VCU Biological Complexity

BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION:
"BCIG's Successes with Multidisciplinary Biomedical Data Mining"
Thursday, July 7, 2005 * 3:00-4:30pm
NIH Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION:
"BCIG's Successes with Multidisciplinary Biomedical Data Mining"
Jim DeLeo, NIH Clinical Center

For the last year, BCIG has been experimenting with a multidisciplinary team approach to biomedical data mining. This work is slowly being recognized NIH wide. This recognition has led to an invitation for us to do a two-hour symposium at the October 2005 NIH Research Festival. Four different BCIG-related biomedical data mining projects will be described at this symposium (See attachment for details.) Although we are off to a good start, team biomedical data mining is still at its infancy at the NIH. There are many problems in making it truly mainstream. For example, resources, data access, data ownership and data privacy issues, effectively addressing diverse motivations of team members, publication issues, intellectual property issues, learning to work together effectively in teams, and developing the new kind of team leadership required. At this BCIG Brainstorming, an overview of BCIG's successful data mining projects will be given, and then we will discuss the problems that seem to be impeding more rapid progress and see if we can gain some useful breakthrough insights through a friendly cooperative group dialogue.

Jim DeLeo has been a computer scientist at the NIH for over 30 years. He is currently Chief of the Scientific Computing Section in the Department of Clinical Research Informatics in the NIH Clinical Center. Jim is highly motivated to understand and transcend the bottlenecks that create the "chasm" that causes delays in getting computational methodology from the innovation stage to meaningful and useful real world implementation, particularly as the chasm problem applies to medicine (e.g. the "bench to bedside" chasm.)

More information, visit the BCIG web site www.nih-bcig.org, check the on-line NIH Record http://calendar.nih.gov/cgi-bin/calendar or call or write Jim DeLeo, BCIG Chairman jdeleo@nih.gov, (301)-496-3848. For NIH visitor information go to http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/. To have your name added to the BCIG list server, send Jim an e-mail note with your name, e-mail address and telephone number.

"Extracting Biology From Higher-Dimensional 'Omics Data "
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 * 11:30am
Life Sciences, Room 155 (note room change!)

"Extracting Biology From Higher-Dimensional 'Omics Data "
John Quackenbush, Harvard Dept. of Biostatistics and Dana Farber Cancer Institute

John just moved to Boston from TIGR, and his TIGR web site remains at present the best site available to learn about his interests:
http://www.tigr.org/faculty/John_Quackenbush.shtml

Please contact Jeff Elhai for details of Dr. Quackenbush's visit .

|| Wednesday, July 13, 2005||

Proteomics Faculty Candidate for the Director's position in the Mass Spec Facility
"Biological Applications of Mass Spectrometry "
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 * 11:00am
Sanger Hall, 2nd Floor, Rm 2-020

Sponsored by: Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

"Biological Applications of Mass Spectrometry "
Mark M. Ross, Ph.D.
Proteomics Faculty Candidate for the Director's
position in the Mass Spec Facility

Dr. Ross is currently Research Associate PRofessor and Director, Mellon medical Biomarker Discovery Laboratory, University of Virginia

BCIG TUTORIAL:
"Information Extraction "
Thursday, July 14, 2005 * 3:00-4:30pm
Clinical Research Center (CRC) Room 2-3330 (note Location change!)

BCIG TUTORIAL:
"Information Extraction "
Victor J. Pollara, Ph.D., Mitretek Systems

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|| Thursday, July 21, 2005||

Proteomics Faculty Candidate for the Director's position in the Mass Spec Facility
"Using mass spectrometry proteomics to study oxidant stress in atherosclerosis "
Thursday, July 21, 2005 * 11:00am
Sanger Hall, 2nd Floor, Rm 2-020

"Using mass spectrometry proteomics to study oxidant stress
in atherosclerosis "
Michael Kinter, Ph.D.
Faculty Candidate for the VCU Biological Mass Spectrometry Research Facility

Michael Kinter, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology
Lerner Research Institute
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH

BCIG SPEAKER EVENT :
"Labmatrix: Integrating Clinical and Laboratory Data for Translational Research Studies "
Thursday, July 21, 2005 * 3:00-4:30pm
NIH Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

BCIG TUTORIAL:
"Labmatrix: Integrating Clinical and Laboratory Data for Translational Research Studies "
Speaker: Ethel Rubin, Ph.D., BioFortis, Inc

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BCIG BOOK CLUB:
"Free Software for Busy People"
Thursday, July 14, 2005 * 5:30-7:30pm
NIH Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

BCIG BOOK CLUB:
"Free Software for Busy People"
Facilitators: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, M.D., NLM/NIH (author) and Carl Leonard, LIRED Corp.

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REGISTRATION: Registration is not required for any of the above BCIG events.

SUITABLITY: BCIG events are conducted in a friendly relaxed manner and are suitable for anyone having interest in biomedical computing.

LOCATION: All of the above events will be held in the NIH Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116), except the tutorial on July 14 which will be held in the new Clinical Research Center (CRC) in Room 2-3330.

MORE INFORMATION: Please see the BCIG Website www.nih-bcig.org and/or call Jim DeLeo, BCIG Chairman at 301-496-3848.

NIH VISITOR INFORMATION: http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/

WEBCASTING: BCIG tutorials and speaker events are webcast live and made available through Internet for post event playback. For more information, please contact, Carl Leonard, 301-496-0191.