| 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Opening remarks |
| 9:15 |
Welcome address |
| 9:30 |
1st Keynote: Dr. Richard Gibbs, Ph.D.
Director, BCM-Human Genome Sequencing Center,
Baylor College of Medicine |
| 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 |
SESSION 1 - Biomarkers and Structure Based Design
Session Chair: Yuriy Gusev |
| 10:45 |
Eric R. Siegel
Searching Model Space for SELDI-TOF Cancer Classifiers |
| 11:15 |
Diana Chan
An Ensemble Method for Identifying Robust Features for Biomarker Identification |
| 11:45 |
Michael Dyar
Structure Based Design of a Melanoma Vaccine |
| 12:15 |
Lunch/MCBIOS Business meeting |
| 13:30 |
SESSION 2 - Genomics I
Session Chair: Jonathan Wren |
| 13:30 |
Surya Saha
De novo repeat finding in large eukaryotic genomes |
| 14:00 |
Candace Timpte
Bringing Bioinformatics and Genome Sequencing to the Classroom |
| 14:30 |
Jim Nolan
Genome Evolution in Close Relatives of Bacteriophage T4 |
| 15:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:15 |
SESSION 3 - Advances in Microarray Methods I
Session Chair: Andrey Ptitsyn |
| 15:15 |
Yuanyuan Ding
Improving the performance of recursive feature elimination to select relevant genes in microarray data |
| 15:45 |
Hong Fang
Evaluation of Self-Self Hybridization as an Alternative to Dye Swap for Two Channel Microarrays |
| 16:15 |
Jihad Skaf
Understanding the Biology: Bioinformatics Resources to Maximize the Interpretation of Microarray Data |
| 17:00 |
Poster session and Reception |
| 19:00 |
Dinner |
| 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 |
Opening remarks |
| 9:00 |
2nd Keynote: Dr. Winston Hide Ph.D. Director, South African National Bioinformatics Institute |
| 10:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:15 |
SESSION 4 - Biological Pathways
Session Chair: Stephen Jennings |
| 10:15 |
Gary C. Cheng
A chain-reaction approach to model gene pathways |
| 10:45 |
Alexander Kel
Promoter evolution in signaling pathways |
| 11:15 |
Daniel Berleant
PathBinder: a Biological Literature Mining Tool for the MetNet Integrated Software System |
| 11:45 |
Qian Xie
Assessing Drug Toxicity from Rat Urine with NMR Metabolomics |
| 12:15 |
Lunch |
| 13:15 |
SESSION 5 - Genomics II
Session Chair: Andrey Ptitsyn |
| 13:15 |
Ajay Mane
An Automated Method for Rapid Identification of Putative Gene Family Members in Plants |
| 13:45 |
Kamran Iqbal
A Stochastic Model of Multistage Mutations Based on Gene Interactions |
| 14:15 |
Stephanie Hebert
Microarray analysis of induced defenses against divergent insect feeding guilds in tomato |
| 14:45 |
Edward Seidel, Ph.D. Director of the LSU Center for Computational Technologies
TBA |
| 15:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:30 |
Presentation of Student Awards |
| 15:45 |
SESSION 6 - Advances in Microarray Methods II
Session Chair: Dawn Wilkins |
| 15:45 |
Yuriy Gusev
The New Kid on the Block: microRNA profiling in Cancer from a bioinformatics perspective |
| 16:15 |
Mahyar Sabripour
Multiresolution Analysis of Tiling Array Data |
| 16:45 |
Dung-Tsa Chen
An Integrated Bioinformatics Tool to Classify Gene Functions in Microarray Data |
| 17:15 |
MCBIOS Main Conference Closing remarks |
| 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 |
Opening Remarks for the Nanopore Cheminformatics Satellite Meeting |
| 9:00 |
SESSION I - Nanopore Detector Background and Applications
Session Chair: Stephen Winters-Hilt |
| 9:00 |
Stephen Winters-Hilt
Nanopore-based detection for kinetic analysis of individual biomolecular interaction histories in solution |
| 9:30 |
Maria Tanase
Nanopore Cheminformatics Analysis of the "sticky" DNA-intercalating behavior of HIV DNA termini |
| 10:00 |
Matthew Landry
Channel Current based Kinetic Feature Extraction |
| 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 |
SESSION II - Advances in Channel Current Cheminformatics
Session Chair: Stephen Winters-Hilt |
| 10:45 |
Stephen Winters-Hilt
Novel HMM and SVM generalizations for analysis of single-channel current blockade data |
| 11:15 |
Raja Iqbal
A Novel Boosting strategy for DNA Molecule Classification |
| 11:45 |
Anil Yelundur
Multiclass SVMs: External & Internal |
