Seminars and workshops

Post-genomic era drug discovery takes place in the context of an exponentially growing amount of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and chemical data. Making sense of all this information often requires going beyond reductionist models of biology and pharmaclogy. Dr O'Connor's research involves using multiple diverse data types to extend our knowledge of the developmental and molecular signaling pathways dysregulated in disease.

Professor Liam O'Connor Professor O'Connor has recently joined the Bioscoences Research Centre as the Chair of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics. Immediatley prior to this appointment, Liam was the Director of Quantitative Biology at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), where he had global responsibility for computational and systems biology for the Novartis research community. Liam began his career in computer science and mathematics before switching to biology. After his PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia and postdoctoral work at the MIT Center for Cancer Research, he joined Incyte Genomics, then MDS Proteomics, then Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

http://www.versi.edu.au/versi/lsc-oconnor.html

The Life Science Computation Seminars run weekly during semester 2. They showcase life science research across Victoria and are presented by VeRSI, the e-Research Office at La Trobe and the eResearch Directors at Melbourne and Monash Universities. The speakers will variously be located at Melbourne, La Trobe and Monash with video links between the sites.

General seminar information: http://www.versi.edu.au/versi/lscomputationseminars.html

For more information, please visit our website http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/seminarlist.htm.