The NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG) has announced its Fall 2011 Program. All sessions are free and open to the public. For more information visit the BCIG home page.
Fall 2011 Program
- Sep 1: BCIG Brainstorming Power Breakfast (unstructured dialogue on biomedical computing topics of interest to participants)
- Sep 8: BCIG Lecture entitled “The Logic of Chance: The Nature & Origin of Biological Evolution,” given by Eugene V. Koonin, PhD, NCBI
- Sep 22: BCIG Book Club Meeting on “The Checklist Manifesto – How to Get Things Right,” by Atul Gawande
- Oct 6: BCIG Brainstorming Power Breakfast (unstructured dialogue on biomedical computing topics of interest to participants)
- Oct 13: BCIG Brainstorming Session on “How Can Computer Science & Informatics Support Clinical Applications of Mass Spectrometry?”
- Oct 27: BCIG Book Club Meeting on Oct 27* The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine & Science,” by R. Douglas Fields (author will be present at this meeting)
- Nov 3: BCIG Brainstorming Power Breakfast (unstructured dialogue on biomedical computing topics of interest to participants)
- Nov 10: BCIG Speaker Event (speaker needed; please make a suggestion)
- Nov 17: BCIG Brainstorming Session on “Prospective Design of Clinical Research Protocols with Comparative Effectiveness & Patient Centered Outcomes in Mind”
- Dec 1: BCIG Brainstorming Power Breakfast (unstructured dialogue on biomedical computing topics of interest to participants)
Announcements for individual events including time and location will be sent out just before each event. For additional information please contact Jim DeLeo (jdeleo@nih.gov; 301–496-3848).