Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2014
DETAILED AGENDA
Updated June 03, 2014 (Schedule and locations are subject to change. Please check back for updates.)
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| FRIDAY – May 16, 2014 | |||
| Start Time | End Time | SESSION TYPE | LOCATION |
| Breakfast on Own | |||
| 08:00 AM | 05:00 PM | Registration | Outside 203-204 |
| 09:00 am | 10:30 am | Tutorials | |
| Introduction to Bioinformatics Jerek Meller |
Research Auditorium | ||
| Lincs Chemical Biology Data Analysis Workshop Mario Medvedovic |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 10:30 am | 11:00 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | 12:30 pm | Tutorials | |
| Introduction to Bioinformatics (continued) Jerek Meller |
Research Auditorium | ||
| canvasXpress: A Highly Interactive JavaScript Library for Analytic Visualization of Genomics Data Isaac Neuhaus |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 12:30 pm | 01:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 01:30 pm | 02:15 pm | Tutorials | |
| Enabling Collaborative Research Through Synapse: A Cloud Environment for Data Sharing and Analysis Abhishek Pratap |
Kresge Auditorium | ||
| Stochastic Chemical Kinestics: Theory and Systems Biological Applications Presentation (pdf) Péter Érdi |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 03:00 pm | 03:20 pm | Break | |
| 03:20 pm | 04:50 pm | Tutorials | |
| Methods and Approaches for the Analysis of Gene Signaling Pathways and Disease Gene Ranking and Systems Genetics Expression Mutation Sorin Draghici and Anil Jegga |
Kresge Auditorium | ||
| 04:50 pm | 05:00 pm | Break | |
| 05:00 PM | 06:00 PM | Keynote Speaker: Charles Brooks PCalign: A Method to Quantify Physicochemical Similarity of Protein-Protein Interfaces |
Kresge Auditorium |
| 06:30 pm | 06:45 pm | Buses leave Marriott for Sign Museum > Click here for flyer < | Travel to Sign Museum |
| 07:00 pm | 10:00 pm | Annual Banquet Keynote Speaker: Anthony Phillipakis Critical Bioinformatics for the future of Medicine and Startup Companies |
Sign Museum |
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| SATURDAY – May 17, 2014 | |||
| Start Time | End Time | SESSION TYPE | LOCATION |
| Breakfast on Own | |||
| 08:00 am | 05:00 pm | Registration | Outside 203-204 |
| 08:20 AM | 08:40 AM | GenomOncology Tech Talk (GenomOncology.com) |
Kresge Auditorium |
| 08:45 AM | 09:00 AM | Morning Welcome | Kresge Auditorium |
| 09:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Keynote Speaker: Gary Bader Pathway Analysis of Genomics Data |
Kresge Auditorium |
| 10:00 am | 10:20 am | Break | |
| 10:20 AM | 12:00 PM | RESEARCH | |
| 10:20 AM | 10:40 AM | RESEARCH Prediction of Functionally Important Genes for Target Identification of Lung Cancer Disease & Pharmacophore Modeling and Molecular Docking for PEP inhibitor Venkatesh Arulalapperumal, Sundarapandian Thangapandian, Shalini John, Songmi Kim, Mahreen Arooj, Sugunadevi Sakkiah, Yuno Lee, Guang Ping Cao and Keun Woo Lee |
Kresge Auditorium |
| 10:40 AM | 11:00 AM | RESEARCH Beegle: A Generic Tool for Disease-Gene Annotation based on Literature Mining Presentation (pdf)Sarah Elshal, Jesse Davis, Amin Ardeshirdavani and Yves Moreau |
Kresge Auditorium |
| 11:00 AM | 11:20 AM | RESEARCH Evaluating the Efficiency and Scalability of End-to-End Next- Gen Sequencing Data Analysis in Hadoop Kareem Aggour, Dipen Sangurdekar, Lee Newberg, Vijay Kumar, Chinnappa Kodira and John Graf |
Kresge Auditorium |
| RESEARCH Classification Models for Clear CellRenal Carcinoma Stage Progression,Based on Tumor RNAseq ExpressionTrained Supervised MachineLearning Algorithms Zeenia Jagga and Dinesh Gupta |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | RESEARCH Reconstruction of Metabolic Pathways by Combining Probabilistic Graphical Model-based and Knowledge-based Methods Qi Qi, Jilong Li and Jianlin Cheng |
Kresge Auditorium |
| RESEARCH Characteristics of Equipartition for RNA Structure Hengwu Li and Keith A Crandall |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 11:40 AM | 12:00 PM | RESEARCH Identifying Common Components Across Biological Network Graphs Using a Bipartite Data Model Erich Baker, Chase Culpepper, Charles Phillips, Jason Bubier, Michael Langston and Elissa Chesler |
Kresge Auditorium |
| RESEARCH Enhancing Temporo-Geospatial Epidemiological Analysis of H5N1 Influenza using Phylogeography Dhananjai Rao |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 12:00 PM | 01:30 PM | Posters and Lunch - SESSION A |
UC MSB |
| 01:30 PM | 02:45 PM | HIGHLIGHTS | |
| 01:30 PM | 01:45 PM | HIGHLIGHTS High-Performance In-memory Genome Project: A Platform for Integrated Genome Data Analysis Matthieu-P. Schapranow |
Kresge Auditorium |
| HIGHLIGHTS MRFalign: Protein Homology Detection through Alignment of Markov Random Fields Jianzhu Ma, Sheng Wang, Zhiyong Wang and Jinbo Xu |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 01:45 PM | 02:00 PM | HIGHLIGHTS A Probabilistic Approach to Learn Chromatin Architecture and Accurate Inference of the NF-κB/RelA Regulatory Network Using ChIP-Seq Maga Rowicka, Abhishek Mitra, Norbert Dojer, Jun Yang, Shuhua Fu and Allan Brasier Rational |
Kresge Auditorium |
| HIGHLIGHTS Rational Engineering of the Fungal P450 Monooxygenase CYP5136A3 to Improve its Oxidizing Activity Toward Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Alexey Porollo and Jagjit Yadav |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 02:00 PM | 02:15 PM | HIGHLIGHTS Analysis and Reconstruction of 3D Conformation of Human Genome Zheng Wang, Renzhi Cao, Kristen Taylor, Aaron Briley, Tuan Trieu and Jianlin Cheng |
Kresge Auditorium |
| HIGHLIGHTS Biases in the Experimental Annotations of Protein Function and Their Effect on Our Understanding of Protein Function Space Alexandra Schnoes, David Ream, Alexander Thorman, Patricia Babbitt and Iddo Friedberg |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 02:15 PM | 02:30 PM | HIGHLIGHTS Potential Artem for Epigenomics Integration To Be Announced |
Kresge Auditorium |
| HIGHLIGHTS Applying Molecular Crowding Models to Simulations of Virus Capsid Assembly In Vitro Gregory Smith, Lu Xie, Byoungkoo Lee and Russell Schwartz |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 02:30 PM | 02:45 PM | HIGHLIGHTS The Quantitative Systems Pharmacological Approach: Anxiolytic Drugs and Altered Hippocampal Theta Rhythms Péter Érdi, Tibin John, Tamás Kiss and Colin Lever |
Kresge Auditorium |
| HIGHLIGHTS Validation of Predicted mRNA Splicing Mutations Using High-throughput Transcriptome Data Presentation (pdf)Coby Viner, Stephanie N. Dorman, Ben C. Shirley and Peter K. Rogan |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 02:45 PM | 03:00 PM | HIGHLIGHTS Wnt Signaling in Cancer: A Mathematical Systems Biology Modeling Ju Bao and Jie Zheng |
Kresge Auditorium |
| HIGHLIGHTS Bermuda: Bidirectional de novo Assembly of Transcripts with Low Expression and Uneven Coverage Utilizing Alternate de Bruijn Graphs Qingming Tang, Jian Peng, Sheng Wang and Jinbo Xu |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 03:00 PM | 03:15 PM |
Break | |
| 03:15 PM | 04:15 PM | Keynote Speaker: Michael Hawrylcz Atlases of the Prenatal, Developing, and Adult Human Brain |
Kresge Auditorium |
| 04:15 PM | 04:30 PM |
Break | |
| 04:30 pm | 05:30 pm | Bioinfomatics Career Session - Dr. Howard Adams Presentation (pdf) |
Kresge Auditorium |
| Educational Panel Discussion Led by Guenter Tusch Presentation (pdf) |
Rooms 203-204 |
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| 05:30 PM | 07:00 PM | Poster and Reception - SESSION B | UC MSB |
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| SUNDAY – May 18, 2014 | |||
| Start Time | End Time | SESSION TYPE |
LOCATION |
| Breakfast on Own | |||
| 08:30 am | 01:00 pm | Registration | Outside 203-204 |
| 09:00 AM | 11:00 AM | FLASH TALKS | |
| 09:00 AM | 09:12 AM | FLASH TALKS Improved Geometric Unmixing Models for Tumor Progression Theodore Roman, Brittany Fasy, Amir Nayyeri, Gary Miller and Russell Schwartz |
Kresge Auditorium |
| 09:12 AM | 09:24 AM | FLASH TALKS GLAD: A Mixed-membership Model for Heterogeneous Tumor Subtype Classification Hachem Saddiki, Jon McAuliffe and Patrick Flaherty |
Kresge Auditorium |
| FLASH TALKS Towards a Universal model of Gene Block Evolution in Bacteria David Ream and Iddo Friedberg |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 09:24 AM | 09:36 AM | FLASH TALKS Network Based Approach to Identify Dysregulated Genes and Pathways associated with Tumour Migration in Stage III Colorectal Cancer Kshithija Nagulapalli, Meeta Pradhan and Mathew Palakal |
Kresge Auditorium |
| FLASH TALKS RVD2: An Ultra-sensitive Variant Detection Model for Low-depth Targeted Next-generation Sequencing Data Yuting He and Patrick Flaherty |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 09:36 AM | 09:48 AM | FLASH TALKS Integrating microRNA expressions in Pathway Analysis Diana Diaz, Michele Donato and Sorin Draghici |
Kresge Auditorium |
| FLASH TALKS Computing Gene-Centric DNA Methylati on from Probe-Level Methylation Arrays Brittany Baur and Serdar Bozdag |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 09:48 AM | 10:00 AM | FLASH TALKS Systems Pharmacology Analysis of Drug-induced Peripheral Neuropathy Junguk Hur, Abra Guo, Wei-Yin Loh, Eva Feldman and Jane Bai |
Kresge Auditorium |
| FLASH TALKS Robust Imputation of Classical HLA Alleles from SNP Data Using Ensemble Classifiers Jacek Biesiada and Jarek Meller |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 10:00 AM | 10:12 AM | FLASH TALKS DNMKB: A Web-based Analysis System for Diabetic Neuropathy Microarray Data Meeyoung Park, Junguk Hur and Eva Feldman |
Kresge Auditorium |
| FLASH TALKS Real-Time Comparison of 3D Electron Microscopy Density Maps and Protein Shapes with EM-SURFER and 3D-SURFER 2.0 Juan Esquivel-Rodriguez, Yi Xiong, Xusi Han, Shuomeng Guang and Daisuke Kihara |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 10:12 AM | 10:24 AM | FLASH TALKS WARDROBE Experiment Management System: Web-based Platform for Integrated Epigenomics Analysis Andrey Kartashov and Artem Barski |
Kresge Auditorium |
| FLASH TALKS Joint Sequence Variation Analysis Across Multiple Protein Families Reveals More Native Contacts Jianzhu Ma, Sheng Wang and Jinbo Xu |
Rooms 203-204 | ||
| 10:25 AM | 11:00 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 am | 12:00 pm | Keynote Speaker: Tanya Berger-Wolf Computational Ecology |
Kresge Auditorium |
| 12:00 pm | 12:30 pm | Awards and Closing Remarks Awards Committee |
Kresge Auditorium |
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