Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO)

Congratulations to the winners of the OCCBio 2007 Awards for Outstanding Presentations

Best faculty presentations:

1. Paul Fox, The GAIT System Defines an Auto-regulatory, Post-transcriptional Operon that Sequentially Restricts and Re-permits Inflammatory Gene Expression
2. Valerie Cross, Concept Lattices with Approximation Operators for Analyzing Gene Ontology Annotations

Best Student Platform Presentations

First place (tie)

• Amit U Sinha, Microregulation of a Master Regulatory Network ($250)
• Rachana Jain, Kolmogorov-smirnov based scores for protein identification using peptide mass fingerprinting ($250)

Second place (tie)

• Paul Edward Anderson, Comparison of Statistical Techniques for the Analysis of Metabolic Toxicological Data Derived from NMR Spectroscopy ($150)
• Hatice Gulcin Ozer, Exploring Structural Implications of Positional Dependencies in Protein Sequence Alignments ($150)

Third place

• Vivek Kaimal, Predicting the functional impact of microRNAs on developmental processes ($100)

Best Student Poster Awards

First place

• Shannon I. Steinfadt, SWAMP: Smith-Waterman on an Associative Multiprocessor ($200)

Second place

• Brandon Sullivan and Venuka Durani, Consensus and correlation in protein design of triosephosphate isomerase from sequence statistics ($150)

Third place

• Louis A.Tamburino, Gene Transcript Selection Techniques and Bayesian Dosage Prediction Models for Identifying Key Biomarker Genes ($100)

Honorable mention

• Boyan Alexandrov, Gene Transcript Selection Techniques and Bayesian Dosage Prediction Models for Identifying Key Biomarker Genes