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MCBIOS VII (2010)
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The Eighth Annual Conference of the
MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society
MCBIOS 2011
Theme: TBA
College Station, Texas
Date: TBA
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MCBIOS 2010 Awards
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Congratulations to the 2010 student award winners!
Oral Presentations
First Place:
Heidi Pagan, Mississippi State University (MSU)
"Lineage Specific Activity from Novel Piggyac Elements and Evidence of Horizontal Transfer in
Mouse Lemurs (Microcebus)"
Second place:
Juliet Tang, Mississippi State University (MSU)
"Assembling a Novel Fungal Genome from Short Read Sequencing Data"
Third place:
Aleksandra Markovets, Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU)
"Promoter Prediction in Halothiobacillus Neapolitanus C2 based on stress-induced DNA duplex
destabilization"
Poster Presentations
Biological Focus
First place:
Neal Platt, Mississippi State University
"Recognition, Categorization, and Characterization of Transposable Elements in a
Non-muroid Rodent: Spermophilus Tridecemlineatus"
Second place:
Gabrielle Cooper, Jackson State University
"West Nile Virus Infection in Humans: Trends from 2003-2008 in Mississippi and its
Neighboring States"
Third place:
Mais Ammari, Mississippi State University
"Computational Analysis of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Infected Monocytes: Identification
of Cytopathic and Non-Cytopathic Strain Differences."
Computational Focus
First place:
Vijender Chaitankar, University of Southern Mississippi
"Transcriptional time lagged information approach to improving the accuracy of gene
regulatory network reconstruction"
Second place:
Lakshmi Pillai, Mississippi State University
"GORIF: A Tool for Generifs to Gene Ontology"
Third place:
Christy Gearheart, University of Louisville
"Design of a DNA-Based Shift Register"
Download award list. (.doc)
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What is MCBIOS?
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MCBIOS is the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society. The organization
sponsors an annual conference in the mid-south region.
MCBIOS seeks to foster networking and collaboration,
and promote the professional development of its members.
Both senior members and students will find MCBIOS to be
a welcoming environment for both presenting on-going research in the
form of posters and presentations, as well as publishing peer-reviewed
papers based on that work in the annual proceedings.
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| Join our Listserv |
We are actively recruiting new members of our society! We encourage you to join the MCBIOS-L
listserv. This is a moderated listserv with very low volume -- only "official" society announcements
are approved. For some of you, this may be your first awareness of the society. If you wish to join the
MCBIOS-L listserv, you can send a message to LISTSERV -AT- UALR.EDU (no subject required) with "SUBSCRIBE MCBIOS-L" in the body, or send email to RAHall2 -AT- UALR.Edu to be added to (or removed from) the MCBIOS-L listserv.
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| MCBIOS History |
The first two MCBIOS conference were held in Little Rock Arkansas. The themes were
"Building Networks" and "Bioinformatics: A Systems Approach", respectively. In 2006
and 2007, the conference was held in Louisiana. We met in Baton Rouge in 2006, where
the theme was "Bioinformatics: A Calculated Discovery", and in New Orleans in 2007,
where the theme was "Computational Frontiers in Biomedicine". The 2008 conference
was held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and the theme was "Systems Biology - Bridging the Omics".
The sixth annual MCBIOS (MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society)
was held in Starkville, MS on February. The theme was "Transformational Bioinformatics:
Delivering Value from Genomes". The seventh MCBIOS was held in Jonesboro, AR on
Feb. 19-20, 2010. The theme was "Bioinformatics: Systems, Biology, Informatics and Computation".
The annual MCBIOS conference has historically attracted internationally renowned speakers,
including David Mount, author of the popular bioinformatics textbook Bioinformatics:
Sequence and Genome Analysis, Michael Gribskov, President of the International Society
for Computational Biology, Alan Leshner, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of Science,
Richard A. Gibbs, Director of the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center, and Winston
Hide, Director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute.
The conference attendance in previous years has reflected its status as the premier
forum in the region, gathering faculty and students from all states in the region and beyond.
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