Achievement

The 2nd Annual Bioinformatics Program Retreat took place in June, 2011. Approximately 50 MS and PhD students attended, including all IGERT trainees and students from the BU-NIH Graduate Partnership Program. Activities included talks given by four program alumni on the theme “Career Development and the Future in Bioinformatics," a keynote address by Professor James Galagan describing the approach taken by his group towards understanding metabolic networks involved in lipid biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and a “Town Hall Forum” on topics concerning the evolution and improvement of the Bioinformatics Program. The retreats were started as a direct result of the IGERT grant.