This special focus is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Interfaces Institute for Quantitative Biology (BioMaPS), and the Rutgers Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry (MB Center).
Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:30 - 8:20 Breakfast and Registration 8:20 - 8:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director 8:30 - 9:15 I'm not sure I'm Agnostic: Incorporating "Known" Biology into Analysis and Interpretationof Genome-wide Association Studies Peter Kraft, Harvard University 9:15 - 10:00 Use of Empirical Kinship Matrices in Whole Genome Case-Control Studies of Disease in Stratified Populations Daniel Stram, University of Southern California 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:00 Things to know when using Affymetrix 6.0 Mariza de Andrade, Mayo Clinic 11:00 - 11:30 A Constrained Regression Approach for Studying Haplotype-Specific Effects Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University 11:30 - 12:00 Fast and Robust Association Tests for Untyped SNPs in Case-Control Studies Michael Epstein, Emory University 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:00 Computational Investigation of Gene Regulation Sridhar Hannenhalli, University of Pennsylvania 2:00 - 2:30 Mathematical Structure and Optimization Approaches to Haplotyping Problems Daniel Brown, University of Waterloo 2:30 - 3:00 Inference of Complex Genealogical Histories In Populations and Its Application in Mapping Complex Traits Yufeng Wu, University of Connecticut 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 4:00 Multi-SNP Association Mapping using Bayesain Regression and Shrinkage Priors Yongtao Guan, University of Chicago 4:00 - 4:30 On a Method to Estimate the Number of Unseen Variants in the Human Genome Iuliana Ionita, Harvard University 4:30 - 5:00 Linkage Disequilibrium Based Single Individual Genotyping from Low-Coverage Short Sequencing Reads Justin Kennedy, University of Connecticut 5:30 Dinner at DIMACS Friday, August 22, 2008 7:45 - 8:30 Breakfast and Registration 8:30 - 9:15 New Haplotype Sharing Method for Genome-Wide Case-Control Association Studies Implicates Gene for Parkinson's Disease Glen Satten, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 9:15 - 10:00 Calibrating the Performance of SNP Arrays for Whole-Genome Association Studies John Storey, Princeton University 10:00 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:00 The Genetics of Quantitative Traits: what has Changed since R.A. Fisher? Chiara Sabatti, UCLA 11:00 - 11:30 Increasing Power in Association Studies by using Linkage Disequilibrium Structure and Molecular Function as Prior Information Eleazar Eskin, UCLA 11:30 - 12:00 Genome-Phenome Association: Computational Challenges and new Algorithms Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:00 Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations Eran Halperin, International Computer Science Institute 2:00 - 2:30 Whole Population, Genomewide Mapping of Hidden Relatedness Itsik Pe'er, Columbia University 2:30 - 3:00 Inferring Ancestry Efficiently in Admixed Populations Sivan Bercovici, Technion 3:00 - 3:30 Reconstructing Sibling Relationships from Microsatellite Data Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago