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Instructors

The highly-acclaimed instructors for these training courses have extensive teaching and research experience in both academia and industry.

Mike Walker, Ph.D., Walker Biosciences
Liping Wei, Ph.D., Nexus Genomics, Inc.

Dr. Michael Walker is an extremely popular lecturer who teaches at Stanford University and the University of California. He has been an invited lecturer at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the European Bioinformatics Institute, the Beijing Genome Institute, and Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in Medical Computer Science from Stanford University. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, was statistician on three FDA-approved New Drug Applications, and has over 20 patents issued or pending for the discovery of disease-associated genes and for data-analysis methods. He continues to teach and advise graduate students at Stanford, where he is a Consulting Professor in the Department of Medicine.

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Dr. Liping Wei is a Consulting Assistant Professor in Medicine at Stanford University. She is also Chief Scientist of Computational Biology at the Beijing Genomics Institute, Hangzhou Center. Liping holds a Ph.D. degree in biomedical informatics from Stanford University. She is an well-acclaimed invited lecturer at Stanford University, UCSF, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, etc., as well as leading life science companies. Dr. Wei is an editor of the forthcoming journal "Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Proteomics", and an organizer and session chair of leading bioinformatics conferences such as IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference and the Pacific Symposium of Biocomputing. She has patent application in target discovery, and published in the areas of comparative genomics, automated annotation of genes, elucidation of function from protein structures, and systematic analysis of protein structure-function relationship.

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