Merge pull request #50 from nlharris/2025-03-26-Mungall

New keynotes page with first keynote speaker

Author: nlharris

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+author: nlharris
+date: "2025-03-26T04:29:08+00:00"
+guid: https://www.open-bio.org/?page_id=7706
+title: BOSC 2025 Keynotes
+url: /events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-keynotes/
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+---
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+<img src="/img/2025/2025-03-26-Chris-Mungall-2022-square.jpg" alt ="Chris Mungall" style="width:50%"/>
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+### Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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+#### _Keynote talk for [joint BOSC/BOKR session](/2025/03/17/BOSC-BOKR-2025/) (title TBA)_
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+Dr. Chris Mungall is a Senior Scientist at LBNL, where he heads the [Biosystems Data Science department](https://biosciences.lbl.gov/egsb/biosystems-data-science/). Chris’s research interests center around the capture, computational integration, and dissemination of biological research data, and the development of methods for using this data to elucidate biological mechanisms underpinning the health of humans and of the planet. He and his team have led the creation of key biological ontologies for the integration of resources covering gene function, anatomy, phenotypes and the environment. Chris and his collaborators develop systems that translate data and knowledge into a computable form and apply it to answer complex biological and biomedical questions. Chris’s areas of focus include ontologies, systems biology, data science, biocuration, knowledge representation, data harmonization, reusable and interoperable software, machine learning and reasoning. For decades, he has been a strong proponent of open-source bioinformatics software and open science.
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+Chris is a PI on the [Gene Ontology](http://geneontology.org/) (GO), the [Monarch Initiative](https://monarchinitiative.org/), the [Alliance of Genome Resources](https://www.alliancegenome.org/), [Phenomics First](https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2020/10/08/phenomics-first-project-receives-10m-to-unite-genetic-disease-data/), and the [NCATS Biomedical Data Translator](https://ncats.nih.gov/translator), as well as metadata lead for the [National Microbiome Data Collaborative](https://microbiomedata.org/) (NMDC). In 2017, Chris was the first person to be awarded the Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration Award by the International Society for Biocuration. In 2020, he received a Berkeley Lab Early Scientific Career Director’s Award.
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+### Second keynote speaker: TBA
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+### BOSC keynote speaker selection process
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+BOSC usually includes two or three keynote talks given by prominent individuals or emerging leaders who are accomplished in areas relevant to the bioinformatics open source community and who represent a range of backgrounds and ideas. Please see our [invited speaker rubric](https://github.com/OBF/bosc_materials/blob/master/invited-speaker-process.md) for more information about our keynote speaker selection process and criteria.
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