Bioinformatics: Research & Application Symposium
Bioinformatics is a diverse research area that has far-reaching implications for both foundational and translational research, with growing applications in human health, epidemiology, forensics, and public policy practices. This symposium addresses many of these topics by bringing together relevant experts collaborating in the fields of biology, statistics, imaging, computational and systems biology.
2019 Meeting
Plenary speaker:
Gaudenz Danuser, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Invited speakers:
Tanya Garcia, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University)
Leigh Greathouse, Ph.D. (Baylor University)
David Mittelman, Ph.D. (Othram, Inc.)
Alan Pepper, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University)
Kunal Rai, Ph.D. (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Michael Thomson, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University)
Marina Vannucci, Ph.D. (Rice University)
Dr. Thomas Yankeelov (University of Texas, Austin)
Poster Session for Students and Postdocs
Organizers:
Steve Lockless, Ph.D.,
Department of Biology
Tapasree Roy Sarkar, Ph.D.,
Departments of Biology & Statistics
Yang Ni, Ph.D.,
Department of Statistics
Moumita Karmakar, Ph.D.,
Department of Statistics
We Thank Our Sponsors:
2018 Bioinformatics: Research & Application Symposium
Past Bioinformatics Symposium (2018): https://iamcs.tamu.edu/bioinformatics-and-cancer-symposium/
9:00 am Welcome and Introduction: Valen Johnson (Dean, College of Science)
9:10 am Tanya Garcia (Texas A&M University): c2PLasso: the categorical-continuous pliable lasso to identify brain regions associated with motor impairment in Huntington disease
9:40 am Kunal Rai (MD Anderson Cancer Center): Computational analysis of epigenomic data from tumors
10:10 am Coffee Break
10:35 am Thomas Yankeelov (University of Texas at Austin): Predicting treatment response via quantitative imaging and computational modeling
11:05 am Leigh Greathouse (Baylor University): Using the microbiome to build predictors of cancer risk and treatment response
11:45 am Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm David Mittelman (Othram, Inc.): Computational challenges in reconstructing genomes from aged and damaged samples
1:45 pm Alan Pepper (Texas A&M University): Deep mining of diverse datasets to uncover evolutionary history
2:15 pm Marina Vannucci (Rice University): Edge-selection priors for multiple graphs estimation and applications to complex biological data
2:45 pm Coffee Break
3:00 pm Michael Thomson (Texas A&M University): Integrating bioinformatics and CRISPR-based gene editing to accelerate rice improvement
3:30 pm Gaudenz Danuser (UT Southwestern Medical Center): Inference of causality in molecular pathways from live cell images
4:45 – 5:45 Poster session (students & postdocs)
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