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.

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Jan 23 2014	Najib El-Sayed, Ph.D. Director, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics Concentration Area, Biological Sciences Graduate Program, University of Maryland, College Park MD "From Genomes to Host-Pathogen Infectomes - Models in profiling host-pathogen interactions"		Host: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
Feb 05 2014	Mohamed Donia, Ph.D. Post Doctoral Scholar, Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine University of California, San Francisco "Small-molecule-mediated interactions in the human microbiome"		Host: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D. & Russell Hill, Ph.D.
Feb 06 2014	Andrew Neuwald, Ph.D. Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine "A statistical approach to functional annotation: automating and enhancing the NCBI protein database"
Apr 03 2014	Vincent Bruno, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine "Combining Genomics and genetics to explore fungal pathogenesis"
Apr 10 2014	Eric Wommack, Ph.D. Professor, University of Delaware, Depts. Plant & Soil Sciences, Biological Sciences, and College of Earth, Ocean, & Environment "Revealing key biological features of unknown viruses through metagenomics"		Host: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
Apr 17 2014	Tanja Woyke, Ph.D. Microbial Genomics Program Lead, DOE Joint Genome Institute, "Genomics of uncultivated microorganisms by single-cell sequencing"		Host: Vincent Bruno, Ph.D.
Apr 24 2014	Steven L. Salzberg, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Biostatistics, and Computer Science Director, Center for Computational Biology McKusic-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine "Computational Challenges of High Throughput Genome Sequence Analysis"		Host: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
May 08 2014	The Implications of Big Data and the Future of Healthcare The Institute for Genome Sciences, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the Center for Health-related Informatics and Bioimaging (CHIB) and Leadership Maryland invite you to join us for an exciting morning of discovery as informatics experts highlight the implications of big data applications and the future of healthcare. Register online at Leadership Maryland. View PDF for more information
May 15 2014	Second Annual Frontiers in Genomics Lecture - RSVP Required Increasing evidence suggest an early life microbiome with long-conserved developmental functions. Over the past century, public health and medical activities have been disrupting these relationships. Using murine models, we show metabolic and immunologic consequences of such activities. Email to RSVP View PDF for more information Martin Blaser, M.D. Professor of Microbiology Director, Human Microbiome Program New York University Langone Medical Center "Consequences of early life microbiome perturbations on metabolic and immunologic development"		Host: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
May 22 2014	Wendy S. Garrett, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard Medical School "Host-microbiota interactions in colorectal cancer and colitis"		Host: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
May 29 2014	Julia A. Segre, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Microbial Genomics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH "Microbial genomics: Tracking multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens with whole genome sequencing"		Host: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
Jun 06 2014	Joseph F. Petrosino, Ph.D. Director of Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine "The microbiome of death and other optimistic outlooks on metagenomics in the era of personalized medicine"		Host: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D.
Sep 25 2014	Rob Knight, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder "Connecting human and environmental microbiomes"		Host: IGS Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Oct 23 2014	Kenneth N Olivier, M.D., MPH Chief (acting), Pulmonary Clinical Medicine, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Branch/NHLBI "Genetic Associations with Bronchiectasis and Chronic Airway Infection"		Host: Hervé Tettelin, Ph.D.
Nov 20 2014	Jane Carlton, Ph.D. Professor of Biology; Director, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology; Faculty Director of Genomic Sequencing, New York University "Getting Trichy: Using Genomics to Interrogate the Biology of the Sexually Transmitted Parasite Trichomonas vaginalis"		Host: Joana Carneiro Da Silva, Ph.D.
Dec 04 2014	Adam J. Ratner, M.D., MPH Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Columbia University "Evolution and function of bacterial pore-forming toxins"		Host: Hervé Tettelin, Ph.D.
Dec 09 2014	Melissa Anne Haendel, Ph.D. Director of the Ontology Development Group, Oregon Health and Science University, Library and Department of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology "Cross species phenotyping for disease discovery"		Host: Owen R. White, Ph.D.
Dec 11 2014	Dr. Luisa Hiller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University "Pneu Stories on Sex and War in the Microbial World"		Host: Hervé Tettelin, Ph.D.