This weekend I am heading off to Tucson Arizona to attend RECOMB 2009. The name RECOMB comes from Research in Computational Biology, and the annual conferences attract many outstanding scientists whose research is at the intersection of computational, mathematical and biological science.
I am really looking forward to this conference! While going over the program I saw some presenters I wasn’t familiar with. I looked into their research to learn more and now I am quite excited about hearing some of these researchers present their work. Two of these are:
Donna Slonim Evaluating Between-Pathway Models with Expression Data
Ron Pinter A Statistical Framework for the Functional Analysis of Metagenomes
The program also includes many names that are very familiar to me. People whose work I have followed and admired for a long time like Steve Quake and Carlos Bustamante. I know for a fact that both of them will give brilliant presentations and I can’t wait to watch Steve present his talk Single Molecule Sequencing of an Individual Human Genome and Carlos present his talk Population Genetics in the Personal Genome Era.
And of course I am looking forward to hearing the presentations from my NextBio colleagues! One of the NextBio cofounders, Mostafa Ronaghi, will deliver a talk entitled The New Era of Genomics and another of the NextBio cofounders, Ilya Kupershmidt, will be giving a talk called NextBio, Ontology-Based Meta-Analysis of Global Collections of Public and Internal Large Scale Data.
RECOMB 2009 promises to be a very stimulating conference. While I am there I will be writing daily blog posts about the conference highlights so be sure to stay tuned.
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