Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS)

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(*Updated April 20, 2012. Schedule subject to change. )

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Wednesday – February 22, 2012
7:30 am - 1:00 pm Registration
8:30 am - 10:30 am

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RPI-led Hands-on Tutorial - Semantic Healthcare and Life Sciences Tutorial: Mashing HC and LS Data

CSHALS Tutorial Coordinator: Lee Feigenbaum
Cambridge Semantics

RPI Tutorial Coordinator: Joanne Luciano, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Presenters:
Dominic DiFranzo, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Jim McCusker, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
d3 Tutorial (web)

Joshua Shinavier. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
http://services.fortytwo.net/linked-data
Linked Data diagram (.pdf)

Location:
Charles Suite - 2nd Floor
Royal Sonesta Hotel
10:30 am - 11:00 am Break
11:00 am - 12:15 pm RPI-led Hands-on Tutorial (continues)
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm RPI-led Hands-on Tutorial (continues)
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm RPI-led Hands-on Tutorial (continues)
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Registration
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Poster (Author) Set-up
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Poster Reception

Thursday – February 23, 2012
7:30 am - 10:00 am Registration
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast (continental)
9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcome & Overview from Conference Chairs:
Jill Mesirov (ISCB Board Member)
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Mike Bevil and Joanne Luciano
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9:15 am - 10:00 am Keynote 1
SMArt Semantics for Clinical Healthcare Delivery

Dr. Isaac Kohane
Director, Children’s Hospital Informatics Program
Henderson Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology
Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Co-Director, HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics
Director of the HMS Countway Library of Medicine
Cambridge, MA - USA

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10:05 am - 11:00 am Literature Executing Semantics Across Documents: Bringing Science Into Context
Presenter: Anita de Waard
Disruptive Technology Director, Elsevier Labs
Utrecht, Netherlands
The Biospecimen Repository as Library: How HeLa is like Moby Dick
Presenter: James McCusker
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, USA

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11:00 am - 11:20 am Break
11:20 am - 11:40 am Tech Talk 1 Javascript - The Key to Successful SemWeb Deployments
Presenter:
Jans Aasman
Franz Inc.
Oakland, CA, USA
11:45 am to 12:05 pm Tech Talk 2 Managing Bigdata® in Bioinformatics
Presenter:
Bryan Thompson
SYSTAP LLC
Greensboro, NC USA

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12:05 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm Keynote 2
E-Science Dictates E-Publication - Nanopublications as a Substrate for In-silico Knowledge Discovery


Dr. Barend Mons
Scientific Director
Netherlands Bioinformatics Center
Biosemantics Group Leader, Leiden University Medical Centre
Netherlands
2:05 pm - 3:30 pm Community/Knowledge Management The VIVO Ontology: Enabling Networking of Scientists
Presenter:
Ying Ding
Indiana University
Bloomington, USA

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Domain Knowledge and Provenance-Integrated Knowledge Organization System Represented with RDFS and SPARQL
Presenter: Young Soo Song
Birmingham, USA

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E-Diary Data Collection in Neurology and Psychiatry: Computational Achievements and Challenges
Presenter: Ron Calvanio
Massachusetts General Hospital
& Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, USA

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3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Break
3:45 pm - 5:10 pm Drug Discovery,
Linked Data
Target Identification Using an Integrated Subset of the Yeast Interactome with Chemical Genomic Data in RDF
Presenter: Nadia Anwar
General Bioinformatics
Reading, United Kingdom

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Chem2Bio2RDF: Linked Open Data for Drug Discovery
Presenter: Bin Chen
Bloomington, USA

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Using Linked Open Data to Inform the Drug Discovery Process
Presenter: James Snowden
UCB Celltech
Slough, United Kingdom

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5:15 pm - 6:00 pm Keynote 3
Title: Inside the Mind of Watson

Dr. Chris Welty
IBM Research Scientist
T.J. Watson Research Center New York, USA
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm Daily Closing Remarks Mike Bevil and Joanne Luciano, Conference Chairs

Friday – February 24, 2012
7:30 am - 10:00 am Registration
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast (continental)
8:30 am - 8:45 am Review - Previous Day
Mike Bevil and Joanne Luciano, Conference Chairs

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8:45 am - 9:30 am Keynote 4
The Knowledge Reengineering Bottleneck

Dr. Rinke Hoekstra
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group
VU University Amsterdam
Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam
Netherlands

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9:30 am - 10:25 am Semantics in Research sdlink: An Integrated System for Linking Biological and Biomedical Semantic Data
Presenter:
Alexandre Francisco
Technical University of Lisbon
Lisboa, Portugal
Spo: An Ontology for Describing Host-pathogen Interactions Inherent to Streptococcus Pneumoniae Infections
Presenter: Cátia Vaz
Poly Institute of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
10:25 am - 10:40 am Break
10:40 am - 12:35 pm Pharmacovigilance & Safety Dynamic Enhancement of Drug Product Labels Through Semantic Web Technologies
Presenter: Richard Boyce
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, USA

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Adverse Events Following Immunization: Standardization, Automatic Case Classification and Signal Detection
Presenter: Mélanie Courtot
British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
Vancouver, Canada

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Exploitation of Semantic Methods to Cluster Pharmacovigilance Terms
Presenter: Natalia Grabar
Universite Lille
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

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Annotation Analysis for Testing Drug Safety Signals
Presenter: Trish Whetzel
Stanford University
Stanford, USA

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12:35 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm Keynote 5
Wolfram|Alpha and the Quest for Computational Knowledge


Dr. Stephen Wolfram
Founder & CEO Wolfram Research
Wolfram Research
Champaign, IL - USA
2:20 pm - 3:15 pm Clinical Healthcare Using Ontologies in the Age-Phenome Knowledge-base (APK)
Presenter: Eitan Rubin
Ben Gurion University
Beer Sheva, Israel
Intelligent Surveillance of Health Care-associated Infections with SADI Semantic Web Services
Presenter:
Christopher Baker
University of New Brunswick
Saint John, Canada

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3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Panel Discussion Moderators: Mike Bevil and Joanne Luciano, Conference Chairs
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Future Actions
Mike Bevil and Joanne Luciano, Conference Chairs
4:30 pm Conference Adjourns
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