Seminar: Translational Genomic Medicine: From the Science of Discovery to the Science of Action, 5/17, 4pm

Seminar announcement (Flier attached):

The Department of Public Health Sciences School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
and the Graduate Group in Epidemiology presents a guest talk on:

Translational Genomic Medicine: From the Science of Discovery to the Science of Action

Muin J. Khoury MD, PhD
Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, NCI

Dr. Khoury is the first director of the CDC’s National Office of Public Health Genomics. In 2000, he received the CDC Research Honor Award for outstanding national leadership in genetics and public health. In 2005, he received the National Cancer Institute visiting scholar award for leadership and vision in genetic epidemiology and public health. He has extensive publications in genetic epidemiology and public health genomics with more than 350 peer reviewed articles and 3 books.

Thursday, May 17, 2012
4:00-5:00 pm
Building Location – 1020 Valley Hall
University of California, Davis campus

Videoconference to:
1222 Education Building, Sacramento
School of Medicine

Please RSVP to PHSInstAffairs and indicate Davis or Sacramento in the subject line.

0512KhourySeminarFlyerRevn4 .pdf

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen