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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8:15    Danish and coffee

8:45    Welcome, Dr. Jie Liang, Dept of Bioengineering, UIC.

8:48    Opening remarks by Vice Chancellor Eric Gislason and Dean Prith Banerjee  

                  (College of Engineering)            

9:00    Keynote speaker: Dr. Eric Jakobsson, Center for Bioinformatics and 

                  Computational  Biology, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH.

                  Computational biology and the NIH roadmap.  

9:45    Keynote speaker: Dr. Andrzej Joachimiak, Director, Structural Biology Center, 

                  Argonne National Lab

                  The universe of protein functions by structural genomics.

10:30   Dr. Jie Liang, Associate Professor, Dept of Bioengineering, UIC.

                  Computational topographics of protein surfaces: structure, function, 

                  and evolution

10:50   Coffee Break

11:05   Keynote speaker: Dr. Klaus Schulten, Swanlund Professor, Beckman Institute,

                   Dept of Physics, UIUC.

                   Physical bioinformatics: A case study

11:50   Dr. Michael Johnson, Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, UIC.

                   Systems biology strategies for new antibiotic discovery against B.

                  anthracis.

12:10   Dr. Hui Lu, Assistant Professor, Dept of Bioengineering, UIC.

                  Structural bioinformatics study of protein binding.

12:30   LUNCH

2:00     Keynote speaker: Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li, George Wells Beadle Distinguished

                   Professor,  Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago.

                  The evolution of genomes and proteomes.

2:45    Dr. Bellur Prabhakar, Professor, Head, Dept of Microbiology and

                   Immunology, UIC.

                  Vaccine development for SARS.

3:05    Dr. Bhaskar DasGupta, Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Science, UIC.

                   Randomized approximation algorithms for a combinatorial problem 

                  with applications to reverse engineering of gene and protein networks.   

3:25    Coffee Break

3:40    Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf, Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Science,

                   UIC and DIMACS, Rutgers University.

                   Computational phylogeny reconstruction.

4:00    Dr. Robert Grossman, Professor, Director, National Center for Data Mining, UIC.

                  Unique Chemical Keys for biomolecules and integration of distributed 

                  data

4:20    Dr. Yang Dai, Assistant Professor, Dept of Bioengineering, UIC.

                  Machine Learning Approach for Prediction of T Cell Epitopes.

4:40    Dr. Richard Magin, Conclusion.