Schedule of Events

Sunday, June 1, 2008
6:00 p.m. Satellite Meeting of OCCBIO Steering Committee
Room 105 of Health Education Building, UT Health Science Campus
Monday, June 2, 2008
7:30 a.m. Registration Table Open
7:30 -8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Workshop 1: Ohio Bioinformatics Curriculum
10:30 -12:30 p.m.

Workshop 2: Defining research infrastructure requirements for bioinformatics in Ohio

Tutorials 1-3
Topic 1: Virtual Microscopy to Microarray
Topic 2: Pathway analysis
Topic 3: Homology Modeling

12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch, Posters Open, Networking
2:00 -4:00 p.m. Tutorials 4-6
Topic 4: Introduction to Bioinformatics
Topic 5: Introduction to PERL scripting
Topic 6: Motif Discovery
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Poster presentations and Vendor exhibitions
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. Welcoming remarks and introduction of keynote speaker
7:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker 1: Robert Waterston, University of Washington
"Making a Worm: Every Gene, Every Cell, Every Minute"
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
7:30 -8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. A. Assembly and annotation
B. RNA structure-function
9:30 -10:30 a.m.

Plenary session 1: Predicting motifs and regulation

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. C. New μarray methods
D. Proteomics tomorrow
11:30 - 12:30 p.m. Plenary session 2: New algorithms and hardware
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Poster session
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker 2: Jignesh Patel, University of Michigan,
"Indexing for Success: Scaling to Handle the Increasing Volume and Complexity of Biological Databases”
3:00 -4:00 p.m. E. Genome analyses
F. Definitions & ontologies
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Poster presentations and Vendor exhibitions
5:00 p.m. Reception at Toledo Museum of Art
6:30 p.m. Dinner at Toledo Museum of Art
7:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Atul Butte, Stanford University
“Exploring Genomic Medicine Using Translational Bioinformatics”

Location: Toledo Museum of Art
Transportation and events schedule

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
7:30 -8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. G. Predicting protein structure
H. Genetics of gene expression
9:30 -10:30 a.m.

Plenary session 3: Translational applications of bioinformatics

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. I. Computational systems biology
J. Pathogen Genomics
11:30 - 1:00 p.m.

Plenary Session 4: Industry Panel Discussion
Topic: "Bioinformatics from an Industry Perspective: What we do and who we need." Moderator: Bill Tacon, BioOhio

1:15 p.m. Lunch
Awards ceremony
Announcement of location of OCCBIO '09

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Industry Panel
June 3, 2008

Moderator: Bill Tacon, BioOhio

Industry Panel
Kevin P. Cross, Leadscope, Inc.

Daniel Bornman, Battelle Memorial Institute

Patricia E. Spitzner, Manager, Ohio Health Research and Innovation
Institute

Jeff Spitzner, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer, Rescentris