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Tuesday, September 16

9:00 a.m. Opening of the Conference. Joseph Chapman. NDSU President                                      Video
9:15-9:30 a.m.

Progress of the Virtual Conf. on Genomics and Bioinformatics. Willy Valdivia. Orion Integrated Biosciences, Inc.
The Virtual Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics…Then and Now 
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RNA Interference Track.
09:30-09:45 am
Willy Valdivia. Orion Integrated Biosciences, Inc.
RNA interference. Implications and Applications
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09:45-10:45 am
Michael T. McManus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. USA
Silencing RNAs in Mammals
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10:45-11:45 am
Ali Shilatifard, Saint Louis University Cancer Center. USA
Insight into the Molecular Mechanism of Transcriptional Elongation by RNA Polymerase II
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11:45-12:45 pm
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Computational Chemistry and Structural Genomics Track. Discussion Leader: Kim Baldridge.

12:45 - 01:00 pm Kim Baldridge, San Diego Supercomputer Center. USA  
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01:00 - 02:00 pm
Jim Briggs, University of Houston. USA
Computational Studies of Inhibitor Design and Resistance in HIV-1 Integrase
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02:00 - 03:00 pm
Nathan Baker, Washington University in St. Louis. USA. Computational Methods for Studying Biomolecular Electrostatics and Diffusion
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03:00 - 03:15 pm
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03:15 - 04:15 pm
Julie Mitchell, University of Wisconsin, Madison. USA
Computational Tools for Analyzing Macromolecular Interactions
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04:15 - 05:15 pm
Jan Jensen, University of Iowa. USA
The prediction of Protein pKa's
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03:15 - 05:15 pm Tutorial: Deanne Taylor. Sequence Analysis Algorithms and tools. Only for NDSU Local Conference Participants

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Wednesday, September 17

Complex Systems. Discussion Leader: Deanne Taylor
09:00 - 09:15 am Deanne Taylor. Serono Reproductive Biology. USA    

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09:15 - 10:15 am George Church, Harvard Medical School & MIT Health Sciences. USA Ask a question
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10:30 - 11:15 am
Eberhard Voit, Medical University of South Carolina. USA
Trends in Complex Systems Biology
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11:15 - 12:15 pm
Bruce Aronow, University of Cincinnati. USA
Creation and Mining of Large Scale Gene Expression Databases for Identification and Characterization of Biological States, Pathways, and Regulatory Mechanisms
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12:15 - 01:00 pm
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01:00 - 02:00 pm
Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute. USA
Diversity Within Species
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02:00 - 03:00 pm
Andreas Wagner, University of New Mexico. USA
The Structure of Large Genetic Networks: Design, History, or (mere) Chemistry?
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03:00 - 03:15 pm
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03:15 - 04:15 pm
Deanne Taylor, Serono Reproductive Biology. USA
What are the Levels of Darwinian Selection in Biological Networks
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04:15 - 05:15 pm
Dennis Fernandez, Fernandez and Asoc. LLP. USA
Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Biological Research
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03:15 - 05:15 pm Tutorial: Brian Prather, SPOTFIRE."Microarray analysis with Spotfire DecisionSite". Only for NDSU Local Conference Participants
05:15 - 06:15 pm Tutorial: Bruce Aronow. Normalization and Analysis of Microarray Data. Only for NDSU Local Conference Participants

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Thursday, September 18

Genomics of Infectious Diseases: Discussion Leader: Willy Valdivia
09:00 - 9:15 am Willy Valdivia. Orion Integrated Biosciences. USA  
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09:15 - 10:15 am

Larry Simpson, HHMI-UCLA. USA 
Uridine Insertion/Deletion RNA Editing: A Novel Genetic Pathway in Trypanosomatid Protists or A Tale of Two TUTases

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10:15 - 11:15 am

John H Adams, University of Notre Dame. USA
Gene Expression Analysis of Invasion-Related Proteins in Malaria Merozoites

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11:15 - 12:15 pm

Panel Disscusion. All virtual conference locations.
Microbes: Challenges and Opportunities on Genomics and Bioinformatics.

Hernando del Portillo, University of Sao Paulo. Brazil
Studies on Human Malaria in Latin America: Major Regional Challenges in
Post-genomics.
Levente Bodrossy. Austrian Research Centers in Seibersdorf, Austria

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12:15 - 01:00 pm
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Bioinformatics Track: Discussion Leader: Natalia Maltsev
01:00 - 01:15 pm Natalia Maltsev. Argonne National Laboratory. USA  
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01:15 - 02:15 pm
David Sankoff, University of Ottawa. Canada
Genome Rearrangements: From Gene Order to Genome Sequence
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02:15 - 03:15 pm
Mark Wilkinson, NCR Canada
BioMOBY 2003 - Hooked on MOBY!
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03:15 - 03:30 pm
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03:30 - 04:30 pm
Brian Prather, Spotfire. USA
Using Visualization to Find Relationships In Chemogenomic Data
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04:30 - 05:30 pm

Douglas L. Brutlag, Stanford University. USA
Discovering the Function of Proteins & Proteomes

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05:30 - 06:30 pm
Akihiko Konagaya, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center. Japan
OBIGrid: A New Infrastructure for Bionetwork Research
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09:15 - 12:15 pm Tutorial: Mark Wilkinson. Setting up BioMOBY services. Only for NDSU Local Conference Participants

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Friday, September 19

GRID Computing: Discussion Leader:
09:00 - 9:15 am Willy Valdivia  
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09:15 - 10:15 am

Andrew Emerson (High performance Computing Dept., CINECA,
Bologna, Italy)
Grid Applications in Bioinformatics in Italy and Europe

Andreas Gisel (CNR, Istitute of Biomedical Technologies, Bari, Italy)
The GRID: Exploiting the Diversity of Biological Information Resources and Informatics Tools

Enzo Medico (Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, University of Torino, Italy)
Sharing Distributed Tools and Resources: the E-BioGrid Experience

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10:15 - 11:15 am
Yong Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. USA
USAGridBLAST: Building A Cyberinfrastructure for Large-Scale Comparative Genomics Research
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11:15 - 12:15 pm

Panel Disscusion. All virtual conference locations.
Grid Computing Challenges and Opportunities
William Perrizo. North Dakota State University. USA

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12:15 - 01:00 pm
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GRID Computing: Discussion Leader: Jennifer Teig von Hoffman
01:00 - 1:15 pm Jennifer Teig von Hoffman, Boston University. USA  
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01:15 - 2:15 pm
Carole Goble, University of Manchester. United Kingdom
myGrid project - Open Upper Middleware for Assembling and Executing Insilico Experiments
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02:15 - 3:15 pm Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory. USA Ask a question
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03:15 - 3:30 pm William Perrizo. Conference Closing        
09:15 - 11:15 am Tutorial: Eric Blalock. Microarray Experimental Desing. Only for NDSU Local Conference Participants