Conference Program - Day 1

Monday, January 11th, 2016

7:45am -8:30am

Complimentary Breakfast (Lobby)

8:30am -9:00am

Opening Remarks (Salon F)

9:00am -10:00am

Keynote Speech by Dr. Atul Butte
Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, Diagnostics, and New Insights into Disease (Salon F)

10:00am -10:25am

Coffee Break (Lobby)

10:25am -12:05pm

Molecular Diagnosis with Genomic Data (Salon F)

Recent Statistical Advancement in Network Based Analysis (Salon G-J)

Gene Expression Profiling Identifies Candidate Biomarkers for Active and Latent Tuberculosis
(Tzu-Ya Weng et al)

SUMONA: A Supervised Method for Optimizing Network Alignment
(Tolga Can et al)

The Diagnostic Application of RNA Sequencing in Patients with Thyroid Cancer: an Analysis of 851 Variants and 133 Fusions in 524 Genes
(Giulia C. Kennedy et al)

Characterizing Mutation-Expression Network Relationships in Multiple Cancers
(Shila Ghazanfar et al)

Meta-Analysis of Sex Differences in Gene Expression in Schizophrenia
(Hui Lu et al)

A Network based Covariance Test for Detecting Network Multivariate eQTL in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
(Minghua Deng et al)

Characterizing Redescriptions using Persistent Homology to Isolate Genetic Pathways Contributing to Pathogenesis
(Daniel E Plattet al)

Generalized Logic Model Based on Network Topology Able to Capture the Dynamical Trends of Cellular Signaling Pathways
(Jie Zheng et al)

12:05pm -1:05pm

Complimentary Lunch (Salon E)

1:05pm -2:05pm

Keynote Speech by Dr. Bin Yu
The Multi-Facets of a Data Science Project to Answer: How Are Organs Formed? (Salon F)

2:05pm -2:30pm

Coffee Break (Lobby)

2:30pm -4:35pm

Genetic Evolution: Recent Advancement (Salon G-J)

miRNA Analysis (Salon F)

Computation of Hybridization Networks on Realistic Phylogenetic Trees
(Daniel H. Huson et al)

The Modularity and Dynamicity of miRNA-mRNA Interactions in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinomas and the Prognostic Implication
(Kun Zhang et al)

Algorithms for Pedigree Comparison
(Lusheng Wang et al)

Identification of miRNA-mRNA Regulatory Modules by Exploring Collective Group Relationships
(Jiuyong Li et al)

Genomic Duplication Problems for Unrooted Gene Trees
(Jaroslaw Paszek et al)

c-Myc and Viral Cofactor Kaposin B Co-operate to Elicit Angiogenesis through Modulating miRNome Traits of Endothelial Cells
(Cheng-Chung Cheng et al )

DTL-RnB: Algorithms and Tools for Summarizing the Space of DTL Reconciliations
(W. Ma et al)

Identification of microRNA Precursor based on Gapped N-tuple Structure Status Composition
(Bin Liu et al)

Mapping the Genomic Architecture of Adaptive Traits with Interspecific Introgressive Origin: A Coalescent-Based Approach
(Kevin J Liu et al)

Missing Value Imputation for microRNA Expression Data by using a GO-based Functional Similarity Measure
(Yang Yang et al)

4:35pm -6:00pm

Poster Session I / Sponsor Exhibit (Complimentary hors d'oeuvres will be served; Salon A-E)