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3rd
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Dear
Researcher and Biotechnologist, We would like to invite you to the Third
Annual 2004 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Retreat, |
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http://www.ctaalliance.org/MCBI/2004_Retreat.html
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The Great Lakes Bioinformatics retreat is an opportunity for graduate
students and post-doctoral fellows to present their Lab's most current
work in bioinformatics and computational biology, and to network with
researchers from academia and industry from the Great Lakes region, with
a particular focus on Michigan. It is also an opportunity for Great Lakes
researchers to identify potential collaborative opportunities. |
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| Keynote Speaker: |
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Dr.
John C. Wooley |
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| For the new UCSD California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2], Dr. Wooley directs the biology and biomedical layer or applications component, termed Digitally-enabled Genomic Medicine (DeGeM), a step in delivering personalized medicine in a wireless clinical setting. His current research involves bioinformatics and structural genomics, while his principle objectives at UCSD are to stimulate new research initiatives for large scale, multidisciplinary challenges. He also collaborates in developing scientific applications of information technology and high performance computing; creating industry-university collaborations; expanding applied life science opportunities, notably around drug discovery; establishing a biotechnology and pharmacology science park on UCSD's health sciences campus zone. | |||||
| Invited Speakers: | |||||
| Michael
Pisano, Ph.D. President and Co-Founder of Proteome Research Services, Inc., Ann Arbor Michigan Dr. Pisano has more than 15 years experience in protein biochemistry including more than 11 years in the pharmaceutical industry. His expertise includes protein separations, protein characterization, electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry. Dr. Pisano has managed laboratory research groups in the areas of protein production and proteomics since 1996. Positions he has held in the pharmaceutical industry include Manager, Proteomics and Protein Production, Dept. of Biotechnology, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals; Head, Protein Sciences, Dept. of Biotechnology Aventis Pharmaceuticals; Vice-President Proteomic R&D, Genomic Solutions, Inc. In addition, Dr. Pisano serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of several life sciences companies and instrumentation manufacturers. |
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| Cathy
H. Wu, Ph.D. PIR Integrated Bioinformatics for Functional Genomics and Proteomics Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Director of Protein Information Resource Georgetown University Medical Center Dr. Cathy Wu is the Director of Protein Information Resource and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Trained in both biology and computer science, she has conducted bioinformatics research for almost 15 years and developed several protein family classification systems and databases. Dr. Wu has served on several scientific advisory boards, many bioinformatics grant review panels for NIH, NSF and DOE, and on numerous program committees for international bioinformatics conferences. She has published about 100 papers and three books, and is a frequent invited speaker for lectures and tutorials at universities, companies, and conferences. |
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Abstract:
Scientists have increasingly begun to tackle gene functions and other complex regulatory processes using global-scale data generated at various levels of biological organization. To fully exploit such high-throughput data, PIR has developed a bioinformatics infrastructure that supports data integration and comparative analysis of proteins. The framework inlcudes the PIRSF system that provides protein family classification based on evolutionary relationships of full-length proteins and domains, and the iProClass integrated database that provides value-added descriptions of all UniProt proteins with rich links to over 80 databases of protein family, function, pathway, interaction, modification, structure, genome, ontology, literature, and taxonomy. The system allows sensible propagation and standardization of protein annotation using common controlled vocabularies and ontologies with evidence attribution, facilitating the development of standard protein nomenclature and protein name ontology. The integrated approach leads to novel functional inference for uncharacterized proteins and systematic detection of genome annotation errors, and can be applied to functional categorization and pathway identification for large-scale gene expression and proteomic data. |
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Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium Update The GLBC has been established as a regional chapter of the International Society for Computational Biology. GLBC will play a prominent role in organizing ISMB 2005, Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology, bringing ~2,000 National and International scientists to Detroit, Michigan. The GLBC officers will describe these efforts at the retreat. President: Professor David States, Director Bioinformatics Program, University of Michigan http://www.greatlakesbioinformatics.org |
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On-line
registration available at Abstracts are due
to Jeff de Wet jrdewet@umich.edu
by July 26, 2004 |
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| For further information about the retreat please contact: jtroy@umich.edu | |||||
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