July 19, 2005

2229 Seamans Center

Program










*** There is a $100 prize for the Best Student Poster***

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"

9:20 - 9:50 am

Dr. Julie Dickerson, Iowa State University, "Making Sense of Large-Scale Microarray Data"

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"

11:35 - 12:05 pm

Dr. Gi-Yung Ryu, University of Iowa, "Whole Genome Microarray Analysis reveals Epigenetically regulated genes in Malignant Glioma"

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"

1:25 -1:55 pm

Dr. Chris Tuggle, Iowa State University, "Transcriptional Profiling in Pigs: Initial results with two types of arrays"

2:00 - 2:30 pm

Dr. Jian Huang, University of Iowa, "Survival Analysis with High-Dimensional Microarray Gene Expression Data"

2:35 - 3:05 pm

Dr. Heather Greenlee, Iowa State University, "To the proteome and beyond: A new approach to retinal development"

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"

4:10 - 4:40 pm

Dr. Eric Henderson, Iowa State University, "How To Detect Protein Biomarkers From Just a Few Cells"

4:45 - 5:00 pm Closing Remarks