Frontiers of Bioinformatics: Unsolved Problems and Challenges (2005)
Chapter: Program
FRONTIERS OFBIOINFORMATICS: UNSOLVEDPROBLEMS ANDCHALLENGES
October 15-17, 2004
Beckman Center of the National Academies
100 Academy Drive, Auditorium
Irvine, California
Organized by Samuel Karlin, David Eisenberg and Russ Altman
PROGRAM
Friday, October 15 | |
7:45 pm | Buses Depart Hyatt Newporter for Beckman Center |
8:00-10:00 pm | Registration, Welcome Reception, and Poster Session |
10:00 pm | Buses Depart Beckman Center for Hyatt Newporter |
Saturday, October 16 | |
7:15 am and | |
7:45 am | Buses Depart Hyatt Newporter for Beckman Center |
7:30 am | Breakfast |
Opening Comments | |
8:30 am | Samuel Karlin (Stanford University) |
Session I: Informatics of the Human Genome (8:35 am – 12:10 pm) | |
Chair | Samuel Karlin (Stanford University) |
8:35 am | George Miklos (Secure Genetics Pty Limited and Human Genetic Signatures Pty Limited), Clinical Challenges for Bioinformatics |
9:20 am | Mark Gerstein (Yale University), Human Genome Annotation |
10:05 am | Break |
10:35 am | David Haussler (University of California, Santa Cruz), Using Evolution to Explore the Human Genome |
11:20 am | Pavel Pevzner (University of California, San Diego), Transforming Men into Mice (and into Cats, Dogs, Cows, Rats, Chimpanzees, etc.): Evolutionary Lessons from Mammalian Sequencing and Comparative Mapping Projects |
12:10 pm | Lunch |
Session II: Motifs and Genomics (1:30–3:00 pm) | |
Chair | Russ Altman (Stanford University) |
1:30 pm | Peer Bork (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Genome Evolution and Protein Networks |
2:15 pm | Phil Green (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Washington), Signal and Noise in Genomic Sequences |
3:00 pm | Break |
Session III: Protein-Protein Interactions (3:30–6:00 pm) | |
Chair | Valerie Daggett (University of Washington) |
3:30 pm | David Eisenberg (University of California, Los Angeles), Protein Interactions |
4:15 pm | Hanah Margalit (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), From Cellular Networks to Molecular Interactions and Back |
5:00 pm | Shoshana Wodak (Hospital for Sick Children), Protein-Protein Interactions: The Challenge of Predicting Specificity |
6:15 | Reception and Poster Session |
8:00 | Dinner Russell F. Doolittle (University of California, San Diego), Regarding Irreducible Complexities, Introduced by David Eisenberg (University of California, Los Angeles) |
10:30 | Buses Depart Beckman Center for Hyatt Newporter |
Sunday, October 17 | |
7:15 am and | |
7:45 am | Buses Depart Hyatt Newporter for Beckman Center |
7:30 am | Breakfast |
Session IV: Regulation with RNA and Aspects of Splicing (8:30–10:45 am) | |
Chair | David Eisenberg (University of California, Los Angeles) |
8:30 am | Sean Eddy (Washington University, St. Louis), The Modern RNA World: Computational Screens for Noncoding RNA Genes |
9:15 am | Christopher Burge (Massachusetts Instittue of Technology), Toward an RNA Splicing Code |
10:00 am | Christopher Lee (University of California, Los Angeles), Discovering Evolutionary Mechanisms from Multiple Metrics of Molecular Evolution |
10:45 am | Break |
Session V: Protein Structure (11:00 am – 12:30 pm) | |
Chair | George Miklos (Secure Genetics Pty Limited and Human Genetic Signatures Pty Limited) |
11:00 am | Helen Berman (Rutgers University), Probing the PDB |
11:45 am | Michael Levitt (Stanford University), Structural Alignment and Classification of all Known Protein Structure |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
Session VI: Transcription and Translation in Eukaryotic Genomes (1:30–4:45 pm) | |
Chair | George Miklos (Secure Genetics Pty Limited and Human Genetic Signatures Pty Limited) |
1:30 pm | Volker Brendel (Iowa State University), Comparative Plant Genomics: Evaluation of the Model Genome Concept |
2:15 pm | Terry Gaasterland (Rockefeller University and University of California, San Diego/SIO), Lessons from the Arabadopsis Genome: Decoding Evidence for Novel Transcription |
3:00 pm | Break |
3:15 pm | Russ Altman (Stanford University), Building Genotype Phenotype Data Resources |
4:00 pm | Samuel Karlin (Stanford University), Highly Expressed Genes Based on Codon Usage Biases in Archaeal and Eukaryotic Genomes |
5:00 pm | Buses Depart Beckman Center for Hyatt Newporter and Orange County Airport |
