Forefront Lecture by Dr. Art Poon

Art Poon, PhD, is an Associate Research Scientist (bioinformatics) in the Laboratory Program at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. His work involves developing, testing, and implementing computational and statistical methods for HIV-1 genetic sequence analysis. His research interests include virus evolution, phylogenetics, population genetics, bioinformatics, machine learning, software development, and parallel computing.

While working as a Post-Doctoral Employee at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Dr. Poon co-developed HYPHY, a free multiplatform computational phylogenetics software package intended to perform maximum likelihood analyses of genetic sequence data. This software is equipped with tools to test various statistical hypotheses with and has been cited by over 350 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles.


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Start Date
  • April 13, 2011 19:00
End Date
  • April 13, 2011 20:00
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education@bccfe.ca
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  • Lecture
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