Workshop Instructors

More information about each instructor and TA helping with the workshop.

Speaker 1

Larry Hunter, PhD

Dr. Hunter is currently Professor and Director of the Center for Computational Pharmacology and of the Computational Bioscience Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. (website).

Dr. Hunter is one of the founders of the field of bioinformatics. He has explored applications of computational techniques to a wide variety of biological problems, including protein structure, macromolecular sequence analysis, combinatorial chemistry and managing the enormous biomedical literature.

The current focus of his laboratory is on developing novel techniques for the analysis of gene expression array data for the inference of metabolic and signaling pathways from genetic, proteomic and transcriptional data, and for the management of large collections of biomedical documents.

For this workshop, he is an instructor.