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SECOND SOUTH CAROLINA BIOINFORMATICS SYMPOSIUM

APRIL 14-15, 2009

                                                           PROGRAM



                                                       Tuesday, April 14

8:00 AM       Registration and Poster Setup

8:30               Welcome and Keynote Presentations (Joint session with

                       Bioinformatics)

                      Chairs: Scott Argraves (Bioinformatics Chair – MUSC)

                                    Roger Markwald (Bioengineering Co-Chair – MUSC)

                                    Richard Swaja (Bioengineering Co-Chair – SCBA)

8:45              Bioinformatics Keynote: Keeping up with Bioinformatics and Computational

          Biology as applied to Biomedicine--Where has it been? Where is it going?

                      Brian D. Athey (University of Michigan – College of Medicine - Professor

                      of Psychiatry and Computational Medicine and Biology)

9:15              Bioengineering Keynote: Grand Opportunities for Bioengineering

                      Wolf von Maltzahn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -Acting Vice

                      President for Research and Professor of Bioengineering)



9:45             Break and Poster Setup

10:15             Collaborative Science: Regional and National Perspectives (Joint

                       session with Bioinformatics)

                       Perspectives on Collaborative Science in South Carolina

                       Kenneth Wingate, Chair of SC Commission on Higher Education

                       James Barker, President – Clemson University

                       Ray Greenberg, President – Medical University of South Carolina

                       Harris Pastides, President – University of South Carolina

11:00              Bioengineering Funding Opportunities at NSF

                       Semahat Demir, Director of Bioengineering – NSF



11:20       Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at NIH: Building Bridges to

                       Discovery

                       Karin Remington, Director – Center for Bioinformatics and Computational

                       Biology - NIH/NIGMS



11:45              Lunch and Poster Viewing

BIOINFORMATICS SYMPOSIUM: TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 14, 2009 - Session A

1:30 - 4:30 PM     South Carolina Bioinformatics Infrastructure

                                    Hall: Richland Meeting Room A

Chair: Jeremy Barth, Ph.D.

1:30                            An IT Infrastructure to Support Clinical and Translational Research Across South Carolina- Progress

Iain C. Sanderson, M.D. Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO), Medical University of South Carolina



2:00                             A Look at Discovery Informatics - An Exciting Area of Study and B.S. Degree.

Renee McCauley, Ph.D., Computer Science, College of Charleston



2:30                             Cyberinfrastructure EcoSystem for South Carolina,

Jill Gemmill, Ph.D., Clemson Computing and Information Technology, Clemson University

3:00                             Coffee Break

3:30                           Medical Informatics Support for Clinical Research - Challenges and Options.

Wenle Zhao, Ph.D., Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 14, 2009 - Session B

1:30 - 4:30 PM            Bioinformatics Tool Building: Database and Algorithm Development

Hall: Lexington Meeting Room B

Chair: Scott Argraves, Ph.D.

1:30                             Construction and Tool Building for the Marine Genomics Database.

Stephen Ficklin, Ph.D., Clemson University Genomics Institute



2:00                             Evaluating The Functional Coherence of Gene Sets With a Gene Ontology Graph-Based Approach.

Adam Richards, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina



2:30                             Evaluation Of Genome-Wide Association Study Results Through Development of Ontology Fingerprint.

W. Jim Zheng, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina

3:00                             Break

3:30                             LEAP, A Computational Tool For Sliding Window Analysis and Visualization Of Array CGH Data.

Chin-Fu Chen, Ph.D., Department of Genetics & Biochemistry, Clemson University

4:00                             Practical De Novo Sequencing: An Information Theoretic Approach.

John R. Rose, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina

4:30                             Computational Prediction of Protein Localization and Sorting Signals.

Jianjun Hu, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina

5:00 - 6:00                   Poster Session

Bioinformatics Symposium WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 2009

8:30 - 11:30 AM          Advancing Discovery Through Applied Bioinformatics

8:30                             Recognizing Patterns In Gene Expression Profiles Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms.

Robert Chapman, Ph.D., South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Marine Resources Research Institute

9:00                             Development of The Fagaceae Genomics Web.

Margaret E. Staton, Ph.D., Clemson University Genomics Institute

9:30                             Multiple Structure Alignment, its Applications in Discovery of Active Sites and Protein Engineering

Homayoun Valafar, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina

10:00                           Coffee Break



10:30                           Health Classification in California Sea Lions Using Cross Species Applications of Oligonucleotide Microarrays.

                                     Jimmy Ryan, Ph.D., National Ocean Service, NOAA

11:00                          Revealing The Role Of Phytosphingosine-1-Phosphate In Regulating HAP-Complex-Mediated Gene Regulation by An ‘Integromics’ Approach.

Xinghua Lu, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina

12:00                         Adjurn