BIOT-2008 Schedule
| Friday, October 17 | |
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| 8:00 - 8:50 | Registration and breakfast |
| 8:50 - 9:15 |
Introduction by Nikola Stojanovic Welcome address by Paul Paulus, Dean of UTA College of Science Welcome address by Bill Carroll, Dean of UTA College of Engineering |
| 9:15 - 10:30 | Session 1A, Session chair: Jugal Kalita, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs |
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Deterministic Graph-Theoretic Algorithm for Detecting Modules in
Biological Interaction Networks
Roger Chang, Feng Luo, Stuart Johnson and Richard H. Scheuermann Assessing and Improving the Accuracy of Detecting Molecular Adaptation with the TreeSAAP Analytical Software David McClellan and David Ellison Flavitrack Analysis of the Structure and Function of West Nile Non-structural Proteins Petr Danecek and Catherine Schein |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Session 1B, Session chair: Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington |
Reconstructing the Sequences of Broken Transposable Elements
Abanish Singh, Umeshkumar Keswani, David Levine, Cedric Feschotte and Nikola Stojanovic REPCLASS: A Software Workflow Toolset for Automated Classification of Transposable Elements Umeshkumar Keswani, Nirmal Ranganathan, Cedric Feschotte and David Levine A Multi-pronged Parallel Approach to Enhance Speed and Accuracy of Sequence Assembly Munib Ahmed, Mohammad Saad Ahmad and Ishfaq Ahmad |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Poster session 1 (20 posters, poster number indicates board location) |
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01. Efficient Embedding-Based Subsequence Matching for Time Series and
Strings Vassilis Athitsos, Panagiotis Papapetrou, Michalis Potamias, Alexandra Stefan, George Kollios and Dimitrios Gunopulos 02. Clustered SplitsNetworks: A New Method for Phylogenetic Network Construction Lichen Bao and Sergey Bereg 03. Genome Evolution of the Medically Important Toxoplasma gondii Organism Assiatu B. Barrie and Ellen J. Pritham 04. Rolling-On: Bioinformatic and Biochemical Approach to Deciphering the Transposition Method of Helitrons Margaret M. Bejm, Shawn Christensen, Cedric Feschotte and Ellen Pritham 05. Better Prediction Model for TP53 Binding Sites Paul Bible and Raja Loganantharaj 06. Evolution of the Schlafen Genes, a Gene Family Possibly Involved in Embryonic Lethality, Meiotic Drive, Immune System Development and Poxvirus Virulence Olivia Bustos, Saijal Naik, Maria A. Perez-Lamigueiro, Ellen Pritham and Elena de la Casa-Esperon 07. Mechanism of Insertion and Genetic Engineering of Retrotransposons Shawn Christensen, Blaine Thompson, Christi Hull and Dillon Cawley 08. CeMeas: A Software for Efficient Computation of Some Centrality Measures in Biological Networks Ovidiu Daescu and Anastasia Kurdia 09. Evolution of Mammalian Gene Families Jeffery P. Demuth 10. A Semantic Web Management Model for Integrative Biomedical Informatics Helena F. Deus, Romesh Stanislaus, Diogo F. Veiga, Carmen Behrens, Ignacio I. Wistuba, John D. Minna, Harold R. Garner, Stephen G. Swisher, Jack A. Roth, Arlene M. Correa, Bradley Broom, Kevin Coombes, Allen Chang, Lynn H. Vogel and Jonas S. Almeida 11. A Knowledge System for Exposing The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) to Semantic Web Technologies Helena F. Deus, Diogo F. Veiga, Pablo R. Freire, Bradley M. Broom and Jonas S. Almeida 12. A Primitive Precursor to the Standard Genetic Code W.L. Duax, R. Huether, V. Pletnev, T. Kirsch, D. Hogan, J. Teysir, S. Benatovich, J. Bednarz, D. Dzak, S. Tucker, I. Xu and M. McCauley 13. Sub-pathway Analysis: A Novel Approach for Identifying Significant Genes in Gene Sets Maya Eldayeh and Yuhang Wang 14. Discovery of the First Primate Endogenous Lentivirus Clement Gilbert, David Maxfield and Cedric Feschotte 15. BioHealthBase: A Web-based Database and Analysis Resource for pathogens Shubhada Godbole, Burke Squires, Jyothi Noronha, Victoria Hunt, Ed Klem, Aihui Wang, Christopher Larsen and Richard H. Scheuermann 16. Natural Language Query in the Biomedical Domain Based on Cognition Search Elizabeth J. Goldsmith, Saurabh Mendiratta, Radha Akella and Kathleen Dahlgren 17. Enhancement of the Enzymatic Activity of Escherichia coli Esterase by Random Mutagenesis Mitsuru Haruki, Ryuichi Kobayashi and Shigenori Kanaya 18. Identification of Genetic Switches and Biomarkers via the Expression Profiles of Microarray Data Hung-Chung Huang, Daniel Jupiter and Vincent VanBuren 19. Bifan Motifs in Cell Signaling: Regulatory Properties and Evolutionary Role Sergio Iadevaia, Robert Azencott and Prahlad T. Ram 20. Towards Evolutionary Classification of Proteins Bong-Hyun Kim, Hua Cheng, Lisa Kinch and Nick Grishin |
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| 1:30 - 2:30 | Keynote address 1 |
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New Frontiers in Genomic Research Laura Elnitski National Human Genome Research Institute, Genome Technology Branch, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, USA |
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| 2:30 - 2:45 | Coffee break | 2:45 - 4:00 | Session 2A, Session chair: Catherine Schein, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston |
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Towards Understanding the Relations Among Co-expressions, Annotations and
Co-regulations
Raja Loganantharaj and Jun Chung Strategies for Enhanced Annotation of a Microarray Probe Set TuShun R. Powers, Selene M. Virk and Elba E. Serrano Gene Selection through Association Rule Filtering for Supervised Classification Prerna Sethi |
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| 4:00 - 4:15 | Coffee break |
| 4:15 - 5:30 | Session 2B, Session chair: Raja Loganantharaj, University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
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A Frequent Itemset-Nearest Neighbor Based Approach for Clustering Gene
Expression Data
Rosy Das, D.K. Bhattacharyya and J.K. Kalita Wavelets-Based Dimensionality Reduction for Gene Expression Feature Extraction Sumeet Dua and Kaustubh S. Sabnis Ranking through Integration of Protein-Similarity for Identification of Cell-cyclic Genes Sumeet Dua, Pradeep Chowriappa and Alan Alex |
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| 5:30 - 7:00 | Break |
| 7:00 - 10:00 | Banquet (full registration faculty, professionals and post-docs only) |
| Saturday, October 18 | |
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| 8:00 - 8:50 | Registration and breakfast |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Address by Filia Makedon, Chairperson of the UTA Department of Computer Science and Engineering | 9:00 - 10:00 | Keynote address 2 |
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High Throughput Flow Cytometry: Integration of Advanced
Instrumentation, Knowledge Representation and Computational
Analysis Richard H. Scheuermann Department of Pathology and Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15 - 11:05 | Session 3A, Session chair: William Duax, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo, New York |
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An Automated 3D Image-Processing Strategy for Small Animal Bioluminescence
Cancer Studies
Nikolai V. Slavine, Roderick W. McColl, Edmond Richer, Ralph P. Mason and Peter P. Antich Influence of Red Blood Cell Deformation and Clustering on CO Uptake Yaling Liu and Wing Kam Liu |
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| 11:05 - 11:10 | Break |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Session 3B, Session chair: Chris Ding, University of Texas at Arlington |
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On a Divide and Conquer Approach for Haplotype Inference with Pure Parsimony
Konstantinos Kalpakis and Parag Namjoshi A Web-based System for Phenotypic and Genotypic Data Integration andi Exploration Angelo Nuzzo, Alberto Riva and Riccardo Bellazzi |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Poster session 2 (20 posters, poster number indicates board location) |
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01. Structural and Functional Characterization of HMG-CoA Reductase of
Artemisia annua
L. Using in silico methods Usha Kiran, Salim Khan, Mauji Ram, Mather Ali Khan and M.Z. Abdin 02. The Immunology Database and Analysis Portal - ImmPort Megan Kong, Yu Qian, Nishanth Marthandan, Jie Huang, Diane Xiang, Paula Buidry, Jamie Lee, Jennifer Cai, David Karp, Jeff Wiser, Patrick Dunn and Richard H. Scheuermann 03. Expression, Purification and Partial Characterization of the Acidic Subunit from 11S Amaranth Seed Protein S. Luna-Suarez, F. Lopez-Valdez and O. Paredes-Lopez 04. Construction of Multiprotein System for Biotransformation of Alkanes Mandana Miri, Fatemeh Tabandeh, Majid Sadeghizadeh and Bijan Bambai 05. SWPT-LaBi: Wavelet Packet and Laplacian Bivariate Shrinkage for Array-CGH Data Smoothing Nha Nguyen, Vangelis Meci, Heng Huang and Fillia Makedon 06. Characterization of DNA-Nanopore Interaction and Translocation Abhijit Ramachandran, Yaling Liu and Samir M. Iqbal 07. Technology to Help Patients Adhere to Treatment Plans - A Brief Introduction to the Teleherence Project Divya Ramachandran, Anirban Maiti, Godfrey Mwangi, Manfred Huber, David Levine, Farhad Kamangar, Richard Schoech and Gergely Zaruba 08. BGrid - Component based Architecture for Bioinformatics on the Grid Tummalapalli Sudhamsh Reddy, David Levine, Manfred Huber and Nirmal Ranganathan 09. Serodiagnosis of Acute Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Pregnant Women using Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assays with a Recombinant Dense Granule GRA7 Protein Ghazaleh Sadeghiani, Majid Golkar, Mohammad-Ali Shokrgozar, Kayhan Azadmanesh, Jalal Babaie and Mehrak Zare 10. An Automated Image-Processing Strategy for Small Animal Bioluminescence Cancer Studies Nikolai V. Slavine, Roderick W. McColl , Edmond Richer, Peter P. Antich and Ralph P. Mason 11. FluSim - An Influenza Virus Molecular Infection Model and Discrete Event, Stochastic Simulation Burke Squires, Preetam Ghosh, Kalyan Basu, Sajal Das and Richard H. Scheuermann 12. BioHealthBase: Informatics Support in the Elucidation of Influenza Virus Host-Pathogen Interactions and Virulence Burke Squires, Catherine Macken, Nicole Baumgarth, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Shubhada Godbole, Jyothi Noronha, Victoria Hunt, Jonathan Dietrich, Christopher N. Larsen, Edward B. Klem and Richard H. Scheuermann 13. Communication with Biomedical Databases to Integrate the Information Related to Genome-Wide Association Studies Abhijit R. Tendulkar, Nikola Stojanovic and Robert Barber 14. Multiple Horizontal Invasions of Helitrons the Rolling Circle Transposons in Different Species of Bats Jainy Thomas, Cedric Feschotte and Ellen J. Pritham 15. Pif1helicase: a Gene Capture by Helitrons (a Novel Group of Transposons) or a Domestication Event by a Eukaryotic Genome? Komal Vadnagara and Ellen J. Pritham 16. Transposable Elements as a Source of Primate-specific Conserved Noncoding Sequences Qi Wang and Cedric Feschotte 17. Minimum Description Length Approach to the Analysis of Array-based DNA Copy Number Data Siling Wang and Yuhang Wang 18. Standoff Cardiograph Using Image Processing Chester Wildey and Duncan MacFarlane 19. RFID-Based Smart Medicine Drawer Application for the Elderly in Assistive Environments Yurong Xu, Eric Becker and Fillia Makedon 20. Study of the Molecular Mechanisms of Phagocyte Transmigration usingi a Hybrid Computational Model Jiaxing Xue, Jean Gao and Liping Tang |
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| 1:30 - 2:45 | Session 4, Session chair: Bradley Broom, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
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Scalable Biomedical Named Entity Recognition: Investigation of a
Database-Supported SVM Approach
Mona Soliman Habib and Jugal Kalita Mining Cytochrome b561 from Plant Genomes Stephen O. Opiyo and Etsuko N. Moriyama Nonlinear Identification of Recombinant E. coli Fed-Batch Fermentation with a Hybrid Method Mahdi Feyzdar, Valiollah Babaeipure and Ahmad Reza Vali |
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| 2:45 - 3:00 | Coffee break |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Special session: Biotechnology in Education |
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Biotechnology's Impact on Higher Education
Julia Susan Frink |
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| 3:30 - 4:00 | Round table: Biotechology collaborations and education, Moderator: Filia Makedon, UTA CSE Chairperson |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Coffee break |
| 4:15 - 4:30 | Closing ceremony |
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