Agenda
FIRST ANNUAL SYSTEMS BIOLOGY SUMMIT
March 29 – March 31, 2006
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
| 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Evening Reception at the Jefferson Hotel. |
Thursday, March 30, 2006
| 8:00 - 8:15 a.m. | Welcoming remarks: Eugene P. Trani, Ph.D President Virginia Commonwealth University |
BLOCK I » Computational Biology
| 8:15 - 9:00 a.m. | Keynote speaker: Joseph Loscalzo, MD, Ph.D. Editor in Chief, Circulation Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine Harvard Medical School Chair, Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Topic: Complexity in biological systems and its implications for the practice of medicine Presentation: Not Available |
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| 9:00 - 9:45 a.m. | Speaker: Allen W. Cowley, Ph.D. (committed) Professor and Chair Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin Topic: Use of integrative modeling to bring clinical meaning to proteomics experimentation Presentation: Not Available |
| 9:45 - 10:15 a.m. | Networking Break |
| 10:15 - 11:00 a.m. | Speaker: Janice V. Meck, Ph.D. (committed) Director NASA Cardiovascular Laboratory NASA Johnson Space Center Houston Texas Topic: Integrating basic science and clinical research in a goal directed approach to biomedical problem solving. Presentation: click here |
| 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. | Speaker: Richard L. Summers MD, Ph.D. Professor of Emergency Medicine Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine Director of Emergency Medicine Research University of Mississippi Medical Center Topic: Use of computer models in the analysis of the results from clinical trials Presentation: click here |
| 11:45 - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch at the Jefferson Hotel |
BLOCK II » Genomics and Proteomics
| 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. | Keynote speaker: Eric Schadt, Ph.D. Senior Scientific Director of Genetics Merck Research Labs Topic: An integrative genomics approach to dissecting the genetics of drug response Presentation: click here |
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| 2:00 - 2:45 p.m. | Speaker: Deborah Nickerson, Ph.D. Professor of Genome Sciences Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering University of Washington Topic: Exploring phenotypic traits with SNPs Presentation: click here |
| 2:45 - 3:30 p.m. | Speaker: Terence E. Ryan, Ph.D Director, Integrative Biology GlaxoSmithKline Topic: Systems pharmacology of type 2 diabetes: a case study for pharmaceutical development Presentation: Not Available |
| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Networking Break |
| 4:00 - 4:45 p.m. | Speaker: Scott D. Patterson, Ph.D. Senior Director, Medical Sciences Amgen Inc. Thousand Oaks, California Topic: Exploring pharmacodynamics in early drug development: measuring pharmacologic perturbations of human physiology Presentation: click here |
| 4:45 - 5:30 p.m. | Speaker: Steve Stice, Ph.D. Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Director of the Regenerative Bioscience Center University of Georgia Topic: Embryonic Stem Cells: proliferation and differentiation Presentation: Not Available |
| 6:30 - 10:00 p.m. | Evening Reception and Dinner Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Marble Gallery |
Friday, March 31, 2006
BLOCK III » Complexity in Biological Systems
| 8:30 - 8:45 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks: Daniel J. LaVista Executive Director State Council of Higher Education for Virginia |
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| 8:45 - 9:30 a.m. | Speaker: Nitin Baliga, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle Topic: Global systems approach to deconstruct environmental impact on biological behavior. Presentation: Not Available |
| 9:30 - 10:15 a.m. | Speaker: Emanuel F. Petricoin Ph.D Co-Director Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine Professor of Life Sciences George Mason University Topic: Integrating clinical proteomics, nanotechnology and network bioinformatics for direct patient care: Early disease detection and personalized medicine Presentation: click here |
| 10:15 - 11:15 a.m. | Keynote speaker: Jonathan B. Perlin, MD. Ph.D. Under Secretary for Health U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Topic: Thinking About Health Care in the Future: Integrating Systems Biology, Information Technology, Changing Health Needs and Service Delivery Models. Presentation: Not Available |
| 11:15 - 11:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:30 - 12:15 p.m. | Keynote speaker: Albert-László Barabási, Ph.D. Director, Center for Complex Networks Research Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics University of Notre Dame Visiting Professor, Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard University Topic: Network Biology: from protein interactions to human diseases Presentation: Not Available |
| 12:15 - 12:45 p.m. | Speaker: The Honorable George Allen (invited) United States Senate (R-VA) Topic: TBD Presentation: Not Available |
* Lunch will be served at Jefferson.
