Symposium on Computational Science of Biomolecules: Applications in Medicine and Therapeutics

University of Illinois at Chicago

Friday, October 8, 2004, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM.

 

 

 

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This symposium aims to raise the awareness of the bioinformatics expertise and array of opportunities at Chicago, to better identify the pressing problems, to establish interactions, and to explore possible collaborations among UIC and Illinois researchers.

 

Keynote speakers:   

  • nDr. Eric Jakobsson, Professor, Director,  Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at NIGMS, NIH

 

  • nDr. Andrzej Joachimiak, Professor, Director,  Structural Biology Center, Argonne National Lab
  • nDr. Wen-Hsiung Li, George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor, Dept. Ecology and Evolution,U of Chicago
  • nDr. Klaus Schulten, Swanlund Professor, Director of NIH Resource for Macromolecular  Modeling and Bioinformatics, UIUC

 

UIC Faculty Presenters:

  • nDr. Yang Dai, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
  • nDr. Bhaskar DasGupta, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
  • nDr. Robert Grossman, Professor, Director, National Center for Data Mining
  • nDr. Michael Johnson, Professor, Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  • nDr. Tanya Berger-Wolf, Assistant professor, Computer science, UIC and DIMACS, Rutgers University
  • nDr. Jie Liang, Associate Professor, Bioengineering
  • nDr. Hui Lu, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
  • nDr. Bellur Prabhakar, Professor, Head, Microbiology and Immunology