Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2015
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
Updated May 04, 2015
| CONFERENCE HOST UNIVERSITY AND GOLD SPONSOR: |
Purdue University
Vice President, Office of Research
Bioinformatics Core
www.purdue.edu/
Indiana University
University Information Technology Services
Department of Biology
School of Informatics and Computing
Faculty of 1000
http://f1000.com/
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Springer
www.springer.com/gp/
University of Michigan Bioinformatics Core
www.ccmb.med.umich.edu/bioinf-core
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PerkinElmer
www.perkinelmer.com/
Purdue University
Agricultural Research
https://ag.purdue.edu/arp/Pages/default.aspx
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Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2015
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Updated February 24, 2015
The Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference:
- Provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research findings and methods.
- Fosters long-term collaborative relationships and networking opportunities within the domain of computational approaches to biology.
GLBIO has established a strong reputation for building relationships among a nationally prominent bioscience research community, showcasing the North American Great Lakes region as a perfect place to conduct computer-aided research in the life sciences. Your organization can play a visible role in GLBIO as attendees consider and work toward solutions to important scientific and medical problems being addressed by the bioinformatics community.
Whether you are looking to boost sales, bolster awareness or recruit top candidates in computational biology and bioinformatics, GLBIO provides an excellent opportunity for targeted exposure within the North American Great Lakes region. The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) offers customized packages to meet your marketing budget and sales needs. Contact us for more information or to put together a multi-conference package to enhance your exposure to our membership.
To confirm your sponsorship or for additional information please contact Cori Dossett, Meeting Planner, ISCB at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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2015 SPONSORSHIP GUIDE
Every year, GLBIO organizers prepare a full agenda on the latest developments in bioinformatics and biologically relevant applications. From novice to expert, attendees partake in a variety of workshops, tutorials, presentations, posters, networking, and exhibits during the conference.
The 2015 Sponsorship Guide is also available in pdf. Click here.
2014 Conference
Programming Facts |
2015 GLBIO Conference Committee |
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GLBIO 2014 lasted 2.5 days, and consisted of the following presentations:
- 7 keynotes
- 7 tutorials
- 12 highlights talks
- 9 research talks
- 13 flash talks
- 102 poster presentations,
- presented in two sessions
- 1 educational panel
- 1 career symposium
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Steering Committee Chair:
- Lonnie Welch,
Ohio University
Program Chairs:
- Daisuke Kihara,
Purdue University
- John Parkinson,
Hospital for Sick Kids and the University of
Toronto
- Predrag Radivojac,
Indiana University
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- Online at the GLBIO website prior to and during the conference
- Onsite at the conference jobs board
- On the ISCB Careers site for 90 days post-conference
- Schedule in person interviews and network with potential job candidates
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Contact:
Cori Dossett, Meeting Planner, ISCB
at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.to confirm your presence at GLBIO 2015
and BE in front of your target audience!
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SPONSORSHIP LEVELS
| $7,500 Sponsorship includes: |
- Three (3) complimentary conference registrations
- Exclusive Named Sponsor of a Poster Session
- One (1) Exhibitor Showcase display space
- One (1) 20-minute tech talk
- Company name recognition with hyperlink on sponsors page of conference website
- Company name in the conference program
- Full-page black and white advertisement in program
(ad must be received by April 1, 2015)
- Logo recognition during conference opening session
- Logo recognition on conference sponsor signage
- One company marketing piece inserted in conference bag
- Unlimited job posts to the GLBIO Career Fair
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| $5,000 Gold Sponsorship includes: |
- Two (2) complimentary conference registrations
- One (1) Exhibitor Showcase display space
- One (1) 20-minute tech talk
- Company name recognition with hyperlink on sponsors page of conference website
- Company name in the conference program
- Half-page black and white advertisement in program
(ad must be received by April 1, 2015)
- Logo recognition during conference opening session
- Logo recognition on conference sponsor signage
- One company marketing piece inserted in the conference bag
- Up to ten (10) job posts to GLBIO Career Fair
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| $3,000 Silver Sponsorship includes: |
- One (1) complimentary conference registration
- One (1) Exhibitor Showcase display space
- Company name recognition with hyperlink on sponsors page of conference website
- Company name in the conference program
- Quarter-page black and white advertisement in program
(ad must be received by April 1, 2015)
- Logo recognition during conference opening session
- Logo recognition on conference sponsor signage
- One company marketing piece inserted in the conference bag
- Up to six (6) job posts to GLBIO Career Fair
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| $2,500 Bronze Sponsorship includes: |
- One (1) complimentary conference registration
- Company name recognition with hyperlink on sponsors page of conference website
- Company name in the conference program
- Quarter-page black and white advertisement in program
(ad must be received by April 1, 2015)
- Logo recognition during conference opening session
- Logo recognition on conference sponsor signage
- Up to five (5) job posts to GLBIO Career Fair
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| $1,500 Tech Talk Sponsorship includes: |
- One (1) complimentary conference registration
- 20 minute presentation (15 minutes presentation and 5 minutes Q&A)
- These presentations are designed to allow organizations to create awareness of new technologies, services, and items relevant to attendees
- Requests for a tech talk will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee
- Space is limited, and it may not be possible to accept all requests.
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| $1,000 Coffee Break Sponsorship includes: |
- One (1) complimentary conference registration
- Company name recognition with hyperlink on sponsors page of conference website
- Company name recognition in conference program
- Logo recognition during conference opening session and on conference sponsor signage
- Choice of time of coffee break, and signage at break recognizing sponsor
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| $1,500 Exhibitor Showcase includes: |
- One (1) Exhibitor Showcase display space
-Please note the showcase is designed for pop up displays, approximately six feet in length, or a standard tabletop exhibit
- One (1) complimentary conference registration
- Company name recognition sponsors page of conference website
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| $500 Publisher or Non-profit Table includes: |
- One (1) Exhibitor Showcase display space
- One (1) complimentary Exhibits Only conference registration
- Company name listed on the conference website and in conference program
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| Recruiter Package includes: |
- ISCB Member $500
- Non-member $750
Post one job in three locations:
- On the GLBIO website prior to and during the conference and onsite at the conference jobs board
- Onsite at the conference jobs board
- On the ISCB career website, up to 90 days after the conference
And, receive one (1) full conference registration |
 Student Travel Fellowship Opportunity
Many students at all levels of their educational journey attend GLBIO. Sponsor a student through the Travel Fellowship program, and begin a relationship that mentors and opens doors for your organization to new talent and the student as they grow in their careers.
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| Featured Opportunity - Exclusive Banquet Sponsor $7,500 |
- Three (3) complimentary conference registrations
- Exclusive Named Sponsor of Conference Banquet
- Company name recognition with hyperlink on sponsors page of conference website
- Company name in the conference program
- Full-page black and white advertisement in program
(ad must be received by April 1, 2015)
- Logo recognition during conference opening session
- Logo recognition on conference sponsor signage
- Two (2) minutes of podium time at the Conference Banquet
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Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2015
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - GLBIO is pleased to announce the following speakers.
Updated April 21, 2015
DR. NANCY J. COX
Monday, May 18, 6:15 - 7:15PM
Location: Fowler Auditorium
Large-scale Data Integration: Genomes, Transcriptomes, and Electronic Medical Records
Professor and Section Chief, Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Chicago. Joint appointment: Dept. of Human Genetics, Member: Computation Institute, Committee on Genetics, Committee on Molecular Medicine, Committee on Cancer Biology. B.S. in Biology from the University of Notre Dame, 1978 and Ph.D. in Human Genetics from Yale University, 1982. Learn more here: http://genemed.bsd.uchicago.edu/old/
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DR. MONA SINGH
Tuesday, May 19, 9:00 - 10:00AM
Location: Fowler Auditorium
Data driven approaches for uncovering variation in protein interaction networks
Mona Singh is a Professor of Computer Science, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Department of Computer Science, at Princeton University. Dr. Singh is involved in the development of algorithms for a diverse set of problems in computational molecular biology. Dr. Singh is particularly interested in predicting specificity in protein interactions and uncovering how molecular interactions and functions vary across context, organisms and individuals. High-throughput biological datasets are leveraged in order to develop data-driven algorithms for predicting protein interactions and specificity; for analyzing biological networks in order to uncover cellular organization, functioning, and pathways; for uncovering protein functions via sequences and structures; and for analyzing proteomics and sequencing data. Learn more here: www.cs.princeton.edu/~mona/
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DR. JIAN-KANG ZHU
Wednesday, May 20, 9:00 - 10:00AM
Location: Fowler Auditorium
Regulation of DNA methylation in plants
Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology, Departments of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture and Biochemistry. Dr. Zhu earned his bachelor's degree in soils and agricultural chemistry from Beijing Agricultural University; his master's degree in botany from the University of California, Riverside, and his doctorate in plant physiology from Purdue. He comes to Purdue from the University of California, Riverside, where he was the Jane Johnson Chair Professor in the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences. He is internationally renowned for his creative and path-breaking research that has sought to elucidate the signaling pathways in plants that govern their responses to environmental stresses. His research has contributed fundamentally to current understanding of the molecular-genetic mechanisms underlying salinity tolerance, drought tolerance, and low temperature stress in plants. Dr. Zhu’s laboratory has been central in the effort to identify key genes that could be manipulated to modify crop responses to abiotic stresses, with the ultimate goals of both enhanced agriculture productivity and decreased degradation of the environment. Dr. Zhu was inducted into the US National Academy of Sciences in 2010. Learn more here: https://ag.purdue.edu/hla/zhulab/Pages/default.aspx
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DR. TANDY WARNOW
Wednesday, May 20, 3:30 - 4:30PM
Location: Fowler Auditorium
Grand Challenges in Phylogenomics
Session summary: Estimating the Tree of Life will likely involve a two-step procedure, where in the first step trees are estimated on many genes, and then the gene trees are combined into a tree on all the taxa. However, the true gene trees may not agree with the species tree due to biological processes such as deep coalescence, gene duplication and loss, and horizontal gene transfer. Statistically consistent methods based on the multi-species coalescent model have been developed to estimate species trees in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting; however, the relative accuracy of these methods compared to the usual "concatenation" approach is a matter of substantial debate within the research community. Dr. Warnow will present results showing that coalescent-based estimation methods are impacted by gene tree estimation error, so that they can be less accurate than concatenation in many cases. She will also present two new methods (ASTRAL and statistical binning) for estimating species trees in the presence of gene tree conflict due to ILS that are more accurate than current methods.
Key to these methods is addressing gene tree estimation error more effectively. Finally, present preliminary results investigating whether statistically consistent accurate species tree estimation is possible when gene trees have estimation error. ASTRAL (Mirarab et al., Bioinformatics 2014) was used in the Thousand Plant Transcriptome Project (Wickett et al., PNAS 2014), and Statistical Binning (Mirarab et al., Science 2014) was used in the Avian Phylogenomics Project (Jarvis, Mirarab, et al., Science 2014).
Biography: Tandy Warnow is the Founder Professor of Bioengineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, Dr. Warnow is an affiliate in the Departments of Mathematics, Entomology, and Statistics, and a member of the Institute for Genomic Biology.
Dr. Warnow's research combines mathematics, computer science, and statistics to develop improved models and algorithms for reconstructing complex and large-scale evolutionary histories in both biology and historical linguistics. She received her PhD in Mathematics at UC Berkeley under the direction of Gene Lawler, and did postdoctoral training with Simon Tavare and Michael Waterman at USC. Dr. Warnow received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Award in Science and Engineering in 1996, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship in 2006, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for 2011.
Dr. Warnow's current research focuses on phylogeny and alignment estimation for very large datasets (10,000 to 1,000,000 sequences), estimating species trees and phylogenetic networks from collections of gene trees, and metagenomics. Learn more here: http://tandy.cs.illinois.edu
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