The public is invited to the symposium, which is free of charge.
Support for this conference is provided by
The Center for
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the University of
Texas and the National Science Foundation.
The current and former Ph.D. students of Tandy
Warnow will speak about their research in
bioinformatics and computational biology.
Schedule
- 8:30-8:45 Introductory Remarks (Hans Hofmann)
-
8:45-10:15 Phylogenomics
- Shel Swenson,
University of Southern California,
Department of Electrical Engineering.
Title:
SuperFine, a booster for supertree methods.
Abstract
(PPTX)
- Shamsuzzoha
Bayzid, The University of Texas at Austin, Department
of Computer Science.
Title: Bin-and-conquer, and divide-and-conquer, to improve
phylogenomic analysis
Abstract
- Siavash Mirarab,
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science.
Title: Statistical binning improves species tree estimation in the
presence of gene tree incongruence.
Abstract
- 10:15-10:30 Break
- 10:30-11:30 Comparative Genomics
- Kevin Liu,
Rice University, Department of Computer Science.
Title: An HMM-based Comparative Genomic Framework for Detecting Introgression in Eukaryotes.
Abstract
(PDF)
- Luay Nakhleh,
Rice University, Department of Computer Science.
Title: Inferences of Reticulate Evolutionary Histories in
the Presence of ILS
(PDF)
- 11:30-12:30 Bioinformatics
- Usman Roshan,
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science.
Title: GPU and machine learning solutions for comparative genomics.
Abstract
(PPTX)
- Li-San Wang,
The University of Pennsylvania,
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
Title: Bioinformatics for DNA-seq and RNA-seq experiments
Abstract
(PPTX)
- 12:30-1:30 Free Lunch
- 1:30-3:00 Metagenomics
- Serita Nelesen,
Calvin College, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.
Title: Microbial Community Analysis using MALDI-TOF
Abstract
(PPT)
- Nam Nguyen,
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science.
Title: TIPP: Taxonomic identification and phylogenetic profiling using
families of Hidden Markov Models
Abstract
(PPT)
(PDF)
- Shibu Yooseph,
J. Craig Venter Institute.
Title: Novel algorithms for assembling and searching
protein sequences in metagenomic datasets
Abstract
(PDF)
Attendance is free, but advance registration
(by Tuesday, May 27)
is required (click here).
For more information, please contact
Laurie Alvarez at
lauriea@austin.utexas.edu.
