Teaching computers about life so they can explain it to us

Speaker: Paul Blainey, Ph.D.
Core Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Professor, Department of Biological Engineering at MIT
Extramural faculty member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Speaker Bio:

Paul Blainey is a Core Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a tenured Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT, and an extramural faculty member at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. His research group is dedicated to making high-throughput quantitative biology routine by developing integrated microfluidic, chemical, imaging, and genomic approaches to study DNA-protein interactions, disease biology, and drug targets. Blainey earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard University and completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University where he pioneered optofluidic methods for single-cell sequencing. His work has been recognized with multiple honors, including the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface.

Host: Dominika Borek, Ph.D.