Report: 7th one Day Workshop on the Significance of Bioinformatics in Life Sciences
Hah...
We boarded local vans in the scorching heat of May and after a dose of dust and good deal of sweating, reached CUST.
Faculty and students greeted us-nice and polite as always...guided us to registration desks and we collected our stuff for the workshop..
Workshop commenced an hour late but just a minute after we reached, Not that we were chief guests because we were late ourselves and the chief guest arrived just after we set foot on the campus...:P
Dr. Tanwani gave a very good, informative talk... I had performed a precheck of all the speakers profiles and publications but despite having just two publications, his knowledge and ethics and practical work was amazing.. Another proof that practical people publish less (Just Like Dr. Faisal Farid of CECOS, Peshawar)... Ok not to digress from topic...
He is a goldmine of tissue image data in different cancers and encourages collaboration so if you are interested, just set a meet up with him at PIMS or drop him an email. He will be coming to CUST again for a seminar soon so one could meet him up there as well. Very sweet, optimistic, helpful and God and humanity loving doctor.
After that Dr. Faraz of NUST opened new avenues of thinking---with his multimillion dollar presentation (gave me two ideas for a future publications so thank you so much Dr. Sahib :P)
Image processing seemed to dominate the workshop agenda and another exciting presentation about digital pathology by Dr. Adnan Mujahid. Proud to see Pakistanis making good progress in this field and bagging prizes and recognition at international scale. Thumbs up Dr. Sahib!
This was followed by Dr. Waseem Haider's exciting amazing NGS talk. So impressed about his self help of bioinformatics learning and knowledge delivery. Revised some old concepts and gained some new... Strongly recommended for learning stuff in NGS (through his future workshops which he holds time to time in COMSATS). I was always unhappy that his workshops were too expensive but respect increased manyfold when I learnt that money earned from his teaching and training workshops is spent on the less privileged people of the society. This made me really proud of him...:)
Missed LUMS professor Dr Safee Ullah's presence.. Dr. Shaukat Iqbal grabbed the audience's attention with his little puns and stunts. Very wonderful way of introducing microarrays...
Forgot to mention that we had lunch and tea-though not up to the mark but we were there to learn and not for food so it did not matter much..:)
Second session was not that good but provided some food for brain.
Again took public transport for coming back and reached home dead tored at around 7:00 pm---Overall, Saturday put to good use...
We boarded local vans in the scorching heat of May and after a dose of dust and good deal of sweating, reached CUST.
Faculty and students greeted us-nice and polite as always...guided us to registration desks and we collected our stuff for the workshop..
Workshop commenced an hour late but just a minute after we reached, Not that we were chief guests because we were late ourselves and the chief guest arrived just after we set foot on the campus...:P
Dr. Tanwani gave a very good, informative talk... I had performed a precheck of all the speakers profiles and publications but despite having just two publications, his knowledge and ethics and practical work was amazing.. Another proof that practical people publish less (Just Like Dr. Faisal Farid of CECOS, Peshawar)... Ok not to digress from topic...
He is a goldmine of tissue image data in different cancers and encourages collaboration so if you are interested, just set a meet up with him at PIMS or drop him an email. He will be coming to CUST again for a seminar soon so one could meet him up there as well. Very sweet, optimistic, helpful and God and humanity loving doctor.
After that Dr. Faraz of NUST opened new avenues of thinking---with his multimillion dollar presentation (gave me two ideas for a future publications so thank you so much Dr. Sahib :P)
Image processing seemed to dominate the workshop agenda and another exciting presentation about digital pathology by Dr. Adnan Mujahid. Proud to see Pakistanis making good progress in this field and bagging prizes and recognition at international scale. Thumbs up Dr. Sahib!
This was followed by Dr. Waseem Haider's exciting amazing NGS talk. So impressed about his self help of bioinformatics learning and knowledge delivery. Revised some old concepts and gained some new... Strongly recommended for learning stuff in NGS (through his future workshops which he holds time to time in COMSATS). I was always unhappy that his workshops were too expensive but respect increased manyfold when I learnt that money earned from his teaching and training workshops is spent on the less privileged people of the society. This made me really proud of him...:)
Missed LUMS professor Dr Safee Ullah's presence.. Dr. Shaukat Iqbal grabbed the audience's attention with his little puns and stunts. Very wonderful way of introducing microarrays...
Forgot to mention that we had lunch and tea-though not up to the mark but we were there to learn and not for food so it did not matter much..:)
Second session was not that good but provided some food for brain.
Again took public transport for coming back and reached home dead tored at around 7:00 pm---Overall, Saturday put to good use...
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bioinformatics,
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