Ming Tommy Tang has delivered 50+ talks, workshops, and podcast appearances on bioinformatics, single-cell genomics, computational biology career development, and AI in drug discovery. Speaking venues include Stanford University, EMBL, 10x Genomics, Iowa State University, University of Florida, University of Maryland, Moderna, and the Festival of Genomics Boston.
Key speaking topics include:
- Single-cell genomics: scRNA-seq best practices, data integration, cell type annotation, spatial transcriptomics
- AI and drug discovery: AI-driven computational biology, large language models in bioinformatics, physics-based modeling to AI-driven approaches
- Reproducible research: Docker, Snakemake, version control, good enough practices for reproducible computing
- Career development: Breaking into bioinformatics, academia-to-industry transitions, computational biology career paths
- Education: Bioinformatics upskilling workshops, hands-on coding tutorials, open science advocacy