Special seminar series
All welcome
Systems genomics and prediction of
diseases with inflammatory aetiology
Dr Michael Inouye
University of Melbourne
Mike grew up in the Seattle area before beginning undergraduate study in 1999 at the
University of Washington, where he later graduated with BSc’s in biochemistry and
economics. During this time, he was also introduced to computational genomics as
the initial draft Human Genome was being finished, spending several years doing parttime research in gene finding and protein structure prediction. He continued studying
biochemistry as a graduate student at UCLA, but elected to return to genomics in 2005
when he moved to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. While at Sanger,
Mike completed his PhD with Prof Leena Peltonen and Prof Gert-Jan van Ommen and
was heavily involved in the first wave of genome-wide association studies, especially
the statistical methods thereof. He also led large-scale efforts for the integrative analysis
of molecular systems, identifying a gene co-expression network underlying metabolic
and cardiovascular risk traits. In 2010, Mike came to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
in Melbourne on an NHMRC postdoctoral fellowship to continue pursuing interests in
genomics and systems biology and later joined the faculty at the University of Melbourne.
In 2014, he was began a joint NHMRC - Heart Foundation Career Development Fellowship
and was awarded the Heart Foundation’s Paul Korner Innovation Award. Mike’s current
research interests are broad but firmly grounded in multi-omic research, with the ultimate
aim of extracting biological insight from complex data. His website is www.inouyelab.org.
Friday 1 May 2015, 12 – 1pm
Seminar Room 1
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Host: Professor Ian Wicks
1G Royal Parade Parkville
Victoria 3052 Australia
www.wehi.edu.au
www.wehi.edu.au/seminar
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