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DIMACS/BioMaPS/MB Center 2004 - 2011 Special Focus on Information Processing in Biology: Calendar
This special focus is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical
Computer Science (DIMACS),
Short Course: A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources Dates: March 1 - 2, 2005
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Tamar Barkay, Rutgers; Paul Ehrlich, BIOMAPS Institute; Mel Janowitz, DIMACS; Tara Matise, Rutgers
Email: barkay@AESOP.Rutgers.edu, pehrlich@lutece.rutgers.edu, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu, matise@biology.rutgers.edu
Workshop on Biomolecular Networks: Topological Properties and Evolution
Dates: May 11 - 13, 2005
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Cenk Sahinalp, Case Western and Petra Berenbrink, Simon Fraser
Email: cenk at cs.sfu.ca, petra@cs.sfu.ca
BioMaPS/DIMACS/MBBC/PMMB/SYCON Short Course: Molecular Mechanisms and Models of Bacterial Signal Transduction Dates: June 6 - 10, 2005
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University, and Ann Stock, UMDNJ/HHMI
Email: sontag@control.rutgers.edu, stock@cabm.rutgers.edu
Workshop on Information Processing by Protein Structures in Molecular Recognition
Dates: June 13 - 14, 2005
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizer: Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago, Jie Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: dasgupta@cs.uic.edu, jliang@uic.edu
Workshop on Detecting and Processing Regularities in High Throughput Biological Data
Dates: June 20 - 22, 2005
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizer: Laxmi Parida, IBM T J Watson Research
Email: parida@us.ibm.com
Workshop on Machine Learning Approaches for
Understanding Gene Regulation
Dates: August 15 - 17, 2005
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Christina Leslie and Chris Wiggins, Columbia University
Email: cleslie@cs.columbia.edu, chris.wiggins @ columbia.edu
Working Group on DNA Barcode of Life
Date: September 26, 2005
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Rebecka Jornsten, Rutgers University, David Madigan, Rutgers University, and Fred Roberts, DIMACS
Email: rebecka@stat.rutgers.edu, madigan@stat.rutgers.edu, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Working Group on Evolution of Gene Regulatory Logic
Dates: January 6 - 8, 2006
Location: Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Organizers: Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of New Mexico and David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute
Email: tanyabw@unm.edu, krakauer@ias.edu
Workshop on Data Mining, Systems Analysis, and Optimization in Neuroscience Dates: February 15 - 17, 2006
Location: University of Florida, Gainseville, Florida
Organizers: W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Rutgers University; Leonidas D. Iasemidis, Arizona State University; Panos Pardalos, University of Florida
Email: wchaoval@rci.rutgers.edu, Leon.Iasemidis@asu.edu, pardalos@ufl.edu
Short Course: A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources Dates: March 2, 2006
Location: UMDNJ, Newark, NJ
Organizer: Nicholas Beckloff, UMDNJ, beckloni@umdnj.edu
Co-Organizers: Tamar Barkay, Rutgers; Paul Ehrlich, BIOMAPS Institute; Mel Janowitz, DIMACS; Tara Matise, Rutgers
Email: barkay@AESOP.Rutgers.edu, pehrlich@lutece.rutgers.edu, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu, matise@biology.rutgers.edu
DARPA Workshop on State-Dependent Delays in Regulatory Networks
Dates: March 2 - 3, 2006
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Tim Buchman, Washington University; Jon Lorsch, John Hopkins University; Konstantin Mischaikow, Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: buchman@wustl.edu, jlorsch@jhmi.edu, mischaik@math.gatech.edu
Workshop on Computational/Experimental Approaches to Protein Defects in Human Disease
Dates: April 20 - 21, 2006
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Jean Baum, Rutgers University and Barbara Brodsky, UMDNJ
Email: baum@rutchem.rutgers.edu, brodsky@umdnj.edu
Workshop on Sequence, Structure and Systems Approaches to Predict Protein Function
Dates: May 3 - 5, 2006
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Anna Panchenko, NIH; Teresa Przytycka, NIH; Mona Singh, Princeton University
Email: panch@mail.nih.gov, przytyck@mail.nih.gov, mona@CS.Princeton.EDU
Workshop on Clustering Problems in Biological Networks
Dates: May 9 - 11, 2006
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M; W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Rutgers University; and Panos Pardalos, University of Florida
Email: butenko@tamu.edu, wchaoval@rci.rutgers.edu, pardalos@ufl.edu
Short Course: Exploring 3D Molecular Structures Using NCBI Tools Dates: May 16 - 17, 2006
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Tamar Barkay, Rutgers; Nicholas Beckloff, UMDNJ; Paul Ehrlich, BIOMAPS Institute; Mel Janowitz, DIMACS; Tara Matise, Rutgers
Email: barkay@AESOP.Rutgers.edu, beckloni@umdnj.edu, pehrlich@lutece.rutgers.edu, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu, matise@biology.rutgers.edu
BioMaPS/DIMACS/MBBC/PMMB Short Course: Biological Development
Dates: May 22 - 26, 2006
Location: Life Science Auditorium, Life Sciences Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University
Organizers: Richard Padgett, Rutgers University; and Andrei Ruckenstein, Rutgers University
Email: padgett@waksman.rutgers.edu, andreir@physics.rutgers.edu
Workshop on The DNA Barcode Data Analysis Initiative (DBDAI): Developing Tools for a New Generation of Biodiversity Data
Dates: July 6 - 8, 2006
Location: The National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
Organizers: Javier Cabrera, Rutgers University; Fred Roberts, DIMACS; David Schindel, National Museum of Natural History; Michel Veuille, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Email: cabrera@stat.rutgers.edu, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu, schindeld@si.edu, veuille@mnhn.fr
Workshop on Machine Learning Techniques in Bioinformatics
Dates: July 11 - 12, 2006
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Dechang Chen, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Xue-Wen Chen, University of Kansas; and Sorin Draghici, Wayne State University
Email: dchen@usuhs.mil, xwchen@ku.edu, sod@cs.wayne.edu
Working Group on Computational Tumor Modeling
Dates: August 2, 2006
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: David Axelrod, Rutgers University, and Thomas S. Deisboeck, Harvard Medical School
Email: deisboec@helix.mgh.harvard.edu, Axelrod@nel-exchange.rutgers.edu
Workshop on Computational Tumor Modeling
Dates: August 3 - 4, 2006
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: David Axelrod, Rutgers University, and Thomas S. Deisboeck, Harvard Medical School
Email: deisboec@helix.mgh.harvard.edu, Axelrod@nel-exchange.rutgers.edu
Workshop on Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods (DREAM)
Dates: September 7 - 8, 2006
Location: Wave Hill Conference Center, New York, NY
Organizers: Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM; Andrea Califano, Columbia University; and Jim Collins, Boston University
Email: gustavo@us.ibm.com, califano@dbmi.columbia.edu, jcollins@bu.edu
Short Course: A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources - 2007 Dates: April 11, 2007
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Tamar Barkay, Rutgers; Nicholas Beckloff, UMDNJ; Paul Ehrlich, BIOMAPS Institute; Mel Janowitz, DIMACS; Tara Matise, Rutgers
Email: barkay@AESOP.Rutgers.edu, beckloni@umdnj.edu, pehrlich@lutece.rutgers.edu, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu, matise@biology.rutgers.edu
Workshop on Discrete Mathematical Problems in Computational Biomedicine
Dates: April 18 - 20, 2007
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Jie Wang, University of Massachusetts; and Weili Wu, University of Texas
Email:wang@cs.uml.edu, weiliwu@utdallas.edu
Workshop on Computational Methods for Predicting Outcome in Cancer
Dates: May 29 - 30, 2007
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Dechang Chen, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Xue-Wen Chen, University of Kansas; Email: dchen@usuhs.mil, xwchen@ku.edu, patdeh@gwumc.edu, wshannon@wustl.edu, lsheng@math.drexel.edu
Workshop on Systems Biology of Infectious Diseases
Dates: August 13 - September 2, 2007
Location: Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado
Organizers: Charles DeLisi, Boston University; Simon Levin, Princeton University
Email: delisi@bu.edu, slevin@princeton.edu
Data Analysis Session, Second International Barcode of Life Conference
Dates: September 17 - 21, 2007
Location: Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Organizers: Javier Cabrera, Rutgers University; Fred Roberts, DIMACS; David Schindel, National Museum of Natural History; and Michel Veuille, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Email: cabrera@stat.rutgers.edu, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu, schindeld@si.edu, veuille@mnhn.fr
Workshop on Computational Neuroscience 2008 Dates: February 20 - 21, 2008
Location: University of Florida, Gainseville, Florida
Organizers: W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Rutgers University; Panos Pardalos, University of Florida; and Onur Seref, University of Florida
Email: wchaoval@rci.rutgers.edu, pardalos@ufl.edu, seref at ufl.edu
The Sixth Annual BioMaPS/DIMACS Summer School: Chromatin Structure and
Gene Regulation Dates: June 9 - June 13, 2008
Location: Life Science Auditorium, Life Sciences Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers
Organizers: Alexandre Morozov, Rutgers University; and Vasily Studitsky, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Email: morozovp at physics.rutgers.edu, studitvm at umdnj.edu
Workshop on Computational Issues in Genetic Epidemiology
Dates: August 21 - 22, 2008
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Andrew Scott Allen, Duke University; Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut; Dan Nicolae, University of Chicago, Yi Pan, Georgia State University; and Alex Zelikovsky, Georgia State University
Email: andrew.s.allen at duke.edu, ion at engr.uconn.edu, nicolae at galton.uchicago.edu, pan at cs.gsu.edu, alexz at cs.gsu.edu
DIMACS/CINJ BioMedical Informatics Summit
Dates: January 27, 2009
Location: The Cancer Institute of NJ (CINJ)
Organizers: Chairs: Fred Roberts, Director, DIMACS, Guna Rajagopal, Exec Dir (Bioinformatics), CINJ
Email: froberts at dimacs.rutgers.edu, rajagogu at umdnj.edu,
kerrigje at umdnj.edu, schadpe at umdnj.edu, botnicca at
umdnj.edu, hunchapa at umdnj.edu, bosweldj at umdnj.edu
Workshop on Algorithmics in Human Population-Genomics
Dates: April 27 - 29, 2009
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Jaume Bertranpetit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Dan
Gusfield, University of California; and Laxmi Parida, IBM T J Watson Research
Email: jaume.bertranpetit at upf.edu, gusfield@cs.ucdavis.edu, parida at us.ibm.com
Workshop on Control Theory and Dynamics in Systems Biology
Dates: May 18 - 20, 2009
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University; and Patrick De Leenheer, University of Florida
Email: sontag at math.rutgers.edu, deleenhe at math.ufl.edu
Working Group on Control Theory and Dynamics in Systems Biology
Dates: May 21 - 22, 2009
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University; and Patrick De Leenheer, University of Florida
Email: sontag at math.rutgers.edu, deleenhe at math.ufl.edu
Workshop on Identifying Genetic Signatures for the Evolution of Complex Phenotypes
Dates: June 11 - 12, 2009
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University, CINJ and IAS; and Raul Rabadan, Columbia University
Email: gyanbhanot at gmail.com, rabadan at dbmi.columbia.edu
Working Group on Software Development on Parameter Estimation for Boolean Models of Biological Networks
Dates: June 28 - 30, 2009
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Paola Vera-Licona, DIMACS
Email: mveralic at math.rutgers.edu
Mini-Workshop on Emergent Properties of Dynamic Biological Networks
Dates: June 21 - 22, 2010
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Nina Fefferman, DIMACS
Email: fefferman at aesop.rutgers.edu
Mini-Workshop on Game-theoretic Approaches to Medical Prognosis
Dates: June 23 - 24, 2010
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Nina Fefferman, DIMACS
Email: fefferman at aesop.rutgers.edu
DIMACS Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing: Making the most of what you read
Dates: August 25, 2010
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Alexander Schliep, Rutgers University
Email: schliep at cs.rutgers.edu
DIMACS/CINJ
Workshop on Electronic Medical Records
Dates: September 13, 2010
Location: The Cancer Institute of NJ (CINJ)
Organizers: Guna Rajagopal, CINJ, and Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University
Email: rajagogu at umdnj.edu, rebecca.wright at rutgers.edu
Public Health Modeling Conference - Modeling for Public Health Action: From Epidemiology to Operations
Dates: December 9 - 10, 2010
Location: InterContinental Hotel Buckhead - Atlanta, Georgia
Organizers: CDC - Preparedness Modeling Unit
Email: PHModeling at battelle.org
DIMACS Conference on Effects of Genome Structure and Sequence on the Generation of Variation and Evolution
Dates: August 9 - 11, 2011
Location: CoRE Auditorium, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers: Lynn Caporale, Conference Chair; Stephen Benkovic,
Pennsylvania State University; Giorgio Bernardi, Stazione Zoologica
Anton Dohrn; Gyan Bhanot, Institute for Advanced Studies; Laura
Landweber, Princeton University; Nancy Maizels, University of
Washington School of Medicine; and Richard Moxon, Oxford University
Email: caporale at usa.net
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