Event #852: Binformatics-Genomics Discovery

Start Date: 2003-3-20 End Date: 2003-3-25 Country: IND Category: 3 URL: http://www.cedka.org Centre for Development of Knowledge and Awareness 387, Sector - 21A, Faridabad, 121001, India Phones : (95-129) 8841025, 8841026 February 21, 2003 Sub: Listing the event: Bioinformatics for Genome Discovery (March 20-25th – 2003) Dear Sir, Center for Development of Knowledge and Awareness is doing a conference on BIOINFORMATICS of GENOMIC DISCOVERY from March 20-25th, 2003. The conference will be inaugurated by the Honorable Minister for Science and Technology – Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi on the 20th. Simultaneously, he will inagurate the Hindi edition of “Double Helix” that is being published in Hindi. Most of the leading experts in Bioinformatics sector are speaking at the conference. The details of the proceedings of the conference are attached for your reference. We will like to request you to list the event at your web-site. A brief information about the event and the speakers is also enclosed for your reference. In case you require anymore details, you could get in touch with me by return mail or on 26153300/11/22 (New Delhi), or directly with Dr. Mahesh Dutt, Executive Director, CEDKA at the numbers indicated above. Looking forward to hear from you, Best regards, Noopur Nandal Creative Crest On behalf of Center for Development of Knowledge and Awareness BIOINFORMATICS of GENOMIC DISCOVERY Period: March 20-25, 2003 The event is organized in March as it is the ideal time for global experts to visit India. The event spans across over 5 days with lectures scheduled by leading experts. Venue: India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India India Habitat Center hosts India’s most premier Convention Center. It has state-of-the-art infrastructure and facilities and is considered India’s largest such facility. For example, the Auditorium at Habitat World is equipped with enables direct telecast, 35 mm projection and simultaneous interpretation in 4 languages. The venue is an ideal setup for the event of this magnitude. It is preferred by most leading corporate houses, government organizations, and others for hosting large programs that caters to premium audience. The venue is well-connected and has facilities for giving a good experience to the delegates, invitees and business associates. Event overview: This symposium demonstrates the powerful relevance of Bioinformatics in genetic discovery, and shows that systematic processing, integration and analysis of data and information is essential to future genomic discovery. Additionally, this symposium illustrates the increasing volume of genomic discovery that requires sophisticated information systems and computational resources to reap practical value. Agenda includes lectures from nationally recognized speakers from government, large research institutions and leading genetic/genomic and related biotechnology companies. A special forum on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of genetic and genomic research shall also be formed. The program brings together world-class speakers to provide multiple perspectives on advances in bioinformatics, the translation of bioinformatic advances into genetic discovery, as well as currently available bioinformatic tools, applications and databases. Symposium attendees will gain: insight into genetic advances expected in the next five to ten years; tangible tools that provide genetic disease associations and can be used in everyday genetic discovery; and applications made possible by bioinformatics with immediate relevance to genetic discovery. The agenda includes lectures from nationally recognized speakers from government, large research institutions and leading genetic/genomic and related biotechnology companies. Delegate Profile: The delegates that are attending this conference include:  Biotechnology professionals from IT companies  Researchers from Pharma companies  Business Leaders  IT professionals  Scientists  Government representatives Number of delegates at the event: 500 approx. After the conference, public lectures will be held for four days. These lectures will be of interest to:  IT Professionals  New biotechnology Professionals  Scientific community Number of attendees for public lecture: 3000 approx. Event Promotion: CEDKA proposes to do a major print campaign with prominent insertions in leading national dailies and business publications. The most important source of promotion has been word-of-mouth promotion that is very strong in the Bioinformatics community. With minimal advertising spend, already a large number of delegates have registered for the conference. Media coverage: CEDKA uses the services of a leading PR agency: Creative Crest. The response from the media has been quite encouraging so far. Leading newspapers, business publications and TV channels are expected to cover the event. The organization also in process of finalizing tie-ups with media houses to carry promotions about the event. Speakers: The eminent speakers include leading names internationally in the field of Bioinformatics. Some key speakers include: Prof. John Quackenbush Head, The Institute of Genome Research, Rockville, USA John Quackenbush received his PhD in theoretical particle physics from UCLA in 1990 and worked as a fellow in experimental high energy physics. In 1992, he received a Special Emphasis Research Career Award from the National Center for Human Genome Research (now the National Human Genome Research Institute). Under this fellowship, he worked at The Salk Institute with Glen Evans on physical mapping of human chromosome 11 from 1992-1994. He then moved to the Stanford Human Genome Center where he worked with Richard Myers and David Cox on large-scale DNA sequencing of human chromosomes 21 and 4. In January 1997, Dr. Quackenbush joined the faculty of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, MD. He is currently an Investigator at TIGR, where he leads a number of research projects in DNA microarray analysis and bioinformatics. He is currently working on an analysis of gene expression in rodent models of human disease (http://pga.tigr.org), human colon cancer metastasis (http://cancer.tigr.org), and in Arabidopsis thaliana (http://atarrays.tigr.org). His group also builds and maintains the TIGR Gene Index databases (http://www.tigr.org/tdb/tgi.shtml) and has developed a number of software systems for the analysis of microarray data. He is active in a number of professional groups, including the Microarray Gene Expression Data (http://www.mged.org),which is working to establish standards for the publication, archival, and exchange of microarray data. Prof. Siv Andersson Head, Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala, Sweden Research Projects Her research interests include evolutionary analysis of microbial genomes with specific focuses on early microbial life and origin of mitochondria, intracellular parasites, intracellular symbionts and modeling of evolutionary processes. Publications She has over FORTY SEVEN publications to her name, many of those are a household name to anyone in Bioinformatics. Education Bachelor of Science in Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden (1982) Licentiate of Philosophy in Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden (1986) Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden (1990) EMBO Postdoctoral Student, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK (1990-1991) EMBO Postdoctoral Student, Columbia University, New York, USA (1991-1992) Dr. Priti S. Hegde Senior Researcher, Glaxo Smith Klein, USA. Priti Hegde is currently a Senior Investigator at GlaxoSmithKline in Genetics Research. Her research interests involve implementing Genome based methods to drug discovery and therapeutics. Her main focus is in the application of microarrays to clinical trials (Pharmacogenomics). She also has an active effort in using transcription profiling to study cancer. Prior to GSK, Priti was a Postdoctoral fellow with John Quackenbush at The Institute For Genomic Research (TIGR), where she used microarrays as a platform to understand regulation of genes involved in metastasis during colon cancer. She has a PhD in Biochemical Pharmacology from SUNY at Buffalo and a Bachelors in Pharmacy from Bombay University. Publications 1) Assessment of gene expression patterns in a model of human colorectal cancer using a 19,200 element cDNA microarray (2001). Hegde, P., Qi, R., Abernathy, K., Dharap, S., Gaspard, R., Gay, C., Nwokekeh, N., Saeed, A., Sharov, V., Lee, N.H., Yeatman, T.J and Quackenbush, J. Cancer Research, 61(21), 7792-7 2) A concise guide to cDNA microarray analysis (2000). Hegde, P., Qi, R., Abernathy, K., Gay, C., Dharap, S., Gaspard, R., Hughes, J.E., Snesrud, E., Lee, N.H. and Quackenbush, J. Biotechniques, 29(3), 548-50, 552-4, 556 passim 3) The African trypanosome genome (2000). El-Sayed, N.M., Hegde, P., Quackenbush, J., Melville, S.E. and Donelson, J.E. Int.J. Parasitol. 30(4), 329-45. 4) Mutational Analysis of the Shab-encoded delayed rectifier K+ channels in Drosophila (1999). Hegde, P., Gu, G.G., Chen, D., Free, S. and Singh, S. J Biol. Chem., 274(31), 22109-22113. 5) Regulation of Glibenclamide receptors in cultured chick cardiomyocytes (1995). Lu, C., Hegde, P. and Halvorsen, S.W. Pharmacol Res., 32(3), 149-153 Dr. Natalia Maltsev M.D., Ph. D. Head, Bioinformatics Group Argonne National Laboratory, USA Dr. Natalia Maltsev is one of the leading names in the area of Bioinformatics. Her publications include details of some of the path-breaking developments in the area of Bioinformatics. Dr. Peter J. Tonellato Bioinformatics Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA Dr. Tonellato conducts research in the mathematical modeling and analysis of large collections of data acquired for biomedical research. He also develops informatics systems and Bioinformatics teaching program. He has also developed informatics systems to support basic, clinical and medical research programs affiliated with Medical College of Wisconsin Scientists. He manages $2 million/year budget and a total of 28 Bioinformatics specialists, data curators, system and database administrators and research assistants. He has also developed the graduate program in Bioinformatics (a joint degree between the Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University.) Dr. Elisabeth Tillier Clinical Genomics Centre, University Health Network, Canada Education Ph.D. 1994 Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M.Sc. 1988 Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. B.Sc. 1986 Combined Honours, Biology and Applied Computational and Mathematical Sciences, York University, Ontario, Canada. Scholarships and Awards 1999- 2003 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Operating grant ($26 900/anum. Untenable). 1994, 1995 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship 1991, 1992 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1989, 1990 NSERC Post-Graduate Scholarship 1988 York University Best Thesis Prize Publications Tillier, E. R. M. and R. A. Collins (2000). Replication Orientation affects the rate and direction of bacterial gene evolution J. Mol. Evol. 51:459-463 Tillier, E. R. M. and R. A. Collins (2000). Genome Rearrangement by Replication-Directed Translocation. Nature Genetics. 26:195-197 Tillier, E. R. M. and R. A. Collins (2000). The Contributions of Replication orientation, Transcription Orientation and Signal Sequences to Base-Composition Asymmetries in Prokaryotic Genomes. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 50:249-257 Tillier, E. R. M. and R. A. Collins (1998). High apparent rate of simultaneous compensatory base-pair substitutions in ribosomal RNA. Genetics 148:1993-2002 Tillier, E. R. M. and R. A. Collins (1995). Neighbor-Joining and Maximum Likelihood with RNA Sequences: Addressing the Inter-dependence of Sites. Mol. Biol. Evol. 12:7-15. Loizos, N., E. R. M. Tillier and M. Belfort (1994). Evolution of Mobile Group I Introns: Recognition of Intron Sequences by an Intron-Encoded Endonuclease. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:11983-11987. Tillier, E. R. M. (1994). Maximum Likelihood with Multiparameter Models of Substitution. J. Mol. Evol. 39:409-417. Guo, C. T., D. M. De Abreu, E. R. M. Tillier, B. J. Saville, J. E. Olive and R. A. Collins (1992). Nucleotide Sequence Requirements for Self-cleavage of Neurospora VS RNA. J. Mol. Biol. 232:351-361. Tillier, E. R. M. and G. B. Golding (1989). Homozygosity of Selected Alleles in Subdivided Populations. Theor. Pop. Biol. 36:59-76. Tillier, E. R. M. and G. B. Golding (1988). A Sampling Theory of Selectively Neutral Alleles in a Subdivided Population. Genetics 119:721-729. Prof. Vijay Pillai Director Life Science Software Development, Oracle Corporation, USA Vijay Pillai leads the Life Sciences Architecture practice in Oracle Consulting's Mid-Atlantic Region. He is responsible for the architecture standards for Life Science computing adopted by Oracle at their client sites worldwide. In addition, he heads up Business Development for Oracle in the Life Sciences market. During the past two years, Mr. Pillai primary focus has been on managing Oracle's project at Celera Genomics. He oversaw the integration of SNP, Proteomic and External Data as well as the initial Sybase to Oracle platform migration Mr. Pillai's background is in High Performance Architectures for Very Large Databases (VLDB). During his 15 years of work in the computer industry, he has been the architect of VLDBs for applications ranging from Pharmaceutical to Medical Insurance. He has an undergraduate-level background in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, and graduate training in Computer Information Systems. Prof. Zoran Obradovic Professor and Director, Center for Information Science and Technology, Temple University, PA, USA Zoran Obradovic is the Director at the Center for Information Science and Technology and a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. His research interests focus on solving challenging Bioinformatics, Geoinformation Sciences and Computational Finance problems by developing and integrating data mining and statistical learning technology for an efficient knowledge discovery at large databases. Funded by NSF, NIH, DOE and industry, during the last decade he contributed to about 110 refereed articles on these and related topics and to several academic and commercial software systems. He is/was an editorial board member at the Multiple Valued Logic, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance and the IEEE Transactions on Education and has organized several journal special issues and workshops. Prof David K.Y. Chiu Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Canada David K. Y. Chiu received the M.Sc. degree in Computing and Information Science from Queen's University and the Ph.D. degree in Systems Design Engineering from University of Waterloo in Canada. Currently he is a full professor in the Department of Computing and Information Science and a Graduate Faculty in the Biophysics Interdepartmental Group in the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Before joining the University of Guelph, he has done consulting work with NCR Canada Ltd. and VIRTEC Vision, Intelligence, Robotics Technology Canada Ltd. on unconstrained character recognition. He is associated with the PAMI Laboratory and an adjunct professor in Systems Design Engineering in the University of Waterloo. He was a recipient of the Science and Technology Agency (STA) Fellowship of Japan and a visiting researcher to Electrotechnical Laboratory in 1992. He was awarded the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Fund to give lectures in Beijing and Guangzhou in 1992. He was a visiting professor to University of Montreal in 1995, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999, University of Sao Paulo in 2001 and Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2002. He has involved in the program committees of AI'2003, FLAIRS Uncertain Reasoning Track, 2002, 2003, International Conference on Computing & Information, International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (CVPRIP'2002), International Conference on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics (CBGI'2000, CBGI'2001), global technical committee of Third International DCDCIS Conference of Engineering Applications and Computer Algorithms (DCDIS'2003). He will be chairing CBGI in 2003. He was one of the keynote speakers of InBio Brazilian Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics in 2001. In addition, he has served as reviewer to international journals of Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Asia-Pacific Engineering Journal, Computer Applications to the Biosciences (currently the Bioinformatics Journal), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Journal of Information Science and International Conference on Neural Information Processing. Recently, he participates in the reviewing of a special issue on bioinformatics in Information Sciences Journal. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of Knowledge Engineering & Discovery Research Institute at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. He has involved as a member of the editorial board of Journal of Korean Data and Information Science Society, the editorial board of International Society for Complexity, Information and Design and the international editorial advisory board of The Journal of Information and Communication Technology in Africa. His research interests are in the general area of pattern analysis (including neural networks), knowledge discovery and their applications to image analysis, spatial and image databases, medical diagnosis and bioinformatics. Dr. Daniel Kobler Tm Bioscience, Canada Dr. Kobler was born in Lausanne, Lac Léman, Switzerland. After having finished high school at the Gymnase de la Cité, he attended university at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), where he graduated in Mathematics in 1995. He then stayed at the Mathematics Department of the EPFL, in the Operations Research group ROSE of Prof. Dominique de Werra, and did a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Alain Hertz. His PhD thesis was about evolutionary algorithms, graph coloring problems and DNA graphs ("Modèles biologiques en optimisation combinatoire et modèles mathématiques en génétique", July 1999, English abstract) After that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, and at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Toronto in Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Derek Corneil. This postdoc was initially made possible thank to a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. During these years, his research domains included graph theory (graph colorings, other graph partitioning, clique-width, etc.), combinatorial optimization and operations research (evolutionary algorithms, tabu search). Following his post-doc, he joined Tm Bioscience where he works on computational biology issues. Rolf Apweiler European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambrige, UK Rolf Apweiler studied Biology in Heidelberg and Bath. He worked three years in drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry and is involved in the SWISS-PROT project since 1987. He coordinates the SWISS-PROT knowledgebase group at the EBI since 1994, and started the TrEMBL, InterPro, GOA, Proteome analysis and CluSTr projects at the EBI. Since autumn 2001 he is also in charge of the EMBL nucleotide sequence database. Rolf Apweiler is heading a team of currently 80 biologists and programmers responsible for the SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, InterPro, GOA, Proteome analysis, CluSTr and EMBL nucleotide sequence database projects at the EBI. He is one of the leading names in Europe on Bioinformatics. Tens of his publications have been released that are famous in the Bioinformatics community. Professor Terry Brown Department of Biomolecular Sciences UMIST, Manchester M60 1QD UK Professor Terry Brown is one of world’s leading names in Bioinformatics. He has written over 167 books and other publications from 1976 to 2002. His recent research was Origins and Spread of Wheat Cultivation and Sex Identification, Kinship Studies and Palaeopathology of Human Remains. A part of the research appeared on BBC production "Meet the Ancestors". The potential of ancient DNA analysis as a source of genetic information relating to the sex, kinship affiliations and palaeopathology of human skeletal remains has been much debated but as yet largely unrealised. He has devoted several yearsto the design of a rigorous technical regime that enables the authentic assessment of human DNA. This effort has come to fruition during the last eighteen months. The expertise has now been established to make reliable sex identifications and kinship analyses with bones that contain ancient DNA. However, in the long term, probably the greatest contribution that ancient DNA will make to forensic archaeology will be through the identification of genetic and infectious disease indicators in human bone, for example tuberculosis and malaria. Prof. B. Jayaram Department of Chemistry & Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi Jayaram's Research specialization includes modeling Structure, Dynamics, Thermodynamics and Interactions in DNA, Protein-DNA, DNA-Drug and Protein-Drug Systems. He has presented and published over 100 research papers. Education Ph.D. from City Univ. of New York, USA (1986) Post Doctoral Fellow, Columbia University, USA (1987-88) Senior Research Associate, Wesleyan University, USA (1989-90) Senior Research Associate, Wesleyan University, USA (1989-90) Honors Faculty at IIT, Delhi, India since 1990 Professor of Chemistry & Coordinator, Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, IIT Delhi. Member of the National Task Force on Bioinformatics of the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. Recipient of the CRSI medal (2000) for contributions to research in Chemistry. Dr. Rajeev Soni Associate Director, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics aRanbaxy Research Laboratories Gurgaon, Haryana, India Education Ph.D. (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology), University of Cambridge, U.K. Accomplishment: Isolated and characterized novel plant G1 cyclins. Research Scholar at the University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Accomplishment: Constructed vectors for expression of antibody-enzyme fusion proteins M.S. (Biotechnology), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Accomplishment: Cloned and expressed alpha and beta hCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin) in Vibrio cholera. B.S. (Zoology), University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Accomplishment: Stood 'Second' in the University with distinction. Honors Science Meritorious Award in B.S. Merit Scholarship during M.S. Overseas Research Students Award Schlumberger Research Foundation/ Cambridge Nehru Scholarship for Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, U.K. Research Expertise DNA: Subcloning, small and large scale plasmid preparation, PCR, site-directed mutagenesis, oligonucleotide synthesis, sequencing, Southern analysis, construction of expression vectors (bacterial, yeast and mammalian), construction and screening of recombinant cDNA libraries. RNA: Total and mRNA isolation, RT- PCR, Northern analysis, differential display, in vitro transcription. Protein: Expression in bacterial, yeast, mammalian and insect cells, SDS-PAGE, Western blotting, immunoprecipitation, kinase assays, ELISA. Cell culture: Mammalian cell transfection (stable and transient), growth of primary and transformed cell lines, expert in growth of a variety of 'normal' and tumor cell lines, plant cell and tissue culture including Agrobacterium mediated transformation and protein expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Drug discovery: Elucidation of small molecule inhibitors of cell cycle related kinases e.g. Cdk4, cell cycle expertise in cancer-related aspects of cell growth and differentiation, mammalian cell assays for growth and proliferation, apoptosis, cell cycle phase determination utilizing fluorescent microscopy and FACS. Drug metabolism: Cloning, expression and assay of human cytochrome P450s in yeast. Publications Dr. Soni has a large number of books and other publications to his name. -- http://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=852&action=approve http://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=852&action=reject http://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=852