September - Bioinformatics Symposium 2009¶
Event Details
Date/Time:
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 8h00 - 19h00
MonBUG 2nd year launch symposium.
In order to start it’s activities on the right foot, MonBUG has decided the first activity of it’s second season would be a one-day symposium featuring invited and local speakers as well as student speakers selected on the basis of the quality of their presented posters.
Program¶
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8h00-8h30 | Set-up posters |
| 8h30-8h45 | Welcome — Tarik Möröy, President and Scientific Director, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) |
| 8h45-9h00 | Opening words — Ken Dewar, Acting Scientific Director, McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre |
| Keynote I | |
| 9h00-10h00 | Fulfilling the Promise of a Sequenced Human Genome — Eric Green, Director, NIH Intramural Sequencing Center |
| 10h00-10h30 | Coffee break |
| Session I — Chair: Mathieu Blanchette | |
| 10h30-11h00 | Discovering INDEL and Copy Number Genomic Variation from Paired Reads — Michael Brudno, University of Toronto |
| 11h00-11h30 | Genome-wide Discovery of Trancript Isoform Variants — Jacek Majewski, McGill University |
| 11h30-12h00 | The Mammalian Early Development: Comparing Apples and Oranges — Claude Robert, Université Laval |
| 12h00-12h15 | Sequence and Structural Variation in a Human Genome — Heather Peckham, ABI sponsored scientific presentation |
| 12h15-12h30 | GPU Computing Implementation of a Quaternary Tree for Fast Identification of Genes and Genomes in High Throughput Sequence Analysis — Fouad Boumezbeur, Sciences de la vie — Université PARIS VII |
| Poster Session I | |
| 12h30-14h00 | Lunch and concurrent poster session |
| Session II — Chair: Raphaël Gottardo | |
| 14h00-14h30 | Modeling Structural Ensembles of Transmembrane Proteins — Jérome Waldispühl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 14h30-15h00 | Proteomics and Lipidomics Studies of the Brain — Daniel Figeys, University of Ottawa |
| 15h00-15h30 | Informatics of Cinematics; Quantifying Mitosis in Living Cells — Paul Maddox, IRIC / Université de Montréal |
| 15h30-15h45 | Using Next-Generation Genome Sequencing Technologies to Examine Genome Change and Virulence in Malaria Parasites — Martine M. Zilversmit, CHU Ste-Justine — Université de Montréal |
| 15h45-16h15 | Coffee break |
| Keynote II | |
| 16h15-17h15 | Discovering Genomic Variation in Cancer Genomes — Elaine Mardis, Co-Director, WUSTL Genome Sequencing Center |
| 17h15-17h30 | Closing comments (speaker: to be announced) |
| Poster Session II | |
| 17h30-… | Wine and cheese and concurrent poster session |
| 18h30-19h00 | Take down posters |
Testimonials¶
Thanks for inviting me to participate. I really enjoyed the day! I learned a lot as well, which always makes me feel that it was time well spent. –great meeting!!
— Dr. Elaine Mardis, WUSTL Genome Sequencing Center
Thank you for having me at the conference. It was a great opportunity to meet with students and colleagues with whom I’ve previously only had email contact. The entire staff for the conference was extremely helpful and kind. I wish you luck as you launch your second year.
— Dr. Heather Peckham, ABI / LifeTechnologies
I would like to thank you for organizing such an event. It has already generated several interactions in my field from feedbacks that I received following the presentation. The diversity of the attendees allowed for trans-disciplinary discussions that were extremely rich.
— Dr. Claude Robert, Université Laval
Philippe Lalonde from Dell handed Nicolas Tremblay a Latitude 2100 netbook as part of Dell’s netbook giveaway.