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Poster Awards

1st Place: Mark Chaisson, UCSD, "Micro-Inversions in Mammalian Evolution"

2nd Place: John McCrow, USC, "Modeling Conserved Indels as Phylogenetic Markers in Shewanella"

3rd Place: Daniel Goodman, Noah Ollikainen, and Chris Sholley, UCSD, "Genome Rearrangements In Baculovirus Genomes"

Short Presentation Awards

Chris Benner "HOMER: An algorithm for the de novo discovery of cis-regulatory elements from high throughput data" [Abstract]

Christine Vogel "Insights into transcriptional and translational regulation by absolute protein expression profiling" [Abstract]

Poster Abstracts

1. "Integration of expression and textual data enhances the prediction of prognosis in breast cancer"
Presenting author: Olivier Gevaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Co-Authors: Steven Van Vooren, Bart De Moor
[Poster PDF]

2. "Genome-wide Association Mapping in Inbred Mice under the Effect of Population Structure"
Presenting author: Hyun Min Kang, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Noah A. Zaitlen, Chun Ye, Jerry Wang, Andrew Kirby, Claire M. Wade, David Heckerman, Mark J. Daly, Eleazar Eskin

3. "Comparative Genomics of Metal Uptake Transporters and Regulatory Systems in Bacteria"
Presenting author: Dmitry A. Rodionov, Burnham Institute
Co-Authors: Mikhail S. Gelfand, Andrew Johnston

4. "Genome-Scale Reconstruction Of The Transcriptional And Translational Machinery Of E. coli: The "Dogma" Matrix"
Presenting author: Ines Thiele, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Neema Jamshidi, Matthew Yeung, and Bernhard Ř. Palsson

5. "Using an Alignment of Fragment Strings for Comparing Protein Structures"
Presenting author: Iddo Friedberg, Burnham Institute
Co-Authors: Tim harder, Rachel Kolodny, Einat Sitbon, Zhanwen Li, Adam Godzik
[Poster PDF]

6. "Micro-Inversions in Mammalian Evolution"
Presenting author: Mark Chaisson, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Benjamin Raphael, Pavel Pevzner

7. "Whole proteome analysis of post-translational modifications: applications of mass-spectrometry for proteogenomic annotation"
Presenting author: Nitin Gupta, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Stephen Tanner, Navdeep Jaitly, Joshua Adkins, Mary Lipton, Margaret Romine, Robert Edwards, Andrei Osterman, Vineet Bafna, Richard Smith, Pavel Pevzner

8. "Identifying hierarchical community structures in biological networks"
Presenting author: Jianhua Ruan, Washington University in St Louis
Co-Authors: Weixiong Zhang
[Poster PDF]

9. "A fast index structure for RNA-RNA interaction search"
Presenting author: Chi Kin Ho, Simon Fraser University
Co-Authors: Cagri Aksay, Emre Karakoc, S.Cenk Sahinalp
[Poster PDF]

10. "Comprehensively Bayesian formulation of the problem of shotgun sequence assembly"
Presenting author: Steve Rayhawk, San Diego State University

11. "Using perfect phylogenies on homoplasmic data"
Presenting author: Fjola Run Bjornsdottir, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Vineet Bafna

12. "Evidence for siRNA silencing as a mode of regulation of cis-antisense overlapping genes"
Presenting author: Jesse Rodriguez, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Josef Kuhn

13. "Surveys of Local Minima and Kinetics in Realistic Protein Folding Models"
Presenting author: Michael C. Prentiss, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: David J. Wales, Peter G. Wolynes
[Poster PDF]

14. "Case(Control)-Free Multi-SNP Combinations in Case-Control Studies"
Presenting author: Dumitru Brinza, Geogia State University
Co-Authors: Alexander Zelikovsky
[Poster PDF]

15. "Higher Fidelity Subtree Merging for Disk-Covering Methods"
Presenting author: Nicholas D. Pattengale, University of New Mexico
Co-Authors: Krister M. Swenson, Monique M. Morin, Bernard M.E. Moret
[Poster PDF]

16. "MODi: A Scalable Approach to Identify Multiple Peptide Modifications from Tandem Mass Spectra"
Presenting author: Sangtae Kim, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Seungjin Na, Heejin Park, Kong-Joo Lee and Eunok Paek
[Poster PDF]

17. "Local Structural Comparison with Global Structural Descriptors"
Presenting author: Degui Zhi, University of California, Berkeley
Co-Authors: Maxim Shatsky, Steven Brenner
[Poster PDF]

18. "An experimental comparison of two different paradigms in Evolutionary"
Presenting author: Giovanna Martínez Arellano, CICESE Research Center
Co-Authors: Carlos A. Brizuela
[Poster PDF]

19. "Genome Rearrangements In Baculovirus Genomes"
Presenting author: Daniel Goodman, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Noah Ollikainen, Chris Sholley, Pavel Pevzner

20. "Towards Validating the Hypothesis of Phylogenetic Profiling"
Presenting author: Raja Loganantharaj, University of Louisiana
Co-Authors: Mazon Atwi
[Poster PDF]

21. "Riboswitch Elements in the Ocean’s Microbial Communities and their Tandem Arrangements"
Presenting author: Shaojie Zhang, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Vineet Bafna

22. "Use of Amino Acid Attributes to Detect Remote Protein Homology"
Presenting author: Merril Gersten, University of California San Diego

23. "Predicting domain-domain interactions using a parsimony approach"
Presenting author: Katia S. Guimaraes, NCBI/NLM/NIH
Co-Authors: Raja Jothi, Elena Zotenko, and Teresa Przytycka
[Poster PDF]

24. "Novel algorithms for the in vitro gene synthesis oligo design problem"
Presenting author: Chris Thachuk, Simon Fraser University
Co-Authors: Anne Condon, Arvind Gupta
[Poster PDF]

25. "Modeling Crosstalk Between the NFkB and JNK Signaling Pathways"
Presenting author: Paul Loriaux, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Jeff Kearns, Rebecca Delker, Derren Barken, Alexander Hoffmann

26. "MetaReg Application: a graphical interface for modeling and evalutation of biological systems"
Presenting author: Igor Ulitsky, Tel Aviv University
Co-Authors: Irit Gat-Viks, Amos Tanay, Ron Shamir

27. "HaploPool: Improving Haplotype Frequency Estimation through DNA Pools and Phylogenetic Modeling"
Presenting author: Eran Halperin, International Computer Science Institute
Co-Authors: Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Carlos Santos Armendariz, Richard M. Karp
[Poster PDF]

28. "Optical Mapping: Aligning Against Sequence and FPC Findings"
Presenting author: Michael Riel-Mehan, University of Southern California
Co-Authors: John V. Nguyen, David C. Schwartz, Shiguo Zhou, Steve Goldstein, Chris Churas,
Michael S. Waterman

29. "The TOPStrings Protein Structure Comparison Method - A Novel Approach"
Presenting author: Mallika Veeramalai, University of Glasgow
Co-Authors: David Gilbert

30. "Modeling Conserved Indels as Phylogenetic Markers in Shewanella"
Presenting author: John McCrow, University of Southern California
Co-Authors: Kenneth H. Nealson, Michael S. Waterman

31. "Insights into transcriptional and translational regulation by absolute protein expression profiling"
Presenting author: Christine Vogel, University of Texas at Austin
Co-Authors: Peng Lu, Rong Wang, Xin Yao, Edward M. Marcotte
[Poster PDF]

32. "HOMER: An algorithm for the de novo discovery of cis-regulatory elements from high throughput data"
Presenting author: Chris Benner, University of California San Diego
Co-Authors: Fernando Garcia Alcalde, Shankar Subramaniam, Christopher Glass
[Abstract]

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