EMBL-EBI

Big Data in Biology: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Mon 28 September 2020

Zoom - online

They say you can bet on anything… Meet the man who organised a bet known as the GeneSweep for scientists working on the Human Genome Project, he had over 460 bets by the time the draft of the human genome was published in 2003.

Join Prof Ewan Birney, Deputy Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Joint Director of EMBL-EBI in conversation with mathematician, author and presenter Dr Hannah Fry. They will touch on his experience working on the Human Genome Project, highlight some of the cutting-edge work taking place at EMBL-EBI, and offer his forecasts for the future of biodata.

Dr Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. She works alongside a unique mix of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, architects and geographers to study the patterns in human behaviour - particularly in an urban setting.
Hannah has worked on several BBC documentaries and regularly appears on radio in the UK including on her long running BBC Radio 4 show, 'The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry'.

Part of Wellcome Genome Campus' 'Genome Lates' programme: a season of public conversations celebrating the Human Genome Project anniversary.

Cost: free