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Biomedical Computing
Lectureship Begins
Jose-Maria Carazo, Ph.D., right, deputy general director for research planning in the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, presented the Aug. 6 inaugural lecture of the John P. McGovern Lectureship in Biomedical Computing and Imaging. With him, from The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston (SHIS) are, from left: event organizer Yao Cong, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, and host Willy Wriggers, Ph.D., assistant professor and director of the Laboratories for Biocomputing and Imaging. SHIS sponsors the lecture series with funding from the John P. McGovern Foundation. Lectures are every other month in the John P. McGovern Medical Center Commons. Carazo, who is a professor and consultant at three institutions and at a startup company in the Madrid area, spoke on “Structural Plasticity of Replicative Helicases: Results from Electron Microscopy (and Challenges Ahead).” His research interests include electron microscopy, large biological databases of complex objects in structural biology and new query tools in these fields, as well as mathematical aspects of image processing.
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