FRONTIERS OF BIOINFORMATICS: UNSOLVED PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES
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 |
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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 |
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7:15 am and |
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7:45 am |
Buses Depart Hyatt Newporter for Beckman Center |
7:30 am |
Breakfast |
Opening Comments |
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8:30 am |
Samuel Karlin (Stanford University) |
Session I: Informatics of the Human Genome (8:35 am – 12:10 pm) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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7:15 am and |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |