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VCU Bioinformatics/Bioengineering Summer Institute
Opening Symposium 2006
Thursday, June 1
Student Commons, Commonwealth Ballroom A

Presenter
Time
Title
8:45 am
*** BAGELS etc ***
9:15 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am
What can you learn about pathogenic parasites from their genomes?

Sarah Porter
Sarah Rutan
9:40 am
Characterization of Drug Metabolism Using Chemometric Methods.
9:50 am
A Genome's View of Drugs and Pathways
10:00 am
Mechanical Cues for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
 
10:10 am
GROUP DISCUSSIONS
*** BREAK ***
10:30 am
From Analysis of Sequence Mutability to Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions: A Genomics Approach
10:40 am
Targets of Alcohol in the Nematode, C. elegans
10:50 am
Electrospinning Applied to Tissue Engineering
11:00 am
Human–Machine Interfaces Based on Eye Movement and Visual Analysis
 
11:10 am
GROUP DISCUSSIONS
*** LUNCH ***
11:30 am

(ALL PARTICIPANTS INVITED)

1:00 pm
Voice Recognition in Difficult Settings: Where Off the Shelf Approaches Won't Work
1:10 pm
Using Genetics and Genomics to Understand Complex Behaviors Such as Drug Abuse
1:20 pm
Metabolic Engineering: A Microbial Circus
1:30 pm
Nonlinear Biomedicine - What Does A Complexity Theorist Do?
 
1:40 pm
GROUP DISCUSSIONS
*** BREAK ***
2:00 pm
Bacteriophages: Microbial Hijacking and Molecular Piracy by Nanomachines
Supriya Mocherla
Pete Peters
 2:10 pm
Novel drug delivery methods
2:20 pm
Development of Vaccines Through Analysis of Pathogen Genomes
2:30 pm
Nontraditional Regulators of Bacterial Development
 
2:40 pm
GROUP DISCUSSIONS
3:15 pm
*** VOLLEY BALL ***
(Location to be announced)

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