Profile:
Mikael Bodén is a group leader in bioinformatics and appointed as an Associate Professor at The University of Queensland. He has a PhD in computer science, AI and statistical machine learning but has spent the last 15 years in biological research environments, including the Institute for Molecular Bioscience/ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics and the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, where he is currently located. Funded by ARC, NHMRC and MRFF, research in his group centres on machine learning and data integration in genomics and proteomics, phylogenetics, and protein engineering. Bodén is the founding director of UQ’s postgraduate program in bioinformatics.
Talk title:
Reconstructing proteins of the past of to understand, harness and engineer their future.