Bay Area Chromatin and Epigenomics Special Event – March 2021

In March 2021 we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Olga Troyanskaya in a BACE Special Event.

Professor Troyanskaya’s enthusiasm for genomics, epigenomics and deep learning is truly contagious, and it was not long before the BACE audience felt inspired and excited as she delivered her talk on “Deep learning models for understanding transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation: from variants to disease”.

What followed was a flood of questions and a lively discussion, moderated by Sofia Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou.

We closed the event in relaxed atmosphere, as we met friends, made new acquaintances, and chatted in the breakout rooms.

About Prof. Olga Troyanskaya:

Olga Troyanskaya is a professor at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 2003. In 2014 she became the deputy director of Genomics at the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute, a part of the Simons Foundation in NYC. She holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University, has been honored as one of the top young technology innovators by the MIT Technology Review, and is a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Overton award from the International Society for Computational Biology, and the Ira Herskowitz award from the Genetic Society of America.