REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST (IGB Conference Center)

WELCOME ADDRESS - HARRIS LEWIN
Director, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

SESSION I
Chair, Ji-Ping Wang (Northwestern)

Terry Speed
University of California at Berkeley
"Fragment-level Analysis of GC-MS based Metabolomics Data"

Brian Athey
University of Michigan
"The Emerging Field of Translational Bioinformatics — A National Perspective"

Ping Ma
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Statistical Modeling of Time Course Gene Expressions"

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION II
Chair, Wenxuan Zhong (Illinois)

John Storey
Princeton University
"Rethinking Experimental Design in High-dimensional Biology"

Sheng Zhong
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Cross-Species de Novo Identification of Cis-regulatory Modules and Application to Gene Regulation in Embryonic Stem Cells"

Bruce R. Schatz
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"BeeSpace: An Interactive System for Functional Analysis"

SESSION III
Chair, Chunming Zhang (Wisconsin)

Peter Bickel
University of California at Berkeley
"Refined Nonparametric Methods for Genomic Inference"

Wenxuan Zhong
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Identification of Active Motifs by Correlation Pursuit"

Jun Xie
Purdue University
"Group Variable Selection Methods and their Applications in Analyses of Genomic Data"

SESSION IV
Chair, Sheng Zhong (Illinois)

Chung-I Wu
University of Chicago
"Canalization and Genetic Homeostasis — New Light from MicroRNAs"

Jake Chen
Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
"Characterizing the Human Plasma Proteome"

Simon Lin
Northwestern University
"Bioinformatics in the Seventh Heaven: Cloud Computing for Large Scale Genomics"

Saurabh Sinha
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Comparative Regulatory Genomics in Medium and Large Divergence Regimes"