Genomics Guru Dr. J. Craig Venter to deliver keynote at SC2001Rockville 25 October 2001 No arena in contemporary medical science holds more potential for revolutionary approaches to preventing and curing human disease than genomics. And no tool in genomics is more crucial to its researchers than high-performance computing.
To those knowledgeable about genomics he is president and chief scientific officer of Celera Genomics. To the rest of us, he is the man who revolutionised and accelerated the sequencing the
human genome.
Dr. Venter is keynote speaker on November 13 in Denver at SC2001, the international forum and exhibition on high-performance computing and high-speed data communication. His talk is entitled "Accelerating Discovery through Supercomputing".
In addition to an overview of genomics, Dr. Venter will explain the role of supercomputers and algorithms in genomics and how these capabilities will now be crucial in the drug-discovery process.
Dr. Venter received his Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of California, San Diego. In 1998, he and Perkin-Elmer, now with Applera Corporation, formed Celera Genomics. Two years later, they announced completion of the first assembly of the human genome, which revealed approximately 3 billion letters of genetic code.
On February 16, 2001, Celera's manuscript on the sequencing of the human genome was published in Science magazine. Dr. Venter has published more than 160 research articles and is one of the most cited scientists in biology and medicine.
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