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OKBIOS 2005

Agenda
This agenda is subject to change without notice.

Friday November 14, 2004
   
8:00 am   Posters will be put up throughout the day for viewing, but actual Poster Session will be held from 5-7 pm only.
     
8:00 - 9:00 am   Registration & Continental Breakfast 
     
8:00 am - 7:00 pm   Vendor's booths/displays open
   
8:30 am   Supercomputing tour #1
    Dr. Henry Neeman (more info)
Director, OSCER
     
9:00 am   Introductory remarks
    Dr. Jonathan Wren (more info)
Research Assistant Professor, Advanced Center for Genome Technology/Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma; The Growth of Informatics
     
9:15 am   Keynote address
    Dr. Bruce Roe (more info)
George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma; The Human Genome Project and Beyond
     
9:45 am   Plenary Speaker
    Dr. Andrey Rzhetsky (more info)
Assistant Professor Columbia Genome Center & Department of BioMedical Informatics; Columbia University; On Truth, Pathways and Interactions
     
10:45 am   Refreshment Break
     
11:00 am   Videoconference Plenary Speaker
    Julio Collado-Vides
Professor of Computational Genomics, University of Cuernavaca (Mexico) Bioinformatics and Modeling of the Regulatory Network of E.coli
     
Noon pm   Networking Buffet Lunch 
     
1:00 pm   1st Oral Presentation 
    Dr. Dennis Aebersold (more info)
CIO and University Vice President of Information Technology, University of Oklahoma; National LambdaRail
   
1:30 pm   2nd Oral Presentation 
    Christopher L. Greer
Program Director, Division of Biological Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation; Funding Opportunities at the National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov/bio/dbi/start.htm
   
2:00 pm   3rd Oral Presentation
    Dr. Thomas Kupiec
President and CEO of two companies Analytical Research Labs and DNA Solutions; Bioinformatics in Oklahoma -- an Entrepreneur's Perspective
   
2:30 pm   Refreshment Break 
   
2:45 pm   4th Oral Presentation
    Dr. Ulrich Melcher (more info)
Robert Sirny Professor of Agricultural Biochemistry, Adjunct Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University; Evolution of Proteins Coating Helical Viruses
   
3:15 pm   5th Oral Presentation
    Dr. Sanjay I. Bidichandani (more info)
Assistant Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; Expansion and Evolution of GAA Triplet-Repeats in Mammals
   
3:45 pm   6th Oral Presentation
    Dr. Lloyd W. Sumner (more info)
Staff Scientist & Head, Biological Mass Spectrometry, The Noble Foundation; Metabolomics and Integrated Functional Genomics of Medicago Truncatula Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stress
     
4:15 pm    Closing Remarks
    Dr. Yuriy Gusev (more info)
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, Department of Surgery; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute for Breast Health; Co-Director, Bioinformatics Core facilities, OU Cancer Center University of Oklahoma HSC
   
4:30 pm    Supercomputing tour #2
    Dr. Henry Neeman (more info)
Director, OSCER
   
5:00 pm   Wine & Cheese Event & Poster Session, sponsored by The State Chamber
   
6:00 pm   Student Award Ceremony
     
7:00 pm   Adjourn