Winter Symposium

Videos from our Winter Symposium – New Frontiers in Ultra High Throughput Biology are now available: click on the titles next to each speaker’s name below to view their talks.  The symposium took place on February 19-20, 2009, at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics on the UCLA campus. This symposium focused on recent advances in high-throughput biology, and highlighted the interface between experimental and computational biologists in this field.
For the Symposium Agenda

The talks will be presented by a mix of experimentalists, computational biologists (and people who do both), demonstrating the exciting biological discoveries that are possible with new waves of high throughput data. Areas we will cover include image analysis (e.g.,  making microscopy a high-throughput analysis technology), mass spectrometry, and new types of “human-genome-in-a-day” ultra high throughput sequencing now coming online.

The symposium will take place over two days, with one day of talks (February 19), and a second day with separate roundtable meetings in each research area represented in the symposium. This second day will focus on identifying new directions and opportunities in this field, and strategic discussions about how UCLA can best move forward in the field.

The symposium speakers and their affiliations are listed below.

Tobias Meyer, Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University.

Nevan Krogan, Assistant Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco. Analysis of large-scale protein and genetic interaction data

Bing Ren, Associate Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine 
Cancer Biology Program, University of California, San Diego. Global analysis of epigenome in human embryonic stem cells

Edward Marcotte, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin. High-throughput phenotyping and the discovery of non-obvious models of human disease

Eric Schadt, Executive Scientific Director, Genetics, Merck Inc. Elucidating the complexity of cancer networks

Rob Williams, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The phenotype revolution: a new data-driven collaborative landscape and its impact on personalized medicine

Mike Synder, Professor, Yale University. Analyzing genomes using omics technology

Topics to Include: Next-Generation Sequencing (Mike Snyder), Genotyping and QTL Analysis (Rob Williams and Eric Schadt), Optical Microscopy (Tobias Meyer), Mass Spectrometry (Edward Marcotte), Gene Deletion Arrays (Nevan Krogan) and Epigenetics using Chromatin Immmunoprecipitation (Bing Ren).

Start Date: 2009-02-19
Start Time: 09:00
End Date: 2009-02-20
End Time: 17:00