10th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference
Full Agenda
Updated Dec 02, 2012
(Schedule and locations are subject to change. Please check back for updates.)
| Go directly to: [Friday - December 7] [Saturday - December 8] | ||
| THURSDAY – December 6, 2012 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | Session Type |
| 12:00 pm | 1:30 pm | Registration |
| 1:30 pm | 2:15 pm | Keynote 1 Helping Machines to Help Us: New Advances in Biological Ontologies, Databases and Machine Reasoning Chris Mungall, PhD Bioinformatics Scientist Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Projects Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA, USA |
| 2:15 pm | 2:25 pm | Oral Presentation 1 Integrated Database for Analyzing the Impact of Coding SNPs in the Human Genome Presenting Author: Tal Oron, Buck Institute |
| 2:25 pm | 2:35 pm | Oral Presentation 2 Biologically Plausible Enhancements to Models of Protein Interaction Network Evolution Presenting Author: Scott Kirkpatrick, California State University, Chico |
| 2:35 pm | 2:45 pm | Oral Presentation 3 In-silico Identification of an Epithelial Core Signature in Human Tumors Presenting Author: Chirayu Goswami, IU School of Medicine, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis |
| 2:45 pm | 2:55 pm | Oral Presentation 4 Analytical Characterization of a Discrete Next Generation Sequencing Panel for Clinical Testing Presenting Author: Eric Klee, Mayo Clinic |
| 2:55 pm | 3:05 pm | Oral Presentation 5 Integration of Multiple Genomic Assays in Predicting Breast Cancer Survival Presenting Author: Howard Yang, National Cancer Institute |
| 3:05 pm | 3:15 pm | Oral Presentation 6 Determinants of Instability in Cancer Genomes Presenting Author: Subhajyoti De, University of Colorado |
| 3:15 pm | 3:35 pm | Break |
| 3:35 pm | 3:45 pm | Oral Presentation 7 Compression of Structured High-throughput Sequencing Data Presenting Author: Fabien Campagne, Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
| 3:45 pm | 3:55 pm | Oral Presentation 8 Scaffold-builder for Combining De Novo and Reference-guided Assembly Presenting Author: Genivaldo Silva, San Diego State University |
| 3:55 pm | 4:05 pm | Oral Presentation 9 Expression Genome-wide Association Study (eGWAS) to Identify Therapeutic Targets and Functional Relationships in Huntington's Disease Presenting Author: Alexander Alleavitch, The Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| 4:05 pm | 4:15 pm | Oral Presentation 10 Compiling Genome Metadata For Comparative Analysis Presenting Author: Daniel Cuevas, San Diego State University |
| 4:15 pm | 4:25 pm | Oral Presentation 11 Hypergraph Kernels for Protein Function Prediction using Protein Complexes Presenting Author: Jose Lugo-Martinez, Indiana University |
| 4:25 pm | 4:35 pm | Oral Presentation 12 PharmacoMicrobiomics: A Database for Drug-Microbiome Interactions or Pharmacogenomics of the Human Supraorganism Presenting Author: Mariam Rizkallah, American University in Cairo |
| 4:35 pm | 5:20 pm | Keynote 2 Wisdom of Crowds for Constructing Gene Regulatory Networks and Predicting Drug Sensitivities James Costello, PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Boston University Massachusetts - USA |
| 6:30 pm | 9:30 pm | Banquet, Thursday, December 6, 2012 Location: Il Poggio Restaurant, Snowmass Village |
| FRIDAY – December 7, 2012 [return to top] |
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| Start Time | End Time | Session Type |
| 9:00 am | 9:45 am | Keynote 3 Deep Sequencing and Assembly of Targeted Amplicons in Microbial Communities Christopher S. Miller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology University of Colorado Denver, USA |
| 9:45 am | 9:55 am | Oral Presentation 13 Analyzing "Unlikely" Semantic Similarity Across Multiple Ontologies Presenting Author: Darcy Davis, Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| 9:55 am | 10:05 am | Oral Presentation 14 lcmix: An R Package for Integration of Genome-scale Data Presenting Author: Daniel Dvorkin, University of Colorado |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | Oral Presentation 15 Detection of Differential Polyadenylation as an Alternative Cancer Presenting Author: Marker Jimin Shin, Soongsil University |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | Oral Presentation 16 Mining Social Network Postings for Mentions of Potential Adverse Drug Reactions Presenting Author: Graciela Gonzalez, Arizona State University |
| 10:25 am | 10:35 am | Oral Presentation 17 Understanding Heart Remodelling in Congestive Heart Failure through Analysis of High-Dimensional miRNA, mRNA, and Clinical Data Presenting Author: Michael Hinterberg, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 10:35 am | 10:50 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | 11:00 am | Oral Presentation 18 Gene Content Based Functional Trait Analysis through Comparative Microbial Whole Genome Sequences Presenting Author: Erliang Zeng, University of Notre Dame |
| 11:00 am | 11:10 am | Oral Presentation 19 Genetic Programming Based Feature Generation for Automated Functional Analysis and Annotation of DNA Sequences Presenting Author: Amarda Shehu, George Mason University |
| 11:10 am | 11:20 am | Oral Presentation 20 Of Random Forests and Networks: Insights into the Alzheimer Etiology Presenting Author: George Acquaah-Mensah, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences |
| 11:20 am | 11:30 am | Oral Presentation 21 Discovering Transcription Factor Regulatory Targets Using Gene Expression and Binding Data Presenting Author: Mark Maienschein-Cline, University of Chicago |
| 11:30 am | 11:40 am | Oral Presentation 22 Dynamics of sRNA Expression in the Human Intestinal Microbiota Presenting Author: Jin Park, California State University, Fresno |
| 11:40 am | 11:50 am | Oral Presentation 23 Negation of Gene Ontology Concepts Presenting Author: Richard Osborne, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 11:50 am | 12:00 pm | Oral Presentation 24 A Correlation-based Gene Selection Method On Microarray Data Using Support Vector Machines Presenting Author: Juana Canul-Reich, Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco |
| 12:00 pm | 4:00 pm | Ski Break |
| 4:00 pm | 4:45 pm | Keynote 4 From Tissue-specific Functional Networks to Understanding Human Disease Olga Troyanskaya, PhD Department of Computer Science and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University New Jersey, USA |
| 4:45 pm | 4:55 pm | Oral Presentation 25 KBase: An Integrated Knowledgebase for Predictive Biology and Environmental Research Presenting Author: Kevin Keegan, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 4:55 pm | 5:05 pm | Oral Presentation 26 Pharmacogenetic Annotation on Human Non-synonymous Variants By Machine Learning Presenting Author: Chet Seligman, Buck Institute for Research in Aging |
| 5:05 pm | 5:15 pm | Oral Presentation 27 A Dynamic Model of Protein Fold Evolution Presenting Author: Guy Tal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 5:15 pm | 5:25 pm | Oral Presentation 28 Identifying Driver Mutations in Cancer with Protein Structures Presenting Author: Andrew Bordner, Mayo Clinic |
| 5:25 pm | 5:35 pm | Oral Presentation 29 Multi-Scale Visualizations of Biological Data Presenting Author: Carsten Görg, University of Colorado |
| 5:35 pm | 8:30 pm | Reception and Poster Session Viceroy Room - Ballroom |
| SATURDAY – December 8, 2012 [return to top] |
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| Start Time | End Time | Session Type |
| 9:00 am | 9:45 am | Keynote 5 The Human Gene Connectome: A Map of Short Cuts for Morbid Allele Discovery Yuval Itan, PhD The Rockefeller University New York - USA |
| 9:45 am | 9:55 am | Oral Presentation 30 Automated Concept Annotation: How Are We Doing? Presenting Author: Christopher Funk, University of Colorado |
| 9:55 am | 10:05 am | Oral Presentation 31 How Aneuploidy and Polyploid Impact Adaptation Presenting Author: Robin Dowell, University of Colorado |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | Oral Presentation 32 PePr: A Peak-calling and Prioritization Pipeline to Test Group Differences in ChIP-Seq Data Presenting Author: Yanxiao Zhang, University of Michigan |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | Oral Presentation 33 Provenance of Unaligned Reads in ChIP-Seq Studies Presenting Author: Zachary Ouma, Ohio State University |
| 10:25 am | 10:35 am | Oral Presentation 34 Constructing Informative Prior from Multiple Knowledge Sources to Improve Network Inference Presenting Author: Paurush Praveen, University of Bonn |
| 10:35 am | 10:50 am | Break 15 |
| 10:50 am | 11:20 am | Keynote 6 How to Interpret One Thousand Proteins From (lmost) One Thousand Samples, and What This Can Tell Us About Heart Disease Biology And Individual Risk. Alex Stewart Somalogic Boulder, CO, USA |
| 11:20 am | 11:10 am | Oral Presentation 35 Molecular Prediction by Regression (MPR) a New Platform for Predicting Molecular Targets and Multiple Drug Classes for Tumor Subtypes Presenting Author: David Astling, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 11:30 am | 11:40 am | Oral Presentation 36 Systems Biology Study of Automated Gene Functional Annotations Reveals Highly Predictable Concepts in Various Biomedical Ontologies Presenting Author: Tobias Wittkop, Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| 11:40 am | 11:50 am | Oral Presentation 37 Characterizing the SOS Response of the Human Microbiome Presenting Author: Ivan Erill, University of Maryland Baltimore County |
| 11:50 am | 12:00 pm | Oral Presentation 38 Using Index-based Alignments to Determine Clade Specificity in Metagenomic Samples Presenting Author: Ashok Sivakumar, Johns Hopkins University |
| 12:00 pm | 12:10 pm | Oral Presentation 39 Phylogeography of Avian and Human Influenza in the Southwest United States Presenting Author: Matthew Scotch, Arizona State University |
| 12:10 pm | 12:20 pm | Oral Presentation 40 Analysis of Genome Wide DNA Methylation Changes in Human Skeletal Muscle Associated with Aging Presenting Author: Artem Zykovich, Buck Institute for Research on Aging |
| 12:20 pm | 4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:00 pm | 4:10 pm | Oral Presentation 41 Identifying Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Variable Penetrance Presenting Author: Kymberleigh Pagel, Indiana University Bloomington |
| 4:10 pm | 4:20 pm | Oral Presentation 42 Comparative Genomics and Species-Specific Gene Testing in Emerging Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pathogens Presenting Author: Rebecca Davidson, National Jewish Health |
| 4:20 pm | 4:30 pm | Oral Presentation 43 Rediscovery of the p53 Transcriptome Presenting Author: Mary Allen, University of Colorado |
| 4:30 pm | 4:40 pm | Oral Presentation 44 A Comparison of Co-temporal Signals from Real Biological and Simulated Data Presenting Author: Edward Allen, Wake Forest University |
| 4:40 pm | 4:50 pm | Oral Presentation 45 What is in Control of Replication Timing Presenting Author: Sven Bilke, National Cancer Institute |
| 4:50 pm | 5:00 pm | Oral Presentation 46 Discourse Classification Using the CRAFT Corpus Presenting Author: Elizabeth White, University of Colorado |
| 5:00 pm | 5:45 pm | Keynote 7 The Ins and Outs of Developing Biological Applications on a Massively Parallel Multi-Core System Kirk E. Jordan, PhD Emerging Solutions Executive & Associate Program Director Computational Science Center IBM T.J. Watson Research Member, IBM Academy of Technology Massachusetts - USA |
| 5:45 pm | ADJOURN | |
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