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
• Previous Events

Upcoming Events

Mar 21 2025-03-21 08:00 2025-03-21 17:00 America/New_York Technological Innovation in Microbiome Investigations Innovation & Translation in Microbiome Research Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-Up Host: Jacques Ravel PhD SMC Campus Center, 2nd Floor, 621 W. Lombard St. Baltimore, MD 21201 Institute for Genome Sciences igs-event@som.umaryland.edu

Innovation & Translation in Microbiome Research Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-Up "Technological Innovation in Microbiome Investigations" SMC Campus Center, 2nd Floor, 621 W. Lombard St. Baltimore, MD 21201 8:00am - 5:00pm

Host: Jacques Ravel PhD

Previous Events

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Jan 23 2020		William Ludington, Ph.D. Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biology, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University "Dissecting microbiome complexity in the Drosophila gut"	Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D.
Feb 10 2020		Raymond John St. Leger, Ph.D. Professor, Entomology Department, University of Maryland College Park "Transgenic fungi for mosquito control"	Host: David Serre Ph.D.
Feb 25 2020		Lorenzo Leggio, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc. Senior Investigator, Joint NIAAA-NIDA Section on Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology "Traversing the Gut-Brain Axis: Translation to Addiction Medicine"	Host: Chamindi Seneviratne M.D.
Feb 26 2020	David Serre, PhD Omics Basics: Gene Expression. Dr. Serre is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology. He is presenting the first event in our new Omics Basics Lunchtime Learning Series (https://www.igs.umaryland.edu/education/omics-basics.php). This series will provide attendees with an introduction to various omics applications and methods. "Noon-1:00; Location: HSRF III, room 3020"		Host: Michelle Gwinn-Giglio Ph.D.
Apr 27 2020		C. Titus Brown, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute, University of California, Davis "No k-mer left behind! Digging into massive metagenomic data sets to find disease correlations"	Host: Owen White Ph.D.
May 14 2020		Betsy Foxman, Ph.D. Professor of Epidemiology, Director, Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Director, Certificate Program in Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention and Control, University of Michigan "Resistance to and Endorsement of Viral Infection by the Microbiome: Epidemiologic Insights"	Host: Rebecca Brotman Ph.D., M.P.H.
May 28 2020		Marc Lipsitch, DPhil Professor of Epidemiology, Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health "Modeling Covid-19 -- nice and vague!" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Herve S.G. Tettelin Ph.D.
Oct 15 2020		Robert C. Edgar, Ph.D. Independent Scientist, drive5.com, Bioinformatics Software and Services "What I did last summer: Coronaviruses and syncmers." A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Andrew Neuwald Ph.D.
Oct 22 2020		Loyal A. Goff, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine "Understanding neural cell state changes in development and disease at single cell resolution"	Host: Seth Ament Ph.D.
Nov 19 2020		Jason W. Rosch, Ph.D. Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty Departments, Infectious Diseases Department, St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences "Leveraging Bacterial Genetics to Understand Antibiotic Resistance and Transmission" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Herve S.G. Tettelin Ph.D.
Dec 03 2020		Prof. Dr. W. Florian Fricke Professor for Microbiome Research and Applied Bioinformatics University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany "Microbial Strain Engraftment, Persistence and Replacement after Fecal Microbiota Transplantation."	Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D.
Dec 10 2020		Ian Harry Cheeseman, B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Program Lead Host-Pathogen Interactions, Texas Biomedical Research Institute "Single Cell Genomics of Malaria Infections" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: David Serre Ph.D.