EMBC satellite symposium on bioinformatics (Tentative Schedule)

SJTU (Xuhui Campus)

Hao Ran Building, Rm 102

Aug 30, 8:45am to 4:45pm

Morning session: chaired by Jie Liang

8:45 AM to 9:00 AM: Welcome by SJTU VP and Lisa Xu (SJTU)

9:00 AM to 9:10 AM: Metin Akay (Dartmouth)

    Introduction of bioinformatics

9:10 AM to 9:50 AM: Steve Brenner (Berkeley)

       TBA

9:50 AM to 10:30 AM: Yuhong Xu (SJTU)

      Designing peptide ligands of cell surface receptors for gene and drug delivery.

10:30 AM to 10:40 AM: break

10:40 AM to 11:20 AM: May Wang (Georgia Tech)

    Translational Biomedical Informatics and Imaging Research

11:20 AM to 12:00 PM: Hui Lu (U Illinois Chicago)

     Structural Bioinformatics Prediction of Protein-DNA    interactions  

12:00 PM to 1:10 PM: Lunch

Afternoon session: chaired by Hui Lu

1:10 PM to 1:50 PM: Jie Liang (U Illinois Chicago)

   Inferring protein function by local surface matching and similarity assessment: A Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach based on geometric computation

1:50 PM to 2:30 PM: David Fernstmacher (U Penn)

     caBIG: A Semantic Web for Cancer Research

2:30 PM to 3:10 PM: Wei Wang (Nanjng U)

     Grouping of amino acids for protein complexity simplification

3:10 PM to 3:20 PM: break

3:20 PM to 4:00 PM: Bharskar DasGupta (U Illinois Chicago)

     On Approximate Consistent Labeling of Biological Dynamical Systems

4:00 PM to 4:40 PM: Bao-liang Lu (SJTU)

      TBA

4:40 PM to 4:45 PM: concluding remark by Jie Liang