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Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium

Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2004)

September 24, 2004

Colorado Springs, Colorado

2004 Proceedings

BIOT-04: Schedule



First Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium: A Community and Academic Forum
September 24, 2004
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA


The First Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium: A Community and Academic Forum hosted by The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs will be held on September 24, 2004.

The approximate schedule is given below.
  • 7:30 am                        Check-In and Continental Breakfast

  • 8:00 am - 9:00 am      Speaker - Ronald B. Moss, MD, PhD (Telos Pharmaceuticals; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines)

  • 9:00 am - 9:30 am      Break/Poster Review

  • 9:30 am - 11:30 am    Session I Presentations
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    • Cell-based Screening of Human Breast Cancer-associated Gene Collection Identifies Novel Functional Activities -
      Lisa Hines (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center), Abigail Witt (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center), Yunhui Hu (Harvard University), Ru Gunawardane (Harvard University), Steven Isakoff (Harvard University), Nicole Collins (Harvard University), Joshua LaBaer (Harvard University), Joan Brugge (Harvard University)
          
    • Clinically Relevant Medical Image Compression -
      Matthew J. Zukoski (Wilkes University), Terrance Boult (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Tunc Iyriboz (Penn State College of Medicine)
          
    • The LEA Protein Prediction Pipeline -
      Martin Gollery, Lane Meyer, Barrett Abel, John Cushman (all from the University of Nevada)
          
    • Jumpstarting Phylogenetic Analysis -
      Mark Clement, Quinn Snell, Kevin Seppi, Keith Crandall (all from Brigham Young University)
          
    • Recognizing TATA Promoters Based on Discriminating Frequency Analysis of Neighborhood Tuples -
      Raja Loganantharaj, M E Karim, Arun Lakhotia (all from University of Louisiana at Lafayette
          
    • Computational Modeling Simulation of the Immune System
      Jugal Kalita, Kaushal Chandrashekar, Ankur Deshmukh, Reena Hans, Priyadarshini Selvam (all from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)
  • 11:15 am - 1:15 pm    Lunch with Poster Session and Speakers - Susan P. James, PhD (Colorado State University) & Susan C. Trapp, PhD (University of Colorado Health Science Center)

  • 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm      Session II Presentations
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    • Can New Technology Impact the Pharmaceutical Industries Innovation Shortfalls? -
      Layne Los, Virgil Gary Tye (NextGen Pharma Technologies)
          
    • Growing the Family Tree: The Power of DNA in Reconstructing Family Relationships -
      Luke Hutchison, Scott Woodward (Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation)
          
    • Software Modeling of the Complement System and Its Role in Immune Response -
      Aparna Srikantaswamy (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Jugal Kalita (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Kaushal Chandrashekar (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Karen Newell (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Patricia Giclas (National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver)
          
    • HALO - A Multifunctional Proliferation Assay for Basic, Clinical and Drug Development Research -
      Ivan Rick, Karen Hall, Stephen Bartelemez (Hemogenix, Inc)
          
    • Two Experiments in Biological Term Annotation using Classification Methods -
      Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Vlado Keselj, Nick Cercone (all from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada)
  • 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm      Break/Poster Review

  • 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm      Keynote Speaker - Richard Goldsby, PhD (Amherst College and University of Massachusetts)

  • 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm      Poster Review/Networking