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, June 11, 2009
8:30 - 9:25 Registration and Breakfast 9:25 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks Gene Fiorini, DIMACS Associate Director 9:30 - 10:05 Uncovering Genes Associated with Autism Arnold J Levine, IAS, Princeton 10:05 - 10:40 Evolution of the p53 family Prashanth AK, IAS, Princeton 10:40 - 11:15 Human genetic variants of PP2A subunits associate with altered cellular stress responses, evolutionary selection and cancer risk Alexei Vazquez, IAS, Princeton 11:15 - 11:30 Break 11:30 - 12:00 Shared genetic segments within and across populations Itsik Pe'er, Columbia University 12:05 - 12:40 TBA Rama Ranganathan, Southwestern Medical School 12:40 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 2:35 Likelihood and Bayesian methods for developing detailed portraits of demographic history Jody Hey, Rutgers University 2:35 - 3:10 Evolutionary origin of pairwise and higher-order correlations among amino acid mutations Alex Morozov, Rutgers University 3:10 - 3:45 Identifying the genetic determinants of transcription factor activity Harmen Bussemaker, Columbia University 3:45 - 4:00 Break 4:00 - 4:35 Statistical Physics of Recent Human Evolution Gurinder Singh Atwal, Cold Spring Harbor Labs 4:35 - 5:10 Alleles versus Genotypes Richard Neher, KITP, UCSB 5:10 - 5:45 Lessons from another world: How genotype defines phenotype in plants Randall Kerstetter, the Waksman Institute 6:30 Dinner 7:30 - 8:30 Learning to read: DNA sequencing technologies and the $1000 genome Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM Research ( dinner speech) 8:30 Adjourn - Buses take some participants to hotel Friday, June 12, 2009 8:45 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast 9:30 - 10:05 Interactome Analysis reveals Master Regulators of human malignancy signatures Andrea Califano, Columbia University 10:05 - 10:40 Mitochondrial genome haplogroup D4a is enriched in Japan semi-supercentenarians Masashi Tanaka, TMIG, Japan 10:40 - 11:15 Defining the genetic complexity of phenotypic variation using segregating yeast populations Ian Ehrenreich, Princeton University 11:15 - 11:30 Break 11:30 - 12:05 Population Genomics of MicroRNA and Transcription Factor Binding Sites Kevin Chen, NYU and Rutgers University 12:05 - 12:40 Innate Immunity and RNA Viruses Ben Greenbaum, IAS, Princeton 12:40 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 2:35 A cognitive framework for understanding cellular behavior Saeed Tavazoie, Princeton University 2:35 - 3:10 From Genotype to Phenotype: a systems viewpoint Dana Pe'er, Columbia University 3:10 - 3:25 Break 3:25 - 4:00 Human Population Genomics: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Altruism, Cheap Talks, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids Bud Mishra, NYU 4:00 - 4:35 TBA Stanislas Leibler, Rockefeller University 4:35 - 4:40 Concluding remarks Raul Rabadan, Columbia University and Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University 4:40 Adjourn - End of conference