Symposia, Seminars and Special Events:
Archive 2009

• June 26, 2009 BICB Research Symposium
• April 24, 2009 CBCB Seminar
• April 16 – 17, 2009 Bioinformatics Building Bridges
• April 10, 2009 CBCB Seminar
• March 27, 2009 CBCB Seminar
• January 16, 2009 BICB Research Symposium

June 26, 2009 BICB Research Symposium

Date: June 26, 2009
Place: Leighton Auditorium, Mayo Clinic - Siebens Building, Rochester, MN and University of Minnesota Rochester, Rochester, MN

The purpose of this event was to:

• Broaden areas of BICB research and provide an opportunity for students, researchers and faculty to meet, communicate interests, and exchange ideas that could lead to collaborative research projects
• Report on results of 2007-08 BICB seed grants (research talks)
• Facilitate seed grant team dialog (i.e., "face-to-face" project discussion time)

This BICB Research Symposium brought together 130 scientists and administrators from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMTC), the University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR), the Hormel Institute, the Mayo Clinic, and IBM, as well as other researchers working in the field of biomedical informatics and computational biology. The scope of this event was to facilitate further collaborations in the area of biomedical informatics and computational biology.

The Symposium was free, but registration was required. For more information, please visit www.r.umn.edu/events/bicbsummer2009.

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April 24, 2009 CBCB Seminar

Title: Pathway and Gene Target Identification Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis
Date: April 24, 2009
Time: 12:00 brown bag lunch in 401, 12:15 - 1:30 seminar in 402
Place: 402 Walter Library, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and video cast to room 398 on the University of Minnesota Rochester Campus

Consortium for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) Seminar Series: Pathway and Gene Target Identification Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis by Dr. Bin Zhang, Merck and Co., Inc., Seattle, WA

For more information, please see http://www.cbcb.umn.edu/cgi-bin/seminars.php?eventdesc=491.

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April 16 – 17, 2009 Bioinformatics Building Bridges

Dates: April 16 – 17, 2009
Place: Digital Technology Center, Walter Library, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

BICB was pleased to cosponsor the seventh Bioinformatics Building Bridges conference which supported the field of bioinformatics and its U of M graduate programs. It included tutorials, world-renowned speakers, a poster session, exhibits, demonstrations, and a lunch hosted by the Bioinformatics Graduate Faculty. The schedule is available at http://www.binf.umn.edu/bisymp09/schedule.html.

The conference was free, however pre-registration was required. Additional information is available at http://www.binf.umn.edu/bisymp09/.

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April 10, 2009 CBCB Seminar

Title: Protein Threading by Nonlinearly Combining Evolutionary and Non-Evolutionary Information
Date: April 10, 2009
Time: 12:00 brown bag lunch in 401, 12:15 - 1:30 seminar in 402
Place: 402 Walter Library, University of Minnesota Twin Cities and video cast to room 397 on the University of Minnesota Rochester Campus

Consortium for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) Seminar Series: Protein Threading by Nonlinearly Combining Evolutionary and Non-Evolutionary Information by Dr. Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago, IL.

Please see http://www.tti-c.org/xu.php for more information about Dr. Xu. To read more about the seminar, please visit http://www.cbcb.umn.edu/cgi-bin/seminars.php?eventdesc=545.

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March 27, 2009 CBCB Seminar

Title: Deciphering microRNA-mediated regulation from perturbations in gene expression
Date: March 27, 2009
Time: 12:00 lunch in room 401 Walter Library, 12:15 p.m. seminar
Place: 402 Walter Library, University of Minnesota Twin Cities and video cast to room 397 on the University of Minnesota Rochester Campus

Consortium for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) Seminar Series: Deciphering microRNA-mediated regulation from perturbations in gene expression by Christina Leslie, Computational Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

For more information, please see http://www.cbcb.umn.edu/cgi-bin/seminars.php?eventdesc=472.

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January 16, 2009 - BICB Research Symposium

Date: Friday, January 16, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Place: University of Minnesota Rochester, Rochester, MN

The purpose of this event was to:

• Broaden areas of BICB research interest and foster proposals for extramural funding
• Report on progress of 2008-09 BICB seed grants (research talks) and 2008-09 BICB trainee projects (poster displays)
• Facilitate 2008-09 seed grant team dialog (i.e., “face-to-face” project discussion time)
• Provide an opportunity for students, researchers and faculty to meet, communicate interests, and exchange ideas that could lead to collaborative research projects

This BICB Research Symposium brought together teams of scientists and administrators from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMTC), the University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR), the Hormel Institute, the Mayo Clinic, and IBM, as well as other researchers working in the field of biomedical informatics and computational biology.  The scope of this event was to facilitate further collaborations in the areas of major focus from the following BICB seed grants:

• Data mining of clinical data
• Machine learning to predict disease state
• Computational methods for rational drug design

The morning session of the BICB Research Symposium covered a brief status of the BICB Program followed by speakers from each of the four BICB seed grant teams who gave research talks followed by discussion on the work that was funded by the 2008-09 Collaborative Seed Grant Program. Over the noon hour, lunch was provided and participants were given the opportunity to review poster displays provided by the seed grant teams, trainees, and post-doctoral associate.

The afternoon breakout sessions brought together faculty and researchers from the University of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic, IBM and the Hormel Institute to meet and share scientific interests.  In addition, the current BICB seed grant teams were given the opportunity to meet with their team to discuss their projects.

The BICB Research Symposium convened at 10:00 am in Room 417 (fourth floor) of the University of Minnesota Rochester campus in downtown Rochester (111 South Broadway at University Square).

Those coming from the Twin Cities were transported by coach bus to Rochester for the BICB Research Symposium.

Any questions about the BICB Research Symposium, please contact Jim Clausen, Program Management Consultant for Bioscience, UMR at claus158@umn.edu or 507-280-4630.

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