1st Annual Junior Investigator Symposium
on Genomics and Bioinformatics
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
CRB (Owen’s) Auditorium in the CRB II building of the
Johns Hopkins Medical Campus
Sponsored by the Dept. of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
9:00am
Welcome - Coffee and Pastries
9:30am
Rachel Karchin, Ph.D.
"Bioinformatics and BRCA Risk Assessment"
Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, M.D., Ph.D.
"Prostate Cancer Epigenetics"
10:00am
10:30am-10:45
Break
10:45am
11:15am
Luigi Marchionni, M.D., Ph.D.
"The transcriptional program of the developing prostate"
Joshua Mendell, M.D., Ph.D.
"Reprogramming of microRNA expression by oncogenes
and tumor suppressors"
11:45am-1:00pm
Lunch (not provided)
1:00pm
1:30pm
Leslie Cope, Ph.D.
"Comparing the DNA Hypermethylome with Gene Mutations
in Human Colorectal Cancer"
Hongkai Ji, Ph.D.
"Decoding gene regulatory information in mammalian sonic
hedgehog signaling pathway through a genome-wide ChIPchip, exon array and sequence analysis"
2:00pm-2:15pm
Break
2:15pm
2:45pm
Dan Arking, Ph.D.
"Genome-wide Association Studies for Complex Traits"
Michael A. Beer, Ph.D.
"Systematic Identification and Validation of cis-Regulatory
Logic in C. elegans"
3:15pm-3:30pm
Break
3:30pm-4:30pm
Terry Speed, Ph.D.
"Genomics and bioinformatics will need all the statistics you
have met, and will meet all your statistical needs"
Speaker Information:
Rachel Karchin, Ph.D. (karchin@jhu.edu), Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins
University
Srinivasan (Vasan) Yegnasubramanian, M.D., Ph.D. (syegnasu@jhmi.edu),
Instructor
Dept. of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine
Luigi Marchionni, M.D., Ph.D. (marchion@jhmi.edu), Instructor
Dept. of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine
Joshua Mendell, M.D., Ph.D. (jmendell@jhmi.edu), Assistant Professor
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Leslie Cope, Ph.D. (Lcope1@jhmi.edu), Assistant Professor
Dept. of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hongkai Ji, Ph.D. (hji@jhsph.edu), Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dan Arking, Ph.D. (arking@jhmi.edu), Instructor
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Michael A. Beer, Ph.D. (mbeer@jhu.edu), Assistant Professor
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Terry Speed, Ph.D. (terry@wehi.EDU.AU)
Professor of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley
and
Head, Bioinformatics Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
Melblourne