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Bioinformatics Seminar Spring 2024 Schedule

Seminar Speakers:

January 18th, 2024: Student Introductions
January 25th, 2024: Laurel Yohe, Ph.D. (University at North Carolina at Charlotte):  "From finding figs to stopping SARS-CoV-2: what we can learn from bat noses."

 About Laurel: Dr. Laurel Yohe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics at UNC Charlotte. She completed her undergraduate Bioinformatics degree at Loyola University Chicago. Upon graduation, she completed a Google Summer of Code Fellowship managing phylogenetic repositories and a year-long Fulbright Fellowship in Vietnam modeling bird species distributions for conservation. She completed her PhD in Evolutionary Biology at Stony Brook University, and a three-year postdoc at Yale University before beginning her position at UNC Charlotte.

February 15th, 2024: Melline Fontes Noronha, Ph.D. (Loyola University Chicago, Health Sciences Campus)

February 29th, 2024: Ashley Mulford (Northshore University Health Systems)

March 7th, 2024: SPRING BREAK- NO SEMINAR

March 14th, 2024: Fatima Foflonker (Clark Atlanta University)

March 21st, 2024: Wesley Swingley, Ph.D. (Northern Illinois University)

March 28th, 2024: EASTER HOLIDAY- NO SEMINAR

April 4th, 2024: Elyse Geoffrey (AbbVie)

April 11th, 2024: Erica Hartmann (Northwestern University)

April 18th, 2024: Pamela Ferretti (University of Chicago)

April 25th, 2024: Rick Alvey (Illinois Wesleyan University)