Young Investigator Symposium on Genomics and Bioinformatics

2
nd

Annual Young Investigator Symposium on
Genomics and Bioinformatics


Friday, September 5, 2008

Tilghman Auditorium, Turner Concourse

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine


Sponsored by the Department of Biostatistics,

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public

Health





08:30AM
-
9:00AM

Breakfast (provided) + Welcome


09:00AM
-
10:00AM

Introductory Speaker:
Jonathan Pevsner




“Genomics, Bioinformatics and the Revolution in Biology”


10:00AM
-
10:45PM

Kathleen Burns
: “Comprehensive transposon mapping in
the human ge
nome”


10:45AM
-
11:30PM

Rob Scharpf
: “Genome
-
scale estimation of copy number
and inference”


11:30AM
-
12:15PM

Bo Wen
: “Heterochromatin blocks distinguish differentiated
from embryonic stem cells”


12:15PM
-
02:00PM

Lunch (provided) + Poster Session (see next p
age).


02:00PM
-
02:45PM

Parminder Mankoo
: “Somatic Mutations in PIK3CA”


02:45PM
-
03:30PM

Donald William Parsons
: “Large
-
scale mutational analyses
of human cancers: Lessons learned from sequencing cancer
genomes”


03:30PM
-
04:30PM

Keynote Speaker:
Steven Salz
berg




“Assembling Genomes from Next
-
Generation Sequencers”


5PM
-
onward


Drinks and Dinner provided at the Waterfront Hotel in Fell's



Point (1710 Thames Street).



2
nd

Annual Young Investigator Symposium on
Genomics and Bioinformatics



Poster Session



Hector Corrada Bravo
, Johns Hopkins Dept. of Biostatistics: “Estimating
Tree
-
Structured Covariance Matrices via Mixed
-

Integer Programming with
an Application to Phylogenetic Analysis of Gene Expression”


Donavan Cheng
, Johns Hopkins University: “An Alig
nment Independent
Algorithm for Motif Discovery using Sequence Conservation”


Supriyo De
, Gene Expression and Genomics Unit, National Institute on
Aging, National Institutes of Health: “Systems Analysis of Common
Multigenetic Human Diseases”


Julia C. Enge
lmann
, Johns Hopkins University: “Genotyping, copy
number analysis and allele
-
specific methylation with SNP6.0 Affymetrix
arrays”


Adam Lee
, University of Maryland: “A framework for discovering
associations from the annotated biological web”


Jimmy Lin
, Jo
hns Hopkins University: “Core Signaling Pathways in
Human Pancreatic Cancers Revealed by Global Genomic Analyses”


Yan Qi
, Johns Hopkins University: “Finding friends and enemies in an

enemies
-
only network: a graph diffusion kernel for predicting novel

ge
netic interactions and co
-
complex membership from yeast genetic

interactions"


Matthew Ritchie
, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge:
“Measuring allele
-
specific expression using Illumina's GoldenGate
platform”


Balaji Veeramani
, Department of B
iomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins
University: “Metabolic flux correlations, genetic interactions and disease”