Adventures in Analysis of Large Biomedical Datasets, Apr. 16 at 3PM

Andrey Rzhetsky, Professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology & Computation Institute. His research is focused on computational analysis of complex human phenotypes in context of changes and perturbations of underlying molecular networks.

Focusing on autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, this talk will touch the following questions:  How can understanding of genetics and epidemiology of disease be advanced through modeling and computational analysis of very large and heterogeneous datasets?  What are the bottlenecks in analysis of complex human maladies?  How can we model and compute over multiple data types to narrow hypotheses about genetic causes of disease?  How can collaborations across multiple fields of science bring translational results to initially purely academic studies?

Contact: Research Computing Center 773-795-2667

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