Program
Friday, April 13
          
Welcome
1:00 - 1:15 Welcome & Introductory Remarks Dan Goldowitz, Ph.D.
UT Health Science Center
1:15 - 2:30 Keynote Speaker
How Petascale Computing Will Accelerate The Development Of Biological Theory Rick Stevens, Ph.D.
Session I High Performance and Grid Computing
2:30 - 3:45 Transcription Regulation in the Context of
Comparative Genomics and Evolution
David Landsman, Ph.D.
 
3:45 - 4:00 Break
 
4:00 - 5:00 Short talks by poster presenters
Dinner
5:00 - 6:00 Reception
 
6:00 - 7:00 Cookout at the Conference Center
Workshop I
7:00 - 8:30 Fundamental Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists Ramin Homayouni, Ph.D.
 
7:00 - 8:30 Protein Evolution:  Uncovering the Mysteries of Substitution Matrices and Phylogenetic Trees Eric Rouchka, D.Sc.
Workshop II
8:30 - 10:00 Bioinformatics Education:  Challenges in
Teaching a Rapidly Expanding Field
Jonathan Pevsner, Ph.D.
Saturday, April 14
 
Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast in the Conference Center
Session II Genotype to Phenotype to Behavior
8:30 - 9:20 Computational Identification of Transcriptional
Targets Across Multiple Genomes
Stein Aerts, Ph.D.
9:20 - 9:40 Discussion
 
9:45 - 10:00 Break
 
10:00 - 10:50 Gene Network Inference from in-situ Hybridization
Images, Genotypes, and Transcription Profiling
David Kulp, Ph.D.
10:50 - 11:05 Discussion
 
11:10 - 12:00 Protein Intrinsic Disorder, Cell Signaling,
and Alternative Splicing
Keith Dunker, Ph.D.
12:00 - 12:15 Discussion
Lunch & Free Time
12:30 - 1:00 Lunch in the Conference Center
 
1:00 - 4:00 FREE TIME !!!
Poster Session
4:00 - 5:30 POSTER SESSION!
Dinner
5:30 - 6:30 Dinner in the Conference Center
Workshop III
7:00 - 8:30 Microarray Tutorial Shawn Levy, Ph.D.
Bonnie J LaFleur, Ph.D.
Bing Zhang, Ph.D.
 
8:30 - 10:00 Mathematical Models of Cellular Systems Kenneth S. Ramos, Ph.D.
Ted Kalbfleisch, Ph.D.
Greg Rempala, Ph.D. D.Sc.
Sunday, April 15
 
Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast in the Conference Center
Session III Medical Informatics
9:00 - 10:00 Middleware and Grid Support for Translational Biomedical Research Joel Saltz, M.D., Ph.D.
10:00 - 10:15 Discussion
 
10:15 - 10:30 Break
 
10:30 - 11:15 Chromosomal Abnormalities Underlying
Mental Retardation
Jonathan Pevsner, Ph.D.
11:15 - 11:30 Discussion
 
11:30 - 11:45 Building a Large Scale Resource for Genome-Phenome Correlation: Update on the Vanderbilt DNA DataBank Project Daniel Masys, M.D.
11:45 - 12:00 Discussion
 
12:00 - 1:00 Closing Remarks/Planning
Discussion of Next Year's Summit
Dan Goldowitz, Ph.D.