Keynote

Pavel Pevzner holds the Ronald R. Taylor Chair in Computer Science, and leads the department's Bioinformatics Laboratory. He joined the UCSD faculty in 2000, following five years in the University of Southern California's Mathematics and Computer Science departments. From 1992-95, he was an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he was affiliated with both the Biotechnology Institute and the Institute for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics. From 1990-92 Pevzner was a postdoctoral researcher at USC.

Greg Gibson is a professor of Biology and Director of a new Center for Integrative Genomics at Georgia Tech. His group conducts systems genomics research, building on 15 years of quantitative genetic research in Drosophila, but now with a focus on human genomics. His group is primarily interested in the interaction between genotype and environment and the joint influences of these sources of variation on disease susceptibility and the evolution of disease.