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SUMMARY:Predicting biological functions at different spatial scales: From 
 molecules to ecosystems - Dr Peer Bork - European Molecular Biology Labora
 tory
DTSTART:20091203T140000Z
DTEND:20091203T150000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* Biological systems range from small biomolecules v
 ia cellular processes and species to entire ecosystems\; each of these sca
 les comes with their own biological research discipline. Using computation
 al approaches\, we integrate heterogenous data to uncover functional aspec
 ts of diverse biological systems and we try to bridge between spacial scal
 es and research disciplines. I will illustrate our approach with examples 
 from small-molecule-protein network analysis (e.g. how to use human phenot
 ypic side effects to predict drug targets)\, from the systemic analysis of
  a small bacterium (e.g. how to bridge from biochemical complex purificati
 ons to an atomic model of a cell) and from environmental genomics (e.g. ho
 w to predict ecological parameters from metagenomics samples using satelli
 te data).\n\n*Biography:* Dr Peer Bork\, PhD\, is senior group leader and 
 joint head of the Structural and Computational Biology unit at EMBL \, a E
 uropean research organization with headquarters in Heidelberg. He also hol
 ds an appointment at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in Be
 rlin. Dr Bork received his PhD in Biochemistry (1990) and his habilitation
  in Theoretical Biophysics (1995). He works in various areas of computatio
 nal biology and systems analysis with focus on function prediction\, compa
 rative analysis and data integration. He published ca 400 research article
 s in international\, peer-reviewed journals\, among them more than 40 in N
 ature\, Science or Cell. According to ISI (analyzing the last 10 years)\, 
 Dr. Bork is currently the most cited European researcher in Molecular Biol
 ogy and Genetics. He is on the editorial board of a number of journals inc
 luding Science and PloS Biology\, and functions as senior editor of the jo
 urnal Molecular Systems Biology. Dr Bork co-founded four biotech companies
 \, two of them went public. More than 25 of his former associates hold now
  professorships or other group leader positions in prominent places all ov
 er the world. For his achievements in nurturing and stimulating young scie
 ntists he received the Nature award for creative mentoring.\n\nPeer is the
  winner of the "2009 Royal Society and Académie des sciences Microsoft Aw
 ard":http://royalsociety.org/microsoft-award/.\n
LOCATION:Small public lecture room\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomso
 n Avenue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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