BEAR Cloud Speaker

Professor Ben Brown
Chair of Environmental Bioinformatics in the Centre for Computational Biology

 

Ben Brown completed a BA in Mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, followed by a PhD in Applied Science and Technology at UC Berkeley in 2009. He has worked with the ENCODE Consortium since the Pilot Project (2005), and the modENCODE Consortium throughout its duration (2009-2014). In 2012, he won a highly competitive NHGIR Career development award (K99/R00). He currently leads analysis for two large-scale projects: the Health component of the Microbes to Biomes Initiative (http://m2b.lbl.gov), studying host-microbiome interactions in adaption to environmental challenges, and the Consortium for Environmental Omics and Toxicology (CEOT), leveraging techniques from exposure biology to annotate and functionally describe gene regulatory and metabolic networks in metazoans, including human.

In 2013, he joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Life Sciences Division to build a program focused on the development of tools for the integrative analysis of large, multi-scale biological datasets. In 2015, he was promoted to Department Head at LBNL to establish a new program in molecular ecosystems biology, which he continues to lead. In 2016, he joined the faculty at the University of Birmingham as the inaugural Chair of Environmental Bioinformatics in the Centre for Computational Biology to build a program in computational environmental bioscience. He now divides his time between LBNL and the University of Birmingham.

Click here to view the slideshow from Prof Ben Brown's presentation at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.
Click here to view a video of Prof Ben Brown's presentation at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.

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