Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO)
Connecting Ohio's Bioinformatics and Bioscience Research Leaders

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio June 15-17, 2009

The fourth annual Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics will be hosted by Case Western Reserve University on June 15-17, 2009.

The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of methods, research findings, and experiences.

An important goal for the conference is to foster long-term collaborative relationships and networking opportunities within the domain of computational approaches to biology that benefit Ohio.

Keynote Speakers

Igor Jurisica, Canada Research Chair in Integrative Computational Biology, University of Toronto
Title: Integrative network analysis of prognostic markers in lung cancer. (in collaboration with M. S. Tsao, F. Shepherd, D. Strumpf, C.Q. Zhang)

Tao Jiang, Presidential Chair Professor, University of California - Riverside
Title: Searching and Predicting Active Chemical Compounds Using Maximum Common Substructure

Daniel R. Schoenberg, Center for RNA Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
Title: Cytoplasmic capping: A new post-transcriptional step that may expand the transcriptome and the proteome

OCCBIO is an affiliated, co-sponsored event of the
International Society for Computational Biology.

OCCBIO is an affiliated and co-sponsored event of the International Society for Computational Biology

Conference dinner and Keynote Speaker at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

OCCBIO'09 Case Western Reserve University
Christine Rhoads,OCCBIO Local Arrangements Chair
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Phone: 216/844-1675
Email: cmr4@case.edu
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio