ISMB 2008 ISCB

16th Annual
International Conference
Intelligent Systems
for Molecular Biology


Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building)
Toronto, Canada



 



ISMB 2008 Keynotes

Aviv Regev
ISCB Overton Prize
Core member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Assistant professor of biology at MIT
Aviv Regev
Presentation Title: Modular biology: the function and evolution of molecular networks
Keynote Introduction Provided by: Søren Brunak
Date: Monday, July 21
Time: 4:45 p.m.
Room: Hall G





David Haussler
ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Director, Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering
Scientific Co-Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
David Haussler
Presentation Title: 100 Million Years of Evolutionary History of the Human Genome
Keynote Introduction Provided by: Søren Brunak
Date: Wednesday, July 23
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Room: Hall G





Claire M. Fraser-Liggett
Director, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett
  Presentation Title: Microbial Communities in Health and Disease
  Keynote Introduction Provided by: Burkhard Rost
  Date: Sunday, July 20
  Time: 9:00 a.m.
  Room: Hall G




This Keynote Presentation sponsored by
David Jaffe
Director for Computational Research and Development (CRD)
Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
David Jaffe
Presentation Title: Tiny bits and pieces: new sequencing technologies and what they can do for you
Keynote Introduction Provided by: Tom Hudson
Date: Sunday, July 20
Time: 4:45 p.m.
Room: Hall G





Eugene W Myers, Ph.D.
HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA
Eugene W Myers
  Presentation Title: Imaging Bioinformatics
  Keynote Introduction Provided by: Jill Mesriov
  Date: Monday, July 21
  Time: 9:00 a.m.
  Room: Hall G





Morag Park
Department of Oncology
Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program
McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Morag Park
  Presentation Title: Profiling the Breast Tumor Microenvironment
  Keynote Introduction Provided by: Alfonso Valencia
  Date: Tuesday, July 22
  Time: 9:00 a.m.
  Room: Hall G





Bernhard Ø. Palsson
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Bernhard Ø. Palsson
Presentation Title: Systems Biology: an era of reconstruction and interrogation
Keynote Introduction Provided by: Thomas Lengauer
Date: Tuesday, July 22
Time: 4:45 p.m.
Room: Hall G





Hanah Margalit
Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Faculty of Medicine
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Hanah Margalit
Presentation Title: Intriguing roles for small non-coding RNAs in the cellular regulatory networks
Keynote Introduction Provided by: Michal Linial
Date: Wednesday, July 23
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Room: Hall G