Program
Tuesday, June 16th
5:00 PM Registration Open at Omni Hotel, Dinner on Your Own
9:00 PM Registration Closes at the Omni Hotel
Wednesday, June 17
7:30 AM Continental Breakfast and Registration Open
8:45 AM Welcoming Remarks
Session I: Microbial Engineering [Chair: Steve Fong]
9:00 AM Plenary Speaker: Kristala Prather, MIT:
Rational Design of Microbial Chemical Factories
10:00 AM Jingdong Tian, Duke University:
Enabling Effective Design, Construction and Optimization of Synthetic Biosystems
10:25 AM Break
10:35 AM Hao Song, Duke University:
Spatiotemporal Modulation of Biodiversity in a Synthetic Chemical-Mediated Ecosystem
11:00 AM Plenary Speaker: Christina Smolke, Stanford University:
Advancing Synthetic Metabolic Network Design Through Embedded Sensing-Actuation Devices
12:00 PM Lunch Provided at the Omni Hotel
1:00 PM Keynote Speaker: James Collins, Boston University:
Engineering Microbial Gene Networks: Integrating Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology
Session II: Modeling Microbial Systems [Chair: Hao Song]
2:00 PM Plenary Speaker: Jean Peccoud, Virginia Tech:
An Engineering Approach to Characterizing Structure-Function Relationship in DNA Sequences
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM Christopher Gowen, VCU:
3:40 PM Paul Jensen, UVA:
Systems Approaches to Infectious Disease
4:05 PM Seth Roberts, VCU:
Proteomic and Network Analysis Characterize Stage-Specific Metabolism in Trypanosoma cruzi
4:30 PM Ping Xu, VCU:
Biofilm Gene Association in Oral Streptococci by Systems Biology
6:30 PM Banquet Dinner at the Omni Hotel
Thursday, June 18
7:30 AM Continental Breakfast
Session IIIa: Host-Pathogen Interactions [Chair: Dennis Ohman]
8:30 AM Plenary Speaker: James Musser, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas:
9:30 AM Candice Johnson, Meharry Medical College:
Gene Network Analysis During Early Cellular Infection by Trypanosoma cruzi
9:55 AM Shlomo Ta'asan, Carnegie Mellon University:
A Mathematical Approach for Understanding Host-Pathogen Interactions
10:20 AM Break
10:35 AM Plenary Speaker: Cammie Lesser, Harvard University:
11:35 AM Alison Criss, University of Virginia:
Disarming of Host Neutrophil Defenses by Neisseria gonorrhoeae
12:00 PM Lunch Provided at the Omni Hotel
Session IIIb: Host-Pathogen Interactions [Chair: Patricio Manque]
1:00 PM Isabel Santos, University of São Paulo-Riberão Preto, Brazil:
1:25 PM Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Carnegie Mellon University:
1:50 PM Keynote Speaker: David Botstein, Princeton University:
Coordination of Growth Rate, Cell Cycle, Stress Response and Metabolic Activity in Yeast
2:50 PM Break
Session IV: Human Microbiome [Chair: Patrick Gillevet]
3:05 PM Plenary Speaker: Jeremy Nicholson, Imperial College London:
4:05 PM Patrick Gillevet, George Mason University:
The Human Metabiome: Correlating the Human Microbiome with Disease
4:30 PM Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University:
Disease Inference Using Microbiome Informatics
5:00 PM Plenary Speaker: Michelle Giglio, University of Maryland:
A Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the Human Microbiome Project
6:00 PM Heavy hors d'ouevres and Poster Session
Technology Workshop [Chair: Sheryl Baldwin]
7:15 PM Tim Harkins, Roche Corporation:
Genome Analysis for the Tree of Life
7:45 PM Iggy Kaas, Waters Corporation:
Chemical Intelligence and Accurate Mass of Precursor and Product Ions: How They Combine to Maximize Information Content in Complex Biological Analyses
8:10 PM Charles Cochran, Applied Biosystems:
8:35 PM Doug Phanstiel, University of Wisconsin:
Comparing Human ES, iPS, and Somatic Cells Using iTRAQ and Beam-type CAD with Ion Trap Mass Analysis
Friday, June 19
7:30 AM Continental Breakfast
Session V: Technological Advances in Systems Biology [Chair: Paul Fawcett]
8:30 AM Plenary Speaker: Yuan Gao, VCU:
Transforming Basic and Translational Research by Next-Generation Sequencing
9:30 AM David Williamson, Illumina:
Assembling and Visualizing Small Genomes Using Pooled and Indexed Samples
9:55 AM Dan Sullivan, Virginia Tech:
Data Integration for Dynamic and Sustainable Systems Biology Resources: Challenges and Lessons
10:20 AM Break
10:35 AM Keynote Speaker: John Yates, Scripps Institute:
Driving Biological Discovery Using Quantitative Mass Spectrometry
11:35 AM Closing Remarks
11:40 PM Lunch Provided at the Omni Hotel
1:00 PM Workshops
Workshop 1: The Microbial Tree of Life [Chair: Maria Rivera]
1:00 PM Mark Farmer, University of Georgia:
1:40 PM Richard Triemer, Michigan State University:
Phylogeny of Photosynthetic Euglenoids – What Have We Learned?
2:20 PM Break
2:40 PM Maria Rivera, VCU:
The Euglenozoa Tree of Life: Avoiding Phylogenetic Artefacts in Genome-Scale Analyses
3:10 PM João M. Alves, VCU:
Challenges in Climbing the Tree of Life
3:40 PM Danail Bonchev, VCU:
Evolution of Metabolic Networks Organization
4:10 PM Jeff Elhai, VCU:
Biobike: Providing Biologists without Programming Experience Creative Control over the Analysis of Bioinformation
Workshop 2: Gene Networks and Disease [Chair: Zhongming Zhao]
1:00 PM Plenary Speaker: Mark Gerstein, Yale University:
Understanding Protein Function on a Genome-scale Using Networks
2:00 PM Bing Zhang, Vanderbilt University:
Network Approaches to Elucidate the Molecular Basis of Disease
2:25 PM Victor Jin, Ohio State University:
2:50 PM Break
3:05 PM Soumya Raychaudhuri, Broad Institute:
3:30 PM Nathan Menke, VCU:
Fuzzy Modularity of Biological Networks
3:55 PM Ali Abdi, New Jersey Institute of Technology:
Fault Diagnosis Engineering in Molecular Signaling Networks
4:20 PM Jingchun Sun, VCU:
A Comparative Study of Schizophrenia and Cancer Gene Network Properties
