Inside the Cell Factory: Reverse Engineering of Singla Transduction Pathways

Speakers

Peter K. Sorger, PhD

Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Peter Sorger is a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School and holds a joint appointment in MIT's Department of Biological Engineering and Center for Cancer Research. He received his PhD from Trinity College Cambridge, UK, and trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Harold Varmus and Andrew Murray at the University of California, San Francisco. Sorger was cofounder of the MIT systems biology program CSBi, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, and Glencoe Software and serves on the scientific advisory and corporate boards of several other technology companies. He is currently chair of the CSF study section of the NIH and director of the NIH-NIGMS CDP Center for Systems Biology.

Andrea Califano, PhD

Columbia University
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Andrea Califano is professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University, where he leads several cross-campus activities in computational and system biology. Califano is also codirector of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, director of the Center for the Multiscale Analysis of Genetic Networks, and associate director for bioinformatics at the Irving Cancer Research Center.

Califano completed his doctoral thesis in physics at the University of Florence and studied the behavior of high-dimensional dynamical systems. From 1986 to 1990, he was on the research staff in the Exploratory Computer Vision Group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on several algorithms for machine learning, including the interpretation of two- and three-dimensional visual scenes. In 1997 he became the program director of the IBM Computational Biology Center, and in 2000 he cofounded First Genetic Trust, Inc., to pursue translational genomics research and infrastructure related activities in the context of large-scale patient studies with a genetic components.

Martin Steffen, MD, PhD

Boston University
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Martin Steffen is an assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomics and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. His lab works on developing the tools of systems biology for mammalian cells. Steffen received completed an MD/PhD at Stanford University, where he studied the initial photochemical events in photosynthesis. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of George Church, where he worked on new technologies for microarrays, mass spectrometry identification of DNA-binding proteins, and the computational prediction of signaling pathways.

Kiryn Haslinger

Kiryn Haslinger is a science writer and editor with a masters in theoretical chemistry. Since working with James D. Watson on his book DNA: The Secret of Life as a research and editorial assistant, she has written freelance articles on science and scientific history.