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The workshop will be held Thursday March 26 and Friday March 27, 2009 at the Donald L. Houston Center in Texas A&M's Research Park.  More details will be provided here as they become available.  

 

ABCS 2009 Workshop Program - Thursday, March 26, 2009 - Donald L. Houston Center
1:00pm Registration Opens
1:25pm-1:30pm Opening Remarks (110 Houston Center)
Nancy Amato (ABCS Chair and Computer Science and Engineering, TAMU)
1:30pm-2:30pm Keynote: James Sacchettini, Bio- and Chemi-informatics on the Study of Tuberculosis Drug Resistance (110 Houston Center)
Session Chair: Thomas R. Ioerger (Computer Science and Engineering, TAMU)
2:30pm-3:00pm Break
3:00pm-4:30pm Genome Annotation and Bioinformatics (Session 1A - 110 Houston Center)
Session Organizers: Rodolfo Aramayo  (Biology, TAMU) and Jim Hu (Biochemistry & Biophysics, TAMU)

Promiscuity and the Evolution of Enzyme Function
Margaret Glasner (Biochemistry and Biophysics, TAMU)
Community Annotation of Gene Function with the GONUTS
Jim Hu (Biochemistry and Biophysics, TAMU)
Kill or be Killed: Genomics of the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Marty Dickman (Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology,TAMU)

  Proteomics (Session 1B - 108 Houston Center)
Session Organizer: Bani Mallick (Statistics, TAMU)

From Drug Resistance to Drug Discovery in Tuberculosis
Thomas Ioerger (Computer Science and Engineering, TAMU)
MS-Based Protein Subcellular Localization Studies in Bacteria
Alan Dabney (Statistics, TAMU)
Efficient Sampling of Protein Conformations
Yi Qin Gao (Chemistry, TAMU)

4:30pm-6:00pm Poster Session and Reception (Houston Center Lobby)
ABCS 2009 Workshop Program - Friday, March 27, 2008 - Donald L. Houston Center
8:30am Registration Opens
9:00am-10:00am Keynote: Ronald M. Levy, Exploring Landscapes for Protein Folding and Binding using Replica Exchange and Network Models (110 Houston Center)
Session Chair: Nancy Amato (Computer Science and Engineering, TAMU)
10:00am-10:30am Break
10:30am-12:00pm High Throughput Sequencing (Session 2A - 110 Houston Center)
Session Organizer: Penny Riggs (Animal Science, TAMU)

Large-scale Analysis of Gene Clustering in Bacteria
Sing-Hoi Sze (Computer Science & Engineering and Biochemistry & Biophysics, TAMU)
Next Generation Sequencing at Texas A&M University
Patricia Klein (Horticultural Sciences, TAMU)
Signatures of Selection in Beef and Dairy Cattle
Clare Gill (Animal Science, TAMU)

  Genomic Signal Processing (Session 2B - 108 Houston Center)
Session Organizer: Ivan Ivanov (Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, TAMU)

Efficient Alignment and Search of RNA Pseudoknots Using Profile Context-Sensitive HMMs
Byung-Jun Yoon (Electrical and Computer Engineering, TAMU)
Faster Statistical Modelling via Real Algebraic Geometry
Maurice Rojas (Mathematics, TAMU)
Reduction Mappings and Control Policy for Intervention in Boolean Networks
Ivan Ivanov (Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, TAMU)

12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch and Poster Session (Houston Center)
1:30pm-2:30pm Keynote: Shankar Subramaniam, Systems Biology: Mechanisms, Networks, Models and Phenotypes (110 Houston Center)
Session Chair: Tahir Cagin (Chemical Engineering, TAMU)
2:30pm-3:00pm Break
3:00pm-4:30pm Systems Biology (Session 3A - 110 Houston Center)
Session Organizer: Juergen Hahn (Chemical Engineering, TAMU)

A Web 2.0 Visual Database for Documented Biomolecular Interactions
 Vincent VanBuren (Systems Biology and Translational Medicine, TAM HSC)
Novel Approaches for Systems Biology
 Joshua Yuan (Plant Pathology & Microbiology and Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, TAMU)
Quantitative Measurement Technique for Transcription Factor Profiles
 Juergen Hahn (Chemical Engineering, TAMU)

  Phylogenetics (Session 3B - 108 Houston Center)
Session Organizer: Mariana Mateos (Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, TAMU)

Phylogenomic Analysis of the Mammalian Tree of Life
William J. Murphy (Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, TAMU)
Pair of Lice Lost or Parasites Regained: the Evolutionary History of Anthropoid Primate Lice
Jessica Light (Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, TAMU)
Testing Hypothesis of the Geological History of the Gulf of California – Baja Peninsula Region using Phylogeographic Patterns of Biogeographic Indicator Species
Luis A. Hurtado (Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, TAMU)

4:30pm Workshop Closing

 

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