Industry Speaker Series

CCB Industry Speaker Series

The Center for Computational Biology Industry Speaker Series features prominent professionals from computational biology-related companies. Speakers represent a number of industries, including biotech, pharma, high-tech, and health-tech, and present company projects, background, and industry trends.

These are public lectures and are open to all UC Berkeley students and faculty. When possible, seminars are recorded for online publishing. Our industry speakers to date are listed below in reverse chronological order.

Developing Cryo-EM Methods in Academia and Industry

Dimitry Tegunov, Principal Scientist, Genentech

Tuesday, December 12th, 2023 @ 4 – 5 PM, 125 Li Ka Shing

Design for Inference in Biology, or How to learn the convolutions of life?

Dr. Aviv Regev, Head, Executive Vice President of Genentech Research and Early Development

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 3 – 4 PM, Sutardja Dai Hall: Banatao Auditorium, Room 310

The genetic determinants of mRNA degradation rates in mammals

Dr. Vikram Agarwal, Senior Computational Biologist, Calico Life Sciences

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022 @ 3 – 4 PM, 125 Li Ka Shing

23andMe: Genetics and Drug Research

Robert Gentleman, Ph.D., VP of Computational Biology, 23andMe

April 20, 2016, 4:00 PM, 125 Li Ka Shing Center

Understanding the Molecular Networks of Hydrogen Production in Bacteria

Eric Schadt, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Pacific Biosciences

May 7, 2010, 4:00 PM, 106 Stanley Hall

Accurate Whole Genome Sequencing: Today and Beyond

Scott Kahn, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer, Illumina

February 24, 2009, 4:00 PM, 177 Stanley Hall

Next-Generation Whole Genome Sequencing of a Single Human Recapitulates Population Signatures of Natural Selection

Francisco De La Vega, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientific Fellow and VP of SOLiD(TM) Applilcations and Bioinformatics, Applied Biosystems

September 23, 2008, 4:00 PM, 177 Stanley Hall

23andMe: Empowering Consumer Enabled Research

Anne Wojcicki, Ph.D., Co-Founder, 23andMe

June 26, 2008, 4:00 PM, 106 Stanley Hall

Information-Based Personalized Medicine

Alain Rappaport, M.D., Ph.D., General Manager, Health Search, Health Solutions Group, Microsoft

March 20 2008, 4:00 PM, 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

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