9th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference

Agenda at a Glance

Updated Dec. 07, 2011
(Schedule and locations are subject to change. Please check back for updates.)


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Thursday – December 8, 2011
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Registration
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Keynote 1
The Future of Research Communication: From Surfing to Deep Diving

Judith A. Blake, PhD

Associate Professor
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine - USA
1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Oral Presentations 1 - 6
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Break (15 minutes)
3:00 pm – 4:10 pm Oral Presentations 7 - 13
4:10 pm – 4:25 pm Break (15 minutes)
4:25 pm – 5:10 pm Keynote 2
Building Cell Maps: Status and Challenges

Emek Demir, PhD

Computational Biology Center
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York USA
5:10 pm – 6:20 pm Oral Presentations 14 - 20
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Banquet, Thursday, December 8, 2011
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Banquet
Location: Il Poggio Restaurant, Snowmass Village
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Friday – December 9, 2011
9:00 am – 9:45 am Keynote 3
Project Halo: Constructing and Exploiting a Formal Representation of a Biology Textbook to Understand and Answer Users' Questions

Peter Clark, PhD

Vulcan Inc.
Seattle, Washington - USA
9:45 am – 10:45 am Oral Presentations 21 - 26
10:45 am – 11:00 am Break (15 minutes)
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Oral Presentations 27 - 32
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Keynote 4
Advances in Protein Biomarker Discovery: Controlling for Sample Handling Artifacts and Confounding Effects

Mike Mehan, PhD
SomaLogic
Boulder, Colorado - USA
12:30 pm – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Keynote 5
Deciphering of Human Protein Interactome using Structural Complexes

Anna Panchenko, PhD
Associate Investigator
National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH
Maryland - USA
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm Oral Presentations 33 - 38
5:45 pm – 8:00 pm Reception and Poster Session
Snowmass Conference Center (across street from Silvertree)
Sinclair Room

Saturday – December 10, 2011
9:00 am – 9:45 am Keynote 6
A New Day, A New High Performance Computer, What Does It Mean for the Life Sciences?


Kirk E. Jordan, PhD
Emerging Solutions Executive & Associate Program Director
Computational Science Center
IBM T.J. Watson Research
Member, IBM Academy of Technology
Massachusetts - USA
9:45 am – 10:35 am Oral Presentations 39 - 43
10:35 am – 11:05 am Keynote 7
SOMAmer-based Proteomic Analysis with Machine Learning


Hans Peter Graf, PhD
NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Princeton, New Jersey - USA
11:05 am – 12:30 pm Poster Session
Snowmass Conference Center (across street from Silvertree)
Sinclair Room
12:30 pm – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Oral Presentations 44 - 49
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm Keynote 8
Transfer Function Analysis of Signal Transduction
- The PSF System


Gabriele Scheler, PhD
Mountain View, California - USA
5:45 pm Rocky 2011 Closing Comments

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