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

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