Dr. Peter Park - Structural Alterations in Cancer Genomes
Dr. Peter Park
February 16, 2023 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
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Speaker
Peter Park, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
Title
Structural Alterations in Cancer Genomes
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Meeting ID: 161 413 1738
Host
Maria Teresa Landi, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator, Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, and senior advisor for genomic epidemiology, Trans-divisional Research Program
About the Speaker
Dr. Park is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and the director of its doctoral program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics. His research group specializes in computational and statistical analysis of large-scale DNA sequencing data to understand genetic and epigenetic mechanisms related to disease processes.
Originally trained in applied mathematics (B.A., Harvard; Ph.D., Caltech), he was introduced to molecular biology and genetics during his postdoctoral studies in biostatistics. His laboratory has developed a number of algorithms for genome analysis, especially for identification of structural alterations from whole-genome sequencing data. His group has made substantial contributions to consortium projects such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), and 4D Nucleome (4DN).