Program
Friday, March 20
          
Welcome
12:00 - 12:15 Welcome & Introductory Remarks Eric Rouchka, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
  Geospiza Workshops  
12:15 - 2:45 Polymorphism/SNP Discovery Sandra Porter, Ph.D.
Geospiza
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 5:30 Next Gen Sequencing Sandra Porter, Ph.D.
5:30 - 7:00 Dinner in dining room hours 5 pm - 7 pm  
Reception in Conference room 5 -7
7:00 - 8:00 Bioinformatics Education Workshop Steven Jennings, Ph.D.
University of Arkansas-Little Rock
8:00 - 8:15 Break
8:15 - 9:15 Microarray Workshop Arnold Stromberg, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky
Saturday, March 21
 
Breakfast
7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast in the Dining Room
Session I Medical and Translational Informatics
8:30 - 9:20 Creation and exploration of a semantic knowledge base for mechanism-based Inference between diseases, gene networks and drugs Bruce Aronow, Ph.D.
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati's Children's Hospital
9:20 - 9:30 Discussion
 
9:30 - 10:20 Slim-Prim: A biomedical informatics database bridging basic and clinical science Ian Brooks, Ph.D. University of Tennessee Health Science Center
10:20 - 10:30 Discussion
 
10:30 - 10:45 Break  
10:45 - 12:30 Short talks
Lunch & Free Time
12:30 - 1:00 Lunch (Cookout, weather permitting)
 
1:00 - 4:00 FREE TIME/Special Interest Groups
Poster Session
4:00 - 5:30 POSTER SESSION/Reception
Dinner
5:30 - 6:30 Dinner
Session II Systems Biology
7:00 - 7:50 Genetic characterization of robust ethanol-responsive gene networks in mouse prefrontal cortex Mike Miles M.D., Ph.D.
Virginia Commonwealth University
7:50 - 8:00 Discussion
 
8:00 - 8:50 Systems Vaccinology for Cryptosporidium Greg Buck, Ph.D.
Virginia Commonwealth University
8:00 - 9:00 Discussion
9:00 - 10:00 Gene networks and pathways in schizophrenia

 

Integrative Study Streptococcal Virulence by Comparative Genomics and Systems Biology

 

Zhongming Zhao, Ph.D.

 

 

Ping Xu, Ph.D.
Damail Bonchev, Ph.D.

Virginia Commonwealth University
Sunday, March 22
 
Breakfast
7:00 - 9:00 Breakfast in the Dining Room
Session III Next-Gen Sequencing and Epigenomics
9:00 - 9:50 New Aspects of Bioinformatics Introduced by Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies Jarret Glasscock, Ph.D.
CTO, Cofactor Genomics
St. Louis, MO
9:50-10:00 Discussion
 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
 
10:15 - 11:15 Genetic and Epigenetic Studies of Type 2 Diabetes in American Indians Robert Hanson, Ph.D.
PECRB/NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
11:15 - 11:30 Discussion
 
11:30 - 12:00 Closing Remarks/Planning discussion for next year's summit  
   
 
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch in Dining Room