VCU Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute

News and Events VCU BBSI Opening Symposium 2003
Program

Presenter	Time	Title
	9:00 am	* BAGELS etc *
Tom Huff	9:25 am	Greetings
Greg Buck	9:30 am	Systems Biology: What is it? And why apply it to microbial systems?
Shozo Ozaki	9:45 am	Genome Wide Transcript Profiling of Kinetoplastids
Kellie Archer	10:00 am	Role of Statistics in Microarray Research
Rita Shiang	10:15 am	Genetic Disease and the Genome
Tarynn Witten	10:30 am	Bioinformatics and Complexity Theory- Why Bother?
Jeff Elhai	10:45 am	Cracking the Second Genetic Code: Sequence Patterns in Noncoding DNA
	11:00 am	* BREAK *
Brad Windle	11:15 am	Exploring and Forecasting Cellular Pathways
Saji Hassan Michael Miles	11:30 am	Genetics, Drugs and Chips: Molecular Triangulation on CNS Plasticity
Sarah Rutan	11:45 am	Studies of Synergistic Effects in Complex Metabolic Pathways
Todd Kitten	12:00 pm	Streptococcus sanguis Genome Sequencing and Comparative Genomics
Gail Christie	12:15 pm	All the World's a Phage: The role of bacterial viruses in microbial diversity and virulence
	12:30 pm	* LUNCH *
Gary Wnek	2:00 pm	Growth and Differentiaion of Adult Neural Progenitor Cells in a Novel Three-Dimensional Implantable Fibrin Matrix
Joe Kalen Karen Kurdziel	2:15 pm	Molecular Imaging and its Potential in Therapy
Jason Rife Glen Kellogg	2:30 pm	Structural Biology Tools for Probing Protein/Nucleotide Interactions
	2:45 pm	* BREAK *
Gary Bowlin	3:00 pm	Electrospinning Micro- to Nano-scale Fibrous Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Jennifer Wayne	3:15 pm	Cartilage Repair and Computational Modeling
Rachel Chen	3:30 pm	Biocatalysis
Jimmy Ames	3:45 pm	(title not available at press time)
	4:00 pm	* VOLLEY BALL (Monroe Park) *

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