Lecture Series on
Foundations of Translational Genomics
Lecture Location: Reynolds Medical Sciences Building (REYN), Lecture Hall 2
Sattelite Location: Temple: S&W / TAMU HSC Lecture Hall 2 (broadcasting live by Texas A&M Health Science Center)
Time: Friday evenings 6:30 to 8:00
Dates: September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 14, 28; November 11
This lecture series discusses the nature of biological knowledge of the cell and translation of that knowledge into genomic applications. It consists of seven lectures:
- Pathway-Based Drug Development
- Epistemological Ground of Biological Science
- Cells and Factories
- Gene Regulatory Networks
- External Control and Model-Based Therapy
- Classification and Biomarker Diagnosis
- Translational Science (this Friday)
Recommended Reading:
Title: Epistemology of the Cell: A Systems Perspective on Biological
Knowledge [Order Online]
Authors: Dougherty, E. R., and Bittner, M. L.
Publisher: IEEE Press Series on Biomedical Engineering, John Wiley,
New York, 2011
Speaker Biography:
Edward R. Dougherty is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, where he holds the Robert M. Kennedy ‘26 Chair in Electrical Engineering and is Director of the Genomic Signal Processing Laboratory. He is also co-Director of the Computational Biology Division of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, AZ, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Rutgers University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, and has been awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa by the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. He is a fellow of SPIE, has received the SPIE President’s Award, and served as the editor of the SPIE/IS&T Journal of Electronic Imaging. At Texas A&M University he has received the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Research, been named Fellow of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, and named Halliburton Professor of the Dwight Look College of Engineering. Prof. Dougherty is author of 16 books, editor of 5 others, and author of 280 journal papers.
