12th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference
DETAILED AGENDA
Updated Feb 09, 2015
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| WEDNESDAY – December 10, 2014 | ||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 04:00 pm | 06:00 pm | Registration |
| THURSDAY – December 11, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOCATION: Ballroom |
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| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:00 am | 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 08:00 am | 06:00 pm | Registration |
| 09:00 am | 09:45 am | Keynote 1 JILL MESIROV The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Integrative Computational Approaches for Genomic Medicine |
| 09:45 am | 09:55 am | Oral Presentation 1 Automatic Discovery of Regulatory Networks from Morphological Experimental Data Presenting Author: Daniel Lobo Tufts University, USA |
| 09:55 am | 10:05 am | Oral Presentation 2 Polysaccharide A: a widely distributed immunoregulatory microbial product Presenting Author: Matthew Rhodes University of Colorado, Denver |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | Oral Presentation 3 Meta-analysis leads to deeper understanding of cellular senescence Presenting Author: Chris Morrissey Buck Institute |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | Oral Presentation 4 Characterizing the landscape of biomedical ontologies via deductive entailment Presenting Author: William Baumgartner Jr University of Colorado Denver |
| 10:25 am | 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am | 11:15 am |  Keynote 2JOANNA RODER Biodesix, Inc. Deep Learning, "Deep Data", and Molecular Diagnostics |
| 11:15 am | 11:25 am | Oral Presentation 5 A Bayesian framework for Signature-driven Protein Quantification Presenting Author: Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 11:25 am | 11:35 am | Oral Presentation 6 Integrating Data in a Microbiome Context Presenting Author: Michael Shaffer University of Colorado - Denver |
| 11:35 am | 11:45 am | Oral Presentation 7 Dietary Influences on the Incidence of Alzheimer Disease: Converging Inferences by Disparate Algorithms Presenting Author: George Acquaah-Mensah MCPHS University |
| 11:45 am | 11:55 am | Oral Presentation 8 Comparative genomics between frogs Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis Presenting Author: Gonzalo Riadi Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| 11:55 am | 04:00 pm | Ski Break |
| 04:00 pm | 04:30 pm | Keynote 3 ELMAR A. PRUESSE Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology AND University of Colorado Denver Tackling the rRNA Big-data Problem with ARB and SILVA |
| 04:30 pm | 04:40 pm | Oral Presentation 9 Comparison of Phylogeographic Node Flux with Local Disease Trends Presenting Author: Daniel Magee Arizona State University |
| 04:40 pm | 04:50 pm | Oral Presentation 10 Co-expression Network Hubs in Hypoxia and Acclimatization to High Altitude Presenting Author: Daniel Dvorkin University of Colorado |
| 04:50 pm | 05:00 pm | Oral Presentation 11 Network-based analysis for large environment microbial genomics data Presenting Author: Erliang Zeng University of South Dakota |
| 05:00 pm | 05:10 pm | Oral Presentation 12 Predicting survival for diverse patient cohorts using large-scale cancer genomics data Presenting Author: Nicolle Witte University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 05:10 pm | 05:30 pm | Break |
| 05:30 pm | 06:00 pm | Keynote 4 ROBERT KIRK DELISLE SomaLogic, Inc. SOMAscan™– Based Prediction of Early Kidney Function Decline |
| 06:00 pm | 06:10 pm | Oral Presentation 13 Global Survey of Protein Complexes from the Sulfate Reducer Desulfovibrio vulgaris: evidence for lower connectivity within stable bacterial interactomes Presenting Author: Maxim Shatsky Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
| 06:10 pm | 06:20 pm | Oral Presentation 14 EMIRGE 2: Improved resolution of microbial community structure Presenting Author: Adrienne Narrowe University of Colorado Denver |
| 06:20 pm | 06:30 pm | Oral Presentation 15 RNABindRPlus Predicts RNA-Protein Interface Residues in Multiple Protein Conformations Presenting Author: Carla Mann Iowa State University |
| 07:00 pm | 10:00 pm | Banquet, Thursday December 11, 2014 Location: Il Poggio Restaurant Snowmass Village (Transportation provided from Viceroy Hotel Lobby beginning at 6:45pm) |
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| FRIDAY – December 12, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOCATION: Ballroom |
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| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:00 am | 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 08:00 am | 05:30 pm | Registration |
| 09:00 am | 09:45 am | Keynote 5 DONNA K. SLONIM Tufts University Human Developmental Bioinformatics: A Case Study in Overcoming Data Limitations |
| 09:45 am | 09:55 am | Oral Presentation 16 Integrative Genomics Approaches for Predicting Drug Synergies Presenting Author: Andrew Goodspeed University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 09:55 am | 10:05 am | Oral Presentation 17 Prediction and validation of genes regulating breast cancer metastasis Presenting Author: Eran Andrechek Michigan State University |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | Oral Presentation 18 The Inverse Relationship Between Sample Size and Differentially Expressed Genes in the selected Microarray Experiments Presenting Author: Akram Samarikhalaj Ryerson University |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | Oral Presentation 19 Calculating prior and posterior probabilities of concepts in conceptually annotated corpora Presenting Author: Negacy Hailu University of Colorado |
| 10:25 am | 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am | 11:00 am | Technical Talk RAYMOND TECOTZKY Illumina, Inc. Progress Report: From Sample to Answer - Sequencing in the Cloud Era with the Illumina BaseSpace®Bioinformatics Platform |
| 11:00 am | 11:10 am | Oral Presentation 20 RNABindRPlus Parallelization: Faster Prediction of RNA-Binding Residues in Proteins Presenting Author: John Hsieh Iowa State University |
| 11:10 am | 11:20 am | Oral Presentation 21 A phylogenomic approach to assess global genetic diversity and intrapatient evolution of clinical Mycobacterium abscessus strains Presenting Author: Rebecca Davidson National Jewish Health |
| 11:20 am | 11:30 am | Oral Presentation 22 Discovering Disease Associated Molecular Interactions Using Discordant Correlation Presenting Author: Charlotte Siska University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 11:30 am | 11:40 am | Oral Presentation 23 A pipeline for virus phylogeography that accounts for geospatial observation error Presenting Author: Matthew Scotch Arizona State University |
| 11:40 am | 11:50 am | Oral Presentation 24 Prediction of bacteriocin associated operons Presenting Author: James Morton University of Colorado Boulder |
| 11:50 am | 04:00 pm | -->Ski Break -->Group Hike (see Suzi at Registration Desk) |
| 04:00 pm | 05:00 pm | Keynote 6 KIRK JORDAN IBM T.J. Watson Research Experience in Improving de novo Transcriptome Assembly to Address Large Data Sets and FRANK LEE IBM Technical & Platform Computing Worldwide Tackling Big Data Challenges of Genomics by PowerGene |
| 05:00 pm | 05:10 pm | Oral Presentation 25 A Novel Visualization Technique for the Discovery of Inter-strain Recombination in Apicomplexans Presenting Author: Javi Zhang University of Toronto |
| 05:10 pm | 05:20 pm | Oral Presentation 26 Computational Methods to Study Differential Transcription Presenting Author: Debra Goldberg, University of Colorado Boulder |
| 05:20 pm | 05:30 pm | Oral Presentation 27 Modeling Binding Affinity of the Multiple Zinc-Finger Protein Prdm9 Presenting Author: Greg Carter The Jackson Laboratory |
| 05:30 pm | 05:40 pm | Oral Presentation 28 Taking an omics approach to phenotype responses to cigarette smoke in humans in vivo and in vitro: comparison with healthy smokers and those with COPD Presenting Author: Mark Pau-Clark Imperial College London |
| 05:40 pm | 05:50 pm | Oral Presentation 29 SASE-hunter – a method for detecting signatures of accelerated somatic evolution in cancer genomes Presenting Author: Kyle Smith University of Colorado |
| 05:50 pm | 06:00 pm | Oral Presentation 30 Phylogeny-wide Discovery of Bacterial Transcription Factor Binding Motifs by Protein Family-based Approach Presenting Author: Maxim Shatsky Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
| 06:00 pm | 08:00 pm | Poster Session: -->Information for presenters -->Detailed Poster Abstracts -->Brief Poster List |
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| SATURDAY – December 13, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOCATION: Ballroom |
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| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:00 am | 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 08:00 am | 11:30 am | Registration |
| 09:00 am | 09:30 am | Keynote 7 KEVIN M. LIVINGSTON University of Colorado Complex Querying Across Multiple Data Sources Using a Common Biological Model |
| 09:30 am | 09:40 am | Oral Presentation 31 A Model of the Colonic Crypt Microenvironment Presenting Author: Violeta Kovacheva University of Warwick |
| 09:40 am | 09:50 am | Oral Presentation 32 Dev Ops and Automation, key tools in the bioinformaticians tool box Presenting Author: Simon Twigger BioTeam |
| 09:50 am | 10:00 am | Oral Presentation 33 Characterizing bladder cancer cell lines as models of solid tumor biology Presenting Author: Somsak Phattarasukol University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 10:00 am | 10:10 am | Oral Presentation 34 A computational and experimental method for combinatorial drug discovery Presenting Author: Muhammad Kashif Uppsala University |
| 10:10 am | 10:20 am | Oral Presentation 35 Biomed Summarization Of Topics Presenting Author: Prabha Yadav University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver |
| 10:20 am | 10:40 am | Break |
| 10:40 am | 10:50 am | Oral Presentation 36 Beyond the coding mutations in Pan-cancer genomes Presenting Author: Subhajyoti De University of Colorado |
| 10:50 am | 11:00 am | Oral Presentation 37 MEseq, a software package for bisulfite sequencing data analysis by regression hidden Markov model Presenting Author: Kui Shen National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
| 11:00 am | 11:10 am | Oral Presentation 38 Coreference Annotations in the CRAFT Corpus – Statistics and Performance Analysis Presenting Author: Natalya Panteleyeva University of Colorado |
| 11:10 am | 11:20 am | Withdrawn Oral Presentation 39 Virulence-Associated Role for the Universal Stress Protein in Helicobacter pylori Infections Presenting Author: Shaneka Simmons Jackson State University |
| 11:20 am | 12:00 pm | Keynote 8 JUDITH BLAKE The Jackson Laboratory Glycolysis Pathways in the Gene Ontology: All Roads Lead to Pyruvate |
| 12:00 pm | Closing | |
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