January 27-28, 2007
University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  
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IMPORTANT DATES:

Call for Papers Submission Deadline: December 20, 2006
Notifications to Authors: January 5, 2007
Conference Dates: January 27-28, 2007
Early Registration Deadline: December 15, 2006

TOPICS:

Talks and original research papers are solicited in all aspects of SNP and haplotype analysis and applications to medicine, including, but not limited to:

  • New methods for gathering genetic polymorphism data.
  • Understanding of the biological basis of genome structure.
  • Statistical techniques for the analysis of the data.
  • Computational methods for inferring genetic structure.
  • Applications to disease association and to medicine.
  • New genotype and haplotype data sets and their analysis.

SCOPE:

This meeting will focus on current research at the intersection of genetics, computer science, statistics, and related fields in gathering and analyzing SNP and haplotype data and applying it to problems in medicine and basic research. We plan to build on the success of the first and second RECOMB Satellite Meetings on Computational Methods for SNPs and Haplotypes in bringing together leading participants from widely divergent backgrounds to share their expertise and results. The recent availability of genome-scale genotype data has created new possibilities for identifying genetic risk factors of complex diseases, but many problems remain to be tackled. How one deals with inference in the face of so many statistical tests, whether haplotype phasing and haplotype-based methods improve specificity or power, and what is the best design for genome-wide association tests (one-, two- or three-stages designs) are just a few of the problems amenable to analysis that we would like to discuss.

INVITED SPEAKERS: (tentative)

  • Andy Clark - Cornell University, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
  • Carlos Bustamante - Cornell University, Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology
  • Magnus Nordborg - USC, Molecular and Computational Biology
  • Hua Tang - University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Eran Halperin - International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley
  • Russell Schwartz - Carnegie Mellon University, Departmetn of Biological Sciences
  • Kenneth Lange - UCLA, Biomathematics
  • Ting Chen - USC, Computational & Molecular Biology
  • Paul Marjoram - USC, Preventative Medicine
  • Justin Kennedy - University of Connecticutt, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Alexander Zelikovsky - Georgia State University, Department of Computer Science
  • Lakshmi Matukumalli - George Mason University, Bioinformatics & Computational Biolgoy
  • Dan Gusfield - UC Davis, Computer Science Department
  • Weixiong Zhang - Washington University, Department of Computer Science
  • Steven Orzack - UC Berkeley, Fresh Pond Research Institute
  • Yufeng Wu - UC Davis, Computer Science Department
  • Gad Kimmel - UC Berkeley, International Computer Science Institute
  • Vineet Bafna - UC San Diego, Computer Science Department
  • Jing Li - Case Western Reserve University, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
  • Charles Kooperberg - University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Steering Committee

  • David Altshuler, Harvard Medical School & Broad Institute
  • Andrew G. Clark, Cornell University
  • Sorin Istrail, Brown University
  • Michael Waterman, University of Southern California

Program Committee

  • David Altschuler, Harvard Medical School & Broad Institute
  • Vineet Bafna, University of California, San Diego
  • Tim Chen, University of Southern California
  • Andrew Clark, Cornell University
  • Mark Daly, Broad Institute
  • Eleazar Eskin, University of California, San Diego
  • Dan Gusfield, University of California Davis
  • Bjarni Halldorsson, deCode Genomics
  • Eran Halperin, Unversity of California Berkeley
  • Sorin Istrail, Brown University
  • Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Roded Sharan, Tel Aviv University
  • Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California
  • Michael Waterman, University of Southern California

Organizing Committee

  • Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California
  • Simon Tavare, University of Southern California
  • Michael Waterman, University of Southern California
  • Andy Clark, Cornell University
  • Sorin Istrail, Brown University
  • Gabriel Negara, Brown University
For further information about local arrangements
please contact Profesor Fengzhu Sun:

USC College
Department of Biological Sciences
fsun@hto.usc.edu
(213)740-2413
 For general information please contact Louise Patterson
Center Coordinator
Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Brown University
115 Waterman St. Box 1910
Providence, RI 02912
louise_patterson@brown.edu
(401)863-3178
 
     

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