BIOCOMP'06: June 26, 2006 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:   WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
                   Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                   University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                   (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:   Keynote Lecture 1:
                   Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
                   $100 Laptop
                   Prof. Barry Vercoe
                   Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                   (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:   Keynote Lecture 2:
                   The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
                   Dr. Chris Rowen
                   President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
                   (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am:   Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
                   Dr. John R. Boisseau
                   Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
                   The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
                   (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p:   Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
                   Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                   Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
                   *Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
                   **Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
                   (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:10pm:   LUNCH (On Your Own)


01:10 - 01:40pm:   DISCUSSION SESSION A-BIOCOMP (Refreshments will be available)
                   June 26 (Monday)
                   (LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
                   List of papers appears at the end of BIOCOMP's schedule.


SESSION 1-BIOCOMP: WORKSHOP ON GENE NETWORKS: THEORY AND APPLICATION
                   Chairs: Dr. Frank Emmert-Streib* and Dr. Matthias Dehmer**
                   *Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA
                   **University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
                   June 26, 2006 (Monday); 1:40pm - 5:20pm
                   (LOCATION: Meeting Room 3)

01:40 - 02:00pm:   The Multi-Point Topological Overlap Matrix for Gene Neighborhood
                   Analysis
                   Ai Li
                   University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:   The Generalized Topological Overlap Matrix for Detecting
                   Modules in Gene Networks
                   Steve Horvath
                   University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:   A Network-Based Gene Screening Approach for Improving the Validation
                   Success of Microarrays
                   Wei Zhao 
                   University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:   The Relationship Between Intramodular Connectivity and Gene
                   Significance in Co-Expression Networks
                   Jun Dong
                   University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm:   BREAK

03:20 - 03:40pm:   Theoretical Bounds for the Number of Inferable Edges in Sparse
                   Random Networks
                   Matthias Dehmer
                   University of Rostock, Germany

03:40 - 04:00pm:   Influence of Prior Information on the Reconstruction of the Yeast
                   Cell Cycle from Microarray Data
                   Frank Emmert-Streib
                   Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:   Learning Genetic and Gene Bayesian Networks with Hidden
                   Variables: Bilayer Verification Algorithm
                   Jason Aten
                   University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:   Computational Inference of Compound-Induced Anti-Inflammatory
                   Effects Across Time in an Adjuvant-Induced Arthritis Rat Model
                   Jing Yu
                   Novaritis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:   Bridging the Mining of Biological and Informational Networks
                   from the Point of View of Graph Theory
                   Alexander Mehler
                   Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

05:00 - 05:20pm:   FREE SLOT


06:00 - 9:00pm:    TWO TUTORIALS  (planned)

                   CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
                   Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
                   Dr. H. Keith Edwards
                   University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
                   June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                   (LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

                   CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
                   An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
                   Dr. M. Deriche
                   KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                   June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                   (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)


09:00 - 11:00pm:   CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                   (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

                   DISCUSSION SESSION A-BIOCOMP
                     June 26 (Monday), 2006
                       RRR/SRP/PST Papers
                        1:10 - 1:40pm
         (LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION A-BIOCOMP:

O.  Marker Gene Selection Evaluation Using Parallel Coordinates
    Atiq U. Islam, Khan M. Iftekharuddin, and David J. Russomanno
    University of Memphis, USA
O.  Reverse Engineering Approach in Molecular Evolution: Simulation
    and Case Study with Enzyme Proteins
    Sukanya Manna and Cheng-Yuan Liou
    National Taiwan University, Taiwan
O.  Recursive Modularization of Signal Transduction Networks
    Rajat K. De and Losiana Nayak
    Indian Statistical Institute, India
O.  Polyome: A Learning System for Extracting Bioinformatic Data
    Bob Myers, Trevor I. Dix, Ross L. Coppel, and David Green
    Monash University, Australia
O.  Insight of the Signal Motif of GPI-(like)-anchored Proteins by
    Using SVM
    Wei Cao, Kazuya Sumikoshi, Tohru Terada, Shugo Nakamura, and
    Kentaro Shimizu
    University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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