8th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference

Agenda at a Glance

Updated Nov. 17, 2010
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Thursday – December 9, 2010
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Registration
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Keynote 1
Network as Biomarker for Ovarian Cancer Prognosis

Sol Efroni, PhD
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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
Data and Analytics Transforming Healthcare for Smarter Healthcare & Life Science

Kirk E. Jordan, PhD
Emerging Solutions Executive & Associate Program Director
Computational Science
IBM T.J. Watson Research
5:10 pm – 6:20 pm Oral Presentations 14 - 20
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Banquet, Thursday, December 9, 2010
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Banquet
Location: Il Poggio Restaurant, Snowmass Village

Friday – December 10, 2010
9:00 am – 9:45 am Keynote 3
Interactive Chromatin Modeling: Towards a Computational Karyotype

Thomas C. Bishop, PhD
Center for Computational Science
Tulane University
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 – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Keynote 4
Supporting Research and Analysis Across the Biomedical Literature Using Visual Analytics

Carsten Görg, PhD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
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 11, 2010
9:00 am – 9:45 am Keynote 5
New Approaches for Comparing Biological Trees and Networks


Shawn Gomez, PhD
University of NC-Chapel Hill
9:45 am – 10:35 am Oral Presentations 39 - 43
10:35 am – 12:00 pm Poster Session
Snowmass Conference Center (across street from Silvertree)
Sinclair Room
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Oral Presentations 44 - 49
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm Keynote 6
Thinking, Measuring, Calculating, and Diagnosing: From Platform to New Ideas about Biology

Larry Gold, MD, PhD
CEO and Chairman of the Board, SomaLogic, Inc.
Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
5:45 pm Rocky '10 Closing Comments

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