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Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium
Biot 2007

Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2007)

October 19-20, 2007

Colorado Springs, CO

Introduction

The Program Committee would like to invite you to participate in the Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2007) on October 19-20 in Colorado Springs, CO. BIOT-07 is the fourth in a series of successful symposia held yearly. Starting from the first symposium in 2004, the symposium has attracted participants from all over the US, Canada and outside North America.

Research and development in biotechnology requires the collaboration of scientists and engineers in the fields of biology, chemistry, computer science, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering. This symposium brings together scientists, engineers and scholars from relevant fields with practitioners from industry in order to help each group to understand progress made in the area as a whole.

Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium

Posters

There will be a poster session during BIOT-07. Students, faculty and other researchers are welcome to submit posters on ongoing research on any topic in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics for display during BIOT-07. Abstracts of the posters will be printed in the proceedings of BIOT-07. One of the posters authors must be registered for the poster to be displayed during the symposium.

If you would like to display a poster, please send a 200 word abstract by email to the Poster Session Chair, Dr. Mark Clement of the Department of Computer Science at Brigham Young University (clement@cs.byu.edu). Poster abstracts are due by September 10th, 2007. Successful poster submitters will be notified by September 14th.

BIOT 2007 Committee

Advisory Committee

  • Abdullah, Arslan: University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (Algorithms for multiple sequence alignment)
  • Clement, Mark: Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (Sequence Alignment, Parallel Computing, Supercomputers)
  • Loganantharaj, Rasiah: Department of Computer Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Micro array analysis, functional annotations, phylogenetic profiling, clustering, text mining, mining biological data bases)
  • Stojanovic, Nikola: Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Arlington, TX

Symposium Co-Chairs

  • Kalita, Jugal: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence)
  • Mattoon, James: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (Biochemistry, Biotechnology)

Program Committee

  • Barber, Robert: Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (Innate immunity, Cell signaling in response to infection, Analytical models for resolving complex disease etiology)
  • Bhattacharyya, Dhruba: Tezpur University, Assam, India (Machine learning, Data Mining)
  • Boult, Terrance: Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO (Computer Vision)
  • Brown, Daniel: David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada (biological sequence analysis, computational sequence annotation, and probabilistic analysis of algorithms)
  • Carroll, Hyrum: Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (Multiple sequence alignment algorithms)
  • Chao, Kun-Mao: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (Sequence alignment, SNPs, Comparative genomics, Pattern recognition)
  • Cios, Krys: University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Neural Networks)
  • Csuros, Miklos: Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal Montreal, PQ, Canada (Comparative genomics, molecular evolution)
  • Das, Sanjoy: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (Biologially-inspired Computing, Agent-based computing)
  • Gao, Jean, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (Microarray analysis, mass spectrometry, molecular/cellular imaging, pattern recognition,classification, clustering, feature selection, biomarker identification, cell motility)
  • Hines, Lisa: Department of Biology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (Functional Genomics and Molecular Epidemiology)
  • Levine, David: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
  • Mercer, Eric: Computer Science Department, Brigham Young University (Software model checking and formal verification, model checking techniques and formal methods in biological systems, modeling gene regulatory networks, connections between Downe syndrome phenotype and chromosome 21 genes)
  • Mitra, Debasis: Department of Computer Sciences, Florida Institue of Technology, Melbourne, FL (Protein Floding and Protein Docking, Systems Biology, Constraint-Based Reasoning)
  • Pathak, Saurav: Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Multi-variate Methods, Signal processing, Data analysis, Modeling, Algorithms in genomics and epigenomics. )
  • Roper, Randall: University of Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN (Genetic and biological models of human disease)
  • Riva, Alberto: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Bioinformatics, Computer Science, and Knowledge Engineering)
  • Singh, Ambuj: Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara (Quering and mining of biological data)
  • Snell, Quinn: Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (Computational Science, Phylogenetic Trees, Parallel Computing, Supercomputers)
  • Subramanian, Devika: Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX (Artificial Intelligence, Adaptive Systems, Modeling Visualmotor Tasks)