2008 Spring Research Conference - Skirball Cultural Center, May 23, 2008
Posted by: jzhao, in News, RetreatThe UCLA Bioinformatics IDP had its annual retreat on May 23, 2008. The Retreat included research talks, poster session, and discussion about what we need to do to make the best possible environment for bioinformatics research. The full agenda, with links to videos of the talks, is available here.
Agenda
| 9:00-9:30 AM: | Breakfast |
| Rm: Haas B 172 | |
| 9:30-9:55 AM: | Opening Remarks |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Chris Lee Lab |
| Chris Lee | |
| Bioinformatics in the Large | |
| 9:55-10:20 AM: | Matteo Pellegrini Lab |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Matteo Pellegrini |
| Next generation sequencers: methods and applications | |
| 10:20-10:45 AM: | Parag Mallick Lab |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Roland Luethy |
| Bioinformatics for biomarker discovery using proteomics techniques | |
| 10:45-11:00 AM: | Break |
| 11:00-11:25 AM: | Ivo Dinov Lab |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Ivo Dinov |
| Center for Computational Biology: Challenges, Data, Methods and Tools | |
| 11:25-11:50AM: | Steve Horvath Lab |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Peter Langfelder |
| Consensus eigengene networks: studying relationships between gene co-expression modules across networks | |
| 12:00-1:00 PM: | Lunch |
| Rm: Haas B 172 | |
| 1:00-1:25 PM: | Eleazar Eskin Lab |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Eleazar Eskin |
| Whole Genome Association in Inbred Mouse Strains | |
| 1:25-1:50 PM: | Ker-Chau Li Lab |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Ker-Chau Li |
| Liquid association : a new bioinformatics tool for exploring gene expression data | |
| 1:50-2:05 PM: | Break |
| 2:05-2:30 PM: | Qing Zhou Lab |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Michael Mason |
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Signed Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells |
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| 2:30-2:55 PM: | Charles Taylor Lab |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Yoosook Lee |
| Anopheles gambiae population genomic database | |
| 2:55-3:20 PM: | Huiying Li Lab |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | Huiying Li |
| Understanding human skin microbiome in health and disease | |
| 3:20-4:50 PM: | Discussion Session (Snack will be provided at 4pm) |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | |
| 4:50- 6:30 PM: | Poster Session (Snack will be provided) |
| Rm: Haas A 171 | |
| 6:30- 8:00 PM | Dinner |
| Rm: Haas B 172 |
Discussion Session
3:20- 4:50 PM
The Big Questions:
- How can we make UCLA a great place for bioinformatics?
What are we missing that would make your work (education) much more successful?
- How can we activate more collaboration, sharing of expertise and tools, and build valuable shared resources that accelerate everyone’s work?
- What practical steps can we take right away towards these goals?
Example Specific Topics:
- Moving from organizing strictly by lab group, to Collaborative Interest Groups: define a topic that interests people from multiple departments; establish a CIG with members, a meeting schedule and a project website; start discussing and collaborating. A CIG ideally could include both computational and experimental biologists, and people from off-campus.
- Courses we should create: if there is a category of best methods / best tools / best practices that are relevant to many people in UCLA, it’s more efficient to each everyone once by creating a new course.
- Speakers to invite for seminar series? Ways to promote interaction / networking?
Poster Presentations
4:50- 6:30 PM
| Eleazar Eskin Lab | |
| Buhm Han, Hyun Min Kang, Myeong Seong Seo, Noah A. Zaitlen and Eleazar Eskin | Efficient association study design via power-optimized tag SNP selection |
| Noah Zaitlen, Eleazar Eskin, Hyun Min Kang and Eran Halperin | Leveraging the HapMap Correlation Structure in Association Studies |
| Steve Horvath Lab | |
| Lin Wang | WGCNA, a gene co-expression network analysis tool |
| Patricia Johnson Lab | |
| Richard D. Hayes, Rachel Schneider, Mark Brown, April Shiflett and Patricia J. Johnson | Distinct fusion events for glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase with lactonase in the evolutionary history of the highly divergent eukaryotes Trichomonas vaginalis and Giardia lamblia. |
| Chris Lee Lab | |
| Alexander Alekseyenko and Christopher Lee | Ordering properties of intervals: An enabling perspective for cross-genome databasess |
| Qi Wang | RNA Secondary Structures in HIV Drug Resistance Development — Evidence of a novel RNA secondary structure in the coding region of HIV-1 pol gene |
| Christopher Lee, Alex Alekseyenko and Namshin Kim | Pygr: the Python Graph Database framework for Bioinformatics |
| Huiying Li Lab | |
| Sorel Fitz-Gibbon, Christine Du, Robert Modlin and Huiying Li | Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Skin Microbiome |
| Blake Haas and Huiying Li | Gene Expression Analysis of Lesions from Skin Disorders Using Ingenuity and GenMAPP |
| Ker-Chau Li Lab | |
| Yijing Shen, Wei Sun and Ker-Chau Li | Dynamic Weighted Clustering with Noise Set. |
| Xuelian Wei and Ker-Chau Li | Improved peak alignment method: Correlation-based hierarchical cluster (CBHC) for mass spectrometry (MS) data |
| Tun-Hsiang Yang | Identification of disease loci by a liquid-association based method of locus interaction detection from IBD sharing: An application to the FCHL and mouse BxH intercross data |
| Matteo Pellegrini Lab | |
| David Casero Díaz-Cano, Madeli Castruita, Sabeeha Merchan and Matteo Pellegrini | Transcriptome analysis of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii using ultra-high-throughput sequencing. |
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