Bioinformatics Careers Panel

Bring your questions to the Bioinformatics Careers Panel. Panelists include the first graduate of the Bioinformatics Training Program currently doing a post-doc at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, an entrepreneur who co-founded the computational biotech company, Zymeworks, a sage academic who has participated in many UBC hiring committees, and a bioinformatics group leader from the largest bioinformatics employer in BC.

Panelists:

    * Benjamin Good, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
    * Inanc Birol, PhD, Bioinformatics Group Leader, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, and Adjunct Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
    * Anthony Fejes, MSc, Co-founder, Zymeworks and PhD Candidate, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency
    * Phil Hieter, PhD, Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia

A 1-hour moderated panel discussion will be followed by networking over pizza and refreshments.

Make sure that your question gets answered by submitting by email to dev@vanbug.org.

Location:
675 West 10th Avenue
Gordon and Leslie Diamond Family Theatre
BC Cancer Agency

Date/Time:
Start Date: 14/04/2011
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:30 PM