Terry Jones
Founder, CEO, Fluidinfo

Terry Jones is founder and CEO of Fluidinfo, a London and Barcelona based company aiming to bring about a fundamental change in how people work with information by building a distributed storage architecture for a new representation of information. Before that he was a postdoc in Zoology at the University of Cambridge (2004-07), part-time professor in computer science at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2005-06), CTO of Eatoni Ergonomics in New York (2000-04), a postdoc in the Cognitive Science Department at UC San Diego (1998-99), CEO of Teclata in Barcelona (1996-98), and a postdoc and graduate fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (1992-96). He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of New Mexico with a dissertation on evolutionary computation, fitness landscapes and search, an M.Math from the University of Waterloo, and a B.Sc. (hons) in computer science from Sydney University.

Sessions

2:00pm - 2:45pm Wednesday, 03/05/2008

Antigenic Cartography: Visualizing Viral Evolution for Influenza Vaccine Design

General
Location: Mission Hills

Terry Jones (Fluidinfo)

Antigenic Cartography is a new computational method that allows a unique visualization of viral evolution. First published in 2004, the technique is now used to aid the WHO in recommending the composition of human influenza vaccines. It is also being applied to the design of pandemic influenza vaccines and to the study of a variety of other infectious diseases. Read more.