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Workshop Program
The workshop will be held Friday February 22 and Saturday February 23, 2008. On Friday, the workshop will be held at the Donald L. Houston Center in Texas A&M's Research Park. On Saturday, the workshop will be held in the HR Bright building on Texas A&M's main campus. More details will be provided here as they become available.
| ABCS 2008 Workshop Program - Friday, February 22, 2008 - Donald L. Houston Center | |
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| 8:15am | Registration Opens |
| 8:50am-9:00am | Opening Remarks (110 Houston Center)
G. Kemble Bennett, Vice Chancellor and Dean of Engineering |
| 9:00am-10:00am | Keynote:
Michael Levitt,
Mesoscale Modeling of Macromolecular Machines (110 Houston Center)
Session Chair: Jerry Tsai (Biochemistry & Biophysics, TAMU) |
| 10:00am-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30am-12:00pm | Protein Motion and Structure (Session 1A - 110 Houston Center)
Session Organizer: Tahir Cagin (Chemical Engineering, TAMU)
Electrostatic Effects in Proteins: Charges and Consequences |
| Assembling the Tree of Life (Session 1B - 108 Houston Center)
Session Organizer: Tiffani Williams (Computer Science, TAMU)
Resolving the Mammalian Tree of Life Using Genomic and Molecular Data |
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| 12:00pm-1:30pm | Lunch (106 Houston Center) |
| 1:30pm-2:30pm | Keynote:
Terry Speed,
Alternative Splicing in Tumors: Detection and Interpretation (110 Houston Center)
Session Chair: Bani Mallick (Statistics, TAMU) |
| 2:30pm-3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00pm-4:30pm | Statistical Methods for Genomics Data Analysis (Session 2A - 110 Houston Center)
Session Organizer: Bani Mallick (Statistics, TAMU)
A Stochastic Clustering Algorithm with Applications to Ion
Mobility Spectrometry |
| Gene & Protein Expression and Regulation (Session 2B - 108 Houston Center)
Session Organizer: Penny Riggs (Animal Science, TAMU)
Mathematical Models of Genomic Regulation: Complexity and Reduction |
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| 4:30pm-6:30pm | Poster Session and Reception (Houston Center Lobby) |
| ABCS 2008 Workshop Program - Saturday, February 23, 2008 - HR Bright building | |
| 9:15am-9:30am | Opening Remarks (124 HR Bright)
Jim Calvin, Interim Vice President for Research, TAMU Joe Newton, Dean, College of Science, TAMU |
| 9:30am-10:30am | Keynote:
Ken Dill,
Protein Folding Physics and its Application to Protein Structure Prediction (124 HR Bright)
Session Chair: Jim Hu (Biochemistry & Biophysics, TAMU) |
| 10:30am-11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am-12:30pm | Optimization in Biological Networks (Session 3A - 124 HR Bright)
Session Organizer: Sergiy Butenko (Industrial and Systems Engineering, TAMU)
Cohesive Subgroups in Biological Networks |
| Computational Biophysics (Session 3B - 131 HR Bright)
Session Organizer: Wonmuk Hwang (Biomedical Engineering, TAMU)
Accelerated Simulations of Protein Folding and Polypeptide Aggregation |
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| 12:30pm | Workshop Closing |