BIOCOMP'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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


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

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 01:00pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:00 - 02:00pm:  BIOCOMP KEYNOTE:
                  The Emerging Field of Translational Bioinformatics - A National
                  Perspective
                  Prof. Brian D. Athey, Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research;
                  Principal Investigator, NIH National Center for Integrative Biomedical
                  Informatics; The University of Michigan Medical School, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)


SESSION 1-BIOCOMP: GENE EXPRESSION AND DATA ANALYSIS
                  Chairs: Dr. Pengyu Hong* and Dr. Ping Gong**
                  *National Center of Behavioral Genomics, USA
                  **SpecPro Inc., USA
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 02:00pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Toward a Combinatorial Approach to Sample Size Problem in
                  Multipletreatment Microarray Studies
                  Vinhthuy Phan, E. Olusegun George, Quynh Tran and Thomas R. Sutter
                  University of Memphis, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Discoveries in shRNA Design
                  Hong Zhou*, Xiao Zeng***, Joseph Manthey**
                  */**Saint Joseph College, USA; ***Superarray Bioscience Corporation, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Analysis of Correlations Between Genes and Triads of Transcription
                  Factors Using Microarray Expression Profiles
                  Edward A. Salinas* and Amitava Karmaker**
                  *The CME Group, Inc., USA; **University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK


SESSION 2-BIOCOMP: BIOINFORMATICS AND MEDICAL INFORMATICS
                  Chairs: Dr. Ping Gong* and Reetal Pai**
                  *SpecPro Inc., USA); **Texas A&M, USA
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 03:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Streptococcus in Toto - A Species-Specific Comparative Analysis
                  Website Prototype
                  Roxanne Tapia; Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  An Evaluation of Discretization Methods for Learning Rules
                  from Biomedical Datasets
                  Jonathan L. Lustgarten*, Shyam Visweswaran, Himanshu Grover,
                  and Vanathi Gopalakrishnan
                  University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Mathematical Analysis of EEG Signals of Patients with Prion Disease
                  Mukesh Doble
                  Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Semantic Discovery of Protein Web Services
                  Xiong Liu* and Hassan A. Karimi**
                  *Intelligent Automation, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, USA
                  **University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Scalable Parallel Word Search in Multi-Core/Multiprocessor Systems
                  Frank Drews, Eric Petri, Jens Lichtenberg, and Lonnie Welch
                  Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Northwest Trajectory Analysis Capability: A Platform for
                  Enhancing Computational Biophysics Analysis 
                  Elena S. Peterson, Leigh Williams, Eric G. Stephan, Stuart Rose,
                  Abbie Corrigan, Canhai Lai, Roberto Lins, Terence Critchlow,
                  T. P. Straatsma, Thereza Soares, and Randy Scarberry
                  Pacific Northeast National Laborartory, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Improved Segmentation Based on Probabilistic Labeling
                  Kai-Chieh Yang, Ming-Chi Jhuang, Jhan-Syuan Yu, and Jung-Hua Wang
                  National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Computational NeuroInformatics - Basic Science and Clinical Applications
                  John C. Mazziotta* and Arthur W. Toga**
                  *Chair, Dept. of Neurology & Director of Brain Mapping Center;
                  **Director, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging and Co-Director of Brain
                  Mapping Center; University of California, Los Angeles, USA


06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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