Mini Symposium: Bioinformatics for Infectious Disease Control

Date: Monday, December 12, 2016 ( 9am - 12.30pm PST)
Location: IRMACS Presentation Studio (ASB 10900), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby /// Online 

Public health and Agri-food labs around the world are embracing the use of microbial genome sequencing to improve infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigations. This technology requires new computational methods to translate this “big data” into meaningful information for the front lines in infectious disease response.

SFU's Office of the Vice-President, Research is hosting a free mini-symposium, exploring computational research that aims to address key challenges of potential broad interest to other fields. Topics discussed include cross-jurisdictional data sharing, improving predictive methods, and large-scale data visualization - applied to microbial whole genome/metagenome data.

If you can't attend in person, the sessions will be webcast online (webstream link listed below).

This event is supported by SFU's Big Data Initiative.

For more information and to register, please visit the WestGrid website. 

 

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