Please note that this schedule is tentative and is subject to change without notice. Any updates will be posted on this page as soon as possible. (Last update: November 10, 2013)
All talks will be held in the Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library
(789 Yonge Street, Toronto). >>Click here<< for the map.
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08:00 AM | Registration | |
08:45 AM | Opening Remarks: Gustavo Stolovitzky (IBM) | |
Chair: Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI) | 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Challenge 1: HPN-DREAM Breast Cancer Network Inference Challenge: Inferring Causal Signaling Networks and Predicting Protein Phosphorylation Dynamics in Cancer, Laura Heiser (OHSU) and Steven Hill (NKI) |
09:20 AM - 09:30 AM | Awards Challenge 1. Presenters: Mark Wagar, President of Heritage Medical Systems (HPN) and Dan Gallahan, Deputy Director, Div. Cancer Biology (NCI) |
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09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Ch1.1A Best Performer*: Team DC_TDC. Prophetic Granger Causality and the Role of a Biological Prior, Artem Sokolov (UC Santa Cruz) | |
09:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Ch1.2A Best Performer**: Team StochasticChaos. Prediction for Time-Course Proteomics In Vitro, Elana Fertig (JHU) | |
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Ch1.3 Best Performer: Team ABCD. BioWheel: A Visualization Tool for Proteomics, Amina Ann Qutub (Rice University) | |
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | Challenge 1 discussion | |
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM | Coffee Break & Poster Session | |
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM | Keynote: Turning Networks Into Ontologies: Towards A Data-driven Gene Ontology, Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego, United States | |
Chair: Rick Woychik (NIEHS) |
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM | Challenge 2: NIEHS-NCATS-UNC DREAM Toxicogenetics Challenge: Overview and Results, Federica Eduati (EBI) and Fred Wright (NCSU) |
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM | Awards Challenge 2. Presenter: Rick Woychik, Deputy Director (NIEHS) | |
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Ch2.1/Ch2.2 Best Performer: Teams YangLab/QBRC. Estimating Population-scale Toxicities for Environmental Chemicals from Genomic and Chemical Information, Tao Wang and Hao Tang (UTSW) | |
12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Ch2.1 Second Best Performer: Team Cassis. Kernel Bilinear Regression for Toxicogenetics, Elsa Bernard (Inst. Curie) | |
12:50 PM - 13:00 PM | Challenge 2 discussion | |
13:00 PM - 14:30 PM | Lunch & Poster Session | |
14:30 PM - 15:00 PM | Keynote: DNA and RNA Binding Motifs for Mapping Gene Regulation, Tim Hughes, University of Toronto, Canada | |
Chair: Markus Covert (Stanford University) |
15:00 PM - 15:20 PM | Challenge 3: A Crowd-sourced Approach to Whole-cell Model Parameter Estimation, Markus Covert (Stanford Univ) and Pablo Meyer (IBM) |
15:20 PM - 15:30 PM | A Computational Platform for the DREAM Whole Cell Parameter Estimation Challenge, Brandon Allgood (Numerate Inc.) | |
15:40 PM - 15:40 PM | Awards Challenge 3. Presenter: Pablo Meyer (IBM Research) |
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15:40 PM - 16:00 PM | Ch3.1 Best Performer: Team Crux. Parameter Estimation for Huge Systems, Clemens Kreutz (University of Freiburg) |
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16:00 PM - 16:20 PM | Ch3.2 Best Performer: Team Whole-Sale Modelers. Parameter Fitting as Statistical Inference: An Outsider's Perspective, Alex H Williams (Brandeis Univ.) | |
16:20 PM - 16:30 PM | Challenge 3 discussion | |
16:30 PM - 17:00 PM | Coffee Break & Poster Session | |
17:00 PM - 17:20 PM | Future Challenges: Paul Boutros (OICR) and Gustavo Stolovitzky (IBM Research) | |
17:20 PM - 18:00 PM | Discussion: The Future of DREAM (All) | |
18:00 PM | Adjourn | |
* Due to Agenda Constraints, Team NMSUSongLab (the best performer in Ch1.1B and the most consistent performer through Ch1.1A and Ch1.1B) will be presenting their contribution in a Poster Presentation DREAM Poster 09). Presenters: Yang Zhang and Joe Song (NMSU) | ||
** Due to Visa Issues the originally scheduled presentation by Team GuanLab (the co-best performer in Ch1.2A): Network Time-Course Projection Using Truncated SVD, Fan Zhu (University of Michigan) has been cancelled, and replaced with the presentation by Team StochchasticChaos. | ||
** Due to Agenda Constraints, Team CGR (the best performer in Ch1.2B will be presenting their contribution in a Poster Presentation (DREAM Poster 08). Presenter: Chunhua Yan | ||
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-->SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2013 - SYSTEMS BIOLOGY | ||
08:00 AM | Registration | |
08:45 AM | Opening Remarks | |
Chair: Andrea Califano (Columbia University) |
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Keynote: Building Protein Networks to Understand Human Disease: Ciliopathies Explain Retinal Degeneration, Obesity, and Cancer, Peter Jackson, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States |
09:35 AM - 09:50 AM | Evolution After Whole-genome Duplication: A Network Perspective, Luay Nakhleh, Rice University, United States | |
09:50 AM - 10:05 AM | Rational Optimization of Computational Biology Pipelines, Nicholas Harding, OICR, Canada |
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10:05 AM - 10:20 AM | Global Linkage Map Connects Meiotic Centromere Function to Chromosome Size in Budding Yeast, Anastasia Baryshnikova, Princeton University, United States | |
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM | Mapping Trigenic Interactions of Whole Genome Duplicates in Yeast, Elena Kuzmin , University of Toronto | |
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | |
Chair: Trey Ideker (UC, San Diego) |
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Keynote: Peter Sorger,Harvard Medical School, United States |
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Systematic Exploration of Autonomous Modules in Noisy MicroRNA-target Networks for Testing the Generality of the ceRNA Hypothesis, Kevin Y. Yip, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Ensemble Inference and Inferability of Gene Regulatory Networks, S M Minhaz Ud-Dean, ETH Zurich, Switzerland | |
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | A Nutrient-responsive Pathway that Determines M Phase Timing Through Control of B-cyclin mRNA Stability, Vincent Messier, CCBR, Canada | |
12:15 PM - 13:30 PM | Lunch & Poster Session | |
Chair: Gustavo Stolovitsky (IBM Research) |
13:30 PM - 14:00 PM | Keynote: Tony Pawson and Modular Biology: From Domains to Cell Signalling Systems by Dr. Jeff Wrana, Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada |
14:05 PM - 14:20 PM | A Computational High-throughput Approach to discover Post-translational Modulators of Transcription Factor Activity from Gene Expression Profiles, Diego Di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Italy | |
14:20 PM - 14:35 PM | Exploring the Dynamic Interplay of Human miRNA-Transcription Factor Regulatory Cycles, Daniel Chee, University of Washington, United States | |
14:35 PM - 14:50 PM | Localized Enzymes Reflect Cellular metabolic state, Pablo Meyer, IBM, United States | |
14:50 PM - 15:05 PM | Next Generation Insight into Signaling Networks: A Systematic Protein-protein Interaction Reporter Assay to Identify Upstream Regulators of Signaling Hubs, Marie Filteau, Laval University, Canada | |
15:05 PM - 15:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
Chair: Laura Heiser (Oregon Health and Science University) |
15:30 PM - 15:45 PM | The Mutational landscape of Phosphorylation Signaling in Cancer, Juri Reimand, University of Toronto, Canada |
15:45 PM - 16:00 PM | A 13C-based Method for Metabolic Flux Measurement and Prediction in Genome-Scale Models, Hector Garcia Martin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States | |
16:00 PM - 16:30 PM | Keynote: Predictive Uses of Metabolic Reconstructions, Berhnard Palsson,University of California, San Diego, United States | |
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-->SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2013 - SYSTEMS BIOLOGY | ||
08:00 AM | Registration | |
08:45 AM | Opening Remarks | |
Chair: Brenda Andrews (University of Toronto) |
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Keynote: Olivier Pourquié, Université de Strasbourg, France |
09:35 AM - 9:50 AM | Elucidating Influenza Inhibition Pathways via Network Reconstruction, Arnon Mazza, Tel Aviv University, Israel | |
09:30 AM - 10:05 AM | Quantification of Cell-to-cell Variability in Protein Spatial Spread from Fluorescence Microscopy of Unsynchronized Budding Yeast, Louis-Francois Handfield, University of Toronto, Canada | |
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM | Validation of Vertebrate Developmental Phenotype Predictions using Zebrafish, Garbiel Musso, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, United States | |
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM | The Regulatory Landscape of Human Fetal Development, Kyle Siebenthall, University of Washington, United States | |
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | |
Chair: Michael White (Washington University School of Medicine) |
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Keynote: From Phenotypes to Pathways: Global Exploration of Cellular Networks Using Yeast Functional Genomics, Brenda Andrews,University of Toronto, Canada |
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Transcript Level and Sequence Determinants of Protein Abundance and Noise in Escherichia coli, Joao C. Guimaraes, University of California, Berkeley, United States | |
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Dissecting the Regulatory Machinery of Neurodegeneration in an In Vitro Model of ALS, Mariano J. Alvarez, Columbia University, United States | |
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Combinatorial Regulation of Lipoprotein Lipase by MicroRNAs During Mouse Adipogenesis, Maria Bouvy-Liivrand, University of Luxembourg | |
12:15 PM - 13:30 PM | Lunch & Poster Session | |
Chair: Josh Stuart (UC, Santa Cruz) |
13:30 PM - 14:00 PM | Keynote: Levi A. Garraway, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute, United States |
14:05 PM - 14:20 PM | A Network-based Approach for Drug Synergy Prediction from Gene Expression Data, Andrea Califano, Columbia University, United States | |
14:20 PM - 14:35 PM | Identifying Drug Mechanism of Action using Network Dysregulation, Mukesh Bansal, Columbia University, United States | |
14:35 PM - 14:50 PM | Dynamic Analysis of Cellular Differentiation and Drug Mode of Action Using Large-scale, Real time 3D Living Cell Arrays, Beatriz Penalver Bernabe, Northwestern University, United States | |
14:50 PM - 15:05 PM | Chemogenomic Profiling Reveals a Network of the Cellular Responses to Small Molecules, Anna Y Lee, University of Toronto, Canada | |
15:05 PM - 15:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
Chair: Jason Enst (UCLA) |
15:30 PM - 15:45 PM | Discovering Latent Cancer Characteristics Predictive of Drug Sensitivity, David A. Knowles, Stanford University, United States |
15:45 PM - 16:00 PM | Integrated Profiling of p53 Wild-type Cell Lines Identifies Differentially Responsive Populations and a Gene Expression Signature that Predicts Sensitivity to SAR299155, a Potent and Selective Disruptor of the p53-MDM2 Interaction, Stephen Rowley, Sanofi, United States | |
16:00 PM - 16:15 PM | L1000 Expression Signatures Reveal the Landscape of Ligand and Drug Response in Breast Cancer Cell Lines, Marc Hafner, Harvard Medical School, United States | |
16:15 PM - 16:45 PM | Keynote: Reconstructing Regulatory Circuits: Lessons from Immune Cells, Aviv Regev, Broad Institute, United States | |
16:45 PM - 19:00 PM | Reception at Appel Salon – Sponsored by the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Center | |
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-->MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2013 - REGULATORY GENOMICS | ||
08:00 AM | Registration | |
08:45 AM | Opening remarks | |
Chair: Tim Hughes, (University of Toronto) |
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Keynote: Algorithms in Nature, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Carnegie Mellon University, United States |
09:35 AM - 09:50 AM | Understanding the Synonymous Information Encoded in Transcripts via Evolutionary Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology Approaches, Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University, Israel | |
09:50 AM - 10:05 AM | The Functional Potential Score: Integrating Comparative, Population and Functional Genomic Data to Identify Recent Selective Pressure in Noncoding Human DNA, Brad Gulko, Cornell University, United States | |
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM | Primate Transcript and Protein Expression Levels Evolve under Compensatory Selection Pressures, Zia Khan, University of Chicago, United States | |
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM | The Accessible Chromatin Landscape of the Mouse Genome Reveals a Core Mammalian Regulon, Jeff Vierstra, University of Washington-Seattle, United States | |
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | |
Chair: Ziv Bar-Joseph (Carnegie Mellon University) |
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Keynote: Encoding Cellular Information Through p53 Dynamics in Individual Cells, Galit Lahav, Harvard Medical School, United States |
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Linking Signaling Pathways To Transcriptional Response In Breast Cancer, Hatice Ulku Osmanbeyoglu, Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, United States | |
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Systematic Detection and Analysis of Epigenomic Changes During Melanoma Cancer Progression, Petko Fiziev, University of California, Los Angeles, United States | |
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Gata3 and Runx3 Binding Underlies Differential Nucleosome Organization in Helper and Cytolytic T Cells, Matthew E. Pipkin, The Scripps Research Institute, United States | |
12:15 PM - 13:30 PM | Lunch & Poster Session | |
Chair: Jason Ernst (UCLA) |
13:30 PM - 14:00 PM | Keynote: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The Dynamics of Regulatory Information Usage in Development, Jason D. Lieb, Princeton University, United States |
14:05 PM - 14:20 PM | Distinct and Predictive Histone Lysine Acetylation Patterns at Promoters, Enhancers and Gene Bodies, Nisha Rajagopal, University of California, San Diego, United States | |
14:20 PM - 14:35 PM | Poly-dA:dT tracts form a Directional Nucleosomal Turnstile In Vivo, Carl de Boer, University of Toronto, Canada | |
14:35 PM - 14:50 PM | Condition-specific Binding of the Glucocorticoid Receptor, Morgane Thomas-Chollier, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, France | |
14:50 PM - 15:05 PM | Genome-wide Analysis of Functional and Evolutional Features of Tele-enhancers, Huang Di, National Institutes of Health, United States | |
15:05 PM - 15:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
Chair: Terry Furey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
15:30 PM - 15:45 PM | Integrative and Parallel Approaches to Uncover Drivers of Cancer, Uri David Akavia, McGill University, Canada |
15:45 PM - 16:00 PM | Cardiac Enhancers Harbor Undiscovered Genetic Variants Associated with Heart Contraction Traits, Xinchen Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States | |
16:00 PM - 16:15 PM | Conserved Combinatorial Transcription Factor Binding Identifies Regulatory Variants in Human Disease Pathways, Michael D. Wilson, SickKids Research Institute, Canada | |
16:15 PM - 16:45 PM | Mentoring Session: Regulatory Genomics and Systems Biology in Industry: Opportunities and Challenges. Presenters: Monica Boyle, Dart NeuroScience LLC; Andrea Califano, Columbia University; Boris Hayete, GNS; Raquel Norel, IBM Research; Ravi Pandya, Microsoft Research; Stephen Rowley, Sanofi | |
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-->TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013 - REGULATORY GENOMICS | ||
08:00 AM | Registration | |
08:45 AM | Opening Remarks | |
Chair: Manolis Kellis (MIT) |
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Keynote: From Genome Function to Personalised Omics, Emmanouil (Manolis) Dermitzakis, University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland |
09:35 AM - 09:50 AM | Analysis of Non-coding Genetic Variants Impact on Gene Regulation and Complex Traits, Roger Pique-Regi, Wayne State University, United States | |
09:50 AM - 10:05 AM | Finding Alternative eQTLs by Exploring Sparse Model Space, Xinghua Shi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States | |
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM | The Impact of Natural Genetic Variation on Protein and RNA Networks, Andreas Beyer, University of Cologne, Germany | |
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM | Novel Trans-eQTL Analysis Demonstrates Effect of Population Genetic Architecture on Detecting and Interpreting Regulatory Associations, Terrence Furey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States | |
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | |
Chair: Christina Leslie (MSKCC) |
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Keynote: Genome-wide Analysis of Protein-DNA Interactions, Jussi Taipale, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | System Wide Analyses have Underestimated Transcriptional Importance in Animals, Jingyi Jessica Li, University of California, Los Angeles, United States | |
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Mapping Functional Transcription Factor Networks from Gene Expression Data, Michael R. Brent, Washington University, United States | |
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Integrating Gene Expression and Sequence Data with Existing Biological Knowledge to Model Context-specific Gene Regulation, Sofia Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou, Stanford University, United States | |
12:15 PM - 13:30 PM | Lunch & Poster Session | |
Chair: Roger Pique-Regi (Wayne State University) |
13:30 PM - 14:00 PM | Keynote: The Transcriptome of Drosophila Melanogaster, Brenton R. Graveley, University of Connecticut Health Center, United States |
14:00 PM - 14:20 PM | Determination and Inference of Eukaryotic Transcription Factor Sequence Specificity, Matt Weirauch, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, United States | |
14:20 PM - 14:35 PM | Informational Requirements for Transcriptional Regulation, Ivan Erill, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States | |
14:35 PM - 14:50 PM | Widespread Evidence for DNA Shape Dependent Transcription-factor Binding Preferences, Iris Dror, Technion, Israel | |
14:50 PM - 15:05 PM | Analysis of C2H2 Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using a High-throughput ChIP-seq Approach, Frank W. Schmitges, University of Toronto, Canada | |
15:05 PM - 15:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
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15:30 PM - 15:45 PM | Comprehensive Quantification of Transcription Factor Thermodynamics and Kinetics for Both Specific and Nonspecific Binding Modes on a High-Throughput Sequencer, Robin Friedman, Institut Pasteur, France |
15:45 PM - 16:00 PM | Using Reporter Synthetic Genetic Array (R-SGA) Analysis to Explore Transcriptional Regulatory Pathways in Budding Yeast, Hendrikje Goettert, University of Toronto, Canada | |
16:00 PM - 16:15 PM | A Massively Parallel In Vivo Enhancer Assay Reveals that Highly Local Features Determine the Cis-regulatory Function of ChIP-seq Peaks, Michael A. White, Washington University, United States | |
16:15 PM - 16:45 PM | Conference Wrap-up, Top 10 Announcements, Survey Results |
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