Brown University Center for Computational Molecular Biology


Brown Computational Biology Day at IBM

September 17th, 2007

8:30 am Breakfast

9:00 am Research Overview
Charles Lickel, Vice President, Software

Computational Biology session (YKT)

10:15 am Eric Kronstadt, Director, Deep Computing Systems

10:30 am Overview of Computational Biology Center
Ajay Royyuru, Senior Manager, Computational Biology Center

11:00 am Overview of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Sorin Istrail, Director of Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Julie Nguyen Brown Professor of Computer Science

11:30 am Biobank
Planning for a Brown University Bio-Repository and BioBank

Edward Hawrot, Associate Dean of Biology, Upjohn Professor of Pharmacology

12:30 pm Biobanking Solutions and Collaborations
Michael Hehenberger, Solutions Executive, Global Life Sciences / Pharma, IBM

1:30 pm Gene Regulatory Network
Abuse of the mode in network inference and an ensemble alternative (15 mins)
Chip Lawrence, Professor of Applied Mathematics

Computational and Genomic methods of cis-element detection (15 mins)
William Fairbrother, Assistant Professor of Medical Science

On Breaking the Genomic cis-Regulatory Code (15 mins)
Sorin Istrail, Director of Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Julie Nguyen Brown Profesor of Computer Science

IBM team talk (15 mins)

2:45 pm Disease Association
Computational Challenges in Disease Associations in the Era of Patients with Whole-Genome Sequenced (15 mins)
Sorin Istrail, Director, Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Julie Nguyen Brown Professor of Computer Science

IBM team talk (15 mins)

3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:45 pm Protein Folding and Misfolding
Flexibility is the Key for Protein Function (15 mins)
Wolfgang Peti, Manning Assistant Professor of Medical Science

Computational Reconstruction of in vivo Protein Folding (15 mins)
Sorin Istrail, Director of Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Julie Nguyen Brown Profesor of Computer Science

IBM team talk (15 mins)

5:00 pm Molecular Epidemiology
Molecular Epidemiology through the Bioinformatics Lens (15 mins)
Sorin Istrail, Director of Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Julie Nguyen Brown Profesor of Computer Science

IBM team talk (15mins)

5:30 pm Blue Gene Tour: Yorktown
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