Detailed Conference Schedule

Thursday, November 15, 2001
 
18:00 - 20:00
Registration (Ballroom level)
20:00 - 22:00
Reception
   
Friday, November 16, 2001
 
7:00 - 8:00
7:30 - 17:00
Continental breakfast
Registration (continued)
Session 1
(8:00 - 10:00)
Chair: Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech
8:00 - 8:15
Don Giddens, Georgia Tech/Emory University
Welcome and Introduction
8:15 - 8:30
Peter Good, NIH
Genome Informatics program at the National Human Genome Research Institute
8:30 - 9:15
Chris Burge, MIT
Predicting splicing enhancers
9:15 - 10:00
Mark Gerstein, Yale University
Integrative genomics beyond the genes: computational analyses of pseudogenes and expression data
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break
Session 2
(10:15 - 12:40)
Chair: Jim Fickett, Astra-Zeneca
10:15 - 11:00
Igor Zhulin , Georgia Tech
Can bioinformatics tackle signal transduction?
11:00 - 11:45
Milton Saier, University of California at San Diego
Genome archeology leading to the characterization and classification of transport proteins
11:45 - 11:55
Coffee break
11:55 - 12:40
Gary Stormo , Washington University
Probabilistic codes for DNA-protein interactions
12:40 - 14:00
Lunch in the Crown Room, on the top floor of the hotel
Session 3
(14:00 - 15:30)
Chair: Laurent Duret , Claude Bernard University
14:00 - 14:30
Artemis Hatzigeorgiou , University of Pennsylvania
DIANA-EST: a statistical analysis
14:30 - 15:00
Samuel Levy , Celera Genomics
Enrichment of regulatory signals in conserved non-coding genomic sequence
15:00 - 15:30
Zhiping Weng , Boston University
In silico prediction of the transcriptional regulation of human genes
15:30 - 15:50
Coffee break
Session 4
(15:50 - 17:20)
Chair: Gary Stormo , Washington University
15:50 - 16:35
Kenneth Wolfe, University of Dublin
The 2R hypothesis and the human genome sequence
16:35 - 17:20
Austin Hughes, University of South Carolina
Testing hypotheses of genome duplication
17:20 - 17:40
Coffee break
Poster session
(17:40 - 20:00)
Authors of posters with odd numbers are expected to be
next to their posters from 18:00 to 19:00.
Authors of posters with even numbers are expected to be
next to their posters from 19:00 to 20:00.
20:00
Dinner in the Crown Room, on the top floor of the hotel
   
Saturday, November 17, 2001
 
7:00 - 8:00
7:30 - 17:00
Continental breakfast
Registration (continued)
Session 5
(8:30 - 10:00)
Chair: Kenneth Wolfe, University of Dublin
8:30 - 9:15
Nick Grishin, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Remote homology detection and protein classification
9:15 - 10:00
Hanah Margalit, Hebrew University-Jerusalem
From database information to prediction of protein-DNA and protein-protein interaction
10:00 - 10:20
Coffee break
Session 6
(10:20 - 12:50)
Chair: Austin Hughes, University of South Carolina
10:20 - 11:05
Ewan Birney, EBI
Ensembl, annotation of large metazoan genomes
11:05 - 11:50
Chris Ponting, University of Oxford
The natural history of domains
11:50 - 12:05
Coffee break
12:05 - 12:50
Eugene Koonin, NCBI
Back to RNA world through comparative genomics
12:50 - 14:15
Lunch in the Crown Room, on the top floor of the hotel
Session 7
(14:15 - 15:45)
Chair: Hanah Margalit, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
14:15 - 14:45
King Jordan , NCBI
Genomic scale relative rates test and the detection of functional diversification among bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic proteins
14:45- 15:15
Walter Ruzzo, University of Washington
Model-based clustering and data transformations for gene expression data
16:10 - 16:35
Rita Casadio, University of Bologna
Prediction of disulfide connectivity in proteins
15:45 - 16:00
Coffee break
Session 8
(16:00 - 17:30)
Chair: Arcady Mushegian, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
16:00 - 16:45
Luciano Brocchieri, Stanford University
Comparative analysis of protein lengths and amino acid usages among the three domains of life
16:45 - 17:30
Alexey Kondrashov, NCBI
A direct estimate of human per nucleotide spontaneous mutation rates at 20 loci causing Mendelian diseases
17:30 - 17:50
Coffee break
Poster session
(Continued)
(17:50 - 20:00)
Authors of posters with odd numbers are expected to be
next to their posters from 18:00 to 19:00.
Authors of posters with even numbers are expected to be
next to their posters from 19:00 to 20:00.
20:00
Dinner in the Crown Room, on the top floor of the hotel
   
Sunday, November 18, 2001
 
7:30 - 8:30
7:30 - 8:30
Continental breakfast
Registration (continued)
Session 9
(8:30 - 9:30)
Chair: Chris Ponting, University of Oxford
8:30 - 9:00
Alexander Schliep, University of Cologne
Clustering protein sequences - structure prediction by transitive homology
9:00 - 9:45
Andrey Rzhetsky, Columbia University
Birth of scale-free molecular networks and the number of distinct DNA and protein domains per genome
9:45 - 10:00
Coffee break
Session 10
(10:00 - 11:45)
Chair: Eugene Koonin, NCBI
10:00 - 10:45
Laurent Duret, Claude Bernard University
Isochore organization of mammalian genomes: selection or neutral evolution?
10:45 - 11:30
John Logsdon, Emory University
Origin and evolution of meiosis: complex machinery of sex
11:30 - 11:45
Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech
Closing Remarks
   
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