EMBL Insight Lecture 2016: register for live streaming now
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EMBL Insight Lecture “Genomics and Big Data: Transforming our Understanding of the Processes of Life”
by Professor Ewan Birney – 2 December 2016
Have you ever wondered how big data is changing our lives? Find out and register now to attend the next EMBL Insight Lecture on 2 December 2016 virtually over the web.
The EMBL Insight Lecture is presented each year by a senior EMBL scientist and aims at 16+ students. The upcoming seminar entitled “Genomics and Big Data: Transforming our Understanding of the Processes of Life” will be given by Professor Ewan Birney, who is Director of the EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute. In the EMBL Insight Lecture, Ewan Birney will explore the transformative power of genomics and big data for the future of medicine and healthcare. Professor Birney’s specialist research area is genetic variation and algorithms. Over the past twenty years he has played an important role in the genomics, initially as part of the team that helped sequence the first human genome and subsequently in the relatively new field of bioinformatics, where computer and life sciences meet.
We would like to invite you and your students to attend the live streaming of this event. If you are interested in attending, please register via the “Registration” tab below.
We are looking forward to this exciting, interactive event and hope to see many of you online on the 2 December!
More information on the concept behind EMBL Insight Lectures as well as videos on-demand of previous events may be found here.
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EMBL Insight Lecture programme on 2 December 2016
Please note, all times are given in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), i.e. Central European Time – 1 hour (CET-1). This means that the lecture starts at 11:30 CET.
10:10 am: Live stream opens
10:15 am: Introduction to EMBL & EMBL-EBI by Ewan Birney
10:30 am: Start of the EMBL Insight Lecture with Ewan Birney
The lecture including 2 question sessions will last until approximately 11:45 am
11:45 am: End of lecture; live stream ends
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Registration for the event has now closed. If you would like to watch the lecture, please access the live stream here.
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Ask questions before, during and after the lecture!
To give you and your pupils the opportunity to participate in the live-discussions, we will offer a Twitter and Skype channel which students can use to ask questions directly to the speaker using the text chat function.
Skype: closer to the event, we will send you details of our Skype account to which you can send text questions during or after the lecture.
Twitter: to participate in discussion via twitter, please use #EMBLinsight . You may ask questions before, during or after the lecture.
We will try to accommodate as many questions asked via Skype and Twitter during the lecture.
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For watching the live stream of the EMBL Insight Lecture you will need:
- a computer with fast/stable internet connection
- a web-browser (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari), HTML5 enabled
- in case your browser is not yet appropriately set up, you may be asked to install a Microsoft Silverlight Plug-in
In addition, you may want to connect your computer to a projector and a sound system to allow all students in the classroom to watch the lecture. After registration, we will provide you with information about how to access the live stream and participate in the live discussion.
We will send a test link to registered participants, so you can make sure your computer is set up appropriately to watch the live stream.
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