Sydney Ideas

Cancer and neurologial diseases are among the top 5 causes of death in Australia. However, there is some good news in this battle against these as new big data technologies now allow scientists to measure nearly every aspect of a cancerous tumor and take real-time scans of the active human brain. This big data may hold the key to understanding causes and possible cures for cancer as well as understanding the complexities of the human brain. Genevera Allen highlights how exactly is data science transforming medical research. Specifically, she demonstrates how networks can be used to visualize and mine big biomedical data, from genetic networks that have led to the discovery of new drug targets for cancer to brain networks that show how the brain communicates and how these communications are disrupted in neurological diseases. SPEAKER: Assistant Professor Genevera Allen, Statistics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, USA For the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) Summer Sc