| 8:00 - 8:20 am |
Registration, pastries, coffee and juice |
| 8:25 - 8:40 am |
Welcome presented by Drs. Tom Casavant (UI) and Bob Jernigan (ISU) |
Session I |
| 8:45 - 9:15 am |
Dr. Terry Braun, University of Iowa, "Techniques
for Pseudogene Identification and Prediction of Gene Conversion"

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| 9:20 - 9:50 am |
Dr. Julie Dickerson, Iowa State University,
"Making Sense of Large-Scale
Microarray Data"

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Session II |
| 10:00 - 11:00 am |
Poster Session/Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Atrium, Seamans Center |
Session III |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am |
Annie Chiang, Student Speaker, University
of Iowa, "Computational
Orthologous Prioritization (COP): A comparative genomic approach
toward candidate gene prioritization for disease gene identification"

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| 11:35 - 12:05 pm |
Dr. Gi-Yung Ryu, University of Iowa, "Whole
Genome Microarray Analysis reveals Epigenetically regulated genes
in Malignant Glioma"

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| 12:10 - 12:50 pm |
Lunch (provided for registrants)/Poster Session |
Session IV |
| 12:50 - 1:20 pm |
Rhonda DeCook, Student Speaker, Iowa
State University, "Genetic
control of gene regulation during shoot development in Arabidopsis"

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| 1:25 -1:55 pm |
Dr. Chris Tuggle, Iowa State University, "Transcriptional
Profiling in Pigs: Initial results with two types of arrays"

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| 2:00 - 2:30 pm |
Dr. Jian Huang, University of Iowa, "Survival
Analysis with High-Dimensional Microarray Gene Expression Data"

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| 2:35 - 3:05 pm |
Dr. Heather Greenlee, Iowa State University,
"To the proteome and
beyond: A new approach to retinal development"

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| 3:10 - 3:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
Session V |
| 3:35 - 4:05 pm |
Dr. Andy Peek, Integrated DNA Technologies,
Inc., "Development of reverse array and synthetic hybridization
controls for improving microarray performance"

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| 4:10 - 4:40 pm |
Dr. Eric Henderson, Iowa State University, "How
To Detect Protein Biomarkers From Just a Few Cells"

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| 4:45 - 5:00 pm |
Closing Remarks |