會前研討會

2011年4月12日 (二)

Morning Workshops 8:00-11:30am

(W2) Pathway-Based Analysis: A Systematic Approach to Biomarker Discovery

Edward Khokhlovich, Technical Scientific Leader, Biomarker Development, Novartis Institutes for Biological Research, Cambridge, MA
Lellean JeBailey, Ph.D., Application Scientist, Thomson Reuters
Jeffrey Tsao, Ph.D., Associate Director, Oncology Translational Medicine, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA

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(W4) Creating a Best of Breed Informatics Environment for Your Organization

Gregg TeHennepe, Senior Manager, Research Liaison, Information Technology, The Jackson Laboratory

Jonas Almeida, Abell-Hanger Distinguished Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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(W5) Building and Using an Ontological Framework for Drug Discovery to Clinical Data

Elgar Pichler, Ph.D., Computational Biologist, Boston

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(W6) Tools and Methods for RNA-seq Analysis

Michael Reich, Director of Cancer Informatics Development, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

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(W9) Utilization of EHRs/EMRs to Further Drug and Disease Related Research

Zhaohui (John) Cai, Ph.D., Director, Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Information Science, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Werner Ceusters, Ph.D., Director, Ontology Research Group, NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences

Kaushal Desai, Global Informatics Lead, Real World Evidence Program, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

William Hogan, M.D., Associate Professor and Chief, Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Richard Scheuermann, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Matthew Samore, M.D., Professor, Division of Epidemiology , Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah; Linked Health Data Foundation Board of Directors

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(W10) Imaging Informatics: Data Management and Annotation for the Life Sciences

Stefan Baumann, Head of Imaging Infrastructure, Biomarker Development / Clinical Imaging, Novartis Pharma AG

Baek Hwan (BK) Cho, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Murphy Lab, Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University

Chinh Dang, Ph.D., Senior Director of Technology, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Kevin Eliceiri, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

David Orloff, MBA, Manager, Image Library, ASCB - American Society for Cell Biology

Lydia Ng, Ph.D., Director of Atlas Development, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Afternoon Workshops 12:30-4:00pm

(W3) Conquering the Complexity of Protein Data: Genes are Easy

Florian Nigsch, Ph.D., Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Nurit Haspel, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Ph.D., Chair and Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut

Rafael Bruschweiler, Ph.D., George M. Edgar Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Chemical Sciences Laboratory & National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University

C. James McKnight, Associate Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine

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(W7) Visualization of Large-Scale Biological Data

Nils Gehlenborg, Ph.D., Research Associate, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Miriah Meyer, Ph.D., Scientist, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University

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(W8) Strategy and Practice of Adaptive Research

Michael Rosenberg, M.D., President and CEO, Health Decisions, Inc.

Anthony Cunningham RRT, Manager, Clinical Affairs, Health Decisions, Inc.

Bryan Minihan, Chief Technology Officer, Health Decisions, Inc.

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(W11) Cloud Computing: Applications and Advances

Richard Wellner, President, Object Environments

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(W12) Advancing Personalized Cancer Medicine through IT Innovation

Sharon Marsh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta

Tibor van Rooij, Ph.D. Candidate, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta; former Director of Bioinformatics, Génome Québec and Montreal Heart Institute Pharmacogenomics Centre

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(W13) Next Generation Sequencing: From Data to Discovery - "I Have My Data, Now What?"

Joseph D. Szustakowski, Ph.D., Senior Group Head, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA

Robert Bruccoleri, Ph.D., President, Congenomics LLC

Full Day 8:00am-4:00pm

(W1) Current Methods for Computational Toxicology and Chemogenomics

Jeremy Jenkins, Ph.D., Lead Discovery Informatics, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Josef Scheiber, Ph.D., Pharma Research & Early Development Informatics, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

Christopher Southan, Ph.D., ChrisDS Consulting

Luis Tari, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomedical Informatics, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

Patrick Walters, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Computational Chemistry & Molecular Modeling, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Antony Williams, Ph.D., Vice President, Strategic Development, ChemSpider, Royal Society of Chemistry

Yuriy Gankin, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, GGA Software Services

Ian Watson, Ph.D., Research Advisor, Computational Chemistry, Eli Lilly & Co.