9th Annual Computational Genomics Conference - October 28-31, 2006 - Renaissance Harborplace Hotel - Baltimore, MD
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*** TENTATIVE AGENDA ***
This agenda likely to change prior to conference
Posted: September 29, 2006

SATURDAY, October 28
Tutorial Session
1:00 p.m. "Using PASA to automatically annotate gene structures and study alternative splicing by leveraging high quality transcript alignments," Brian J. Haas, The Institute for Genomic Research
2:10 p.m. Break
2:20 p.m. "The NCBI influenza virus resource," Yiming Bao, NCBI
3:30 p.m. Break
3:40 p.m. "Annotating infectious disease within reactome," Marc E. Gillespie, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
4:50 p.m. Break
5:00 p.m. Opening reception
6:00 p.m. KEYNOTE: Barry Marshall, Nobel Laureate, 2005
SUNDAY, October 29
7:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast served until 8:45 a.m.
9:00 a.m. "GEMINA: A web-based system to identify genomic data associated with remicrobial pathogens of infectious diseases through selection of related epidemiological information," Lynn M. Schriml, The Institute for Genomic Research
9:20 a.m. "Microbial genome analysis at the Broad Institute," Mark L. Borowsky, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
9:40 a.m. "DOE Hanford Site Metagenome: a multiple extreme environment hosting diverse microbes and radiotolerant bacteria," Mustafa H. Syed, Argonne National Laboratory
10:00 a.m. "Annotation of mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes at the Broad Institute," Qiandong Zeng, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
10:20 a.m. Break
10:40 a.m. INVITED TALK
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University
11:30 a.m. "Novel peptide identification using ESTs and genomic sequence," Nathan Edwards, University of Maryland
11:50 a.m. "Small cysteine-rich peptides resembling antimicrobial peptides have been under-predicted in plants," Kevin A. Silverstein, University of Minnesota
12:10 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. "The pathway tools cellular overview diagram and omics viewer," Suzanne M. Paley, SRI International
1:50 p.m. "Applying genome context data to the search for missing enzymes in Pathway/Genome databases," Michelle L. Green, SRI International
2:10 p.m. "From properties to processes: context-driven automatic assignment of GO process terms using the Genome Properties System," Jeremy D. Selengut, The Institute for Genomic Research
2:30 p.m. "Comprehensive DNA signature identification," Adam M. Phillippy, University of Maryland
2:50 p.m. Break
3:10 p.m. "Interactive visual analytic tools for genome assembly," Michael C. Schatz, University of Maryland
3:30 p.m. INVITED TALK
Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University
4:20 p.m. Break
4:30 p.m. TUTORIAL
"Comprehensive microbial resource and pathema," Tanja M. Davidsen, The Institute for Genomic Research
5:40 p.m. Reception & Poster session
MONDAY, October 30
7:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast served until 8:45 a.m.
9:00 a.m. "Automated annotation of the mosquito Aedes aegypti," Jennifer R. Wortman, The Institute for Genomic Research
9:20 a.m. "Multi-scale analysis of large influenza sequence datasets," Leonid Zaslavsky, NCBI
9:40 a.m. "Co-evolutionary analysis of domains in interacting proteins reveals insights into domain-domain interactions mediating protein-protein interactions," Raja Jothi, NCBI
10:00 a.m. Break
10:20 a.m. "Identifying bidirectional gene pairs on a comprehensive scale," Laura Elnitski, NIH
10:40 a.m. "Computational search for transcription factor binding sites," Marko Djordjevic, Ohio State University
11:00 a.m. INVITED TALK
Tim Hubbard, Sanger Centre
11:50 a.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. "Statistical methods for analysis of ChIP-chip data," Peter J. Park, Children's Hospital Boston
1:50 p.m. "A novel approach for accurate prediction of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations," Majid Masso, George Mason University
2:10 p.m. OPEN
2:10 p.m. "Computational screening of candidate human non-coding RNAs and functional annotation," Yongmei Ji, Rosetta/Merck & Co.
2:30 p.m. "Structure, function and environment of proteins," Jim Warwicker, University of Manchester
2:50 p.m. Break
3:10 p.m. "Using sequence domain boundaries as queries in VAST structure alignments," Kenneth E. Thompson, Johns Hopkins University/NCBI
3:30 p.m. KEYNOTE: "Reconstructing 100 million years of human evolutionary history," David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz
4:20 p.m. Break
4:30 p.m. TUTORIAL
"The National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource (NMPDR): a tutorial for effective use of NMPDR's bioinformatics environment," Leslie McNeil and Claudia Reich, University of Illinois
5:40 p.m. Reception & Poster session
TUESDAY, October 31
7:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast served until 8:45 a.m.
9:00 a.m. "Bioinformatics resources for the systems-level analysis of innate immunity: the InnateDB interaction database and a novel method for the pathway-like layout of biological networks," Jennifer L. Gardy, University of British Columbia
9:20 a.m. "Information theoretic approach to constructing gene regulatory networks from gene expression and polymorphic markers," Manjunatha N. Jagalur, UMass Amherst
9:40 a.m. "Network Legos: building blocks of cellular wiring diagrams," T. M. Murali, Virginia Tech
10:00 a.m. INVITED TALK
"Genomic studies of the domestic cat (Felis catus)," Alejandro Schaffer, NCBI
10:50 a.m. Concluding remarks

POSTER DETAILS:

Set-up time: Saturday, October 28: 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Poster size: 42" square

Poster sessions: Sunday, October 29: 5:40 p.m.
Monday, October 30: 5:40 p.m.

Push pins and numbers will be provided on-site as well as room layout information.

Posters must beÊtaken downÊby Tuesday morning (Oct. 31)Êat 8:00 a.m.

Accepted Poster/Abstract Titles (09/28/2006)


 

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