BEAR Cloud Speaker

Prof Jean-Baptiste Cazier
Director of the Centre for Computational Biology 

Professor Jean-Baptiste Cazier, Director of the Centre for Computational Biology, is a Professor of Bioinformatics with interests across the broad spectrum of Computational Biology; from Cancer Genetics, Population Genetics and Metabonomics to Swarming.
After years developing and applying new approaches in Population Genetics with deCode Genetics in Iceland, he joined the Cancer Research UK’s London Research Institute, where he worked alongside experts in most aspects of bioinformatics and biostatistics in the context of cancer.

While in Oxford, from 2008, he supervised the development of analytical approaches and tools for the analysis of whole genome sequencing projects (WGS500) at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics; successfully publishing on new variants functionally associated with the development of diseases. After creating a new Bioinformatics infrastructure at the Department of Oncology, Professor Cazier moved to the University of Birmingham in 2014, taking up the new Chair of Bioinformatics to establish the Centre for Computational Biology (CCB).  The CCB is a university-wide effort with the aim to promote excellence in Computational Biology, Systems Biology, and Bioinformatics across the range of fundamental and applied sciences, in both the University and allied Health Care arenas.

Click here to view the slideshow from Prof Jean-Baptiste Cazier's presentation at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.
Click here to view a video of Prof Jean-Baptiste Cazier's presentation at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.
Click here to view a video of the panel session at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.

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