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Conference 2006

Conference Organizing Committee

Keith Dunker, IUSM
Michael Gribskov, Purdue
Sun Kim, IU
Xiaoman Li, IUSM
Sean Mooney, IUSM
Past Conferences

Third Annual Indiana Bioinformatics Conference


Friday May 19, 2006
9:00 am - 8:00 pm
and
Saturday May 20, 2006
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

IUPUI Campus
Medical Sciences Building
635 Barnhill Drive, Room 326
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Conference Schedule

Friday, May 19, 2006
   
8:00 - 9:00 AM Registration
9:00 - 9:15 AM Welcome and Introduction, Keith Dunker, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Medical Science 326
Coffee and Donuts
9:15 - 10:30 AM Short talks (15 minutes)  selected from submitted abstracts
10:30 - 11:30 AM "Using Prior Knowledge to Reduce Uncertainty when Mining Microarray, Proteomics, and Clinical Data"

Invited Speaker: Zoran Obradovic
Professor and Director, Center for Information
Science and Technology, Temple University
11:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch and Poster Session
1:30 - 2:30 PM Special Interest Breakout Rooms
  • Databases, Ontologies and Data Mining

    • MSB Room 311A/B
  • Biological Pathways and Networks

    • MSB Room 312A
  • Transcription and Functional Genomics

    • MSB Room 312B
  • Structural Bioinformatics

    • MSB Room 312C
  • Proteomics

    • MSB B13
2:30 - 3:30 PM Breakout Reports
3:30 - 4:00 PM "Analyzing Microarray Data to Identify Candidate Biomarkers in Drug Discovery "

Ernst Dow
Senior Information Consultant
Eli Lilly and Company
4:00 - 4:30 PM "Statistical Pathway Analysis of DNA Microarray Data Revealed A Common Mechanism of Bone Formation by PTH And GSK-3a/b Inhibitor"

Tao Wei
Senior Research Scientist
Integrative Biology
Eli Lilly and Company
5:30 - 6:30 PM Reception with cash bar
6:30 - 7:30 PM Dinner
7:30 PM Keynote Speaker: Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and of Biochemistry, and of the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology
Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois
Radisson Hotel, Indianapolis


Saturday, May 20, 2006
8:30 - 9:00 AM Coffee and Donuts
9:00 - Noon IU, IUPUI, IUSM and Purdue faculty presentations

  • Yunlong Liu, (additional authors Howard J. Edenberg, Ph.D.) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
    " MotifModeler: identification of cis-acting elements using microarray data "


  • Matthew Hahn, Department of Biology and School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington.
    "The 17% solution: gene family divergence between human and chimpanzee"


  • Troy Hawkins (additional authors Stan Luban, Daisuke Kihara), Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University.
    "Enhanced automated function prediction using distantly related sequences and contextual association by PFP"


  • Mehmet M. Dalkilic 1,2,3, (additional authors Justen Andrews 2,4, James Costello 1,2), 1 School of Informatics, 2 Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, 3 Department of Computer Science, 4 Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington.
    "Connecting the dots to discovery: Functional Integration"


  • Michael D. Kane, Department of Computer and Information Technology, Lead Genomic Scientist, Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University.
    "Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development in Bioinformatics" and "Sequence Searching in a Computer Cluster Environment: A Case for an Intelligent Scheduler"


  • Mary Ritke, PhD., University of Indianapolis

    • "Point-Click-Predict, Align and Design: An Introductory Bioinformatics Course for Undergraduates"

  • Predrag Radivojac (additional author Haixu Tang), School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington.
    "A machine learning approach to predicting peptide fragmentation spectra"


  • Tony Hazbun, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University.
    "Discovering Protein,Genetic and Chemical Interaction Networks using Yeast-based Functional Genomics"


  • Mehmet M. Dalkilic1,2,3 (additional authors Justen Andrews2,4, James Costello1,2), 1 School of Informatics, 2 Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, 3 Department of Computer Science, 4 Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington.
    "Connecting the dots to discovery: Functional Integration"


  • Pedro Romero, School of Informatics, Indiana Univeristy, Indianapolis.
    • "Alternative Splicing, Intrinsic Disorder and Multicellular Complexity"
12:30 -4:00 PM Lunch and gathering, Dunker House - Directions