December 16, 2013

Computational Aspects of Biological Information 2013

9:00am

Location: Cambridge, MA

Workshop program

Where applicable, links to video replays of select workshops are provided.

9:00 – 9:50 Registration and breakfast
9:50 – 10:00 Opening remarks
10:00 – 10:30 Computational Genomic Medicine

Jill P. Mesirov (Broad Institute)

10:30 – 11:00 Synthetic Biology and Biocomputation: Life Redesigned

Jim Collins (Boston University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Wyss Institute, Harvard University)

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 Evolutionary Forces in Humans and Pathogens

Pardis Sabeti (Harvard University, Broad Institute)
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11:45 – 12:15 Transcription Factors and DNA Regulatory Elements

Martha Bulyk (Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

12:15 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 Poster session
1:30 – 2:00 Instrumenting the Healthcare Enterprise

Isaac (Zak) Kohane (Harvard Medical School)
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2:00 – 2:30 Analysis of Cell-Cell Communication Networks in Inflammatory Pathologies

Doug Lauffenburger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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2:30 – 3:00 Computational Discovery of Directional Pioneer Factors

David Gifford (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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3:00 – 3:45 Coffee break / Posters
3:45 – 4:15 Message Passing: Modeling the Flow of Information in Cellular Networks

John Quackenbush (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health)
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4:15 – 4:45 Computational Analysis of Mutational Heterogeneity in Cancer

Ben Raphael (Brown University)

4:45 – 5:15 Interpreting Cancer Copy-Number Alterations

Rameen Beroukhim (Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
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5:15 – 5:20 Closing remarks