MCBIOS 2010 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday, February 19, 2010
8:00 AM   Registration Desk Opens
Student Union Centennial Hall
8:50 AM - 9:55 AM   General Session
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM   Introduction
 
Dan Howard, Ph.D.
Provost of the Arkansas State University
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM   Keynote
 
Clayton Naeve, Ph.D.
Next Generation Sequencing Laboratories and their IT Requirements
10:00 AM - 11:55 AM   Parallel Sessions
  Track 1
St. Francis River Room
Track 2
Centennial Hall
Track 3
Cache River Room
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM   Keynote Workshop
 
Bioinformatics Requirements for Next Generation Sequencing Labs
Dan McGoldrick, Ph.D.
Genomics
 
Session Chair
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, UAMS
 
Laura Kelly Vaughan and Tappan Mehta, EFFECT OF REFERENCE SELECTION ON ENRICHMENT ANALYSIS OF GENE LISTS
 
Zhining Wen and Leming Shi
ASSESSING THE USABILITY OF GENE EXPRESSION DATA GENERATED FROM EXPIRED AFFYMETRIX GENECHIP MICROARRAYS WITH MAQC REFERENCE RNA SAMPLES
 
Natalia Vinas et al.
DEVELOPMENT OF A DAPHNIA MAGNA BIOMONITORING PCR PANEL TO DETECT AND QUANTIFY EXPOSURE TO CHEMICALS
 
Algorithms for Genome Analysis
 
Session Chair
Jim Fuscoe, NCTR
 
Yin Hu and Jinze Liu, DETECTING GENE FUSION WITH PAIRED-END READS*
 
Brandon Malone et al.
ALGORITHMS FOR ANALYSIS OF ChIP-Seq DATA FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF HISTONE MODIFICATIONS IN RICE*
 
Yin Hu and Brandon Malone, PANEL ON ALGORITHMS FOR GENOME ANALYSIS: SPEAKERS ADDRESS AUDIENCE QUESTIONS ON BROADER IMPLICATIONS
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM   Break
 
 
 
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM   Keynote Workshop
 
Laboratory Requirements
Caroline Obert, Ph.D
Proteins
 
Session Chair
Youping Deng, SpecPro/US Army ERDC
 
Jake Chen et al.
PEPPI: A PEPTIDOMICS DATABASE OF PROTEIN ISOFORMS IN HUMAN
 
Daniel Johnson et al.
DETERMINATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING HIGH-LEVEL PROTEIN ACCUMULATION IN TRANSGENIC MAIZE SEED
 
Sushma Thotakura and Jerry Darsey, MODELING STUDIES OF GELDANAMYCIN AND SIMILAR COMPOUNDS TO TREAT PARKINSON'S DISEASE*
 
Lun Yang et al.
MOLECULAR DOCKING SUPPORTS A DIRECT DRUG-HLA INTERACTION MECHANISM OF ABACAVIR- AND CARBAMAZEPINE-INDUCED SERIOUS ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
Visual information
 
Session Chair
William Slikker, NCTR
 
Engin Mendi et al.
SHOT BOUNDARY DETECTION AND KEY FRAME EXTRACTION FROM NEUROSURGICAL VIDEO SEQUENCES BASED ON COLOR INFORMATION*
 
Jinshan Tang, 3-D SPECKLE REDUCING BILATERAL FILTER FOR CATTLE FOLLICLE EXTRACTION
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM   Infrastructure
 
Session Chair
William Slikker, NCTR
 
Daniel Quest et al.
NEXT GENERATION MODELS FOR STORAGE AND REPRESENTATION OF BIOLOGICAL ANNOTATION
 
Roger Hall
"CLOUD COMPUTING" IN BIOINFORMATICS
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM   Lunch and Business Meeting
12:00 PM   Lunch begins
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM   Lunch continues Announcements
 
Greg Monaco, Upcoming GPN meeting
Eric Rouchka, Kentucky/Tennessee Bioinformatics Conference
12:45 PM - Concluded   Business Meeting (All Members)
 
Daniel Berleant, MCBIOS President
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM   Parallel Sessions
  Track 1
St. Francis River Room
Track 2
Centennial Hall
Track 3
Cache River Room
1:30 PM - 2:25 PM   Evolution
 
Session Chair
Doris Kupfer, FAA
 
Chao Di et al.
COMPARATIVE GENOME ANALYSIS OF PHB GENE FAMILY
 
Ulrich Melcher, ASSESSING CONSTANCY OF SUBSTITUTION RATES OVER EVOLUTIONARY TIME
 
Heidi Pagan et al.
LINEAGE SPECIFIC ACTIVITY FROM NOVEL PIGGYBAC ELEMENTS AND EVIDENCE OF HORIZONTAL TRANSFER IN MOUSE LEMURS (MICROCEBUS)
 
Chao Di, Ulrich Melcher, Heidi Pagan
PANEL ON EVOLUTION: SPEAKERS ADDRESS AUDIENCE QUESTIONS ON BROADER IMPLICATIONS
Toxicity
 
Session Chair
Susan Bridges, MSU
 
Youping Deng et al.
NETWORK BASED CHEMICAL CLASSIFICATION AND NEW MODE OF ACTION IDENTIFICATION
 
Zhichao Liu et al.
PREDICTION OF LIVER CARCINOGENICITY BASED ON TIME COURSE GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES FROM A SHORT TERM ANIMAL STUDY
 
Zhenqiang Su et al.
COMPARISON OF NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING (NGS) AND MICROARRAYS FOR A RAT TOXICOGENOMICS STUDY
 
Youping Deng, Zhichao Liu, Zhenqiang Su
PANEL ON TOXICITY: SPEAKERS ADDRESS AUDIENCE QUESTIONS ON BROADER IMPLICATIONS
BLAST Workshop
 
Jeffrey Cook
2:30 PM - 3:25 PM   Networks
 
Session Chair
Dennis Burian, FAA
 
Jun Huan, NON-STATIONARY DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORK AND ITS APPLICATION IN MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS
 
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan and Meenakshi Upreti, ON GRANGER CAUSALITY AND GENE NETWORKS
 
Chaoyang Zhang et al.
INFERRING GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS USING TIME SERIES GENE EXPRESSION DATA
 
Jun Huan, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Chaoyang Zhang
PANEL ON NETWORKS: SPEAKERS ADDRESS AUDIENCE QUESTIONS ON BROADER IMPLICATIONS
Data Driven Methods
 
Session Chair
Richard Segall, ASU
 
Minho Chae et al.
DATA MINING METHODS FOR CLUSTERING LARGE TWO-WAY DATA TO IDENTIFY LOCAL STRUCTURES AND GLOBAL PATTERNS
 
Joshua Kwekel et al.
AGE- AND SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN HEPATIC GENE EXPRESSION DURING THE RAT LIFE CYCLE
 
Dazhuo Li and Eric C. Rouchka, BAYESIAN CROSS CLUSTERING FOR MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS*
 
Natarajan Meghanathan et al.
A CLUSTERING MODEL FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ANXIETY IN NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS
3:30 PM - 4:25 PM   Protein Structure
 
Session Chair
Xiuzhen Huang, ASU
 
Cody Ashby et al.
PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION BASED ON EFFICIENT SEQUENCE-STRUCTURE ALIGNMENT*
 
Lantao Liu et al.
NOVEL SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR HDX MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYSIS
 
Ugur Uzuner et al.
STRUCTURE DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF XYLANASES*
 
Shaneka Simmons et al.
FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF THE UNIVERSAL STRESS PROTEINS OF RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS*
Tools
 
Session Chair
Dawn Wilkins, UM
 
Samin Liu and Joshua S. Yan, NOVEL SOFTWARE FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF REAL-TIME PCR DATA
 
Hong Fang et al.
AN FDA BIOINFORMATICS TOOL, ARRAYTRACK, FOR MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIAL FOOD BORNE PATHOGENS
 
Michael Berry et al. (presented by Ramin Homayouni)
DISCOVERING GENE FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS USING FAUN (FEATURE ANNOTATION USING NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION)
 
Inna Rytsareva et al.
INTEGRATION OF DIYA OUTPUT WITH GMOD STANDARDS
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM   Physiology
 
Session Chair
Ulisses Braga-Neto, TAMU
 
Kemal Aydin et al.
ANALYSIS OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY USING EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION
 
Halil Bisgin et al.
DIAGNOSIS OF LQT SYNDROME VIA SUPPORT VECTOR CLASSIFICATION
 
William O. Griffin et al.
AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK INVESTIGATION OF GENETIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA IN TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS
 
Dallas H. Snider et al.
CREATING A FEATURE VECTOR FOR MACHINE LEARNING ON FETAL MAGNETOCARDIOGRAM DATA*
Genomes, Promoters, ...
 
Session Chair
Dennis Burian, FAA
 
Marko Djordjevic, A GENOME-WIDE ANALYSIS OF POISED PROMOTERS IN BACTERIA
 
Cyriac Kandoth et al.
FAST AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF FUNCTIONALLY SIGNIFICANT INVERTED REPEATS IN WHOLE GENOMES*
 
Aleksandra Markovets et al.
PROMOTER PREDICTION IN HALOTHIOBACILLUS NEAPOLITANUS C2 BASED ON STRESS-INDUCED DNA DUPLEX DESTABILIZATION
 
Juliet D. Tang et al.
ASSEMBLING A NOVEL FUNGAL GENOME FROM SHORT READ SEQUENCING DATA*
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM   General Sessions
6:00 PM - 6:55 PM   Keynote
 
Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D.
Hunting for Genes and Tracking Mutations: Mapping Complex Traits in the Domestic Dog
7:00 PM   Dinner begins
7:35 PM   Dinner continues Introduction to MCBIOS 2011
 
Ulisses Braga-Neto
7:45 PM - 8:10 PM   Dinner Speaker
 
Scott Jackson ([email protected])
EXPLORING THE GLOBAL GENOMIC LANDSCAPE OF ENTERIC PATHOGENS: GENES, INDELS, SNPS-N-CHIPS
(joint work with Isha R. Patel, Mark K. Mammel, and Joseph E. leClerc)
8:10 PM - 9:00 PM   Speed Networking Event
 
Organized by Raphael Isokpehi and students from Jackson State University.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
8:00 AM - 8:50 AM   Breakfast Business Meeting (Board Members Only)
9:00 PM - 3:30 PM   General Sessions
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM   Keynote
 
Robert Cottingham, Ph.D.
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM   Poster Session I
 
11:00 AM - 11:55 AM   Poster Session II
 
12:00 PM   Lunch begins
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM   Lunch continues Lunch Speaker
 
Daniel Berleant, Outgoing MCBIOS President
CAN AN ENTIRE CONFERENCE COLLABORATE ON ONE RESEARCH PROJECT?
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM   Informal Networking and Poster Discussion
(Authors not present)
Arkansas Biosciences Institute Tour
 
(Optional) Walking tour for up to 4 simultaneous groups of 10-15 people each. Leave at 1 PM return by 2 PM.
2:05 PM - 3:00 PM   Poster Session III
 
3:00 PM - Concluded   Award Ceremony
 
Andy Perkins, Greg Monaco, Daniel Berleant
 
 
Officers
President
Past-President
President-Elect
Treasurer
Secretary
Daniel Berleant
Dawn Wilkins
Ulisses Braga-Neto
Dennis Burian
Doris Kupfer
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Other Organizing Committee Members
Local arrangements chair
Local arrangements co-chair
Poster chair
Networking chair
Richard Segall
Jeffrey Cook
Andy Perkins
Raphael Isokpehi
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Download the program (.doc, 2148kb).
Other Board Members
Susan Bridges
Youping Deng
James C. Fuscoe
Steve Jennings (ex officio)
William Slikker (ex officio)
Stephen Winters-Hilt (ex officio)
Jonathan Wren (ex officio)
Mississippi State
University of Southern Mississippi
National Center for Toxicological Research
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
National Center for Toxicological Research
University of New Orleans
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
 
Sponsors
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