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The first lecture, “African Integrative Genomics: Implications for Health and Disease,” will be 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, in Room 116 at the Thomas Hunt Morgan Biological Sciences Building on the UK campus. The second, “Human Evolution and Adaptation in Africa,” will be 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 6, in the William T. Young Library Auditorium. The events are free and open to the public.
Two heads are better than one. The ethos behind the scientific research project Folding@home is that same idea, multiplied: 50,000 computers are better than one.
Offit and Roberts join a cohort of scholars and leaders that are being recognized for their contributions toward a wide variety of disciplines.
The pioneer of biophysics and data science has joint appointments in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Robert Ghrist, an acclaimed applied mathematics researcher, will begin his new position on July 1.