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James B. Bassingthwaighte, M.D., Ph.D. |
Keynote Speech: "The Eternal Cell"
A professor in the Bioengineering Department at the University of Washington, Dr. Bassingthwaighte is the originator of the "Human Physiome Project, a large-scale international program for developing data-basing and biological systems modeling for understanding genomic and pharmaceutic effects on human physiology. Other work includes the Cardiome Project, which deals with defining a functional heart in mathematical terms."
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Kam D.
Dahlquist, Ph.D.
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Dr. Dahlquist is a professor in Vassar College's Biology Department. She will present on the GenMAPP software, a tool for viewing and analyzing microarray data in terms of up- and down-regulation of biochemical pathways. She led development of GenMAPP when she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco.
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Ivan
Ovcharenko, Ph.D. |
Dr. Ovcharenko, a Bioinformatics Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, specializes in comparative genomics. He is the developer of three major software packages for post-genomic bioinformatics: CRÈME, zPicture, and eShadow. He will give a general overview of comparative genomics, demonstrate tools for genome data mining, and help participants develop strategies for characterizing noncoding elements of vertebrate genomes.
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| NCBI Workshop |
The National Center for Biotechnology Information of the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland will be offering a workshop on new tools that they have available for public use in computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. |
