education/wkshp_metagenome.php"
| Host: Michelle Gwinn-Giglio Ph.D. | |
| Sep 28 2023 |
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Michael Gandal, M.D., Ph.D.
Hetznecker Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, The Lifespan Brain Institute at Penn Med & The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), University of Pennsylvania
"Isoform regulation in the developing human brain informs mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disorders"
| Host: Seth Ament PhD |
| Oct 19 2023 |
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Felix Dube, PhD
Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa
"Contribution of pneumococci to the risk of developing pneumonia: The Drakenstein Child Health Study"
| Host: Herve S.G. Tettelin PhD |
| Nov 09 2023 |
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Shaden Kamhawi, Ph.D.
Leishmaniasis Group Leader, Vector Molecular Biology Section, NIAID, NIH
"Sand flies and Leishmaniasis: How Blood Feeding Behavior of Vectors Impacts Pathogenicity, Transmissibility and Diversity of Transmitted Pathogens"
| Host: Franck Dumetz PhD |
| Nov 16 2023 |
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Ian Lewis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Chair, Alberta Innovates Translational Health, Director, Alberta Centre for Advanced Diagnostics (ACAD), University of Calgary
"The Calgary BSI cohort: a multi-omic analysis of every bloodstream infection over a 20 year history in Calgary"
| Host: Joana Carneiro Da Silva PhD |