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Mid­SouthComputationalBiologyandBioinformatics(MCBIOS)XIIAnnualConferenceMarch12­14,2015

StatehouseConventionCenterLittleRock,AR

CesarM.Compadre,Ph.D.ConferenceCo­Chair

UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences,LittleRock,ARWilliamSlikkerJr.Ph.D.ConferenceCo­Chair

NationalCenterforToxicologyResearch,FDA,Jefferson,AR

MCBIOSXIIOrganizingCommittee

ElizabethPierce,Ph.D.CommitteeCo­ChairUniversityofArkansasLittleRock,AR

ShraddhaThakkar,Ph.D.CommitteeCo­Chair

NationalCenterforToxicologyResearch,FDA,Jefferson,AR

DennisBurian,Ph.D.,FinanceCoordinatorCivilAerospaceMedicalInstitute,FAA,OklahomaCityOK

ShwetaS.Chavan,Ph.D.HandbookCoordinator

UniversityofArkansasMedicalSciences,LittleRock,AR

PingFong,Jr.,SponsorshipCoordinatorArkansasVentureCenter,LittleRock,AR

GalinaGlazko,Ph.D.OMICSWorkshopCoordinator

UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences,LittleRock,AR

MihirJaiswal,AVCoordinatorUniversityofArkansasMedicalSciences,LittleRock,AR

PaolaOrdoñez,StudentActivitiesCoordinatorUniversityofArkansasatLittleRock,LittleRock,AR

RogerPerkins,OralPresentationsCoordinator

NationalCenterforToxicologyResearch,FDA,Jefferson,AR

WeidaTong,Ph.D.NCTRLiaisonNationalCenterforToxicologyResearch,FDA,Jefferson,AR

MaryYang,Ph.D.PosterSessionCoordinator

UniversityofArkansasLittleRock,AR

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MCBIOSBoard

DennisBurian,Ph.D.Treasurer

BoardMember,CivilAerospaceMedicalInstitute,FAA,OklahomaCity,OK

CesarM.Compadre,Ph.D.,President­ElectBoardmemberthru2017,UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences,LittleRock,AR

Jianlin(Jack)Cheng,Ph.D.

BoardMemberthru2017,UniversityofMissouri,Columbia,MO

MikhailDozmorov,Ph.D.BoardMemberthru2016,VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity,Richmond,VA

RakeshKaundal,Ph.D.

BoardMemberthru2015,UniversityofCalifornia‐Riverside,Riverside,CA

DebraKnisley,Ph.D.SecretaryBoardMemberthru2015,EastTennesseeStateUniversity,JohnsonCity,TN

AndyD.Perkins,Ph.D.Past­President

BoardMemberthru2015,MississippiStateUniversity,Starkville,MS

RogerPerkinsBoardMemberthrough2016,NationalCenterforToxicologyResearch,FDA,

Z‐TechCorporation,Jefferson,AR

ShraddhaThakkar,Ph.D.BoardMemberthru2017,NationalCenterforToxicologyResearch,FDA,Jefferson,AR

Chaoyang(Joe)Zhang,Ph.D.President

BoardMemberthru2016,UniversityofSouthernMississippi,Hattiesburg,MS

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MCBIOSMissionStatementThemissionoftheMidSouthComputationalBiologyandBioinformaticsSociety(MCBIOS)istofosternetworkingandcollaboration,andpromotetheprofessionaldevelopmentofourmembers.Objectives:

• Advancetheunderstandingofbioinformaticsandcomputationalbiology

• Bringtogetherscientistsofvariousbackgroundsanddisciplines

• Facilitatethecollaborationofresearcherswithsimilarorcomplementarybackgroundstosolvebiological,healthand/ormedicalproblems

• Promoteeducationinbioinformaticsandcomputationalbiology

• Informthegeneralpublicontheresultsandimplicationsofcurrentresearchinbioinformaticsandcomputationalbiology

• Promoteotheractivitiesthatwillcontributetothedevelopmentofbioinformaticsandcomputationalbiology

• Wehaveastrongorientationtowardsupportingourstudentandpostdoctoralmembers.

• Membershipandparticipationisopentoall,thougheffortsfocusonsupportingmembersintheMidSouthregionoftheUnitedStates(Arkansas,Louisiana,Mississippi,Missouri,Oklahoma,Texas).

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MCBIOSXIIProgram“EmergingTrendsinBioinformatics Day1 ThursdayMarch12,20157:30‐6:30pm MCBIOS2015Registration(Marriott)8:00‐8:30am CoffeeBreak8:30‐11:45pm *RandBioConductor

WorkshopbyDr.ThomasGirke(ArkansasBallroom,Marriott)

AR‐BioinformaticsConsortiumMeeting(StatehouseConventionCenter,CarawayRoom)

11:45‐12:45pm Lunch12:45‐5:00pm *RandBioConductor

WorkshopbyDr.ThomasGirke,(ArkansasBallroom,Marriott)

AR‐BioinformaticsConsortiumMeeting(StatehouseConventionCenterCarawayRoom)

6:00‐8:00pm ReceptionattheArkansasVentureCenter,(AcrossfromStatehouseConventionCenter)

Day2 FridayMarch13,20157:30‐8:30am RegistrationandPosterSet‐up

(StatehouseConventionCenter(SCC),LobbyinfrontofBallrooms)8:30‐9:00am OpeningandWelcomeRemarks

(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD)9:00‐9:50am KeynoteSessionI­CarolinaCruz­Neira,Ph.D.

(SCC,WallyAllenBallroom,D)9:50‐10:00am CoffeeBreak

(SCC,LobbyinfrontofBallrooms)10:00‐11:20am BreakoutSessionI

(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomA)

BreakoutSessionII(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomB)

BreakoutSessionsIII(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomC)

11:20‐12:30pm Lunch(BusinessMeetingandBoardElections)(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD)

OmicsinBioinformaticsWorkshop*(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD)

12:30‐1:15pm Dr.ThomasGirke,Ph.D.1:15‐2:00pm Dr.FrankEmmert‐Streib2:00‐2:45pm Dr.AlexeyI.Nesvizhskii2:45‐2:55pm CoffeeBreak

(SCC,LobbyinfrontofBallrooms)3:00‐4:30pm BreakoutSessionIV

(SCC,WallyAllenBreakoutSessionsV(SCC,WallyAllen

BreakoutSessionVI(SCC,WallyAllen

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BallroomA) BallroomB) BallroomC)4:35‐6:35pm PosterSessionandCoffee

(SCC,LobbyinfrontofBallrooms)6:40‐7:30pm KeynoteSessionII­JacqueFetrow,Ph.D

(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD)7:30‐9:00pm Dinner(Boardelectionresults,MCBIOS2016Introduction)

(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD) Day3 SaturdayMarch14,20157:00‐8:00am NewBoardbusinessmeeting

MarionRoom8:00‐8:50am KeynoteSessionIII­YanaBromberg,Ph.D.

(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD)8:50‐9:30am RSG‐Mid‐SouthernUSMeeting

(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD)9:30‐9:40am CoffeeBreak

(SCC,LobbyinfrontofBallrooms)9:40‐11:00am BreakoutSessionVII

(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomA)

BreakoutSessionsVIII(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomB)

BreakoutSessionIX(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomC)

11:00‐12:00pm Lunch(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD)

12:00‐1:30pm BreakoutSessionsX(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomA)

BreakoutSessionsXI(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomB)

BreakoutSessionsXII(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomC)

1:35‐2:00pm CoffeeBreak(SCC,LobbyinfrontofBallrooms)

2:00‐3:00pm Awardsandrecognitions(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD)

3:00‐3:30pm ClosingRemarks(Drs.SlikkerandCompadre,MCBIOS2015Co‐Chairs)(SCC,WallyAllenBallroomD)

*TheOMICSinbioinformaticsworkshopwasmadepossiblebytheArkansasINBREprogram,supportedbygrantfundingfromtheNationalInstitutesofHealth(NIH)NationalInstituteofGeneralMedicalSciences(NIGMS)(P20GM103429)(formerlyP20RR016460)

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MCBIOSXII

ConferenceCo­Chairs

Dr.CesarM.Compadre

Dr.William(Bill)SlikkerJr.

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CesarM.Compadre,BSPharm,MS,Ph.D.

ProfessorDepartmentofPharmaceuticalSciences,UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciencese‐mail:cmcompadre@uams.eduhttp://pharmcollege.uams.edu/drCCompadre

Dr.CesarM.CompadreisaprofessorattheDepartmentofPharmaceuticalSciences,oftheUniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences.HereceivedhisBSPharmfromNationalUniversityofMexico,1977,MSfromNationalUniversityofMexico,1980,andPh.D.fromUniversityofIllinois,Chicago,ILin1985.Hehasextensiveresearchexperienceonthedevelopmentofbioactivecompoundsbasedonnaturallyoccurringcompounds,andontheuseofmolecularmodelingindrugdesignandstructure‐activitystudies.Hehaspublishedover85publicationsandco‐authoredmorethan70patentsrelatedtothedevelopmentofbioactivecompounds.HeisalsothedeveloperofoneFDAapprovedantimicrobialtechnology,whichiscommerciallyused,andheisalsoco‐founderofTocolPharmaceuticals,acompanyfocusedinthedevelopmentofenhancedvitamin‐Eanalogues.Dr.CompadrehasaBSPharmdegree,andobtainedhisPh.D.degreeinmedicinalchemistryandpharmacognosy,fromtheUniversityofIllinoisatChicago.Heconductedpostdoctoralresearchonstructure‐activityrelationshipsstudiesusingmolecularmodelingattheUniversityofIllinoisworkingwithDr.JohnM.PezzutoandatPomonaCollegeworkingwithProfessorCorwinHansch.Additionally,hehadasabbaticalexperienceatNASAAmesResearchCenterincomputermodeling.Dr.Compadreispast‐chairoftheBoardoftheArkansasScienceandTechnologyAuthority,andchairoftheboardoftheCoalitionforaTobaccoFreeArkansas.HealsoservesattheBoardofMCBIOSwhereheiscurrentlytheChair‐elect.AsaneducatorDr.Compadre,regularlyteachesgraduateandprofessionalcoursesattheUniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciencesandhasdirectedover20graduatestudents,andpost‐doctoraltrainees.Dr.CompadreisfoundingfacultyofthejointUALR/UAMSbioinformaticsprogram.Dr.Compadrehasextensiveresearchcollaborationswithmanyscientistslocally,nationallyandinternationally.

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Dr.WilliamSlikker,Jr.istheDirectorofFDA’sNationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch(NCTR).HereceivedhisPh.D.inPharmacologyandToxicologyfromtheUniversityofCaliforniaatDavisin1978.Dr.SlikkerholdsAdjunctProfessorshipsintheDepartmentsofPediatrics,andPharmacologyandToxicologyattheUniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences.Hehasheldcommitteechairmanshipsorelectedofficesinseveralscientificsocieties,includingtheTeratologySociety(servingasPresident)andtheAmericanSocietyforPharmacologyandExperimentalTherapeutics(Chair,DevelopmentalPharmacologySectionandmemberoftheProgramCommittee)andco‐founderandpastPresidentoftheMidSouthComputationalBiologyandBioinformaticsSociety.HeiscurrentlyAssociateEditorforNeuroToxicologyandToxicologicalSciences.HeisthepastPresidentofTheAcademyofToxicologicalSciences,theSocietyofToxicology(Presidentialtermended2013),andtherecipientofthe2014GeorgeH.ScottMemorialAwardfromTheToxicologyForum.

Dr.Slikkerhasauthoredorco‐authoredover300publicationsintheareasoftransplancentalpharmacokinetics,developmentalneurotoxicology,neuroprotection,systemsbiology,andriskassessment.Hehasalsoservedonseveralnational/internationaladvisorypanelsfortheInternationalLifeSciencesInstitute(ILSI)/HealthandEnvironmentalSciencesInstitute(HESI),ChemicalIndustryInstituteofToxicology(CIIT)CentersforHealthResearch,EnvironmentalProtectionAgency(EPA),NationalInstituteofEnvironmentalHealthSciences(NIEHS),NationalAcademyofSciences(NAS),NationalInstitutesofHealth(NIH)andWorldHealthOrganization(WHO).

William(Bill)Slikker,Jr.,Ph.D.DirectorNationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch/FDA3900NCTRRoadJefferson,AR72079‐9502USAEmail:william.slikker@fda.hhs.gov

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MCBIOSXII

KeynoteSpeakers

Dr.YanaBromberg

Dr.CarolinaCruz­Neira

Dr.JacqueFetrow

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YanaBromberg,Ph.D.

Dr.BrombergisanassistantprofessorattheDepartmentofBiochemistryandMicrobiology,RutgersUniversity.ShealsoholdsanadjunctassistantprofessorpositionattheDepartmentofGeneticsatRutgersandistheChiefScientificOfficeratBioSof–acompanyforbioinformaticstooldevelopment.Dr.BromberghasalsorecentlybecomeafellowattheInstituteofAdvancedStudiesintheTechnicalUniversityofMunich.ShereceivedherBachelordegreesinBiologyandComputerSciencesfromtheStateUniversityofNewYorkatStonyBrookandaPh.D.inBiomedicalInformaticsfromColumbiaUniversity,NewYork.

Dr.Brombergisknownforherseminalworkonamethodforscreeningfornon‐acceptablepolymorphisms,orSNAPforshort,whichevaluatestheeffectsofsingleaminoacidsubstitutionsonproteinfunction.Currently,herresearchisfocusedontheanalysisofhumanvariomesfordiseasepredisposition,functionalannotationofmicrobiomes,andthestudyofevolutionoflife’selectrontransferreactions.Dr.BrombergactivelyparticipatesinorganizingtheISMB/ECCBconferences(ISMBstandsforIntelligentSystemsforMolecularBiology,andECCBisit'sEuropeanequivalent).Shechairsposter‐andtalksessions,conductsworkshopsandorganizesaspecialinterestgroupaimedatthestudyofgenomicvariation‐‐VarI‐SIG.Herworkwasrecognizedbyseveralawards,includingtheHans‐FischerawardforoutstandingearlycareerscientistsandrecognitionforthetopperformanceintheCriticalAssessmentofGenomeInterpretationexperiment.Dr.Brombergservesasaneditorandareviewerofseveraltopbioinformaticsjournals,includingPLoSComputationalBiology.Shehasbeeninvitedtogivemorethan35talks,whichspeakstothequalityofherworkandpresentations.Formoreinformationseehttp://bromberglab.org/

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CarolinaCruz­Neira,Ph.D.

CarolinaCruz‐NeiraisaVenezuelan‐Americanengineerandcommunicationsscientist,knownforherworkindevelopingtheCAVEautomaticvirtualenvironment.SheisdirectoroftheEmergingAnalyticsCenterattheUniversityofArkansasatLittleRock.CarolinaCruz‐NeiragraduatedwithadegreeinsystemsengineeringfromtheUniversidadMetropolitanainCaracas,Venezuelain1987.ShecompletedhergraduateeducationattheUniversityofIllinois,Chicago,earninghermaster'sdegreeinelectricalengineeringandcomputersciencein1991,andherPhDin1995,workingundercomputergraphicsresearcherThomasDeFanti.ForherPhDdissertation,Cruz‐NeiraworkedonthedesignoftheCAVEsystem,includingitsspecificationsandimplementation.ShealsohelpeddevelopVRJuggler,anopensourcevirtualrealityapplicationsdevelopmentframework.

Cruz‐NeirawastheStanleyChairprofessorinInterdisciplinaryEngineeringatIowaStateUniversity.ShelaterjoinedtheUniversityofLouisianaatLafayette,andin2006,wasthefirstDirectorandChiefScientistofLITE(LouisianaImmersiveTechnologiesEnterprise),aLouisianaStateinitiativetosupporteconomicdevelopmentimmersivetechnologies,andsheheldtheW.HansenHallandMaryOfficerHall/BORSFEndowedSuperChairinTelecommunicationsinComputerEngineeringattheUniversityofLouisianaatLafayette.In2014Dr.CruzwasnamedanArkansasResearchAllianceScholar.

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JacqueFetrow,Ph.D.

Dr.JacqueFetrowassumedtheroleofProvostandVicePresidentofAcademicAffairsattheUniversityofRichmondonJuly1,2014. Dr.FetrowJacqueearnedaPh.D.inbiologicalchemistryfromPennsylvaniaStateUniversityin1986andaB.S.inbiochemistryfromAlbrightCollegein1982.PriortoherappointmentatRichmond,sheservedasDeanoftheCollegeandReynoldsProfessorofComputationalBiophysicsatWakeForestUniversity.BeforehertimeatWakeForest,Dr.FetrowservedasChiefScientificOfficerandDirector(andco‐founder)ofGeneFormatics,Inc.,acompanythatdevelopedsoftwareanddatabasesforthepharmaceuticalindustry.Sheco‐inventedGeneFormatics’primarypatentedtechnologiesand,aspartoftheexecutivemanagementteam,sheplayedkeyrolesindevelopingcompanystrategy,raisingover$50millioninthreefundingrounds,buildingtoa65‐personorganization,andmergingthecompanywithanotherbiotechnologysoftwarecompanyin2003. Dr.FetrowpreviouslyservedontheExecutiveCouncilandcurrentlyservesastheSecretary/TreasureroftheProteinSociety,aninternationalprofessionalorganization.ShealsoservesontheBoardofTrusteesofAlbrightCollege,ontheBoardofDirectorsofQuantumBio,Inc.,anearlystagebiotechnologysoftwarecompany,andontheEditorialBoardsoftheprofessionaljournalsPLoSComputationalBiologyandProteins:Structure,Function,andBioinformatics.ShehasalsoservedontheNSFBIODirectorateAdvisoryCouncilandonnumerousNIHstudysections,includingchartermemberships. Dr.Fetrows’songoingresearchprogramfocusesonunderstandingtherelationshipsbetweenproteinstructure,function,anddynamics,withalong‐rangegoalofunderstandingdiseasemechanismsandimprovingprocessesforstructure‐baseddrugdiscovery.Shehaspublishedover80peer‐reviewedorinvitedarticlesandislistedasaninventoronfiveUSpatents.

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SPECIALTRACK

OMICSINBIOINFORMATICS

WORKSHOP

Speakers:

Dr.ThomasGirke

Dr.AlexeyI.Nesvizhskii

Dr.FrankEmmert­Streib

SponsoredbytheArkansasINBREprogram,supportedbygrantfundingfromtheNationalInstitutesofHealth(NIH)NationalInstituteofGeneralMedicalSciences(NIGMS)(P20GM103429)(formerlyP20RR016460)

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ThomasGirke,Ph.D.

Dr.Girkehasover12yearsofexperienceindevelopingandmanagingcomputationalbiologyresearchprojectsinindustryandacademia.Dr.Girke’scurrentresearchfocusesonthedevelopmentofcomputationaldataanalysismethodsforgenomebiologyandsmallmoleculediscovery.Thisincludesdiscovery‐orienteddataminingprojects,aswellasalgorithmandsoftwaredevelopmentprojectsfordatatypesfromavarietyofhigh‐throughputtechnologies,suchasnextgenerationsequencing(NGS)andchemicalgenomics.

AnotherimportantactivityisthedevelopmentofdataanalysisenvironmentsfortheopensourcesoftwareprojectsRandBioconductor.Currently,Dr.Girke’sgroupmaintainsatotalof7cheminformaticsandNGSanalysispackagesatBioconductor:ChemmineR,ChemmineOB,fmcsR,eiR,bioassayR,ChemmineDrugsandsystemPipeR.Aspartofmyteachingcurriculum,Iaminstructingtwoadvancedbioinformaticsclassesforundergraduateandgraduatestudents.Furthermore,Dr.Girkeisthemaininstructorofanannual5‐daynextgenerationdataanalysisworkshopthatisattendedeveryyearbyover75internalandexternalparticipantsfromacademiaandindustry.Dr.Girkeisalsoinstructingsimilareventsatexternaltrainingsevents.InroleasDirectoroftheBioinformaticsFacilityintheInstituteofIntegrativeGenomeBiology(IIGB)atUCR,Dr.Girkehavebeenmanagingastate‐of‐the‐artresearchcomputefacilitythatincludeslargecomputeclusters,datastoragesystemsandhundredsofsoftwareapplicationsforanalyzingnextgenerationsequencingandmanyotherhigh‐throughputdata.Wellover150scientistsfrom50researchgroupsareusingthisinfrastructureextensively.IntroductiontoR

• BasicsonAnalyzingNextGenerationSequencingDatawithR/Bioconductor• AnalysisofRNA‐SeqDatawithR/Bioconductor

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AlexeyI.Nesvizhskii,Ph.D.

Dr. Alexey Nesvizhskii is a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments ofComputationalMedicine&BioinformaticsandPathologyattheUniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor. He received his M.S. degree (with honors) from St. Petersburg State TechnicalUniversity,DepartmentofPhysicsandTechnology,St.Petersburg,Russiain1995andPh.D.degree in Physics from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, in 2001. He thencompleted post‐doctoral training in the area of bioinformatics and proteomics in RuediAebersoldLabattheInstituteforSystemsBiologyinSeattle,Washingtonfrom2001‐2003,and joined the staff as a Research Scientist upon completion of training. He joined thefacultyattheUniversityofMichiganinNovemberof2005.

Dr.Nesvizhskii's research laboratory (www.nesvilab.org) isworking in the areaofbioinformatics, proteomics, and systems biology. The computational tools previouslydeveloped by Dr. Nesvizhskii and his colleagues, such as Trans‐Proteomic Pipeline(including PeptideProphet and ProteinProphet), PeptideAtlas, SAINT, and CRAPome, areusedbyhundredsoflaboratoriesworldwide.

Dr.Nesvizhskiihaspublishedmorethan100manuscriptsininternationalscientificjournals, including firstor seniorauthorpublications insuch leading journalsasScience,NatureMethods,Molecular SystemsBiology, andNatureCommunications.Hisworks arecitedmore than12,000 times,H‐index of 42 (Google Scholar;August 2014). In 2007, hewas named a "Rising Young Investigator" byGenomeTechnologymagazine (USA).He isfrequentlyinvitedtopresenthisresearchatseminarsandconferencesintheUnitedStatesand internationally, and to serve on grant review panels for the National Institutes ofHealth (NIH), National Science Foundation, Genome Canada, Dutch Cancer Society, andotheragencies.

Asanenthusiasticeducator,Dr.Nesvizhskiidirects theNIH fundedT32ProteomeInformatics of Cancer Training Program at the University of Michigan, and teachesgraduate‐levelcoursesintheareaofbioinformatics,proteomics,andsystemsbiology.

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FrankEmmert­Streib,Ph.D.

FrankEmmert‐StreibstudiedphysicsattheUniversityofSiegen,Germany,andearnedhisPh.DintheoreticalphysicsfromtheUniversityofBremen.AfterpostdocpositionsintheUnitedStates,hejoinedtheCenterforCancerResearchandCellBiologyattheQueen’sUniversityBelfast(UnitedKingdom),whereheiscurrentlyanassociateprofessor(seniorlecturer)leadingtheComputationalBiologyandMachineLearningLaboratory.Hisresearchinterestsareinthefieldsofcomputationalbiology,biostatistics,andnetworkmedicineandarefocusedonthedevelopmentandapplicationofmethodsfromstatisticsandmachinelearningfortheanalysisofhigh‐dimensionaldatafromgenomicsexperiments.

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MCBIOSXIIProgramDetailedVersion Day1

ThursdayMarch12,2015

7:30‐6:30pm Registration(Marriott)8:00‐8:30pm CoffeeBreak8:30‐11:45am *RandBioconductorWorkshopbyDr.

ThomasGirke(ArkansasBallroom,Marriott)

ArkansasBioinformaticsConsortiumMeeting(StatehouseConventionCenter,CarawayRoom)

11:45­12:45pm Lunch

12:45‐5:00pm *RandBioconductorWorkshopbyDr.ThomasGirke(ArkansasBallroom,Marriott)

ArkansasBioinformaticsConsortiumMeeting(StatehouseConventionCenter,CarawayRoom)

6:00­8:00pm ReceptionattheArkansasVentureCenter(AcrossfromStatehouseConventionCenter)

Day2

FridayMarch13,2015

7:30‐8:30am RegistrationandPosterSetup(StatehouseConventionCenter,1stfloorlobby)

8:30‐9:00am Welcome,Dr.CesarM.Compadre,Ph.D.,ConferenceCo‐Chair,Dr.William(Bill)Slikker,Ph.D.,ConferenceCo‐Chair,OpeningRemarksDr.ZulmaToro,UALRProvostDr.StephanieGardner,UAMSAssociateProvostDr.TimAtkinson,President,ArkansasScienceandTechnologyAuthority(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomD)

9:00‐9:50am KeynoteSessionIDr.CarolinaCruz­NeiraThePrettyPicture:ExperiencingDatathroughInteractiveVisualExplorations(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomD)

9:50­10:00am CoffeeBreak

BreakoutSessionsI,II,III

BreakoutSessionI(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomA)10:00‐10:20am

SessionFeaturedSpeakerNanoscienceofSurfacesandInterfacesUsingDensity‐FunctionalTheory Dr.HenryPinto,JacksonStateUniversity

10:20‐10:35am InformationQualityMethodsandExtractionofNumericalInformationfromaCorpusofScientificPapersRelatedtoCornDr.RichardSegall,ArkansasStateUniversity

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10:35‐10:50am ModifyingPyrolysisMassSpectraofBacteriaforClassificationatSelectedLevelsofSpecificityDr.PierreAlusta,NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

10:50‐11:05am DataMiningonStudiesofAdolescentSubstanceUseandDepressionDr.Shi‐Heng,NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch(Post‐doctoralpresenter)

11:05‐11:20am

NetworkbasedbreastcancersubtypinganalysiswithgeneexpressionprofileLeihongWu,NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch(Post‐doctoralpresenter)

BreakoutSessionII(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomB)

10:00‐10:20am SessionFeaturedSpeakerTheFDA’sexperiencewithemerginggenomicstechnologies–past,presentandfutureDr.WeidaTong,NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

10:20‐10:35am Improvethepredictionofdrug‐inducedliverinjurybydevelopingtheLiverToxicityKnowledgeBaseDr.MinjunChen,NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

10:35‐10:50am Genome‐widecomparisonoffourtoxicogenomicsassaysystemsDr.ZhichaoLiu,NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

10:50‐11:05am BreakClipMapper:Agenome‐wideefficientalgorithmfordetectingcomplexrearrangementsusingnext‐generationsequencingdataDr.YongshengBai,IndianaStateUniversity

11:05‐11:20am

DecipheringadverseoutcomepathwaysthroughnetworkanalysisofToxCastdataDr.HaoYe,NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch,(Post‐doctoralpresenter)

BreakoutSessionIII(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomC)

10:00‐10:20am SessionFeaturedSpeakerChemoinformaticsApproachestoDiscoveryofDrugsTargetedtotheCannabinoidReceptorsDr.RobertDoerksen,UniversityofMississippi

10:20‐10:35am QSPR‐basedEstimationofMeltingPointsofBrominatedandChlorinatedcongenersofPersistenceOrganicPollutantsMarquitaWatkins,JacksonStateUniversity(Studentpresenter)

10:35‐10:50am MitochondrialgenomeassembliesofsevenanastomosisgroupsasoilbornefungalpathogenRhizoctoniasolaniDr.RuchiVerma,UnitedStatesDepartmentofAgriculture,AgriculturalResearchService,(Post‐doctoralpresenter)

10:50‐11:05am InformationGuidedCropImprovement:agenebankgenomicsperspectiveDr.CharlesChen,OklahomaStateUniversity

11:05‐11:20am

LabelextractionandpredictionfromGeneExpressionOmnibusmetadataandgeneexpressiondataCoryGiles,OklahomaMedicalResearchFoundation(Studentpresenter)

11:20­12:30pm Lunch,MCBIOSBusinessMeetingandMCBIOSBoardElections(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomD)

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OmicsinBioinformaticsWorkshop*(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomD)

12:30‐1:15pm Dr.ThomasGirkeReference‐assistedAssemblyofGenomesandTranscriptomes

1:15‐2:00pm Dr.FrankEmmert‐StreibAnintroductiontoComputationalTranscriptomics

2:00‐2:45pm Dr.AlexeyI.NesvizhskiiComputationalProteomics

2:45­3:00pm CoffeeBreak(StatehouseConventionCenter,LobbyinfrontofBallrooms)

BreakoutSessionsIV,V,VI

BreakoutSessionIV(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomA)

3:00‐3:20pm

SessionFeaturedSpeakerReconstructing3DModelsoftheEntireHumanGenomefromInter‐andIntra‐ChromosomalContactsDr.JianlinCheng,UniversityofMissouriColumbia

3:20‐3:35pm ParallelContinuousCollisionDetectionforSurgerySimulationswithWebCLDr.SinanKockara,UniversityofCentralArkansas

3:35‐3:50pm ImprovingProteinFoldRecognitionbyDeepLearningNetworksJieHou,UniversityofMissouriColumbia(Studentpresenter)

3:50‐4:05pm CONFOLD:Residue‐ResidueContact‐guidedabinitioProteinFoldingBadriAdhikari,UniversityofMissouriColumbia(Studentpresenter)

4:05‐4:20pm CombiningPriorKnowledgeusingRelativeChangeRatioswithaNovelBayesianLearningandOptimizationMethodtoInferGeneRegulatoryNetworksAndrewMaxwell,UniversitySouthernMississippi(Studentpresenter)

BreakoutSessionV(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomB)

3:00‐3:20pm

SessionFeaturedSpeakerDevelopingComputationalApproachesforAnalysisofMulti‐dimensionalGenomicDataDr.MaryYang,UniversityofArkansasLittleRock

3:20‐3:35pm RepCalc: a tool for calculating transposable element density within the genome Dr.TamerAldwairi,MississippiStateUniversity

3:35‐3:50pm SPINNER:SoftwaretoRankandComparePhenotype‐specificGenesinMolecularNetworksAshishJain,IndianaUniversity(Studentpresenter)

3:50‐4:05pm GlobalMultipleNetworkAlignmentbyCombiningPairwiseNetworkAlignmentsJakobDohrmann,SanFranciscoStateUniversity(Studentpresenter)

4:05‐4:20pm Developmentofaratio‐basedmethodtoidentifytruebiomarkersbynormalizingcirculatingmiRNAsequencingandquantitative‐PCRdataDr.JunmeiAi,RushUniversity

BreakoutSessionVI(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomC)

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3:00‐3:20pm

SessionFeaturedSpeakerSynthesisandOptimizationofCannabinoid‐1ReceptorAgonistfortheTreatmentofPainDr.DarinJones,UniversityofArkansasLittleRock

3:20‐3:35pm ClassifyinghepatotoxicantsbyintegratingbioactivityandchemicalstructureJieLiu,UniversityofArkansasLittleRock(Studentpresenter)

3:35‐3:50pm Permeabilityofenergeticcompoundsthroughalipidbilayer:theoreticalstudiesAnastasiiaGolius,JacksonStateUniversity(Studentpresenter)

3:50‐4:05pm GoodnessofFitforTopicModelingDr.DaleBowman,UniversityofMemphis

4:05‐4:20pm IdentifyingeffectivepathwaymarkersforbreastcancerprognosisthroughrelativegeneexpressionanalysisusingdecisiontreesNavadonKhunlertgit,TexasA&MUniversity(Studentpresenter)

4:35‐6:35pm PosterSessionRefreshmentsandCoffee(StatehouseConventionCenter1stfloorlobby)

6:40‐7:30pm KeynoteSessionII­JacqueFetrow,Ph.D.WhatDoAllThoseProteinsDo?AnApproachtoFunctionallyRelevantClusteringoftheProteinUniverse(StatehouseConventionCenterWallyAllenBallroomD)

7:30‐9:00pm DinnerClassicalGuitarIntermezzo,DanielVazquezPresentationofNewMCBIOSBoardMCBIOS2016Announcement(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomD)

*TheOMICSinBioinformaticsWorkshopismadepossiblebytheArkansasINBREprogram,supportedbygrantfundingfromtheNationalInstitutesofHealth(NIH)NationalInstituteofGeneralMedicalSciences(NIGMS)(P20GM103429)(formerlyP20RR016460)

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Day3 SaturdayMarch14,2015

7:00‐8:00am MCBIOSBoardMembersmeeting(MarionRoom,Marriott)

8:00‐8:50am KeynoteSessionIIIYanaBromberg,Ph.D.Interpretinggenomicdatatoinformpathogenesispathways(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomD)

8:50‐9:30am RSG‐MidSouthernUSMeeting(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomD)

9:30‐9:40am CoffeeBreak(StatehouseConventionCenter,1stfloorLobby)

BreakoutSessionsVII,VIII,IX BreakoutSessionVII

(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomA)9:40:10:00am SessionFeaturedSpeaker

Computationalpredictionofsingleandmulti‐targetproteinsubcellularlocalizationusingmachine‐learningapproachDr.RakeshKaundal,UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside

10:00‐10:15am ADynamicalModelingMethodologyforUncertainGenomicNetworksDr.DanielMohsenizadeh,TexasA&MUniversity(Post‐doctoralpresenter)

10:15‐10:30am EfficientExperimentalDesignforUncertaintyReductioninGeneRegulatoryNetworksRoozbehDehghannasiri,TexasA&MUniversity(Studentpresenter)

10:30‐10:45am AssemblingpopulationinformationfromsparsemetagenomicdataDr.UlrichMelcher,OklahomaStateUniversity

10:45‐11:00am

ArobustBayesianapproachforinducingsparsityingeneralizedlinearmodelswithmulticategoryresponseBehrouzMadahian,UniversityofMemphis(Studentpresenter)

BreakoutSessionVIII(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomB)

9:40:10:00am SessionFeaturedSpeakerStructure‐baseddrugdesigntargetedatLOX‐1,areceptorforoxidizedlow‐densitylipoproteinDr.KottayilVarughese,UniversityofArkansasMedicalSciences

10:00‐10:15am Miningandpredictingthebindingbetweenhumanleukocyteantigens(HLAs)andpeptidesviaanetworkapproachHengLuo,UniversityofArkansasLittleRock(Studentpresenter)

10:15‐10:30am FunctionalrolesofdisorderedproteinsinaggregatesofmultipleneuropathiesMeenakshisundaramBalasubramaniam,UniversityofArkansasLittleRock(Studentpresenter)

10:30‐10:45am StructuralidentificationofunknownproteinstructuresCameronWalker,UniversityofArkansasPine‐Bluff(Studentpresenter)

10:45‐11:00am

ThestudyofendocrinedisruptionpotentialofbisphenolAreplacementcompoundsHuiWenNg,NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch(Post‐doctoralpresenter)

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BreakoutSessionIX

(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomC)9:40:10:00am SessionFeaturedSpeaker

TowardsPrecisionMedicineDonaldJohann,UniversityofArkansasMedicalSciences

10:00‐10:15am AnAdverseEventCaptureandManagementSystemforCancerStudiesDr.UmitTopaloglu,UniversityofArkansasMedicalSciences

10:15‐10:30am EnhancingCancerClonalityAnalysiswithIntegrativeGenomicsDr.ErichPeterson,UniversityofArkansasMedicalSciences

10:30‐10:45am Identificationofknown,conservedandnovelmicroRNAsfromdeepsequencingdata:acomparativestudyonmicroRNAdiscoveryalgorithmsDr.PingGong,U.S.ArmyEngineerResearchandDevelopmentCenter

10:45‐11:00am

AComparativeStudyofK‐mer‐spectrumBasedErrorCorrectionMethodsforNext‐GenerationSequencingDataAnalysisIsaacAkogwu,UniversityofSouthernMississippi(Studentpresenter)

11:00­12:00pm Lunch(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomD)

12:00‐1:30pm BreakoutSessionsX,XI,XII BreakoutSessionX

(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomA)12:00‐12:20pm SessionFeaturedSpeaker

EffortstosequenceandassemblethegenomeoftheTimberRattlesnake.Dr.DouglasRhoads,UniversityofArkansas

12:20‐12:35pm ComputationalEvolutionforthediscoveryofgeneticbiomarkersinmutli‐class,RNA‐seqdataNathanCrabtree,UniversityofArkansasLittleRock(Studentpresenter)

12:35‐12:50pm AssociationRuleMiningAlgorithmonGeneExpressionDataTinaGui,UniversityofMississippi(Studentpresenter)

12:50‐1:05pm Comparisonofalignment‐freemethodsformetagenomicprofilingShanshanGao,UniversityofMemphis(Studentpresenter)

1:05‐1:20pm Assemblyandmolecularcharacterizationofadraftgenomesequenceandannotationoftheplant‐parasiticnematodeRotylenchulusreniformisDr.WilliamSanders,MississippiStateUniversity(Post‐doctoralpresenter)

BreakoutSessionXI(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomB)

12:00‐12:20pm SessionFeaturedSpeakerEpigenomicenrichmentandsimilarityofdisease‐associatedSNPsDr.MikhailDozmorov,VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity

12:20‐12:35pm Celltype‐specificdeconvolutionofepigenomicandtranscriptomicdata:aSystemicLupusErythematosusstudyEdmundGlass,VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity(Studentpresenter)

12:35‐12:50pm EXPLoRA:AnImprovedlinkageanalysisalgorithmforQuantitativeTraitLocidetectionfromNextGenerationSequencingData.Dr.AminaelSánchez‐Rodríguez,UniversidadTécnicaParticulardeLoja

12:50‐1:05pm IdentificationofglycanmotifsforinfluenzavirusbindingusingsparselearningDr.NanZhao,MississippiStateUniversity

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1:05‐1:20pm Queryingnetworksusingcontext‐sensitiverandomwalkHyundooJeong,TexasA&MUniversity(Studentpresenter)

BreakoutSessionXII(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomC)

12:00‐12:20pm SessionFeaturedSpeakerComputer‐aidedTechniquesinDrugDiscoveryDr.PeterCrooks,UniversityofArkansasMedicalSciences

12:20‐12:35pm DiscoveringmechanismsofrejuvenationandlifeextensionfromyeastmicroarraydatausingcomputationalmethodsThomasHahn,UniversityofArkansasLittleRock(Studentpresenter)

12:35‐12:50pm InsightsintoCapsaicinBindingtoTRPV1fromMolecularDynamicsSimulationsDr.KhaledElokely,TempleUniversity

12:50‐1:05pm DetectionofBreastCancerMalignancyusingLipidomicsandBinaryClassificationYanLi,RushUniversity(Studentpresenter)

1:05‐1:20pm ModelingtheequinerecurrentairwayobstructionlungtranscriptomehighlightsmolecularsignaturesofairwayhyperresponsivenessandneutrophilicinflammationLaurenABright,MississippiStateUniversity(Studentpresenter)

1:35­2:00pm CoffeeBreak(StatehouseConventionCenter,1stfloorLobby)2:00‐3:00pm Awardsandrecognitions(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllen

BallroomD)3:00‐4:00pm ClosingRemarks(Drs.SlikkerandCompadre,MCBIOS2015Co‐chairs)

(StatehouseConventionCenter,WallyAllenBallroomD)

Pleaseremembertoturninyourevaluations!

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PosterPresentations

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PosterNumber

Authors(Presentingauthorinred)

TitleofthePresentation PresenterStatus

Affiliation

1 LuckyAhmed,BakhtiyorRasulevandJerzyLeszczynski

InhibitorsorToxins?ComprehensiveInvestigationsofInteractionsBetweenFullereneDerivativesandLargesetofProteins

Student JacksonStateUniversity

2 FatimahAldoori,PaolaOrdonez,MonicaGuzman,CesarM.Compadre,andDarinE.Jones

SynthesisandCytotoxicityofAminoAcidConjugatesofDehydroleucodine

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

3 LisaAlley,Dr.RosalindPenneyandDr.MohammedOrloff

TheroleofaNSCLC‐candidategeneinlungcancerphenotypicheterogeneity.

Student UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

4 CodyAshby,ErichPeterson,MichaelBauer,ShwetaChavan,JeffPummill,DonaldMcMullen,GarethMorganandDonaldJohann

AScalableandAdaptiveApproachforNGSAnalysesLeveragingHighPerformanceComputing

Post‐DoctoralFellow

UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

5 RecepAvci,JamesWilson,HariEswaranandEricSiegel

CharacterizingandEvaluatingUterineMMGContractionsUsingIndependentComponentAnalysis

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

6 HalilBisgin,BinshengGong,YupingWangandWeidaTong

ExploringtheimpactofmiRNA‐seqpipelinesondownstreamanalysis

Post‐DoctoralFellow

NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

7 JohnBowyer,KarenTranter,JosephHanig,NathanCrabtree,RobertSchleimerandNysiaGeorge

EvaluatingtheFidelityoftheRNA‐SeqTranscriptomeProfileobtainedfromRatWholeBloodandtheFeasibilityofPoolingReplicateExperimentsforRNA‐seqStatisticalAnalysis

Faculty NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

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8 MathiasBrochhausen,WilliamR.Hogan,PhilipE.Empey,DanielC.Malone,RichardD.Boyce

UsingSemanticWebtechnologytolinkpotentialdrug‐druginteractioninformationtobiologicalandbiomedicaldata

Faculty UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

9 ArianaBroumand,MohammadShahrokhEsfahani,Byung‐JunYoonandEdwardRDougherty

ControlledSamplingforOptimalBayesianClassification

Student TexasA&MUniversity

10 JohnChamberlin CitizenScienceandtheYHaplotree:ACaseHistory

Faculty Chamberlin

11 VivekChandramohan,AisharyaShome,SoumyalipaDasandSonaliSucharitaPatra

DeducingmutationalsitesinmethicillinresistantStaphylococcusaureus

Student SiddagangaInstituteofTechnology,India

12 VivekChandramohan,NagHimakundMallampalli,AnuragKumarandVishnukarthikShanmugam

Inhibitionofalphaglucosidasebygallicacidanditsderivatives:Investigationbyinvitro,subsequentmoleculardockinganddynamicsstudies

Student SiddagangaInstituteofTechnology,India

13 VivekChandramohan,BharathiPulikesi,ManasaTholar,MonicaSteffiMatchadoandVishakhaVijayan

DetectionofgenesinvolvedintetraterpenoidspathwaysofCrocussativususingTranscriptomeprofiling

Student SiddagangaInstituteofTechnology,India

14 VivekChandramohan,SreedhariVoraganti,NancySinghalandRashiAneja

3D‐QSARandMoleculardockingstudiesforassimilationofpotentialinhibitorofebolavirusVP40protein

Student SiddagangaInstituteofTechnology,India

15 VivekChandramohan,IlakiyaSenthilnathan,SaranyaGaneshMoorthyandPrincebaJoyceN

NaturalcompoundsfromMyristicafragrans(Nutmeg)asaninduceroffetalhemoglobininBetathalassemia

Student SiddagangaInstituteofTechnology,India

16 SreevishnuCheerla;Adam.J.Crane;GaryL.Jones;SarahE.

DesignandSynthesisofArimoclomolAnaloguesfortheTreatmentofParkinson’s

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

27

Thatcher;SumitSakarandDarinE.Jones

Disease

17 Yu‐ChuanChenandJamesChen

EnsembleSurvivalTreesforIdentifyingSubpopulationsinPersonalizedMedicine

Post‐DoctoralFellow

NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

18 RickyDEdmondson,ShwetaS.Chavan,VeronicaMacleod,ChristophHeuck,andBartBarlogie

CombiningProteomicsandGeneExpressionProfilingIdentifiesProteins/GenesAssociatedwithShortOverallSurvivalinMultipleMyeloma

Faculty UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

19 JunmeiAi,RuiChen,HanqingZhou,MehdiPirooznia,LingHu,YuhongDou,HankuiChen,YanLiandYoupingDeng

CirculatingmiRNAsdistinguishbreastcancerpatientsfrombenignornormalpeople

Faculty RushUniversity

20 YijunDing,KeYu,WeizhongZhao,Shi‐HengWang,WenZou,JamesChenandRogerPerkins

AtextminingtoolforexploringthecumulateddocumentsinFDA

Faculty NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

21 MikhailDozmorov,IndraAdrianto,CoryGiles,StuartGlenn,CourtneyMontgomery,KathySivils,LorinOlson,TomoakiIwayama,WillardFreeman,ChristopherLessardandJonathanWren

DetrimentaleffectsofduplicatereadsandlowcomplexityregionsonRNA‐andChIP‐seqdata

Faculty VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity

22 PaolaE.Ordonez,DarinE.Jones,MonicaL.GuzmanandCesarM.Compadre

SurfaceSignatureAnalysisofanti‐LeukemicSesquiterpeneLactones

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

23 IslamEbeid,MihirJaiswal,CarolinaCruzNeiraandBorisZybaylov

XLPMMap:Aprotein‐proteininteractionmapviewer

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

24 MaryamEmamiKhansari,CoreyR.Johnson,IsmetBasaran,AemalNafis,JingWang,Jerzy

Experimentalandtheoreticalanionbindingstudiesofnoveltripodalureaandthioureabasedreceptors:Protontransfer‐induced

Student JacksonStateUniversity

28

LeszczynskiandMd.AlamgirHossain

selectivityforhydrogensulfateoversulfate

25 EmreErmisoglu,MaryYangandDanLi

NGSDataManagementFramework

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

26 HongFang,StephenHarris,ZhichaoLiu,GuangxuZhou,GuopingZhang,JoshuaXu,PaulHowardandWeidaTong

FDALabelDatabase:aRichResourceforStudyofAdverseDrugReactionsinAdvancingDrugSafety

Faculty NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

27 JesseFarekandAndyPerkins

AsoftwarepackageforanalyzingSNPassociationsincase‐controlstudydatausingrandomforests

Student MississippiStateUniversity

28 KellyFrazier,andJiaqianZhu,Frank,Yeh,SigridReinsch

IdentifyingGenesExpressedinthespeciesC.elegansunderSpaceStationandSimulatedMicrogravity

Student RustCollege

29 StephenGrace,StephenEmbryandHengLuo

AComparisonofHaystackandXCMSforMiningLCMS‐basedMetabolomicData

Faculty UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

30 JoannaGress,CharlesCarey,AurélienMazurieandKevinWanner

Expressioncharacterizationofthemajorchemosensorygenefamiliesinthewheatstemsawfly,Cephuscinctus,amajorpestofwheatinthenorthernplainsusingRNA‐seq

Faculty UniversityofArkansas,Fayetteville

31 RogerHall,MihirJaiswalandBorisZybaylov

Softwareupdate:AlightstandaloneversionofXLPM

Faculty UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

32 LingHu,JunmeiAi,LongHui,YanLi,QingmingWu,XiaonanWangandYoupingDeng

IntegrativeMicroRNAProfilingDataRevealsNovelBiomarkersandMechanismsforLungCancer:AMeta‐AnalysisBasedonMicroRNAArrays

Student WuhanUniversity

33 TylorHubbardandPadmanabhanMahadevan

Insightintotheoriginsofmetazoanmulticellularitybystudyingadhesionproteins

Student UniversityofTampa

29

34 AdrianHunt,BritneyBolarandKarlWalker

TheEffectsofCarbonEmissionsonCoralReefs

Student UniversityofArkansasatPineBluff

35 MihirJaiswalandBorisZybaylov

Anewprobabilisticscoreforthechemicalcross‐linkingtandemmassspectrometrydataanalysis

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

36 JohnJudkins,HyunHoLee,SteveTungandJin‐WooKim

DiffusionofSingle‐WalledCarbonNanotubeUnderPhysiologicalConditions

Student UniversityofArkansas,Fayetteville

37 SamuelKakrabaandDebraKnisley

Graph‐theoreticmodelfornucleotidebindingdomain2ofCFTR

Student EastTennesseeUniversity

38 SitanshuSSahu,JordanHayesandRakeshKaundal

Computationalpredictionofsingleandmulti‐targetproteinsubcellularlocalizationusingmachine‐learningapproach

Faculty UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside

39 SuryaKilaparty,MeenakshisundaramBalasubramaniam,QudesAl‐Anbaky,AparnaKonidala,MeghaAgrawal,WilliamBaltosserandNawabAli

InteractionofMultipleInositolPolyphosphatePhosphatase1(Minpp1)andHeatShockProteinHsp40inEndoplasmicReticulum(ER):ItsPotentialImplicationinERStress

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

40 DebraKnisleyandJeffKnisley

Apredictivemodelforthephenotypicclassificationofcysticfibrosisusingmicroarraydata

Faculty EastTennesseeUniversity

41 JamesLemon,SinanKockaraandTanselHalic

ParallelSkinLesionBorderDetectionwithWebCL

Faculty UniversityofCentralArkansas

42 DanLiandMaryYang

Systematicallyidentifyingandannotatinglongnon‐codingRNAs

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

43 DanielMachooka,AndreaCarpenter,JosephOnyilagha,RichardWalker,KarlWalker,StephenFreeland,SerhanDagtas

Phylogeneticanalysisenzymesofaminoacidbiosyntheticpathways

Student UniversityofArkansasatPineBluff

44 LihYDeng,SiChen,HenryHorngShingLu,BehrouzMadahianandTit‐

Alignment‐freeGenomeComparisonwithTrinucleotideUsageProfile(TUP)

Student UniversityofMemphis

30

YeeWong45 VenkataMelapu,

WilliamGriffin,JerryDarseyandSravanthiJoginipelli

Architectureandbiologicalapplicationsofartificialneuralnetworks:atuberculosisperspective

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

46 ShreyankP.Ramesh,MutluMete,NurcanYurukandAbdullahArslan

DENSITYBASEDVISUALIZATIONOFBIGDATAWITHGRAPHICALPROCESSINGUNITS

Faculty TexasA&MUniversity

47 AliMirchi,TandabanyC.DinadayalaneandJerzyLeszczynski

Cation‐πInteractionsofCurvedpiSurfaces:CorannuleneandTweezers

Student JacksonStateUniversity

48 BinduNanduri,AsawthyN.Rai,LeslieA.Shack,JosephS.Reddy,WesBaumgartner,WilliamB.EppersonandTyB.Schmidt

Expressionproteomicsoflungtissuefromcattlewithbovinerespiratorydisease.

Faculty MississippiStateUniversity

49 BinduNanduri,MaisAmmari,CathyR.GreshamandFionaM.McCarthy

HPIDBv2.0:anupdatedhigh‐qualityresourceforhost‐pathogeninteractions.

Faculty MississippiStateUniversity

50 UjwaniNukalaandDr.MohammedOrloff

UsingSNPstostudygeneticheterogeneityinpopulationsofAfricanandEuropeanancestrythatinfluenceendometrialcancerdevelopment.

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

51 UjwaniNukala,PaolaOrdonez,ShraddhaThakkarandDr.CesarCompadre

MolecularmodellingstudiestopredictthemechanismofinhibitionofNF‐κBbysesquiterpenelactones.

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

52 E.NathaliePineda,AnaFrancisCarballo,SuqiLui,ThorArnason,TonyDurstandCesarCompadre

3D‐QSARSTUDYUSINGCOMPARATIVESIMILARITYINDICESANALYSIS(CoMSIA)TECHNIQUEONINHIBITORYCYTOCHROMECYP3A4DILLAPIOLANDSESSAMOLDERIVATIVES

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

53 PatricioPuchaicelaandAminaelSanchez

SinglespeciesreconstructionfrommetagenomicsoilsamplesofEcuadorianforests

Student UniversidadTecnicaParticulardeLoja

54 JordynRadke,NathanCrabtree,PhilipWilliamsand

RNA‐Seqanalysisofhighlightstressinthehighpigment‐2tomatomutant

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

31

StephenGrace

55 JosephReddyandBinduNanduri

BIRAP:BacterialintergenicregionanalysispipelineforstructuralannotationusingRNA‐seqandProteogenomics

Student MississippiStateUniversity

56 JavierRevollo IdentificationofPig‐AmutantsfromheterogeneousPig‐AmutantcellpopulationsbycombiningRandomDNAIdentifierswithNextGenerationSequencing

Faculty NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

57 JugantaRoy,HenryPinto,KeishaWaltersandJerzyLeszczynski

Firstprinciplesstudiesofgoldnanoparticlesandend‐functionalizedalkanethiol

Student JacksonStateUniversity

58 NamS.VoandVinhthuyPhan

Improvingvariantcallingbyintegratingreadalignmentwithexistinggeneticvariants

Student UniversityofMemphis

59 LauraSchnackenberg,JinchunSun,SumitSarkarandRichardBeger

MALDIImagingSpectroscopytoEvaluateLipidsandOtherSmallMoleculesinTissueSlicesforMetabolomicsStudies

Faculty NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

60 ArijitMukherjeeandRichardSegall

Usingnextgenerationsequencingtechnologiesandbigdataanalysestoinvestigatethetranscriptomicresponsesduringformationofnodule‐likestructuresinlandplants

Faculty ArkansasStateUniversity

61 AlkaTiwari,W.PaulWilliams,AndyD.Perkins,J.ErikMylroie,GaryL.Windham,AshliBrown,Din‐PowMa,XueyanShan

MatGel:AMATLABprogramforquantitativeanalysisof2Delectrophoresisproteingelimages

Faculty MississippiStateUniversity

62 ZhenhuaShang,SathishKumarPonniah,VibhaSrivastava,andMuthusamyManoharan

Down‐regulationofgenesinvolvedinligninbiosynthesisandagenomicapproachtodecipheringligninbiosynthesisinrice

Student UniversityofArkansasatPineBluff

32

63 SharmishthaShyamal,JamesMichaelRudkins,EmilyBowmanandDavidSDurica

Identificationofmethoprenetolerantgene:Anintracellularmethylfarnasoatereceptor.

Post‐DoctoralFellow

UniversityofOklahoma

64 NataliaSizochenko,BakhtiyorRasulev,TomaszPuzynandJerzyLeszczynski

Genotoxicityofmetaloxidenanoparticles:Classification,ClusteringandCausality

Student JacksonStateUniversity

65 ShuneizeSlater,KuldeepK.Roy,JakubKollar,ManalNael,KhaledM.Elokely,RobertJ.DoerksenandMitchellA.Avery

DeterminingAlternativeArtemisininBindingSitesinPfSERCA

Student UniversityofMississippi

66 AdamThrash,WeiWang,KortniDees,DilipGautam,MahalingamRamkumar,BinduNanduriandAndyPerkins

AccuratelyAssigningSequenceReadsinMetatranscriptomicStudies

Student MississippiStateUniversity

67 ThelmaTower,LanceKeller,JessicaFriley,LarryMcDaniel,EdwinSwiatloandBinduNanduri

MicrobiotaoftheNasopharynxofDiabeticObeseMiceandtheRiskofCarriageofStreptococcuspneumoniae

Student MississippiStateUniversity

68 QuangTran,ShanshanGao,NamS.VoandVinhthuyPhan

Alinearmodelforpredictingperformanceofshort‐readalignersusinggenomecomplexity

Student UniversityofMemphis

69 YihengWang,TongLiu,ChaoyangZhang,GloverGeorgeandZhengWang

PredictingMethylationLevelofLeukemiaHumanLongNon‐CodingRNAsUsingThree‐DimensionalGenomeStructureandDeepLearning

Faculty UniversitySouthernMississippi

70 YanWang FetalBehavioralStatesInfluencestheTimeSegmentbeingUsedforFetalTwave

Student UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

71 JundiWang,NanWang,ChaoyangZhangandWenyinZhang

Distance‐basedOutlierDetectionModelforMS/MSPeptideIdentificationwithImprovedParallelTechnique

Student UniversitySouthernMississippi

72 Yu‐ChungWei,Ching‐WeiChangandGuan‐HuaHuang

DetectingCopyNumberVariationsviaaBayesianApproachAdaptingtoBothWholeGenomeandTargetedExomeNGS

Post‐DoctoralFellow

NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

33

73 JoshuaXu,XiChen,BinshengGongandWeidaTong

TheeffectofvariousfactorsonisoformanalysisofRNA‐seqdata

Faculty NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

74 MaryYangandLauraLauraElnitski

ComparativeanalysisofconservationandturnoverofTATAmotifsinvertebratepromoters

Faculty UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

75 MansuckKim,HuanZhang,Won‐BoShim,CharlesWoloshukandByung‐JunYoon

ComputationalIdentificationofGeneticSubnetworkModulesAssociatedwithMaizeDefenseResponsetoFusariumverticillioides

Faculty TexasA&MUniversity

76 Li‐RongYu,YuanGao,ZhijunCao,XiYang,JinchunSun,SiChen,RichardBeger,KellyDavis,WilliamSalminenandDonnaMendrick

ProteomicBiomarkersandInsightsofPreclinicalLiverToxicity

Faculty NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

77 KeYu,YijunDing,WeizhongZhao,Shi‐HengWang,WenZou,JamesJChen,RogerPerkinsandWeidaTong

BestPracticesinBuildingTopicModelsforMiningRegulatoryTextualDocuments

Post‐DoctoralFellow

NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

78 AbmZakariaandDanutaLeszczynska

ANovelElectrochemicalRouteofPreparationofGrapheneNanoribbonsfromSingle‐WalledCarbonNanotubesandTheirElectrocatalyticActivitytowardtheOxidationofH2O2

Student JacksonStateUniversity

79 WeizhongZhao,ZhichaoLiu,YupingWang,JamesJ.ChenandWenZou

DataMiningforSignalDetectionfromAdverseEventReportingSystemDatabase

Post‐DoctoralFellow

NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

80 TaoChen,ZhiguangLi,ZhenqiangSuandLemingShi

BothRNA‐Seqandmicroarrayanalysesconsistentlyrevealedthecarcinogeniceffectsofaristolochicacid,ahumancarcinogen,inratkidney

Faculty NationalCenterforToxicologicalResearch

34

81 SidneySmith,AdrianHunt,KarlWalker,JerryDarsey

PeptideSequencePatternsRelatedtoOmegaAnglesinCisConformation

Student UniversityofArkansasatPineBluff

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OralPresentations

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Authors(Presentingauthorinred)

Titleofthepresentation Affiliation PresenterStatus

AssignedSession

LaurenABright,CourtneyHunter,MarkArickIi,SantoshKumar,SavannahMack,AndyPerkins,AlisonEddy,AndrewClaude,NismaMujahid,MichaelBrashier,BinduNanduri,FionaMMcCarthy,ShaneCBurgessandCypriannaESwiderski

ModelingtheEquineRecurrentAirwayObstructionLungTranscriptomeHighlightsMolecularSignaturesofAirwayHyperresponsivenessandNeutrophilicInflammation

MississippiStateUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐XII

BadriAdhikari,DebswapnaBhattacharya,RenzhiCaoandJianlinCheng

CONFOLD:Residue‐ResidueContact‐guidedabinitioProteinFolding

UniversityofMissouriColumbia

Student BreakoutSession‐IV

IsaacAkogwu,NanWang,PingGongandChaoyangZhang

AComparativeStudyofK‐mer‐spectrumBasedErrorCorrectionMethodsforNext‐GenerationSequencingDataAnalysis

UniversitySouthernMississippi

Student BreakoutSession‐IX

Tamer Aldwairi, Benjamin Elam, Federico Hoffmann, Andy D. Perkins

RepCalc: a tool for calculating transposable element density within the genome

MississippiStateUniversity

Faculty BreakoutSession‐V

SvetoslavSlalov,PierreAlusta,PeterEvans,DanBuzatuandJonWilkes

ModifyingPyrolysisMassSpectraofBacteriaforClassificationatSelectedLevelsofSpecificity

NCTR Faculty BreakoutSession‐I

YongshengBai,YanLiandYoupingDeng

BreakClipMapper:Agenome‐wideefficientalgorithmfordetectingcomplexrearrangementsusingnext‐generationsequencingdata

IndianaStateUniversity

Faculty BreakoutSession‐II

Meenakshi‐sundaramBalasubramaniam,SrinivasAyyadevara,Yuan

Functionalrolesofdisorderedproteinsinaggregatesofmultipleneuropathies

UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

Student BreakoutSession‐VIII

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Gao,Li‐RongYu,BorisZybaylov,RamaniAllaandRobertShmooklerReisDaleBowman,JamesChen,E.OlusegunGeorgeandBehrouzMadahian

GoodnessofFitforTopicModeling

UniversityofMemphis

Faculty BreakoutSession‐VI

MinjunChenandWeidaTong

Improvethepredictionofdrug‐inducedliverinjurybydevelopingtheLiverToxicityKnowledgeBase

NCTR Faculty BreakoutSession‐II

CharlesChen InformationGuidedCropImprovement:agenebankgenomicsperspective

OklahomaStateUniversity

Faculty BreakoutSession‐III

AshishJain,ThanhNguyenandJakeChen

SPINNER:SoftwaretoRankandComparePhenotype‐specificGenesinMolecularNetworks

IndianaUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐V

TuanTrieuandJianlinCheng

Reconstructing3DModelsoftheEntireHumanGenomefromInter­andIntra­ChromosomalContacts

UniversityofMissouriColumbia

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­IV

NathanCrabtree,JohnBowyer,NysiaGeorgeandJasonMoore

ComputationalEvolutionforthediscoveryofgeneticbiomarkersinmutli‐class,RNA‐seqdata

UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

Student BreakoutSession‐X

PeterCrooks Computer­aidedTechniquesinDrugDiscovery

UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­XII

RoozbehDehghannasiri,Byung‐JunYoonandEdwardRDougherty

EfficientExperimentalDesignforUncertaintyReductioninGeneRegulatoryNetworks

TexsasA&MUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐VII

RobertDoerksen ChemoinformaticsApproachestoDiscoveryofDrugsTargetedtotheCannabinoidReceptors

UniversityofMississippi

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­III

JakobDohrmann,JurisPuchinandRahulSingh

GlobalMultipleNetworkAlignmentbyCombiningPairwiseNetworkAlignments

SanFranciscoStateUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐V

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MikhailDozmorovandBridgetMcInnes

Epigenomicenrichmentandsimilarityofdisease­associatedSNPs

VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­XI

KhaledElokely,LucieDelemotte,EugenePalovcak,VincenzoCarnevaleandMichaelKlein

InsightsintoCapsaicinBindingtoTRPV1fromMolecularDynamicsSimulations

TempleUniversity

Faculty BreakoutSession‐XII

ShanshanGao,Diem‐TrangPhamandVinhthuyPhan

Comparisonofalignment‐freemethodsformetagenomicprofiling

UniversityofMemphis

Student BreakoutSession‐X

CoryGiles,MichaelRipperger,XiavanRoopnarinesinghandJonathanWren

LabelextractionandpredictionfromGeneExpressionOmnibusmetadataandgeneexpressiondata

OklahomaMedicalResearchFoundation

Student BreakoutSession‐III

EdmundGlassandMikhailDozmorov

Celltype‐specificdeconvolutionofepigenomicandtranscriptomicdata:aSystemicLupusErythematosusstudy

VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐XI

AnastasiiaGolius,OlexandrIsayev,LeonidGorb,FrancesC.HillandJerzyLeszczynski

Permeabilityofenergeticcompoundsthroughalipidbilayer:theoreticalstudies

JacksonStateUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐VI

PingGong,YanPeng,NanWang,LijuanYang,NatalieBarker,ChaoyangZhangandEdwardPerkins

Identificationofknown,conservedandnovelmicroRNAsfromdeepsequencingdata:acomparativestudyonmicroRNAdiscoveryalgorithms

U.S.ArmyEngineerResearchandDevelopt.Center

Faculty BreakoutSession‐IX

TinaGui,DawnWilkins,JanetNakarmi,ZhendongZhao,YixinChenandHailinSang

AssociationRuleMiningAlgorithmonGeneExpressionData

UniversityofMississippi

Student BreakoutSession‐X

ThomasHahn,Dr.RichardSegall,Dr.FushengTangandDr.HelenBenes

Discoveringmechanismsofrejuvenationandlifeextensionfromyeastmicroarraydatausingcomputationalmethods

UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

Student BreakoutSession‐XII

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BehrouzMadahian,SujoyRoy,LihYuanDengandRaminHomayouni

ArobustBayesianapproachforinducingsparsityingeneralizedlinearmodelswithmulticategoryresponse

UniversityofMemphis

Student BreakoutSession‐VII

HyundooJeongandByung‐JunYoon

Queryingnetworksusingcontext‐sensitiverandomwalk

TexasA&MUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐XI

TaehoJo,JieHou,JesseEickholtandJianlinCheng

ImprovingProteinFoldRecognitionbyDeepLearningNetworks

UniversityofMissouriColumbia

Student BreakoutSession‐IV

DonaldJohann TowardsPrecisionMedicine UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­IX

DarinJones SynthesisandOptimizationofCannabinoid­1ReceptorAgonistfortheTreatmentofPain

UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­VI

YoupingDeng,JunmeiAi,YanLi,HeluLiu,HankuiChen,ShengmingDai,MehdiPirooznia,JeffreyBorgiaandMichaelLiptay

Developmentofaratio‐basedmethodtoidentifytruebiomarkersbynormalizingcirculatingmiRNAsequencingandquantitative‐PCRdata

RushUniversity

Faculty BreakoutSession‐V

RakeshKaundal,JordanHayes,NeerjaKatiyar,VietPham

CentralizingBioinformaticsviaHigh­PerformanceComputing:Applications,Opportunities,andChallengesintheEraofLarge­scale­OmicsData

UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­VII

NavadonKhunlertgitandByung‐JunYoon

Identifyingeffectivepathwaymarkersforbreastcancerprognosisthroughrelativegeneexpressionanalysisusingdecisiontrees

TexasA&MUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐VI

DogaDemirel,AlexanderYu,SinanKockaraandTanselHalic

ParallelContinuousCollisionDetectionforSurgerySimulationswithWebCL

UniversityofCentralArkansas

Faculty BreakoutSession‐IV

YanLi,HankuiChen,JunmeiAiandYoupingDeng

DetectionofBreastCancerMalignancyusingLipidomicsandBinaryClassification

RushUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐XII

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ZhichaoLiu,JoshuaXuandWeidaTong

Genome‐widecomparisonoffourtoxicogenomicsassaysystems

NCTR Faculty BreakoutSession‐II

JieLiuandImranShah

Classifyinghepatotoxicantsbyintegratingbioactivityandchemicalstructure

UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

Student BreakoutSession‐VI

HengLuo,DonnaMendrickandHuixiaoHong

Miningandpredictingthebindingbetweenhumanleukocyteantigens(HLAs)andpeptidesviaanetworkapproach

UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

Student BreakoutSession‐VIII

AndrewMaxwell,ChaoyangZhang,PingGong,BeiYangandPengLi

CombiningPriorKnowledgeusingRelativeChangeRatioswithaNovelBayesianLearningandOptimizationMethodtoInferGeneRegulatoryNetworks

UniversitySouthernMiss

Student BreakoutSession‐IV

UlrichMelcher Assemblingpopulationinformationfromsparsemetagenomicdata

OklahomaStateUniversity

Faculty BreakoutSession‐VII

DanielMohsenizadeh,JianpingHua,MichaelBittnerandEdwardDougherty

ADynamicalModelingMethodologyforUncertainGenomicNetworks

TexasA&MUniversity

Post‐DoctoralFellow

BreakoutSession‐VII

ErichPeterson,MichaelBauer,ShwetaChavan,CodyAshby,NielsWeinhold,ChristophHeuck,GarethMorganandDonaldJohann

EnhancingCancerClonalityAnalysiswithIntegrativeGenomics

UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

Faculty BreakoutSession‐IX

HenryPinto NanoscienceofSurfacesandInterfacesUsingDensity­FunctionalTheory

JacksonStateUniversity

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­I

JeffPummill,WilliamSanders,StevenBeaupreandDouglasRhoads

EffortstosequenceandassemblethegenomeoftheTimberRattlesnake.

UniversityofArkansas,Fayetteville

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­X

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AminaelSánchez‐Rodríguez,SergioPulido‐TamayoandKathleenMarchal

EXPLoRA:AnImprovedlinkageanalysisalgorithmforQuantitativeTraitLocidetectionfromNextGenerationSequencingData.

UniversidadTecnicaParticulardeLoja

Faculty BreakoutSession‐XI

WilliamSanders,KurtShowmaker,SatishGanji,MarkArick,JenniferArnold,ZenaidaMagbanua,DanielPetersonandMartinWubben

Assemblyandmolecularcharacterizationofadraftgenomesequenceandannotationoftheplant‐parasiticnematodeRotylenchulusreniformis

MississippiStateUniversity

Post‐DoctoralFellow

BreakoutSession‐X

RichardSegall,NicholasPippenger,DanielBerleant,KellyeEversole,RobertMustell,DeborahVicuna‐Requesens,ChristopherBiedenbenderandElizabethHood

InformationQualityMethodsandExtractionofNumericalInformationfromaCorpusofScientificPapersRelatedtoCorn

ArkansasStateUniversity

Faculty BreakoutSession‐I

WeidaTong TheFDA’sexperiencewithemerginggenomicstechnologies–past,presentandfuture

NCTR SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­II

UmitTopaloglu,WanchiChen,ZhidanFeng,KarenMack,CherylLaneandLauraHutchins

AnAdverseEventCaptureandManagementSystemforCancerStudies

UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

Faculty BreakoutSession‐IX

KottayilI.VarugheseShraddhaThakkar,MKhaidakov,XianweiWang,KuppanGokulan,J.L.Mehta

Structure­baseddrugdesigntargetedatLOX­1,areceptorforoxidizedlow­densitylipoprotein

UniversityofArkansasforMedicalSciences

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­VIII

RuchiVerma,DilipLakshman,DanielPRoberts,IanMisner,NadimAlkharoufandArnabPain

MitochondrialgenomeassembliesofsevenanastomosisgroupsasoilbornefungalpathogenRhizoctoniasolani

OakridgeNationalLab

Post‐DoctoralFellow

BreakoutSession‐III

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CameronWalkerandKarlA.Walker

Structuralidentificationofunknownproteinstructures

UniversityofArkansasatPineBluff

Student BreakoutSession‐VIII

Shi‐HengWang,WeizhongZhao,YijunDing,KeYu,Yung‐HsiangHuang,WenZou,RogerPerkinsandJamesJ.Chen

DataMiningonStudiesofAdolescentSubstanceUseandDepression

NCTR Post‐DoctoralFellow

BreakoutSession‐I

MarquitaWatkins,BakhtiyorRasulevandJerzyLeszczynski

QSPR‐basedEstimationofMeltingPointsofBrominatedandChlorinatedcongenersofPersistenceOrganicPollutants

JacksonStateUniversity

Student BreakoutSession‐III

HuiWenNg,HengLuo,HaoYe,WeigongGe,RogerPerkins,WeidaTongandHuixiaoHong

ThestudyofendocrinedisruptionpotentialofbisphenolAreplacementcompounds

NCTR Post‐DoctoralFellow

BreakoutSession‐VIII

LeihongWu,ZhichaoLiu,JoshuaXu,MinjunChen,HongFang,WeidaTongandWenmingXiao

Networkbasedbreastcancersubtypinganalysiswithgeneexpressionprofile

NCTR Post‐DoctoralFellow

BreakoutSession‐I

MaryYang DevelopingComputationalApproachesforAnalysisofMulti­dimensionalGenomicData

UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock

SessionChair,FeaturedSpeaker

BreakoutSession­V

HaoYe,HengLuo,HuiwenNg,WeigongGe,WeidaTongandHuixiaoHong

DecipheringadverseoutcomepathwaysthroughnetworkanalysisofToxCastdata

NCTR Post‐DoctoralFellow

BreakoutSession‐II

NanZhaoandXiu‐FengWan

Identificationofglycanmotifsforinfluenzavirusbindingusingsparselearning

MississippiStateUniversity

Faculty BreakoutSession‐XI