DIMACS Workshop on Algorithmics in Human Population-Genomics

April 27 - 29, 2009
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Jaume Bertranpetit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, jaume.bertranpetit at upf.edu

Dan Gusfield, University of California, gusfield@cs.ucdavis.edu

Laxmi Parida, IBM T J Watson Research, parida at us.ibm.com

This special focus is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Interfaces Institute for Quantitative Biology (BioMaPS), and the Rutgers Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry (MB Center).

Workshop Program:

Monday, April 27, 2009

 8:15 -  8:50  Breakfast and Registration

 8:50 -  9:00  Welcoming Remarks
               Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director
               
 9:00 - 10:00  Genome shrinkage by elimination of duplicates
               David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada

10:00 - 11:00  Forensic DNA analysis and multi-locus match probability
               in finite populations: A fundamental difference between 
               the Moran and Wright-Fisher models
               Yun S Song, UC Berkeley, USA

11:00 - 11:30  Tea/Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30  Efficient algorithms for ascertaining markers for 
               controlling for population substructure
               Oscar Lao, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam,
               The Netherlands          

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  Statistical Alignment, Footprinting and Transfer of Knowledge
               Jotun Hein, Oxford, UK 
                         
 3:00 -  3:30  Tea/Coffee Break

 3:30 -  4:30  Two (population genetics and phylogenetics) Solutions
               in Search of Killer Apps.
               Dan Gusfield, UC Davis, USA 

 4:30 -  5:00  A fatgraph model of protein structure
               Carsten Wiuf, Aarhus University, Denmark

 5:00 -  5:45  Discussions/Breakout Sessions


Tuesday, April 28, 2009

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration
               
 9:00 - 10:00  Estimating human demographic parameters from DNA sequence data 
               Jeff Wall, UC San Francisco, USA 
              
10:00 - 11:00  High-dimensional data-sets and the problems they cause
	       Paul Marjoram, Keck School of Medicine, USC, USA
             
11:00 - 11:30  Tea/Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30  Human Population Genomics: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, 
               Plus Altruism, Cheap Talks, Bad Behavior, Money, God and 
               Diversity on Steroids
               Bud Mishra, NYU, USA  
                
12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  Population genetic analyses of next-generation sequencing data
	       Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley, USA
                         
 3:00 -  3:30  Tea/Coffee Break

 3:30 -  4:30  RECOMBINOMICS: Myth or Reality?
               Laxmi Parida, IBM T J Watson Research              
 
 4:30 -  5:30  Discussions/Breakout Sessions

 5:30          Banquet

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration            

 9:00 - 10:00  Dimensionality reduction in the analysis of human genetics data
               Petros Drineas, RPI, USA

10:00 - 11:00  Recombinations-based Population Genomics
               Jaume Bertranpetit, Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, 
               Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 
              
11:00 - 11:30  Tea/Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30  Haplotype clusters and imputed genotypes in diverse human populations
	       Noah Rosenberg, University of Michigan, USA   

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:00  More powerful genome-wide association methods for case-control data
               Robert Elston, Case Western Reserve University, USA

 3:00 -  3:30  Imputation-based local ancestry inference in admixed populations
               Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut, USA

 3:30 -  4:00  Discussions/Breakout Sessions

 4:00 -  4:15  Closing Remarks

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