BIOT 2012

Schedule

The BIOT-2011 Symposium will be held on Thursday and Friday October 20 and 21, 2011. A conference dinner for all registered conference attendees (fee included) and guests (additional fee) will be held on the night of October 20, 2011. The conference will finish at 12 noon on Friday October 21, 2011. A boxed lunch will be available.

The schedule is subject to revision at any time.

Thursday, October 20
8:00 - 8:45	Registration and breakfast
8:45 - 9:00	Welcome address
9:00 - 10:30	Session 1	Session chair: Wenyi Wang
	Keynote #1	Bioinformatics and Clinical Care: The Challenges of Bridge-Building Dr. Lynn Vogel Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Chief Information Officer, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
	Contributed #1	Simulation, Correlation and Uncertainty in the False Discovery Rate Jiexin Zhang and Kevin Coombes Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
	Contributed #2	Graph-based signal integration for patient diagnosis discovery Jorge R. Herskovic^, Devika Subramanian^#, Trevor Cohen^, Pamela A. Bozzo-Silva^, Charles F. Bearden^, and Elmer V. Bernstam^* ^* School of Biomedical Informatics, UT Health Science Center at Houston, USA ^# Department of Computer Science, Rice University, USA
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Session 2	Session chair: Devika Subramanian
	Keynote #2	Personalized Cancer Therapy: Promises and Challenges Dr. Funda Meric-Bernstam Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical Director, Institute of Personalized Cancer Therapy, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
	Contributed #3	Self Consistency Grouping: a stringent clustering algorithm Bong-Hyun Kim^, Bhadrachalam Chitturi^#, and Nick Grishin^{ $} ^* Department of Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA ^# Department of Computer Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India ^$ Howard Hughes Medical Institute
	Contributed #4	Extraction of Network Modules from Co-expression Network Priyakshi Mahanta^, Hasin Afzal Ahmed^, Dhruba Kumar Bhattacharyya^, and Jugal Kumar Kalita^# ^ Tezpur University, India ^# University of Colorado, USA
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 3:30	Session 3	Session chair: Rehan Akbani
	Keynote #3	Second Generation Sequencing in Cancer Genomes Dr. David Wheeler Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Human Genome Sequencing Center Baylor College of Medicine
	Contributed #5	Accuracy of RNA-Seq and its dependence on sequencing depth Guoshuai Cai^, Hua Li^, Yue Lu^, Xuelin Huang^, Juhee Lee^, Peter Mueller^#, Yuan Ji^, and Shoudan Liang^* ^* UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA ^# The University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Contributed #6	BM-BC: A Bayesian method of base calling for Solexa sequencing data Yuan Ji^, Riten Mitra^, Fernando Quintana^#, Peter Mueller^$, Alejandro Jara^#, Ping Liu^, and Shoudan Liang^! ^ Department of Biostatistics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA ^# Department of Statistics, Pontifica Universidad, Catolica de Chile, Chile ^$ Department of Statistics, University of Texas at Austin, USA ^! Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
3:30 - 5:00	Icecream and Poster Session
5:00 - 6:30	Break
6:30 - late	Dinner

Friday, October 21
8:00 - 9:30	Session 4	Session chair: Bradley Broom
	Keynote #4	High Performance Computing for Proton Radiation Therapy Dr. Wayne Newhauser Dr. Charles M. Smith Chair of Medical Physics, Professor and Director, Medical Physics and Health Physics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University
	Contributed #7	Identification of markers associated with global changes in DNA methylation regulation in cancers Peng Qiu, Li Zhang Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
	Contributed #8	Partial Tree Mixing - A Novel Approach to Phylogenetic Search Kenneth Sundberg^, Mark Clement^#, Quinn Snell^#, Dan Ventura^#, Michael Whiting^#, and Keith Crandall^# ^ Utah State University, USA ^# Brigham Young University, USA
9:30 - 10:00	Break
10:00 - 11:55	Session 5	Session chair: Mark Clement
	Keynote #5	High Performance Computing in the Biological Sciences Dr. Randall Splinter HPC Solution Architect, Hewlett-Packard
	Contributed #9	Physicochemical property consensus sequences for functional analysis, design of multivalent vaccines and targeted antivirals Catherine Schein University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston, USA
	Contributed #10	Model averaging strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networks with limited data Bradley M. Broom^, Kim-Anh Do^#, and Devika Subramanian^$ ^ Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA ^# Department of Biostatistics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA ^$ Department of Computer Science, Rice University, USA
	Contributed #11	The Genboree Microbiome Toolset and the Analysis of 165 rRNA Microbial Sequences Kevin Riehle^, Cristian Coarfa^, Andrew Jackson^, Jun Ma^, Arpit Tandon^, Sameer Paithankar^, Sriram Raghuraman^, Toni-Ann Mistretta^{ #}, Delphine Saulnier^$, Sabeen Raza^{* #}, Maria-Alejandra Diaz^{* #}, Robert Shulman^, Kjersti Aagaard^, James Versalovic^{* #}, and Aleksandar Milosavljevic^* ^* Baylor College of Medicine, USA ^# Texas Children's Hospital, USA ^$ Nizo Food Research, The Netherlands
11:55 - 12:00	Closing ceremony

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Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2012)

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