Keynote Lecturers

RECOMB 2007 is proud to present a distinguished lineup of keynote speakers addressing key advancements in computational molecular biology, genetics, and synthetic biology:

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Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco. Non-Resident Fellow, Salk Institute. Co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of telomerase.

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Patrick O. Brown
Distinguished Technology Lecture

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine. Pioneer in DNA microarray development and open-access publishing.

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Abby Dernburg
Distinguished Biology Lecture

Assistant Professor in Residence, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. QB3 Faculty Affiliate.

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Jennifer Marshall Graves
Comparative Genomics Group Leader

Head of the Comparative Genomics Group and Director of the ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics, Australian National University, Canberra. Professorial Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne.

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Yishi Jin
HHMI Investigator & Professor

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego. Renowned researcher of neural development and synapse regeneration.

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Jay D. Keasling
Professor of Chemical and Bioengineering

University of California, Berkeley. Director, Physical Biosciences Division, and Head, Synthetic Biology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. QB3 Faculty Affiliate.

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Harry F. Noller
Robert Louis Sinsheimer Professor

Professor of Molecular Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz. QB3 Faculty Affiliate. Renowned pioneer in the elucidation of ribosome structure and function.

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Aviv Regev
Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture

Core Faculty Member, Broad Institute. Fellow, Bauer Center of Genomics Research, Harvard University. Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT. Renowned pioneer in single-cell genomics.

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