Special Session
Big Data in Bioinformatics -
BigData
2013
13 February, 2013 - Barcelona, Spain
Within the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - BIOINFORMATICS 2013
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CO-CHAIRS
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Arcadi Navarro
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Spain
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Brief Bio
Arcadi Navarro was an undergraduate, and later a graduate student, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he started a PhD in Biology in 1992. After quitting the academic world for a few years, he finished my PhD and went back to basic research in 1999 as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. He entered the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2002 as a research fellow within the Ramón y Cajal program and was appointed ICREA Research Professor at the UPF in 2006 and Professor of Genetics in 2010.
Currently, Arcadi Navarro leads a research group in Evolutionary Genomics within the Department of Experimental and Heath Sciences of the UPF (DCEXS) and the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (IBE). He was the vice-Director of the IBE during the 2008-2013 period and, since 2013, he is the director of the DCEXS. Additionally, he is the director of the Population Genomics Node of the Spanish National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB). Finally, he has recently entered into a double appointment with the CRG (Center for Genomic Regulation) to carry out studies linking Genotypes and Phenotypes, in particular, co-managing the EGA (European Genome and Phenome Archive). He has authored more than 100 papers and books on the subjects of his research.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Life as we see it in our planet today has been shaped by many different biological processes during billions of years. These processes leave a signature in our genomes in the form of differences between species, or between individuals of the same species. Interrogating these patterns of genome diversity we can infer what are the forces that affect living organisms, how and when they act and how do they affect such various things as biodiversity, human emotions or the differential susceptibility of different persons to certain diseases. All this knowledge empowers us to control our future but, above all, it is fun to obtain.
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Arcadi Navarro
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Spain
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Brief Bio
Arcadi Navarro was an undergraduate, and later a graduate student, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he started a PhD in Biology in 1992. After quitting the academic world for a few years, he finished my PhD and went back to basic research in 1999 as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. He entered the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2002 as a research fellow within the Ramón y Cajal program and was appointed ICREA Research Professor at the UPF in 2006 and Professor of Genetics in 2010.
Currently, Arcadi Navarro leads a research group in Evolutionary Genomics within the Department of Experimental and Heath Sciences of the UPF (DCEXS) and the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (IBE). He was the vice-Director of the IBE during the 2008-2013 period and, since 2013, he is the director of the DCEXS. Additionally, he is the director of the Population Genomics Node of the Spanish National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB). Finally, he has recently entered into a double appointment with the CRG (Center for Genomic Regulation) to carry out studies linking Genotypes and Phenotypes, in particular, co-managing the EGA (European Genome and Phenome Archive). He has authored more than 100 papers and books on the subjects of his research.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Life as we see it in our planet today has been shaped by many different biological processes during billions of years. These processes leave a signature in our genomes in the form of differences between species, or between individuals of the same species. Interrogating these patterns of genome diversity we can infer what are the forces that affect living organisms, how and when they act and how do they affect such various things as biodiversity, human emotions or the differential susceptibility of different persons to certain diseases. All this knowledge empowers us to control our future but, above all, it is fun to obtain.
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