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UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics
Summit 2008

March 28 – 30, 2008
Lake Barkley State Resort Park
Cadiz, KY

Jointly Sponsored by KBRIN, the UTHSC Center of Genomics & Bioinformatics, the UT/ORNL Science Alliance, the UT Molecular Resource Center and the UT Innovative Computing Laboratory

Program

2008 UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit
March 28 – 30, 2008
Lake Barkley State Park
Cadiz, KY

NOTE: All times in Central Daylight Time (CDT)

FRIDAY, MARCH 28

11:00-12:00

Registration and Light Lunch at Conference Center

 

12:00-12:15

Welcome & Introductory Remarks

Eric Rouchka
University of Louisville

12:15-2:45

NCBI Short Course
"Entrez Gene Quick Start"
Workshop participants should download and install the Cn3D software on your computer from the NCBI website prior to the workshop.

Wayne Matten
NCBI

2:45-3:00

BREAK

 

3:00-5:30

NCBI Short Course
"Correlating Disease Genes and Phenotypes"
Workshop participants should download and install the Cn3D software on your computer from the NCBI website prior to the workshop.

Wayne Matten
NCBI

5:30-7:00

DINNER in Lodge Dining Room
(Dining Room hours 5PM – 8PM)

 

7:00-9:00

"Of Genomes and Bourbon"

Dan Goldowitz
University of British Columbia
Jay Snoddy
Vanderbilt University

SATURDAY, MARCH 29

7:00-8:30

BREAKFAST in Lodge Dining Room
(Dining Room hours 7AM – 9AM)

 

SESSION I: PATHWAYS TO PREDICTION

8:30-9:20

"A Predictive Model for Transcriptional Control of Physiology in a Free Living Cell"

Nitin Baliga
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA

9:20-9:30

Discussion

 

SESSION II: BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS

9:45-10:30

“CTSA Informatics Overview”

Dan Masys, Paul Harris
Vanderbilt University

10:30-10:45

BREAK

 

10:45-11:30

"Network-based Analysis of Genomic High-throughput Data to find Markers for Personalized Medication"

Mikael Benson
The Pediatric Allergy Research Group, The Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden 

11:30-11:45

Discussion

 

11:45-12:30

Short Talks

 

12:30

LUNCH in Lodge Dining Room
(Dining Room hours 11:30 – 3PM)

 

1:00-4:00

FREE TIME/SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

 

4:00-5:30

Poster Session in Conference Center

 

5:30-6:30

COOKOUT at Conference Center

 

7:00-8:00

Keynote Speaker
"Computer Simulation of Molecular Machines"

Jeremy Smith
ORNL

8:00-8:30 

Discussion

 

8:30-10:00

Bioinformatics Education Workshop
"Functional Genomics Cafeteria Style"

Malcolm Campbell
Davidson College

SUNDAY, MARCH 30

7:00-9:00

BREAKFAST in Lodge Dining Room
(Dining Room hours 7AM – 9AM)

 

SESSION III: REGULATORY ANALYSIS

9:00-9:50

“Reconstructing Dynamic Regulatory Networks in Multiple Species”

Ziv Bar-Joseph
Carnegie Mellon

9:50-10:00

Discussion

 

10:00-10:15

BREAK

 

10:15-11:15

Short Talks

 

11:15-12:00

“The Living Code: Biology as an Information Science”

David Galas
Battelle Memorial

12:00-12:15

Discussion

 

12:15-1:00

Closing Remarks/Planning Discussion of Next Year’s Summit