FULL AGENDA
Conference is being held at Victoria, College, University of Toronto.
Go directly to: [Tuesday - May 17] [Wednesday - May 18] [Thursday - May 19]
*As of May 16, 2016. Subject to change without notice.
| MONDAY – DAY 1 – May 16, 2016 | |||
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| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | Registration Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 10:30 am | 12:30 pm | Workshop 1 Microbiome Analysis: 16S & Metagenomics Morgan Langille, Rob Beiko, & Mike Hall Location: VC 213 |
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| Workshop 2 Jupyter Notebooks for Performing & Sharing Bioinformatics Analyses Jonathan Dursi Location: VC 101 |
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| Workshop 3 Quick Guide to Best Practices in Software Carpentry Marcelo Ponce & Erik Spence Location: VC 215 |
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| 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm | Lunch on own or Career Session in VC 115 |
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| 1:30 pm | 3:30 pm | Workshop 1 - continued Microbiome Analysis: 16S & Metagenomics Morgan Langille, Rob Beiko, & Mike Hall Location: VC 213 |
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| Workshop 3 - continued Quick Guide to Best Practices in Software Carpentry Marcelo Ponce & Erik Spence Location: VC 215 |
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| Workshop 4 Network visualization and analysis with Cytoscape Ruth Isserlin, Jeff Liu, Veronique Voisin (Bader lab) Location: VC 101 |
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| 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | Coffee break Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 4:00 pm | 5:00 pm | Keynote 1 STEVEN JONES Genomic analysis of cancer genomes to aid in clinical decision making Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 5:00 pm | 6:30 pm | Research Session 1 Location: Frye Auditorium |
Research Session 2 Location: VC 213 |
| 5:00 pm | 5:30 pm | TOPIC LEADER: Brendan Frey Precision Medicine Location: Frye Auditorium |
TOPIC LEADER: Sheelagh Carpendale Information Visualization and Visual Analysis Location: VC 213 |
| 5:30 pm | 5:45 pm | Jüri Reimand Network-driven discovery and interpretation of cancer driver mutations Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 5:30 pm | 5:50 pm | Paper: Alex Lu and Alan Moses An unsupervised kNN Method to systematically detect changes in protein localization in high-throughput microscopy images Location: VC 213 |
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| 5:45 pm | 6:00 pm | Peter Rogan, Yanxin Li, Ruth Wilkins, Farrah Flegal and Joan Knoll Radiation Dose Estimation by Automated Cytogenetic Biodosimetry Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 5:50 pm | 6:05 pm | Yannan Fan, Paula Ribeiro, Sarah Kimmins and Jianguo Xia miRNet - dissecting miRNA-target interactions and functional associations through network-based visual analysis Location: VC 213 |
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| 6:00 pm | 6:15 pm | Shraddha Pai, Shirley Hui, Ruth Isserlin, Hussam Kaka and Gary Bader Patient similarity networks as a framework for genetic case-control prediction in autism spectrum disorders Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 6:05 pm | 6:20 pm | Achal Dhariwal and Jeff Xia Statistical, Visual and Functional Analysis of 16S rRNA Marker Gene Data Location: VC 213 |
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| 6:15 pm | 6:30 pm | Eric Minwei Liu, Alexander Martinez Fundichely, Priyanka Dhingra, Andrea Sboner and Ekta Khurana Computational methods to identify cancer-driver single nucleotide variants and large rearrangements in non-coding regions Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 6:20 pm | 6:25 pm | Flash Talk: Houxiang Zhu, Lauren Misel, Mitchell Graham and Chun Liang CT-Finder: A Web Service for CRISPR Optimal Target Prediction and Visualization Location: VC 213 |
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| 6:30 pm | 7:00 pm | Free Time / Dinner on Own | |
| 7:00 pm | 9:00 pm | Welcome! Networking Reception at Duke of York Pub Location: 39 Prince Arthur Ave. |
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| TUESDAY – DAY 2 – May 17, 2016 | |||
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| 8:30 am | 6:00 pm | Registration Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Keynote 2 JENNIFER GARDY Infectious disease genomics: bioinformatics challenges Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 10:00 am | 10:30 am | Coffee break Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 10:30 am | 11:20 pm | Research Session 3 Location: Frye Auditorium |
Research Session 4 Location: VC 213 |
| 10:30 am | 11:00 am | TOPIC LEADER: Alexey Nesvizhskii Informatics of Mass Spectrometry/ Community Computing Location: Frye Auditorium |
TOPIC LEADER: Matt Weirauch Regulatory networks Location: VC 213 |
| 11:00 am | 11:20 am | Paper: Beichuan Deng, Hengguang Li, Xiang Zhang and Seongho Kim Global Peak Alignment for Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Using Point Matching Algorithms Location: Frye Auditorium |
Paper: Jingting Xu, Hong Hu and Yang Dai An unlabeled-negative learning framework for human enhancer prediction based on low-methylation regions Location: VC 213 |
| 11:20 am | 11:35 am | Anne-Christin Hauschild, Jörg Ingo Baumbach and Jan Baumbach Non-invasive Precision Medicine - Statistical learning of exhaled biomarker profiles Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 11:20 am | 11:40 am | Paper: Sneha Nishtala, Yaseswini Neelamraju and Sarath Chandra Janga Dissecting the expression relationships between RNA-binding proteins and their cognate targets in eukaryotic post-transcriptional regulatory networks Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:35 am | 11:55 am | Tech Talk: Mark Leggott, Scott Henwood Harnessing the Value of Data and Software to Accelerate Discovery Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 11:40 am | 11:55 am | Kyle Smith, Vinod Yadav and Subhajyoti De Detecting a novel signature of non-coding, regulatory alterations in cancer genomes Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:55 am | 12:10 pm | Chaitanya Rastogi, Gabriella Martini, H. Tomas Rube and Harmen Bussemaker A Versatile Framework for Learning Feature-Based Protein-DNA Recognition Models Directly from SELEX Data Location: VC 213 |
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| 12:00 pm | 12:20 pm | Tech Talk: Greg Newby, Compute Canada National Advanced Research Computing Platform and Services Dedicated to Canadian Researchers Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 12:10 pm | 12:15 pm | Flash Talk: Coby Viner, James Johnson, Nicolas Walker, Hui Shi, Marcela Sjoberg, David J. Adams, Anne C. Ferguson-Smith, Timothy L. Bailey and Michael M. Hoffman Modeling methyl-sensitive transcription factor motifs with an expanded epigenetic alphabet Location: VC 213 |
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| 12:20 pm | 12:25 pm | Flash Talk: Alexander Ropelewski, Ricardo Gonzalez Mendez, Jimmy Torres, Hugh Nicholas and Pallavi Ishwad Building and Sustaining Bioinformatics Community Diversity Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 12:25 pm | 2:00 pm | Poster Session A with lunch Location: Alumni Hall |
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| 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | Keynote 3 ELIZABETH EDWARDS Metagenomics of Microbial Dechlorinating Consortia Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | Coffee break Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 3:30 pm | 5:00 pm | Research Session 5 Location: Frye Auditorium |
Research Session 6 Location: VC 213 |
| 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | TOPIC LEADER: Dannie Durand Protein domains and evolution Location: Frye Auditorium |
TOPIC LEADER: James Wasmuth Infectious disease Location: VC 213 |
| 4:00 pm | 4:15 pm | David Curran, John Gilleard and James Wasmuth Using phylogenetic instability to identify members of large gene families under adaptive evolution Location: Frye Auditorium |
Javi Zhang, Asis Khan, Andrea Kennard, Michael E. Grigg and John Parkinson PopNet: Revealing the Impact of Recombination on Population Structure Location: VC 213 |
| 4:15 pm | 4:30 pm | Charlotte Darby, Maureen Stolzer and Dannie Durand Xenolog Classification: Steps toward a Xenolog Conjecture Location: Frye Auditorium |
Gaston Mazandu, Kayleigh Rutherford, Elsa-Gayle Zekeng, Emile Chimusa and Nicola Mulder Modeling drug repositioning by leveraging drug-target-disease association datasets: A case study of Ebola virus disease Location: VC 213 |
| 4:30 pm | 4:45 pm | Shobhit Jain and Gary Bader Predicting physiologically relevant SH3 domain mediated protein-protein interactions in human Location: Frye Auditorium |
Alexandre Drouin, Sébastien Giguère, Maxime Déraspe, Mario Marchand, Jacques Corbeil and Franois Laviolette Set Covering Machines and Reference-Free Genome Comparisons Uncover Predictive Biomarkers of Antibiotic Resistance Location: VC 213 |
| 4:45 pm | 4:50 pm | Flash Talk: James Morton, Stefan Freed, Md Nafiz Hamid, Shaun Lee and Iddo Friedberg Mining for new antimicrobial agents: predicting bacteriocin gene blocks Location: Frye Auditorium |
Flash Talk: Pingchuan Li, Sylvie Cloutier and Frank You RGAugury: A pipeline for genome-wide prediction of resistance gene analogs (RGAs) in plants Location: VC 213 |
| 4:50 pm | 4:55 pm | Flash Talk: Yanbin Yin and Alex Ekstrom ORFanFinder: automated identification of taxonomically restricted orphan genes Location: Frye Auditorium |
Flash Talk: Rajeev Azad, Mehul Jani and Kalai Mathee Identification of novel genomic islands in Liverpool epidemic strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa using segmentation and clustering Location: VC 213 |
| 4:55 pm | 5:30 pm | Free Time / Dinner on Own | |
| 5:30 pm | 7:00 pm | Discussion Forum for Canadian Investigators Location: Room 115 |
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| 5:30 pm | 9:30 pm | Workshop 5 Hands-on workshop on Machine Learning with Applications to Bioinformatics Ivan Kryukov & Jeff Wintersinger Location: VC 215 |
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| 5:30 pm | 7:00 pm | Workshop 6 Exploring and Refining Core Competencies for Bioinformatics (ISCB Curriculum Task Force) Lonnie Welch, Michelle Brazas, & Russell Schwart Location: VC 213 |
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| WEDNESDAY – DAY 3 – May 18, 2016 | |||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE | |
| 8:30 am | 6:00 pm | Registration Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Keynote 4 MATHIEU BLANCHETTE Know thy ancestors to know thyself: Improving our understanding of the human genome using paleogenomics Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 10:00 am | 10:30 am | Coffee break Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 10:30 am | 12:20 pm | Research Session 7 Location: Frye Auditorium |
Research Session 8 Location: VC 213 |
| 10:30 am | 11:00 am | TOPIC LEADER: Guillaume Bourque Genome analysis Location: Frye Auditorium |
TOPIC LEADER: Amy Caudy Metabolomics and Chemoinformatics Location: VC 213 |
| 11:00 am | 11:20 am | Paper: Zachary Stephens, Matthew Hudson, Liudmila Mainzer, Morgan Taschuk, Matthew Weber and Ravishankar Iyer Simulating Next-Generation Sequencing Datasets From Empirical Mutation and Sequencing Models Location: Frye Auditorium |
Paper: Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf, Nandhakishore Rajagopalan, Dan Tulpan and Michele Loewen Metabolomics and Cheminformatics analysis guiding the Discovery of Antifungal Metabolites for Crop Protection Location: VC 213 |
| 11:20 am | 11:40 am | Paper: Daniel Sanchez-Taltavull, Parameswaran Ramachandran, Nelson Lau and Theodore Perkins Bayesian Correlation Analysis for Sequence Count Data Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 11:20 am | 11:35 am | Yin Lu, Yi-Cheng Tu and Feng Cheng A novel algorithm for analyzing drug-drug interactions from MEDLINE literature Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:35 am | 11:50 am | Zhaleh Safikhani, Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Kelsie Thu, Petr Smirinov, David Cescon and Mathieu Lupien Meta-analysis of large pharmacogenomics studies to develop isoform-based biomarkers predictive of response to targeted therapies Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:40 am | 11:55 am | Greg Gloor, Jean Megan Macklaim and Jia Wu CoDaSeq: compositional data analysis for high throughput sequencing data Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 11:50 am | 12:05 pm | Seyed Ali Madani Tonekaboni, Zhaleh Safikhani and Benjamin Haibe-Kains In-silico pipeline for tissue-specific drug combination discovery Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:55 am | 12:10 pm | Davide Chicco and Michael M. Hoffman Distal chromatin loop prediction with deep siamese neural networks Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 12:05 pm | 12:15 pm | Jiun Yen, Glenda Gillaspy and Ryan Senger A genome-scale algorithmic approach for metabolic engineering of plants |
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| 12:10 pm | 12:15 pm | Flash Talk: Musaddeque Ahmed, Haiyang Guo and He Housheng Integrative analysis for identification and functional prediction of long non-coding RNAs in cancer Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 12:15 pm | 12:20 pm | Flash Talk: Armin Rouhi, Janneke Wit and James Wasmuth Investigating the usefulness of long-read sequencing technologies on the study of large eukaryotic gene families Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 12:30 pm | 2:00 pm | Poster Session B with lunch Location: Alumni Hall |
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| 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | Keynote 5 CHRISTINA LESLIE Decoding gene regulatory programs in cellular differentiation Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | Coffee break Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 3:30 pm | 5:30 pm | Workshop 7 Next generation sequencing Adam Rosebrock >>Sign up here<< Location: 115 |
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| 3:30 pm | 5:30 pm | Research Session 9 Location: Frye Auditorium |
Research Session 10 Location: VC 213 |
| 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | TOPIC LEADER: Sushmita Roy Biological networks Location: Frye Auditorium |
TOPIC LEADER: Rob Beiko Metagenomics Location: VC 213 |
| 4:00 pm | 4:20 pm | Paper: Matthew O'Meara, Sara Ballouz, Brian Shoichet and Jesse Gillis Ligand similarity complements sequence, physical interaction, and co-expression for gene function prediction Location: Frye Auditorium |
Paper: Ruth G. Wong, Jia R. Wu and Gregory B. Gloor Expanding the UniFrac toolbox Location: VC 213 |
| 4:20 pm | 4:35 pm | Bundalovic-Torma and John Parkinson Biological Interaction Networks in Bacteria - Generation and Evolutionary Insights Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 4:20 pm | 4:40 pm | Paper: Ahmed Metwally, Yang Dai, Patricia Finn and David Perkins WEVOTE: Weighted Voting Taxonomic Identification Method of Microbial Sequences Location: VC 213 |
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| 4:35 pm | 4:50 pm | Li Zhu, Ying Ding, Cho-Yi Chen, Zhiguang Huo, Sunghwan Kim, Steffi Oesterreich and George Tseng MetaDCN: meta-analysis framework for differential coexpression network detection with an application in breast cancer Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 4:40 pm | 4:55 pm | Frederic Raymond, Maxime Déraspe, Sébastien Boisvert, Alexander Culley, Paul H. Roy, François Laviolette and Jacques Corbeil Ray Surveyor: phenetic comparison of genomes and its application in microbial evolution Location: VC 213 |
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| 4:50 pm | 5:05 pm | Lu Cheng and Mu Zhu Compositional Epistasis Detection Using A Few Prototype Disease Models Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 4:55 pm | 5:10 pm | Jean Megan Macklaim, Amy McMillan, Mark Sumarah, Jonathan Swann, Gregor Reid and Greg Gloor Insights into the metatranscriptome and metabolome of the vaginal microbiome Location: VC 213 |
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| 5:05 pm | 5:20 pm | Robin Haw Reactome Revolutions - Pathways and Networks Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 5:10 pm | 5:25 pm | Michael Hall, Jonathan Perrie and Robert Beiko Time-series clustering enables the exploration of temporal patterns in marker gene data Location: VC 213 |
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| 5:20 pm | 5:25 pm | Flash Talk: Bahram Samanfar, Andrew Schoenrock, Frank Dehne, Ashkan Golshani, Elroy Cober, Martin Charette and Steve Molnar PIPE (Protein-protein Interaction Prediction Engine): A computational approach for comprehensive soybean functional genomics Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 5:30 pm | 6:00 pm | Free Time | |
| 6:00 pm | 9:00 pm | Banquet with Keynote 6 ALED EDWARDS Open science: From computational biology to the real world Location: Burwash Hall |
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| THURSDAY – DAY 4 – May 19, 2016 | |||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE | |
| 8:30 am | 3:00 pm | Registration Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Keynote 7 JANE CARLTON Harnessing genomics to study the global public health burden of malaria Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 10:00 am | 10:30 am | Coffee break Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 10:30 pm | 12:00 pm | Workshop 8 Computational approaches to synthetic biology Cathy Su, Esther Jang, Alexander Sullivan (iGEM Toronto) >>Sign up here<< Location: VC 115 |
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| 10:30 am | 12:00 pm | Research Session 11 Location: Frye Auditorium |
Research Session 12 Location: VC 213 |
| 10:30 am | 11:00 am | TOPIC LEADER: Carlos Camacho Structural biology Location: Frye Auditorium |
TOPIC LEADER: Igor Jurisica Integrative data analysis Location: VC 213 |
| 11:00 am | 11:20 am | Flash Talk: Eric Stahlberg, Carl McCabe and George Zaki High-Performance and Exascale Computing Frontiers in Cancer Applications Location: Frye Auditorium |
Cancelled Paper: Sumaiya Iqbal and Md Tamjidul Hoque Estimation of Free Energy Contribution of Protein Residues as Feature for Structure Prediction from Sequence Location: Frye Auditorium |
| 11:00 am | 11:15 am | Fazle Faisal, Yuriy Hulovatyy, Huili Chen and Tijana Milenkovic Dynamic and integrative biological network research of aging Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:15 am | 11:30 am | Hamed Najafabadi, Pouria Jandaghi, Shraddha Solanki, Andreas Papadakis, Maryam Safisamghabadi, Cristina Storoz, Mark Lathrop, Sidong Huang, Simon Tanguay, Fadi Brimo and Yasser Riazalhosseini A regulatory model for discovering aberrant post-transcriptional programs in cancer Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:20 am | 11:35 am | Devashish Das, Pravin Kumar, Naveen Kulkarni and Anurag Kumar A novel atomistic motional correlation method combined with thermodynamics to delineate the intricate mechanism of substrate specific catalysis: enzyme engineering perspective Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 11:30 am | 11:45 am | Heather Wheeler, Kaanan Shah, Jonathon Brenner and Hae Kyung Im Survey of the Heritability and Sparsity of Gene Expression Traits Across Human Tissues Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:35 am | 11:50 am | Frazier Baker and Alexey Porollo Prediction of Metal Binding Sites in Proteins Using Coevolution Data Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 11:45 am | 12:00 pm | Christian Wiwie, Jan Baumbach and Richard Röttger On the clustering of biomedical datasets - a data-driven perspective Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:50 am | 11:55 am | Flash Talk: Nehme El-Hachem, Deena Gendoo, Benjamin Haibe-Kains Decoding compound mechanism of action using integrative pharmacogenomics Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 12:00 pm | 1:00 pm | Lunch on own | |
| 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm | Research Session 13 Location: Frye Auditorium |
Research Session 14 Location: VC 213 |
| 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | TOPIC LEADER: Mads Kaern Dynamic systems modeling Location: Frye Auditorium |
TOPIC LEADER: Belinda Chang Phylogenetics Location: VC 213 |
| 1:30 pm | 1:50 pm | Paper: Joachim von Wulffen, Oliver Sawodny and Ronny Feuer Balancing mRNA and Protein Levels in a Demand-Directed Dynamic Flux Balance Analysis Describes Effects of the Transition of an Anaerobic Escherichia coli Culture to Aerobic Conditions Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 1:30 pm | 1:45 pm | Ivan Kryukov, Bianca de Sanctis and A.P. Jason de Koning Efficient techniques for direct analysis of discrete-time population genetic models Location: VC 213 |
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| 1:45 pm | 2:00 pm | Maureen Stolzer and Dannie Durand How plastic are multidomain proteins? Quantifying domain co-evolution in primate genomes Location: VC 213 |
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| 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | Keynote 8 TIMOTHY HUGHES Decoding Gene Regulation Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 3:00 pm | 3:15 pm | Closing Ceremonies Location: Frye Auditorium |
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