Whitehead Institute


Bioinformatics for Biologists:

A Series of Three Minicourses
Spring 2006

Whitehead Institute
9 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Faculty

The Bioinformatics team is part of Whitehead’s Bioinformatics and Research Computing Department. We train, educate, consult, and collaborate with laboratory scientists at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. The Bioinformatics and Research Computing department has been teaching bioinformatics courses at the Whitehead for many years and has recently begun offering select classes to representatives of the industrial and academic biotech community.

Fran Lewitter, PhD
Fran is the Director of the Bioinformatics and Research Computing Department. She holds a PhD in Human Genetics and was a Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard University. Her areas of expertise include genomic and sequence databases and analysis, and automation of computational analyses.

George Bell, PhD
George is the Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Whitehead. He holds a PhD in Molecular Biology. His areas of expertise include genomics, sequence analysis, microarrays and using programming and database tools to manipulate and analyze large datasets.

Kimberly Walker, MS
Kim is a Bioinformatic Analysts at Whitehead. She holds a MS in Bioinformatics. Her areas of expertise include database and software development for scientific tools as well as analysis of genome and microarray data.



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