Special Sessions

ISMB 2010 will feature Special Session presentations throughout the conference July 11 - July 13. Special Sessions have the purpose of introducing the scientific community to relevant scientific issues and topics that are typically not within the focus of an ISMB meeting. Preliminary program information on Special Sessions is noted below.
(Schedules subject to change)


Special Session 1: Chromatin and Gene Regulation I: Nucleosomes
Special Session 2: Chromatin and Gene Regulation II: Epigenomics
Special Session 3: Computational Approaches in Pharmacogenomics
Special Session 4: The Future of Scientific Publishing
Special Session 5: Visualization of Biological Networks
Special Session 6: Data Analysis in Genome-scale RNAi Research

 

Special Session 1: Nucleosome
Organizer(s): Eran Segal
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel

Date:   Sunday, July 11
Start Time:  10:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Room:  312

 

Special Session 2: Computational Epigenomics
Organizer(s): Manolis Kellis
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Date:   Sunday, July 11
Start Time:  2:30 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
Room:  312
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Special Session 3: Computational Approaches in Pharmacogenomics
Organizer(s): Par Matsson
University of California, San Francisco, USA

Avner Schlessinger
University of California, San Francisco, USA

Date:    Monday, July 12
Start Time:  10:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Room:  312
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Special Session 4: The Future of Scientific Publishing
Organizer(s): Scott Markel
Accelrys, San Diego, CA, USA

Date:   Monday, July 12
Start Time:  2:30 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
Room:  312
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Special Session 5: Visualization of biological networks
Organizer(s): Igor Jurisica
Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital/UHN
Toronto, ON, Canada

Date:   Tuesday, July 13
Start Time:  10:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Room:  312

 

Special Session 6: Data Analysis in Genome-scale RNAi Research 
Organizer(s): Xiaohua Douglas Zhang
Merck Research Laboratories West Point, PA, USA

Date:   Tuesday, July 13
Start Time:  2:15 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
Room:  312