Wednesday, May 13, 2009

7:00pm- 9:00pm

Registration and Reception

Comfort Suites Ft. Lauderdale Airport-West

 

Thursday, May 14, 2009

8:50am- 9:00am

Welcome Message Dr. Don Rosenblum, Dean, Welcome Remark

Knight Auditorium

 

9:00am- 10:00am	Plenary Session Chair: Matthew He	Knight Auditorium
	Invited Keynote Talk: Evolution of Regulatory Systems in Bacteria, Mikhail Gelfand

 

10:00am- 10:30am

Coffee Break

Courtyard Atrium

 

10:30am- 12:30pm	Parallel Sessions
	Session 1A: Gene Expression Room: Knight Auditorium Chair: Yi Pan Session 1B: Biological Networks Room: SBEBG 1133 Chair: Robert Harrison Integrating Multiple-Platform Expression Data through Gene Set Features, Matej Holec, Filip Zelezny, Jiri Klema and Jakub Tolar Querying Protein-Protein Interaction Networks, Florian Sikora, Guillaume Blin and Stéphane Vialette Practical Quality Assessment of Microarray Data by Simulation of Differential Gene Expression, Brian Howard, Beate Sick and Steffen Heber Integrative Approach for Combining TNF-NFkB Mathematical Model to a Protein Interaction Connectivity Map, Mahesh Visvanathan, Bernhard Pfeifer, Christian Baumgartner, Bernhard Tilg and Gerald Henry Lushington Mean Square Residue Biclustering with Missing Data and Row Inversions, Stefan Gremalschi, Gulsah Altun, Irina Astrovskaya and Alexander Zelikovsky Hierarchical Organization of Functional Modules in Weighted Protein Interaction Networks Using Clustering Coefficient, Min Li, Jianxin Wang, Jianer Chen and Yi Pan Using Gene Expression Modeling to Determine Biological Relevance of Putative Regulatory Networks, Peter Larsen and Yang Dai

 

12:30pm- 2:00pm

Lunch

Courtyard Atrium

 

2:00pm- 3:00pm	Plenary Session Chair: Giri Narasimhan	Knight Auditorium
	Invited Keynote talk: Bioinformatics Challenges in Translational Research, Nicholas Tsinoremas

 

3:00pm- 3:30pm

Coffee Break

Courtyard Atrium

 

3:30pm- 5:00pm	Parallel Sessions
	Session 2A: Phylogenetics Room: Knight Auditorium Chair: Yufeng Wu Session 2B: Structure prediction and self-assembly Room: SBEBG 1133 Chair: Raj Sunderraman Untangling Tanglegrams: Comparing Trees by their Drawings, Balaji Venkatachalam, Jim Apple, Katherine St. John and Dan Gusfield Relationship between amino acids sequences and protein structures: folding patterns and sequence patterns, Alexander Kister An Experimental Analysis of Consensus Tree Algorithms for Large-Scale Tree Collections, Seung-Jin Sul, Tiffani Williams Improved Algorithms for Parsing ESLTAGs: A Grammatical Model Suitable for RNA Pseudoknots, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Sahar Al Seesi and Reda Ammar Counting Faces in Split Networks, Lichen Bao and Sergey Bereg Efficient Algorithms for Self Assembling Triangular and other Nano Structures, Vamsi Kundeti and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

 

5:00pm - 5:30pm

Coffee Break

Courtyard Atrium

 

5:30pm - 6:30pm	Plenary Session Chair: Ion Mandoiu	Knight Auditorium
	Invited Keynote talk: Invited Keynote Talk: Motif Construction from High-Throughput SELEX Data, Esko Ukkonen

 

Friday, May 15, 2009

9:00am- 10:00am	Plenary Session Chair: Itsik Pe'er	Knight Auditorium
	Invited Keynote talk: Web-based, participant-driven association studies: research at 23andMe, Nick Eriksson

 

10:00am- 10:30am

Coffee Break

Courtyard Atrium

 

10:30am- 12:30pm	Parallel Sessions
	Session 3A: Genomics Room: Knight Auditorium Chair: Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Session 3B: CIGE Session I Room: SBEBG 1133 Chair: Andrew Allen Modeling and Visualizing Heterogeneity of Spatial Patterns of Protein-DNA Interaction from Hi-density Chromatin Precipitation Mapping Data, , Juntao Li, Fajrian Yunus, Zhu Lei, Majid Eshaghi, Jianhua Liu and R. Krishna Murthy Karuturi Exact Computation of Coalescent Likelihood Under the Infinite Sites Model, Yufeng Wu A Linear-Time Algorithm for Analyzing Array CGH Data Using Log Ratio Triangulation, Matthew Hayes and Jing Li Estimating Locus-Specific Ancestry in Closely Related Populations, Bogdan Pasaniuc Mining of Cis-regulatory Motifs Associated with Tissue-specific Alternative Splicing, Jihye Kim, Sihui Zhao, Brian Howard and Steffen Heber Imputation-based local ancestry inference in admixed populations, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Justin Kennedy and Ion Mandoiu Analysis of Cis-regulatory Motifs in Cassette Exons by Incorporating Exon Skipping Rates, Sihui Zhao, Jihye Kim and Steffen Heber Power to Detect Amplification Distortion in Genome-wide Tumor Data, Ninad Dewal, Matthew Freedman, Tom LaFramboise and Itsik Pe'er

 

12:30pm- 2:00pm

Lunch

Courtyard Atrium

 

2:00pm- 3:00pm	Plenary Session Chair: Ion Mandoiu	Knight Auditorium
	Invited Keynote talk: Networks of Relatedness Within and Across Populations, Itsik Pe'er

 

3:00pm- 3:30pm

Coffee Break

Courtyard Atrium

 

3:30pm- 5:00pm	Parallel Sessions
	Session 4A: Comparative Genomics Room: Knight Auditorium Chair: Steffen Heber Session 4B: CIGE Session II Room: SBEBG 1133 Chair: Yufeng Wu Rearrangement phylogeny of genomes in contig form, Adriana Muñoz and David Sankoff Pure Parsimony Xor Haplotyping, Riccardo Dondi, Paola Bonizzoni, Gianluca Della Vedova, Yuri Pirola and Romeo Rizzi Prediction of Contiguous Regions in the Amniote Ancestral Genome, Aida Ouangraoua, Frederic Boyer, Andrew McPherson, Eric Tannier and Cedric Chauve A Decomposition of the Pure Parsimony Haplotyping Problem, Allen Holder and Thomas Langley Linking hepatitis C virus quasispecies genetic diversity to features of viral infection using Bayesian networks, James Lara, Fengxiang Gao, Guoliang Xia and Yury Khudyakov

 

5:00pm- 5:30pm

Coffee Break

Courtyard Atrium

 

5:30pm- 7:00pm

Poster Session (.pdf)

DeSantis Bldg. Courtyard Atrium

 

7:00pm- 9:00pm

Banquet

Don Taft University Center 2nd Floor Lounge

 

Saturday, May 16, 2009

9:00am- 10:00am	Plenary Session Chair: Alexander Zelikovsky	Knight Auditorium
	Invited Keynote talk: Interpreting population sequencing data, Shamil Sunyaev

 

10:00am- 10:30am

Coffee Break

Courtyard Atrium

 

10:30am- 12:30pm	Parallel Sessions
	Session 5A: Sequence analysis Room: Knight Auditorium Chair: Edward Keith Session 5B: CIGE Session III Room: SBEBG 1047 Chair: Andrew Allen A Family of Evolution-Based Kernels for Protein Homology Analysis: A Generalization of the PAM Model, Vadim Mottl, Valentina Sulimova, Boris Mirkin, Ilya Muchnik and Casimir Kulikowski RAPID detection of gene-gene interactions in GWAS data, Dumitru Brinza and Vineet Bafna Irreplaceable Amino Acids and Reduced Alphabets in Short-term and Directed Protein Evolution, Miguel Jiménez-Montaño and Matthew He Meta-analysis of genetic association studies and adjustment for multiple testing when SNPs or traits are correlated, Karen Conneely and Michael Boehnke A One-Class Classification Approach for Protein Sequences and Structures, András Bánhalmi, Róbert Busa-Fekete and Balázs Kégl Grammatical Evolution Neural Networks for Genetic Epidemiology, Alison Motsinger-Reif Prediction and Classification of Real and Pseudo MicroRNA Precursors via Data Fuzzification and Fuzzy Decision Trees, Nael Abu-halaweh and Robert Harrison A Markov kernel approach to population structure adjustment in association studies, Omar De la Cruz