Summit Program
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 - Grand Ballroom
| 7:30 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM | Welcoming Remarks |
Session I: Network Biology in Oncology & Cancer: Basic & Translational Research |
| Session Chair | Paul B. Fisher, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 8:45 AM | Overview of Session |
| 8:50 AM | Paul B. Fisher, Virginia Commonwealth University: |
| Applications of Subtraction Hybridization to Define Critical Genes Involved in Regulating Cancer Survival: From Bench to the Bedside |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:10 AM | Prahlad T. Ram, MD Anderson Cancer Center: |
| Understanding and Targeting Networks in Breast Cancer via the Integration of Functional Proteomics and Genomics with Computational Models |
| 10:45 AM | Lance Liotta, George Mason University: |
| Development and Implementation of Molecular Network Mapping at the Bedside: Realizing the Promise of Personalized Therapy Today |
| 11:20 AM | Break |
| 11:35 AM | Antonio Iavarone, Columbia University: |
| The Transcriptional Networks Driving Stem Cells and Cancer in the Brain |
| 12:10 PM | Devanand Sarkar, Virginia Commonwealth University: |
| Protein-protein Interaction Study Identifies a Novel Mechanism of Hepatocarcinogenesis |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch |
Session II: Networks & Genomics in the Neurobiology of Behavior |
| Session Chair | Michael F. Miles, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 2:00 PM | Robert Williams, University of Tennessee: |
| Genetic Control of Gene Networks in Complex Traits |
| 3:00 PM | Michael F. Miles, Virginia Commonwealth University: |
| Of Mice and Monkeys: Identifying Brain Gene Networks Influencing Behavioral Responses to Alcohol. |
| 3:35 PM | Katheleen J. Gardiner, University of Colorado: |
| Pathways to Cognition in Down Syndrome |
| 4:10 PM | Break |
General Session I |
| Session Chair | Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4:30 PM | Holly Lewis, Eastern Virginia Medical School: |
| Examining Micro RNA Expression in Expressed Prostatic Secretions from Prostate Cancer Patients |
| 4:45 PM | Zeehasham Rashid, George Mason University: |
| A Unified Data Management and Computational Framework for the Human Metabiome Analysis |
| 5:00 PM | Magalie Leduc, Texas Biomedical Research Institute: |
| Identification of Gene Co-expression Networks Involved in Lipoprotein Metabolism in Non-human Primates |
| 5:15 PM | Jacqueline Harris, University of Alabama: |
| Using Protein Abundance to estimate underlying mRNA expression levels in E. coli : An SEM Modeling Approach |
| 6:30 PM | Banquet Dinner in the Empire Room |
Thursday, June 16th, 2011 - Grand Ballroom
| 7:30 AM | Continental Breakfast |
Session III: Network Theory & Modeling in Predicting Disease Targets |
| Session Chair | Michael Neale, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 8:30 AM | Steve Horvath, University of California: |
| Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis Applied to Complex Diseases |
| 9:25 AM | Steve Boker, University of Virginia: |
| Coupled Dynamical Systems Models of Ovarian Hormones and Disordered Eating |
| 9:55 AM | Break |
| 10:15 AM | Cheng Cheng, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: |
| Phenotype-Specific Genomic Network Analysis |
| 10:45 AM | Mark Chance, Case Western Reserve University: |
| Genomics Classifiers Coupled to Targeted Proteomics to Provide Novel Predictors in Cancer |
| 11:15 AM | Danail Bonchev, Virginia Commonwealth University: |
| Evolutionary Patterns of Network Motifs |
| 11:45 AM | Lunch |
Session IV: Systems Biology Approaches to Aging |
| Session Chair | Tarynn Witten, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 1:30 PM | S. Michal Jazwinski, Tulane University: |
| Metabolic Signals and Cell Responses in Yeast Aging |
| 2:05 PM | Matt Kaeberlein, University of Washington: |
| Genome-wide Analysis of Aging and the Response to Dietary Restriction |
| 2:40 PM | Andres Kriete, Drexel University: |
| Assembling a Whole Cell Systems Model of Aging |
| 3:15 PM | Bruce Carnes, University of Oklahoma: |
| Aging: A Biological and Modeling Challenge |
| 3:50 PM | Break |
General Session II |
| Session Chair | Kathleen Gardiner, University of Colorado |
| 4:10 PM | Yaping Feng, Iowa State University: |
| A Massive Human Co-expression Network and its Medical Applications |
| 4:45 PM | Brian Sayre, Virginia State University: |
| Systems Genetics Approach to Predicting Candidate Genes based on Model Species Data Analyses |
| 6:00 PM | Reception and Poster Session - Empire Room |
Friday, June 17th, 2011 - Empire Room
| 7:30 AM | Continental Breakfast |
Session V: High Throughput Enabling Technologies |
| Session Chair | Zhongming Zhao, Vanderbilt University |
| 8:30 AM | Michael P. Snyder, Stanford University: |
| Plenary Lecture: Personal and Non-Personal Genomes: Their Analysis and Variation |
| 9:30 AM | Shawn Levy, HudsonAlpha Institute: |
| Improved Analysis Pipelines for Large Sample Sets |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:15 AM | Zhongming Zhao, Vanderbilt University: |
| An Integrative Network and Pathway Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies Datasets |
| 10:40 AM | Xun Xu, Beijing Genomics Institute: |
| Personal Genomes are Personalized: High-Throughput Sequencing, a Key to Personalized Medicine |
| 11:05 AM | Vladimir A. Kuznetsov, Bioinformatics Institute: |
| Discovering a Cancerogenesis Pathway of EVI1 Protein in Epithelial Ovarian Cell via System Analysis Approach |
| 11:30 AM | Lunch |
Session VI: Systems Vaccinology |
| Session Chair | Myrna Serrano, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 12:05 PM | John W. Belmont, Baylor University: |
| An eQTL Approach to Influenza Vaccine Responsiveness |
| 12:50 PM | Philip Felgner, University of California: |
| Understanding Humoral Immunity to Infectious Disease on a Genome Wide Scale |
| 1:15 PM | Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Carnegie Mellon University: |
| Salmonella, Host Interactomes: Gold Standard of Known Interactions and Predictions Based on Interology |
| 1:35 PM | Break |
| 2:00 PM | Reconvene in Flemish Room |
Advanced Technology Workshop |
| Session Chair | Sheryl Baldwin, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 2:00 PM | David Williamson, Illumina: |
| Illumina TruSeq Exome Enrichment: A Powerful New Method for Scalable Exome Sequencing Studies |
| 2:30 PM | Jeffrey Smith, Applied Biosystems / Life Technologies: |
| The Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine for Semiconductor Sequencing |
| 3:00 PM | David Wilmot, Agilent Technologies: |
| SureSelect Target Enrichment for Resequencing and Other Genomics Tools |
| 3:30 PM | Ken Blakeslee, Waters, Inc.: |
| Ultra Performance Separation Technology 2011 |
| 4:00 PM | Conference Close |
