Tom Kepler presents at Keystone Symposium on HIV Vaccines
Tom Kepler gave an invited talk at the Keystone Symposium on HIV Vaccines on Tuesday March 28 in Steamboat Springs CO.
Category: Education and Outreach
Katherine Norwood attends Science Communication Workshop
Katherine Norwood (Bioninformatics PhD candidate) attended a science communication workshop, “From Geek to Plain Speak”, designed to teach scientists, researchers and engineers storytelling skills that will make their work accessible and compelling to thought leaders, potential funders and general audiences.
Katherine Norwood presents poster at ISBS in Tokyo
Katherine Norwood (Bioinformatics PhD candidate) presented a poster entitled “Self-Contained Antibody Repertoire Analysis” at the 16th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (IBSB) held in Tokyo Japan. Her trip was sponsored by the Bioinformatics Graduate Program at BU, which is one of several PhD Programs participating in the annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics […]
Stephanie D’Souza presenting at Next-Generation Sequencing 2016
Stephanie D’Souza (MD student and PhD candidate) will give a talk on her research (“A draft genome sequence for the Egyptian fruit bat, the reservoir host for Marburg virus”) at the Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) 2016 conference in Barcelona next week. This conference is hosted by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the Centre […]
Tom Kepler Named as Director of the Immunology Training Program
Tom Kepler has been selected to replace David H. Sherr as the director of the Immunology Training Program (ITP). The ITP is an interdepartmental teaching and research program involving faculty from multiple disciplines within the Boston University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Dental Medicine.
Tom Kepler Seminar Speaker at the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Tom Kepler presented a talk entitled “Evolutionary Dynamics in the Antibody Response” on March 11, 2016, as part of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology seminar series.
Katherine Attends the Antibody/Viral Coevolution Workshop 2016
Katherine (PhD candidate, Bioinformatics) attended the Antibody/Viral Coevolution Workshop March 3-4, 2016. The workshop, hosted by the New Mexico Consortium, was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Kate Sawatzki First Place Winner of Travel Award
Congratulations to our own Kate Sawatzki (PhD candidate, Microbiolgy), who is the first place winner of the Microbiology Trainee Travel Award! She will use the funds to travel to the Gordon Research Conference on Antibody Biology and Engineering, from March 20-25, 2016, in Galveston, TX.
Tom Kepler teaching ‘Statistical Reasoning for the Basic Biomedical Sciences MI720′
Statistics is a key competency in scientific research—never more so than today—but too often is presented in a dry and detached manner, leaving the impression that statistics is an unfortunate but necessary hurdle to clear after the real science is done. In contrast to this view, we will approach the subject from the broader perspective […]
Tom Kepler presents at Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics conference
Tom Kepler will give a talk, entitled “The Ig Repertoire of the Rhesus Macaque”, on Thursday December 10 at the Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics conference in San Diego, CA. Conference details can be found here.