WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Professor Hans Van Dongen, PhD, will speak at the the inaugural Predictive Phenomics conference organized by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The conference will be held April 29 to May 1 in Richland, Washington.
Introducing the emerging field of predictive phenomics, the theme of the 2025 conference is Advancing Molecular Science for the Characterization and Manipulation of the Phenome. The conference will provide a forum for scientists to present research on approaches to study the molecular basis of biological function with a vision to better understand and predict how genomes interact with their environment to produce phenomes, according to organizers.
An internationally recognized sleep scientist, Van Dongen is a professor in the WSU College of Medicine’s Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology and core faculty and former director of the Sleep and Performance Research Center. His extensive research on sleep deprivation and cognitive performance includes a focus on individual differences in cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation and mathematical models that predict performance impairment from fatigue.
Van Dongen will present on “The Dynamics of Phenotypes and the Phenotypes of Dynamics in Omics of Metabolism” on April 30 at 3:15 p.m. PDT.