Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium
Biot 2009

Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2009)

October 9-10, 2009

Lincoln, Nebraska


General Symposium Information

 

[Meeting locations]

All BIOT-2009 activities take place in Nebraska Union (#17 in the UNL City Campus Map). See the Nebraska Union Map for location of the rooms:

• Registration: Auditorium

• Refreshments, lunch: Regency, Heritage, Ballroom (see the program)

• Oral presentations: Auditorium

• Banquet: Ballroom

• Poster session: Ballroom

Note: SCID workshop on Oct 11 takes place in Avery Hall (#32 in the UNL City Campus Map).

 

[Registration]

Registration desk will be open during the symposium at the Auditorium. You need to pick up your nametag and Proceedings book. The nametag will be required for meals at the symposium.

 

[Student/postdoc scholarship awards]

IMPORTANT! If you received scholarship, you need to obtain your reimbursement forms at the registration desk. If you fail to pickup your reimbursement form during the symposium, you will not be able to receive your reimbursement.

IMPORTANT! If you received scholarship, you need to submit at least two surveys on posters other than yours. Please see the Poster Survey requirements for details at the Posters section below.

 

[Oral presentation]

All oral presentations are given in the Auditorium.

Both Macintosh and Windows laptops with PowerPoint will be available.

• The length of a talk is 30 minutes for a full paper (shown with an F-number) and 20 minutes for an extended abstract (shown with an E-number). Please keep 3-5 minutes at the end of your talk for Q & A.

All presenters, please copy your slide files to the laptop during the break before your presentation.

• Poster space will be also available for all accepted papers and extended (2-page) abstracts. See below for the information for poster presentation.

 

[Posters]

IMPORTANT! As a condition of receiving the NSF Travel Scholarship funding, BIOT-2009 is required to provide mentoring for young reseachers at the symposium. Therefore, we welcome feedback on all posters will duly relay your feedback to the poster presenters after BIOT-2009. Furthermore, to encourage the exchange of ideas and community building, as part of the NSF Travel Scholarship program, each scholarship recipient is required to submit at least two surveys in order for his or her scholarship award to be official. At the end of BIOT-2009, we will select a poster based on the surveys for the Best Poster Award. Please return your surveys to the designated Survey Return Box by 12:00 noon on October 10. (Note: The survey form can be found at the bottom of this webpage. We will also distribute paper copies of the survey at the BIOT-2009 venues.)

Poster session is in the Ballroom. Refreshments will be provided during the poster session.

• See the program when you need to be at your poster.

Poster Size: 3.5' or 42" (width) x 7' or 84" (height). Two posters may share the same poster board. So do not exceed the maximum width. Pushpins will be provided.

When to put up posters: Posters can be put up any time from 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm on Oct 9 (Fri). Find your poster number on the board.

When to take down posters: Please remove your posters by 1:00 pm on Oct 10 (Sat). All posters left after this time will be discarded.


BIOT-2009 Program

 

Rooms: Auditorium (A; *in front of the Auditorium), Regency (R), Ballroom (B)

Talks: Full paper (F-number), Extended abstract (E-number)

 

DAY 1: October 9 (Friday)

Room

8:00 am -

Registration

A*

8:00 am - 9:00 am

Continental breakfast

R

9:00 am - 9:10 am

Opening remarks

A

 

Keynote address 1

Chair: Stephen Scott (UNL, Computer Science & Engineering)

A

9:10 am - 10:15 am

Khalid Sayood (UNL, Electrical Engineering)

Information Theory, Data Compression, and Bioinformatics

 

10:15 am - 10:35 am

Coffee break

R

 

Session 1A.

Chair: Leen-Kiat Soh (UNL, Computer Science & Engineering)

A

10:35 am - 11:05 pm

F1. Bagged gene shaving for the robust clustering of high-throughput data (PDF)

Bradley M. Broom, Erik P. Sulman, Kim-Anh Do, Mary E. Edgerton, and Kenneth D. Aldape

 

11:05 pm - 11:35 pm

F2. Applying machine learning techniques to classify H1N1 viral strains occurring in 2009 flu pandemic (PDF)

Pavan K. Attaluri, Ximeng Zheng, Zhengxin Chen, and Guoqing Lu

 

11:35 pm - 12:05 pm

F3. Application of committee kNN classifiers for gene expression profile classification (PDF)

Manik Dhawan, Sudarshan Selvaraja, and Zhong-Hui Duan

 

12:05 pm - 1:15 pm

Lunch

R


 

Rooms: Auditorium (A; *in front of the Auditorium), Regency (R), Ballroom (B)

Talks: Full paper (F-number), Extended abstract (E-number)

 

DAY 1, CONTINUED: October 9 (Friday)

Room

 

Keynote address 2

Chair: Leen-Kiat Soh (UNL, Computer Science & Engineering)

A

1:15 pm - 2:20 pm

Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, Computer Science)

Comparative Analysis of Macromolecular Interaction Networks

 

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm

Coffee break

R

 

Session 1B.

Chair: Etsuko Moriyama (UNL, Biological Sciences & Center for Plant Science Innovation)

A

2:40 am - 3:00 pm

E1. Association analysis in structured plant populations, an adaptive mixed LASSO approach (PDF)

Dong Wang

 

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm

E2. A dynamic programming based algorithm to identify coordinately differentially activated transcription factors (PDF)

Haiyan Hu and Xiaoman Li

 

3:20 pm - 3:40 pm

E3. Molecular evolution of sterol-sensing domain in eukaryotes (PDF)

Pooja K. Strope and Etsuko N. Moriyama

 

3:40 pm - 4:00 pm

E4. Simulating sequence superfamilies for biological hypothesis testing (PDF)

Cory L. Strope, Stephen D. Scott, and Etsuko N. Moriyama

 

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm

Coffee break

R

 

Keynote address 3

Chair: Etsuko Moriyama (UNL, Biological Sciences & Center for Plant Science Innovation)

A

4:20 pm - 5:25 pm

Andrew Benson (UNL, Food Science & Technology, Core for Applied Genomics and Ecology)

Reconstructing Microbiomes and Metagenomes from Massive Amounts of Sequence Data

 

5:25 pm - 5:40 pm

Break

R

5:40 pm - 10:00 pm

Banquet & Posters

Presenters of posters should be present at the posters:

7:30 pm - 8:15 pm: even numbered posters

8:15 pm - 9:00 pm: odd numbered posters

B


 

Rooms: Auditorium (A; *in front of the Auditorium), Heritage (H), Ballroom (B)

Talks: Full paper (F-number), Extended abstract (E-number)

 

DAY 2: October 10 (Saturday)

Room

8:00 am -

Registration

A*

8:00 am - 9:15 am

Continental breakfast

H

 

Keynote address 4 (Sponsor: Center for Plant Science Innovation)

Chair: James Alfano (UNL, Plant Pathology & Center for Plant Science Innovation)

A

9:15 pm - 10:20 pm

Scott Peck (University of Missouri-Columbia, Biochemistry)

Using Proteomics to Study Signaling and Secretion in Plant Defense Responses

 

10:20 am - 10:40 am

Coffee break

H

 

Session 2A.

Chair: Stephen Scott (UNL, Computer Science & Engineering)

A

10:40 am - 11:10 am

F4. Differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data: RNA-tag filtering, comparison of t-type tests and their genome-wide co-expression based adjustments (PDF)

Yinglei Lai

 

11:10 am - 11:40 am

F5. Scaling alignment of large ontologies (PDF)

Suzette K. Stoutenburg, Jugal Kalita, Kaily Ewing, and Lisa Hines

 

11:40 am - 12:10 pm

F6. Multiple genome sequence alignment with longest path algorithms (PDF)

Fangrui Ma and Jitender Deogun

 

12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Lunch

B


 

Rooms: Auditorium (A), Heritage (H), Ballroom (B)

Talks: Full paper (F-number), Extended abstract (E-number)

 

DAY 2, CONTINUED: October 10 (Saturday)

Room

 

Session 2B.

Chair: Guoqing Lu (University of Nebraska at Omaha, Biology)

A

1:30 pm - 1:50 pm

E5. Oligonucleotide optimization for DNA synthesis (PDF)

Tobias M. Louw, Scott E. Whitney, Joel TerMaat, and Hendrik Viljoen

 

1:50 pm - 2:10 pm

E6. Molecular evolution of G-proteins (PDF)

Brandon L. Fulk, Stephen O. Opiyo, and Etsuko N. Moriyama

 

2:10 pm - 2:30 pm

E7. Gap profiling: scoring indels in multiple sequence alignment (PDF)

Cory L. Strope, Stephen D. Scott, and Etsuko N. Moriyama

 

2:30 pm - 2:50 pm

Coffee break

H

 

Teaching Computing + Biology

Chair: Leen-Kiat Soh (UNL, Computer Science & Engineering)

A

2:50 pm - 3:20 pm

 

 

Mark Pauley (University of Nebraska at Omaha, Information Science & Technology)

Integrating Bioinformatics into the Life Sciences: a CCLI Project

 

3:20 pm – 3:50 pm

Leen-Kiat Soh (UNL, Computer Science & Engineering)

The Renaissance Computing Initiative at the University of Nebraska

 

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Discussion

 

4:20 pm - 4:30 pm

Closing Remarks

A

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Co-chairs/Steering Committee meeting

H


 

DAY 3: October 11 (Sunday)

NSF Semantic Cyberinfrastructure for Investigation and Discovery (SCID) Workshop

(separate registration required)

8:00 am - 9:00 am

Continental breakfast

Avery Hall

115 and 21

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Workshop

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch & Discussion



Posters (With author permission, some abstracts are posted as PDF files)

IMPORTANT! As a condition of receiving the NSF Travel Scholarship funding, BIOT-2009 is required to provide mentoring for young reseachers at the symposium. Therefore, we welcome feedback on all posters will duly relay your feedback to the poster presenters after BIOT-2009. Furthermore, to encourage the exchange of ideas and community building, as part of the NSF Travel Scholarship program, each scholarship recipient is required to submit at least two surveys in order for his or her scholarship award to be official. At the end of BIOT-2009, we will select a poster based on the surveys for the Best Poster Award. Please return your surveys to the designated Survey Return Box by 12:00 noon on October 10. (Note: The survey form can be found at the bottom of this webpage. We will also distribute paper copies of the survey at the BIOT-2009 venues.)

P427. MicroRNA target prediction and verification in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (PDF)

Adam Voshall, Etsuko N. Moriyama, and Heriberto Cerutti

P672. Screening for anti-angiogenic natural inhibitors for vascular endothelial growth factor receptor - An in silico approach (PDF)

Subhojyoti Chatterjee, Deepak Choubey, Biplab Bhattacharjee, Anantharamanan. R., Jayadeepa R. M., Anirudh Chowdhary, Sushil K. Middha, and Usha Talambedu

P686. Molecular basis of homocystinuria: identification of mutation in cystathionine beta synthase (CBS) gene

M. A. Kausar and M. D. Bashyam

P1192. Tools for identifying homogenous subgroups in large data

Yuanyuan Huang, Heike Hofmann, and Dianne Cook

P1297. Biosynthetic engineering of HSAF, a tetramic acid-containing antifungal macrolactam isolated from the biocontrol agent Lysobacter enzymogenes C3

Yunxuan Xie, Yaoyao Li, Lili Lou, and Lingcheng Du

P1333. Extraction of globular proteins with reverse micelles using vegetable oils as the organic medium

Daliya A. George, Cheuk-Man Chu, and David C. Stuckey

P1427. Matched filter for signature extraction in bioinformatics data set (PDF)

Ming Li and William Q. Meeker

P1439. Bioinformatics investigation: examination of two algal proteomes in search of carbon-concentrating mechanism components (PDF)

Andrew Brueggeman, Istvan Ladunga, and Donald Weeks

P1446. Phylogenetic analysis of H1N1 2009 influenza virus (PDF)

Ameer Shaik, Aparna Sriram, Sri Harsha Muppaneni, Teja Polapragada, and Zhong-Hui Duan

P1447. Graphical framework for processing GCMS data: integration of qt interfaces

Marie Vendettuoli, Michael Lawrence, Dianne Cook, and Heike Hofmann

P1454. Immune-enhancing antitumor RNA interference therapy for cervical cancer

Richa Singhania, Wenyi Gu, and Nigel McMillan

P1456. Layout of phylogenetic networks and multi-labeled trees (PDF)

Poornima Venugopal and Sergey Bereg

P1466. Intraperitoneal delivery of liposomal siRNA for therapy of cervical cancer

Akul Singhania, Sherry Y. Wu, and Nigel A. J. McMillan

P1467. Knock down of CXCR2 enhances sensitivity to chemotherapy (PDF)

Dhananjay M. Nawandar, Michelle L. Varney, and Rakesh K. Singh

P1468. Integrating EST's and high-throughput sequencing to identify orthologous loci for phylogenomic analysis: a case study among basal ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

Jason Macrander and Guillermo Orti

P1474. Identifying differentially expressed human lung microRNAs and their molecular functions (PDF)

Sarita Limbu and Zhong-Hui Duan

P1475. Development of technologies to monitor chromatin proteins in small cell numbers for applications in assisted reproductive technology (PDF)

Dipika Singh, Janos Zempleni, and Angela Pannier

P1484. SUMO (small-ubiquitin-like modifier) in subcellular fractions of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii reveals potential functions

Amy R. Knobbe, Kempton Horken, Stephanie Matejka, Don Weeks, and Cheryl P. Bailey

P1486. Establishing influenza A viral mutation database through literature and data mining (PDF)

Ambreen Kedwaii, Pavan Kumar Attaluri, and Guoqing Lu

P1489. Enhancement of homologous recombination in the model organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ..

Thomas M. Plucinak and Donald P. Weeks

P1490. An SVM-based method for linear B-cell epitope prediction by introducing a new tri-peptides Kernel (PDF)

Bo Yao and Chi Zhang

P1492. Pattern detection in the motor protein prestin: a collaborative approach

K. Dempsey, B. Currall, D. Bastola, R. Hallworth, and H. Ali

P1495. A Web-based tool for rigidity analysis of proteins (PDF)

Naomi Fox, Filip Jagodzinski, Yang Li, and Ileana Streinu

P1497. Coevolution between PKD1 and PKD2

Wenhu Guo and Chun Ye

P1498. A software tool for surveying the rigidity properties of protein families (PDF)

Filip Jagodzinski, Diana Jaunzeikare, Naomi Fox, and Ileana Streinu

P1499. A new approach to compare biological sequences based on motif alphabets

Ramez Mina, Dhundy Bastola, and Hesham Ali

P1500. Molecular phylogeny and evolution of pepsinogen subfamily

Michael Wachholtz, Jin-Liang Zhao, and Guoqing Lu

P1503. Evolution of gram-negative bacteria: a view from lipid A biosynthesis enzymes (PDF)

Stephen O. Opiyo, Rosevelt L. Pardy, Hideaki Moriyama, and Etsuko N. Moriyama

P1517. Chromosome specific detection of NOCTH protein binding sites on mouse genome using Chip-Seq

Zhijie Jiang, Prathibha Ranganathan, Anthony J. Capobianco, and Nicholas F. Tsinoremas

P1519. Comparative genome hybridization of maize inbreds and their wild ancestor, teosinte

Kai Ying, Nathan M. Springer, Yan Fu, Tieming Ji, Cheng-Ting Yeh, Yi Jia, Wei Wu, Todd Richmond, Jacob Kitzman, Heidi Rosenbaum, A. Leonardo Iniguez, W. Brad Barbazuk, Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh, Dan Nettleton, and Patrick S. Schnable

P1567. Phylomarker: mining phylogenetic markers through comparative genomics of model species and data mining of public repositories

Thaine W. Rowley, Chenhong Li, and Guoqing Lu

P1568. Genome-wide comparison of G-protein coupled receptors in model fish species

Kanwal Naeem, Etsuko N. Moriyama, and Guoqing Lu

P1590. Sorting through the sequence: making sense of microbial communities with amplicon pyrosequencing (PDF)

Ryan Legge, Andrew Benson, and Etsuko Moriyama

P1596. Proteomics reconstruction of chemotaxis and acrosome reaction signaling pathways in sea star sperm (PDF)

Yuyan Shelly Xue and Hideaki Moriyama

P1612. Hypoglycemic effects and chemical constituents of some indigenous medicinal plants from Lawacherra rain forest of Bangladesh (PDF)

Md. Ariful Haque Mollik, Romeo McField, Anup Chowdhury, Kishore Kumar Thapa, Md. Badruddaza, Md. Torikul Islam, Azmal Ibna Hassan, Md. Saroar Shadique, and Bulbul Ahmmed

P1614. Development and use of the AllergenOnline.org curated protein database for assessing the potential allergenicity of genetically modified organisms and novel food ingredients (PDF)

John Wise, Steve L. Taylor, and Richard E. Goodman

P1655. Species-specific duplications of trace amine-associated receptors in vertebrate genomes (PDF)

Seong-il Eyun and Etsuko N. Moriyama

P1657. Discovering SNP association patterns with spatial constraint using data mining approach

Fangrui Ma, Liying Jiang, Etsuko Moriyama, and Jitender S. Deogun

P1659. A web application for the analysis of differential histone modification states from ChIP-seq data ..

Sridhar A Malkaram, Rong Liu, Michael Fromm, and Jean-Jack M Riethoven

P1664. Comparative miRNA analysis in pathogenic fungi (PDF)

Kanika Jain and B.B. Chattoo

P1798. An all-atom knowledge-based energy function for protein-DNA interaction (PDF)

Yuedong Yang, Beisi Xu, and Yaoqi Zhou

P1799. State of theart continuous local structure prediction and its usefulness for fragment-free protein structure determination (PDF)

Eshel Faraggi, Yuedong Yang, Shesheng Zhang, and Yaoqi Zhou

P1926. Phylogenetic analaysis of the Tribe Cylcocepalini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)

Daniel Clark

P1928. Exploring phenotypic variation in Cyclocephala sexpunctata and allied species

Matthew Moore

 

 

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