2nd Annual Young Investigator Symposium on
Genomics and Bioinformatics
Friday, September 5, 2008
Tilghman Auditorium, Turner Concourse
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Sponsored by the Department of Biostatistics,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
08:30AM-9:00AM
Breakfast (provided) + Welcome
09:00AM-10:00AM Introductory Speaker: Jonathan Pevsner
“Genomics, Bioinformatics and the Revolution in Biology”
10:00AM-10:45PM Kathleen Burns: “Comprehensive transposon mapping in
the human genome”
10:45AM-11:30PM Rob Scharpf: “Genome-scale estimation of copy number
and inference”
11:30AM-12:15PM Bo Wen: “Heterochromatin blocks distinguish differentiated
from embryonic stem cells”
12:15PM-02:00PM Lunch (provided) + Poster Session (see next page).
02:00PM-02:45PM Parminder Mankoo: “Somatic Mutations in PIK3CA”
02:45PM-03:30PM Donald William Parsons: “Large-scale mutational analyses
of human cancers: Lessons learned from sequencing cancer
genomes”
03:30PM-04:30PM Keynote Speaker: Steven Salzberg
“Assembling Genomes from Next-Generation Sequencers”
5PM-onward
Drinks and Dinner provided at the Waterfront Hotel in Fell's
Point (1710 Thames Street).
2nd Annual Young Investigator Symposium on
Genomics and Bioinformatics
Poster Session
Hector Corrada Bravo, Johns Hopkins Dept. of Biostatistics: “Estimating
Tree-Structured Covariance Matrices via Mixed- Integer Programming with
an Application to Phylogenetic Analysis of Gene Expression”
Donavan Cheng, Johns Hopkins University: “An Alignment Independent
Algorithm for Motif Discovery using Sequence Conservation”
Supriyo De, Gene Expression and Genomics Unit, National Institute on
Aging, National Institutes of Health: “Systems Analysis of Common
Multigenetic Human Diseases”
Julia C. Engelmann, Johns Hopkins University: “Genotyping, copy
number analysis and allele-specific methylation with SNP6.0 Affymetrix
arrays”
Adam Lee, University of Maryland: “A framework for discovering
associations from the annotated biological web”
Jimmy Lin, Johns Hopkins University: “Core Signaling Pathways in
Human Pancreatic Cancers Revealed by Global Genomic Analyses”
Yan Qi, Johns Hopkins University: “Finding friends and enemies in an
enemies-only network: a graph diffusion kernel for predicting novel
genetic interactions and co-complex membership from yeast genetic
interactions"
Matthew Ritchie, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge:
“Measuring allele-specific expression using Illumina's GoldenGate
platform”
Balaji Veeramani, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins
University: “Metabolic flux correlations, genetic interactions and disease”