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Dr. Babatunde Oyajobi, Associate Professor - Dept. of Cellular and Structural Biology School of Medicine UT Health Science Center San Antonio. A CURE trainee participant at our workshop.
Biniam Adane, PhD Candidate - Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine - University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. One of our CURE trainees attending the workshop.
Region 4 CURE Trainees participating in the R4 Bioinformatics Workshop -February 15, 2013.
Rose Trevino, R4 GMaP Coordinator at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antionio, with our CURE Trainees.
Dr. Ashok Patel, from UCWR Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, speaking about utilization of biospecimens and associated clinical annotations.
Workshop participants listening carefully to Dr. Patel addressing common obstacles and solutions for translational research.
"The workshop organizers did a very good job in terms of organizing the various aspects of what's involved in doing clinical research, especially in translational research." - Dr. Ashok Patel
Dr. Bodour Salhia, Assistant Professor at TGEN, speaking about DNA Methylation Data and the tools used to analyze it.
Dr. Dave Alberts, Director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center, welcoming participants at the opening of the R4 Bioinformatics Workshop and giving a brief overview of the UAZCC and the invaluable work done there to fight cancer.
Dr. Dave Alberts, Director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center, welcoming participants at the opening of the R4 Bioinformatics Workshop and giving a brief overview of the UAZCC and the invaluable work done there to fight cancer.
Dr. Francine Gachupin, Assistant Director of the Cancer Disparities Institute at the UA Comprehensive Cancer Center, speaking about the ethics involved in biospecimen research.
Participants working on the ethical case vignettes exercises as part of Dr. Gachupin's presentation at the workshop.
Dr. Kim Bussey, Assistant Professor at TGEN, giving an overview of mining TCGA gene expression data.
Dr. Mary O'Connell, the R4 BMaP Lead at New Mexico State University, giving the closing remarks for the workshop and encouraging participants to go further in the field of bioinformatics to address cancer health disparities.
Part of Dr. Rehan Akbani's presentation on using online tools to analyze TCGA data.
Dr. Akbani showing participants how to use the different tools available online to analyze the TCGA data available on the portal.
Dr. Rehan Akbani, Assistant Professor, Head of TCGA Genome Data Analysis Center - MD Anderson Cancer Center.
"This Bioinformatics Workshop is a great opportunity, with world-class speakers on The Cancer Genomics Atlas and large data bases." CURE Trainee workshop participant, Dr. Tomas Nuno, Assistant Professor - Division of Community, Environment and Policy at the University of Arizona College of Public Health.
Dr. Yira Bermudez, a CURE Trainee workshop participants, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona Cancer Center.
Group Picture!! R4 Bioinformatics Workshop participants, presenters, and organizers.
Dr. Kim Bussey working with one of the participants on using one of the tools to analyze TCGA gene expression data during the hands-on session.
Dr. Bodour Salhia explaining the analysis procedures of methylation assays and answering questions during the hands-on session of the workshop.
Karen Triff, PhD Candidate at Texas A&M University and R4 CURE Trainee, participating at our workshop this year.
Malaney O'Connell, PhD Candidate at University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston and a Region 4 CURE Trainee participating at the R4 Bioinformatics Workshop.
Dr. Monica Yellowhair, postdoctoral research associate with the University of Arizona Cancer Center and one of Region 4's CURE trainees at our workshop.
Mr. Jay Bowen, Director of the Biospecimen Core Resource of TCGA presenting at the R4 Bioinformatics Workshop.
Mr. Bowen providing an overview of The Cancer Genome Atlas and its molecular platforms to the workshop participants.
Dr. Saudat Fadeyi, Clinical Research Program Coordinator, CNPC-NIH, Internal Medicine, Meharry Medical College, and the Regional Clinical Research Coordinator for R1/2 G/BMaP, participating in the workshop as an R4 CURE Trainee.
The University of Arizona Cancer Center, where the workshop was held.
The University of Arizona Cancer Center, where the workshop was held.
The University of Arizona Cancer Center, where the workshop was held.
Participants thinking through and working during the hands-on practical sessions of the workshop.
Participants thinking through and working during the hands-on practical sessions of the workshop.
More problems solving sessions for participants to practice the concepts presented at the workshop.