Wednesday 14.9 at 6pm: Talk on bioinformatics by bioinformatician Hilal Asan
Dear friend of Arkadia,
You are heartily invited to a talk on bioinformatics by bioinformatician Hilal Asan on Wednesday 14.9 at 6pm.
Hilal has kindly accepted to answer the following questions as well as a few others: What is Bioinformatics? What do bioinformaticians do? Why do we need computer scientists and statisticians in research labs? What is the future of bioinformatics?
University of Helsinki MBI programme: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/mbi/
The talk will be in English.
Absolutely all are welcome!
Warm regards,
Ian
www.arkadiabookshop.fi
-Entrance is free and green tea will be offered. A donation of €2 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome.
Hilal Asan
Currently a Masters degree student at the University of Helsinki, Bioinformatics programme and also a research assistant in Biomedicum, Meilahti.
My research interests include Cancer genomics, microarray data analysis, biostatistics and statistical genetics.
I have bachelors degree in Statistics, Middle East Technical University (Ankara). After studying 4 years in Turkey, I have decided to continue my studies abroad. My studies in statistics were mostly theoretical and I wanted to apply my knowledge to something more practical. As a statistician you can work in almost every area including Economics, Social Sciences, Actuarial Sciences, Biology and Medicine. I have decided to choose Biosciences to further my academic journey.
As I was searching through programmes in Europe, I came across to Bioinformatics programme conducted by University of Helsinki. It is said to offer a combination of computer science, statistics and biosciences. Also, it is a joint programme which allows you to take courses from Aalto University of Science and Technology along with University of Helsinki.
After reading and researching about this unique and new programme, I have decided to apply for it and I was one of the lucky few to get in among hundreds of applicants.
University of Helsinki MBI programme:http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/mbi/