Bioinformatics: Building Bridges

Schedule

8:00am	Setup Posters
8:10-8:30	Register and View Posters
8:30-8:50	Welcome - Larry Wackett, BMBB & BTI; Dean Victor Bloomfield, Graduate School; Senior Vice President Frank Cerra, Health Sciences
8:50-9:20	Bioinformatics for Comparative and Functional Genomics Scott Fahrenkrug, PhD, Associate Professor Animal Science, University of Minnesota
9:20-10:10	Models for the Inference of Molecular Function Patsy Babbitt, PhD, Associate Professor Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
10:10-10:30	Break and View Posters
10:30-11:00	Challenges in Pathogenomics: Can Bioinformatics Help? Vivek Kapur, PhD, Associate Professor Microbiology, University of Minnesota
11:00-11:50	Delivering Bioinformatics Training: Bridging the Gaps between Computer Science and Biomedicine Kent Spackman, MD, PhD, Professor Medical Informatics: Pathology; and Public Health and Preventive Medicine Oregon Health & Science University
11:50-1:30	Lunch and View Posters
1:30-2:20	DNA Structure and Indirect Recognition in Protein-DNA Binding Rick Lathrop, PhD, Associate Professor Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
2:20-2:50	The Comparative Anatomy of Legume Genomes Nevin Dale Young, PhD, Professor Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
2:50-3:05	Break
3:05-3:35	In silico Prediction of Protein Structure Yiannis Kaznessis, PhD, Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
3:35-4:05	Encoding Metabolic Logic: Predicting Biodegradation Larry Wackett, PhD, Professor Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota
4:05-4:10	Wrapup - Larry Wackett