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| Rocky 2012 Conference Dates | December 6 - 8 |
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Welcome to the tenth annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference, a meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The organizers hope that you enjoy the program, and find the conference a productive opportunity to meet researchers, students and industrial users of bioinformatics technology.
The Rocky series began ten years ago as a regional conference, and has grown into an international program with a spotlight on regional development in the computational biosciences. The presenters of the Rocky conference are scientists representing a broad spectrum of universities, industrial enterprises, government laboratories, and medical libraries from around the world. The meeting is a chance to get to know your colleagues near and far, seek collaborative opportunities, and find synergies that can drive our field forward.
We hope you enjoy the science, the company, and the spectacular scenery of the Rocky Mountains. Welcome!
Larry Hunter
Rocky 2012 Conference Chair
| Go directly to: [Friday - December 7] [Saturday - December 8] | ||
| THURSDAY – December 6, 2012 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | Session Type |
| 12:00 pm | 1:30 pm | Registration |
| 1:30 pm | 2:15 pm | Keynote 1 Helping Machines to Help Us: New Advances in Biological Ontologies, Databases and Machine Reasoning Chris Mungall, PhD Bioinformatics Scientist Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Projects Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA, USA |
| 2:15 pm | 2:25 pm | Oral Presentation 1 Integrated Database for Analyzing the Impact of Coding SNPs in the Human Genome Presenting Author: Tal Oron, Buck Institute |
| 2:25 pm | 2:35 pm | Oral Presentation 2 Biologically Plausible Enhancements to Models of Protein Interaction Network Evolution Presenting Author: Scott Kirkpatrick, California State University, Chico |
| 2:35 pm | 2:45 pm | Oral Presentation 3 In-silico Identification of an Epithelial Core Signature in Human Tumors Presenting Author: Chirayu Goswami, IU School of Medicine, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis |
| 2:45 pm | 2:55 pm | Oral Presentation 4 Analytical Characterization of a Discrete Next Generation Sequencing Panel for Clinical Testing Presenting Author: Eric Klee, Mayo Clinic |
| 2:55 pm | 3:05 pm | Oral Presentation 5 Integration of Multiple Genomic Assays in Predicting Breast Cancer Survival Presenting Author: Howard Yang, National Cancer Institute |
| 3:05 pm | 3:15 pm | Oral Presentation 6 Determinants of Instability in Cancer Genomes Presenting Author: Subhajyoti De, University of Colorado |
| 3:15 pm | 3:35 pm | Break |
| 3:35 pm | 3:45 pm | Oral Presentation 7 Compression of Structured High-throughput Sequencing Data Presenting Author: Fabien Campagne, Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
| 3:45 pm | 3:55 pm | Oral Presentation 8 Scaffold-builder for Combining De Novo and Reference-guided Assembly Presenting Author: Genivaldo Silva, San Diego State University |
| 3:55 pm | 4:05 pm | Oral Presentation 9 Expression Genome-wide Association Study (eGWAS) to Identify Therapeutic Targets and Functional Relationships in Huntington's Disease Presenting Author: Alexander Alleavitch, The Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| 4:05 pm | 4:15 pm | Oral Presentation 10 Compiling Genome Metadata For Comparative Analysis Presenting Author: Daniel Cuevas, San Diego State University |
| 4:15 pm | 4:25 pm | Oral Presentation 11 Hypergraph Kernels for Protein Function Prediction using Protein Complexes Presenting Author: Jose Lugo-Martinez, Indiana University |
| 4:25 pm | 4:35 pm | Oral Presentation 12 PharmacoMicrobiomics: A Database for Drug-Microbiome Interactions or Pharmacogenomics of the Human Supraorganism Presenting Author: Mariam Rizkallah, American University in Cairo |
| 4:35 pm | 5:20 pm | Keynote 2 Wisdom of Crowds for Constructing Gene Regulatory Networks and Predicting Drug Sensitivities James Costello, PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Boston University Massachusetts - USA |
| 6:30 pm | 9:30 pm | Banquet, Thursday, December 6, 2012 Location: Il Poggio Restaurant, Snowmass Village |
| FRIDAY – December 7, 2012 [return to top] |
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| Start Time | End Time | Session Type |
| 9:00 am | 9:45 am | Keynote 3 Deep Sequencing and Assembly of Targeted Amplicons in Microbial Communities Christopher S. Miller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology University of Colorado Denver, USA |
| 9:45 am | 9:55 am | Oral Presentation 13 Analyzing "Unlikely" Semantic Similarity Across Multiple Ontologies Presenting Author: Darcy Davis, Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| 9:55 am | 10:05 am | Oral Presentation 14 lcmix: An R Package for Integration of Genome-scale Data Presenting Author: Daniel Dvorkin, University of Colorado |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | Oral Presentation 15 Detection of Differential Polyadenylation as an Alternative Cancer Presenting Author: Marker Jimin Shin, Soongsil University |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | Oral Presentation 16 Mining Social Network Postings for Mentions of Potential Adverse Drug Reactions Presenting Author: Graciela Gonzalez, Arizona State University |
| 10:25 am | 10:35 am | Oral Presentation 17 Understanding Heart Remodelling in Congestive Heart Failure through Analysis of High-Dimensional miRNA, mRNA, and Clinical Data Presenting Author: Michael Hinterberg, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 10:35 am | 10:50 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | 11:00 am | Oral Presentation 18 Gene Content Based Functional Trait Analysis through Comparative Microbial Whole Genome Sequences Presenting Author: Erliang Zeng, University of Notre Dame |
| 11:00 am | 11:10 am | Oral Presentation 19 Genetic Programming Based Feature Generation for Automated Functional Analysis and Annotation of DNA Sequences Presenting Author: Amarda Shehu, George Mason University |
| 11:10 am | 11:20 am | Oral Presentation 20 Of Random Forests and Networks: Insights into the Alzheimer Etiology Presenting Author: George Acquaah-Mensah, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences |
| 11:20 am | 11:30 am | Oral Presentation 21 Discovering Transcription Factor Regulatory Targets Using Gene Expression and Binding Data Presenting Author: Mark Maienschein-Cline, University of Chicago |
| 11:30 am | 11:40 am | Oral Presentation 22 Dynamics of sRNA Expression in the Human Intestinal Microbiota Presenting Author: Jin Park, California State University, Fresno |
| 11:40 am | 11:50 am | Oral Presentation 23 Negation of Gene Ontology Concepts Presenting Author: Richard Osborne, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 11:50 am | 12:00 pm | Oral Presentation 24 A Correlation-based Gene Selection Method On Microarray Data Using Support Vector Machines Presenting Author: Juana Canul-Reich, Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco |
| 12:00 pm | 4:00 pm | Ski Break |
| 4:00 pm | 4:45 pm | Keynote 4 From Tissue-specific Functional Networks to Understanding Human Disease Olga Troyanskaya, PhD Department of Computer Science and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University New Jersey, USA |
| 4:45 pm | 4:55 pm | Oral Presentation 25 KBase: An Integrated Knowledgebase for Predictive Biology and Environmental Research Presenting Author: Kevin Keegan, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 4:55 pm | 5:05 pm | Oral Presentation 26 Pharmacogenetic Annotation on Human Non-synonymous Variants By Machine Learning Presenting Author: Chet Seligman, Buck Institute for Research in Aging |
| 5:05 pm | 5:15 pm | Oral Presentation 27 A Dynamic Model of Protein Fold Evolution Presenting Author: Guy Tal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 5:15 pm | 5:25 pm | Oral Presentation 28 Identifying Driver Mutations in Cancer with Protein Structures Presenting Author: Andrew Bordner, Mayo Clinic |
| 5:25 pm | 5:35 pm | Oral Presentation 29 Multi-Scale Visualizations of Biological Data Presenting Author: Carsten Görg, University of Colorado |
| 5:35 pm | 8:30 pm | Reception and Poster Session Viceroy Room - Ballroom |
| SATURDAY – December 8, 2012 [return to top] |
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| Start Time | End Time | Session Type |
| 9:00 am | 9:45 am | Keynote 5 The Human Gene Connectome: A Map of Short Cuts for Morbid Allele Discovery Yuval Itan, PhD The Rockefeller University New York - USA |
| 9:45 am | 9:55 am | Oral Presentation 30 Automated Concept Annotation: How Are We Doing? Presenting Author: Christopher Funk, University of Colorado |
| 9:55 am | 10:05 am | Oral Presentation 31 How Aneuploidy and Polyploid Impact Adaptation Presenting Author: Robin Dowell, University of Colorado |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | Oral Presentation 32 PePr: A Peak-calling and Prioritization Pipeline to Test Group Differences in ChIP-Seq Data Presenting Author: Yanxiao Zhang, University of Michigan |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | Oral Presentation 33 Provenance of Unaligned Reads in ChIP-Seq Studies Presenting Author: Zachary Ouma, Ohio State University |
| 10:25 am | 10:35 am | Oral Presentation 34 Constructing Informative Prior from Multiple Knowledge Sources to Improve Network Inference Presenting Author: Paurush Praveen, University of Bonn |
| 10:35 am | 10:50 am | Break 15 |
| 10:50 am | 11:20 am | Keynote 6 How to Interpret One Thousand Proteins From (lmost) One Thousand Samples, and What This Can Tell Us About Heart Disease Biology And Individual Risk. Alex Stewart Somalogic Boulder, CO, USA |
| 11:20 am | 11:10 am | Oral Presentation 35 Molecular Prediction by Regression (MPR) a New Platform for Predicting Molecular Targets and Multiple Drug Classes for Tumor Subtypes Presenting Author: David Astling, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 11:30 am | 11:40 am | Oral Presentation 36 Systems Biology Study of Automated Gene Functional Annotations Reveals Highly Predictable Concepts in Various Biomedical Ontologies Presenting Author: Tobias Wittkop, Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| 11:40 am | 11:50 am | Oral Presentation 37 Characterizing the SOS Response of the Human Microbiome Presenting Author: Ivan Erill, University of Maryland Baltimore County |
| 11:50 am | 12:00 pm | Oral Presentation 38 Using Index-based Alignments to Determine Clade Specificity in Metagenomic Samples Presenting Author: Ashok Sivakumar, Johns Hopkins University |
| 12:00 pm | 12:10 pm | Oral Presentation 39 Phylogeography of Avian and Human Influenza in the Southwest United States Presenting Author: Matthew Scotch, Arizona State University |
| 12:10 pm | 12:20 pm | Oral Presentation 40 Analysis of Genome Wide DNA Methylation Changes in Human Skeletal Muscle Associated with Aging Presenting Author: Artem Zykovich, Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| 12:20 pm | 4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:00 pm | 4:10 pm | Oral Presentation 41 Identifying Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Variable Penetrance Presenting Author: Kymberleigh Pagel, Indiana University Bloomington |
| 4:10 pm | 4:20 pm | Oral Presentation 42 Comparative Genomics and Species-Specific Gene Testing in Emerging Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pathogens Presenting Author: Rebecca Davidson, National Jewish Health |
| 4:20 pm | 4:30 pm | Oral Presentation 43 Rediscovery of the p53 Transcriptome Presenting Author: Mary Allen, University of Colorado |
| 4:30 pm | 4:40 pm | Oral Presentation 44 A Comparison of Co-temporal Signals from Real Biological and Simulated Data Presenting Author: Edward Allen, Wake Forest University |
| 4:40 pm | 4:50 pm | Oral Presentation 45 What is in Control of Replication Timing Presenting Author: Sven Bilke, National Cancer Institute |
| 4:50 pm | 5:00 pm | Oral Presentation 46 Discourse Classification Using the CRAFT Corpus Presenting Author: Elizabeth White, University of Colorado |
| 5:00 pm | 5:45 pm | Keynote 7 The Ins and Outs of Developing Biological Applications on a Massively Parallel Multi-Core System 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 |
| 5:45 pm | ADJOURN | |
| Go directly to: [Thursday - December 6 ] [Friday - December 7 ] | ||
| Go directly to: [Friday - December 7] [Saturday - December 8] | ||
| THURSDAY – December 6, 2012 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | Session Type |
| 12:00 pm | 1:30 pm | Registration |
| 1:30 pm | 2:15 pm | Keynote 1 - Chris Mungall |
| 2:15 pm | 3:15 pm | Oral Presentations 1 - 6 |
| 3:15 pm | 3:35 pm | Break |
| 3:35 pm | 4:35 pm | Oral Presentations 7 - 12 |
| 4:35 pm | 5:20 pm | Keynote 2 - James Costello |
| 6:30 pm | 9:30 pm | Banquet, Thursday, December 6, 2012 Location: Il Poggio Restaurant, Snowmass Village |
| FRIDAY – December 7, 2012 [return to top] |
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| Start Time | End Time | Session Type |
| 9:00 am | 9:45 am | Keynote 3 - Chris Miller |
| 9:45 am | 10:35 am | Oral Presentations 13 - 17 |
| 10:35 am | 10:50 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | 12:00 pm | Oral Presentations 18 - 24 |
| 12:00 pm | 4:00 pm | Ski Break |
| 4:00 pm | 4:45 pm | Keynote 4 - Olga Troyanskaya |
| 4:45 pm | 5:35 pm | Oral Presentation 25 - 29 |
| 5:35 pm | 8:30 pm | Reception and Poster Session Viceroy Room - Ballroom |
| SATURDAY – December 8, 2012 [return to top] |
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| Start Time | End Time | Session Type |
| 9:00 am | 9:45 am | Keynote 5 - Yuval Itan |
| 9:45 am | 10:35 am | Oral Presentations 30 - 34 |
| 10:35 am | 10:50 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | 11:20 am | Keynote 6 - Alex Stewart SomaLogic Presentation |
| 11:20 am | 12:20 pm | Oral Presentations 35 - 40 |
| 12:20 pm | 4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:00 pm | 5:00 pm | Oral Presentations 41 - 46 |
| 5:00 pm | 5:45 pm | Keynote 7 - Kirk Jordan |
| Go directly to: [Thursday - December 6 ] [Friday - December 7 ] | ||
>>Click here for to submit to the Call for Presentations<<
Submission Deadline: October 04, 2012
The Rocky 2012 Conference will provide opportunities for short "flash" presentations (10 minute talks) and poster presentations on current projects from as many attendees as possible. Original presentations (including significant works-in-progress) are solicited in all areas that involve the application of advanced computational methods to significant problems in biology or medicine.
On the "Call for Presentations" page, you may select to give a "poster presentation", an "oral presentation", or "both". We will attempt to accommodate all requests and will confirm your request on November 2, 2012.
Please note: All presenters must register as a conference attendee by November 6 in order to give a presentation at Rocky 2012.
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