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Jianguo (Jeff) Xia McGill University
Jianguo (Jeff) Xia obtained his PhD from University of Alberta with focus on metabolomics. His postdoctoral research is on next-generation sequencing at UBC. He joined McGill as an Assistant Professor in 2015. His research explores theoretical and practical ways to address the critical challenges in big data analytics arising from biomedical research with the aim of developing highly innovative and useful approaches for metabolomics, microbiomics and systems biology. Dr. Xia has authored >66 journal publications and 8 book chapters (citations: >16,000, H-index: 36). He has won several awards including Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) and McGill 2019 Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers.
Presentation Title
Computational Strategies for Microbiome Data Analysis and Interpretation
Abstract
The tremendous amount of data sets generated from current microbiome studies have posed significant "big data" challenges. Proper handling of these data sets requires sophisticated bioinformatics, statistics and visualization approaches. In this presentation, I will discuss the main concepts and practices in microbiome data analysis and interpretation. I will then introduce two web-based platforms - MicrobiomeAnalyst (www.microbiomeanalyst.ca) and MetaboAnalyst (www.metaboanalyst.ca) to support comprehensive analysis, interpretation and integration of typical data sets generated from microbiome studies.
Georg K. Gerber Harvard Medical School / Brigham & Women's Hospital
Georg K. Gerber is a computer scientist, microbiologist and physician board certified in Clinical Pathology. He is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology faculty, Chief of the Division of Computational Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Co-Director of the Massachusetts Host- Microbiome Center at BWH. Dr. Gerber’s training includes a Fellowship in Infectious Disease Pathology and Molecular Microbiology at BWH, Residency in Clinical Pathology at BWH, MD from Harvard Medical School, Masters’ and PhD in Computer Science (Statistical Machine Learning) from MIT, and Masters’ in Infectious Diseases and BA in Pure Mathematics from UC Berkeley.
Presentation Title
Computational Biology and the Microbiome: Discovery and Prediction for Microbiome-Based Therapeutics and Diagnostics


































































































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