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 21 2021		Prof. Julian Rayner, Ph.D. Director, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Director, Wellcome Genome Campus Connecting Science. "Leveraging experimental and natural genetic variation to understand host-parasite interactions and identify new malaria intervention targets."	Host: David Serre Ph.D.
Feb 04 2021		Lora Hooper, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, Department Immunology, Center for Genetics of Host Defense, UT Southwestern Medical Center "Bacterial regulation of vitamin A transport in the intestine"	Host: David Rasko Ph.D.
Feb 12 2021		John McCutcheon, Ph.D. Professor and Associate Director, Center for Mechanisms of Evolution Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences , Arizona State University "Genomic, cell biological, and biochemical mosaics in bacteria-animal endosymbiosis"	Host: Julie Dunning Hotopp Ph.D.
Feb 18 2021		Filipa Rijo-Ferreira, Ph.D. HHMI Associate, Takahashi Lab, Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas "Circadian Rhythms in Parasitic Diseases: An Underlying Clock of Malaria Parasites"	Host: David Serre Ph.D.
Mar 25 2021		William Hsiao, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University (SFU), British Columbia, Canada "Public Health Informatics: combining knowledge engineering and bioinformatics for pandemic response"	Host: Lynn Schriml Ph.D.
Apr 01 2021		Supriya D. Mehta,M.H.Sc., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Interim Associate Dean for Global Health, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health "The role of the penile and vaginal microbiome in improving sexual and reproductive health outcomes"	Host: Jacques Ravel Ph.D.
Apr 15 2021		Mara Lawniczak, Ph.D. Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute "The Malaria Cell Atlas and Malaria Vector Genomics"	Host: David Serre Ph.D.
Apr 29 2021		Evan Macosko, M.D., Ph.D. Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard "Spatial and single cell technologies for next generation neuropathology"	Host: Ronna Hertzano M.D., Ph.D.
Jun 03 2021		Jonathan Weitzman, Ph.D. Professor, Unit of Epigenetics and Cell Fate, Université de Paris "Epigenetic mechanisms in the interaction between Theileria parasites and their host cells"	Host: Joana Carneiro Da Silva Ph.D.
Sep 09 2021		Timothy D. O'Connor, PhD, and Huichun Xu, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Institute for Genome Sciences and the Department of Medicine and Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition "First presentation: Genetics of Latin American Diversity: Gleaning data to make a large-scale genomics database and 2nd presentation From Genomics to Functional Genomics and From Etiology to Recovery for Cardiovascular Diseases"	Host: Timothy O'Connor Ph.D.
Nov 04 2021		Granger Sutton, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor, Informatics, J. Craig Venter Institute "Pan-genome tools for consistent genome annotation and exploration" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Herve S.G. Tettelin Ph.D.
Dec 06 2021		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.
Dec 09 2021		Michael Love, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Department of Genetics, Gillings School of Global Public Health , UNC, Chapel Hill "Isoform and allelic analysis for RNA-seq data accounting for quantification uncertainty" A video of this seminar is available at:	Host: Julie Dunning Hotopp Ph.D.
Dec 16 2021		Marcelo Urbano Ferreira Ph.D. Visiting Researcher Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Nova University of Lisbon "Ongoing speciation in Plasmodium simium"	Host: Joana Carneiro Da Silva Ph.D.