CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, November 15
5:30pm - 7:30pm -- Registration, Georgia Tech Hotel
6:00pm - 7:30pm -- Welcome reception, Georgia Tech Hotel
7:45pm - 9:00pm -- Registration, Conference site, Global Learning Center
7:45pm - 8:00 -- Opening Address (GLCC, Room 222)
Gary Schuster, Provost, Georgia Tech
8:00pm - 10:00 -- First session (GLCC, Room 222)
Session Chair - Mark Borodovsky - Georgia Tech
8:00pm - 8:30 -- Steven Salzberg
Genome organization in bacteria
8:40pm - 9:10 -- Martin Tompa
Which Portions of Whole-Genome Multiple Alignments Are Reliable?
9:20pm - 9:50 -- Martha Bulyk
Systematic identification of mammalian regulatory motifs' target genes and functions
Friday, November 16
8:30am - 11:00 -- Registration
9:00am - 11:00 -- Second session (GLCC, Room 222)
Session Chair - Ed Uberbacher - ORNL
9:00 - 9:30 -- Mario Stanke
Annotating new genomes using syntenically mapped gene structures of 'old' genomes
9:40 - 10:10 -- Roderic Guigo
The ENCODE Project: Uncovering the transcriptional complexity of the human genome
10:20 - 10:50 -- Anders Krogh
Simultaneous structure prediction and multiple alignment of structural RNAs
11:00 - 11:30 -- Coffee break
11:30 - 1:00 -- Third session (GLCC, Room 222)
Session Chair - Igor Zhulin - ORNL
11:30 - 12:00 -- Martin Vingron
Transcription factor affinity prediction: methods,
statistics, and delineation of tissue specific binding sites
12:10 - 12:40 -- Minoru Kanehisa
Bioinformatics Approach to Chemical Genomics
1:00 - 2:30 -- Lunch
2:30 - 4:00 -- Free time
4:00 - 6:00 -- Poster session
6:00 - 7:30 -- Dinner (on your own)
7:30 - 9:30 -- Fourth session (GLCC, Room 222)
Session Chair - Eberhard Voit - Georgia Tech
7:30 - 8:00 -- Tatiana Tatusova
Quality assessment of gene annotation in low quality eukaryotic genomes
8:10 - 8:40 -- Zhiping Weng
Identification and characterization of cell type-specific and
ubiquitous chromatin regulatory structures in the human genome
8:50 - 9:20 -- Olga Troyanskaya
Discovering biology through integration of computation and experiments
Saturday, November 17
9:00am - 11:00 -- Fifth session (GLCC, Room 222)
Session Chair - King Jordan - Georgia Tech
9:00 - 9:30 -- Jun Liu
Predictive Modeling Approaches to Gene Regulation
9:40 - 10:10 -- Soojin Yi
CpG islands, promoter evolution, and vertebrate genome evolution
10:20 - 10:50 -- Jean-Michel Claverie
Molecular Phylogeny "for dummies" in France
11:00 - 11:30 -- Coffee break
11:30 - 1:10 -- Sixth session (GLCC, Room 222)
Session Chair - Andrey Gorin - ORNL
11:30 - 12:00 -- Artemis Hatzigeorgiou
Identifying microRNAs and their targets
12:10 - 12:40 -- Hanah Margalit
Host-pathogen cross-talk via miRNA
12:50 - 1:10 -- Peter Good
Opportunities at the National Institutes of Health
1:00 - 2:30 -- Lunch
2:30 - 3:30 -- Session for current and prospective NIH principal investigators with Dr. Good
3:30 - 4:00 -- Free time
4:00 - 5:50 -- Poster session
6:00 - 7:50 -- Banquet, Georgia Tech Hotel
7:50 - 10:00 -- Seventh session (GLCC, Room 222)
Session Chair - Eva Lee - Georgia Tech
7:50 - 8:20 -- Shamil Sunyaev
Learning from re-sequencing data: what to do when the $1000 genome arrives?
8:30 - 9:00 -- James Galagan
Systems biology and metabolic modeling for TB
9:10 - 9:40 -- Joel Bader
Modeling and remodeling in systems biology
9:50 - 10:00 -- Concluding Remarks
