Program
Monday April 28
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome |
| 09:15 - 09:40 | Sandra Niemeier | Synthetic primary microRNAs as an effective means to create stabile and highly specific knockdown mutatns of plant genes in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 09:40 - 10:05 | Stefanie Schirmer | Tree alignment of RNA secondary structures with affine gap costs |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | Jukka Kohonen | Methods for incomplete hierarchical classification in the gene ontology |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | Stefan Boerner | Gene duplication and multiple reactive site loop exon cassettes - evolutionary adaptation mechanisms of serpins |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Sebastian Burgemeister | Cell detection and viability classification of animal cell cultures using dark field micrographs |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Prof. Dr. Robert Giegerich (invited speaker) | Dynamic programming - the cool way |
| Lunch break | |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Abhishek Tripathi | Linear data fusion based on caninical correlation analysis |
| 14:25 - 14:50 | Jussi Kollin | Coalescent simulation of inversion polymorphisms |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | Georg Sauthoff | Table design in dynamic programming |
| 15:15 - 15:40 | Bjoern Sommer | CELLmicrocosmos 2.1: A software approach for the visualization of three-dimensional PDB membranes |
| Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Settu Sridhar | Phylogenomics: A mini-review of tools to improve protein function annotation |
| 16:25 - 16:50 | Rosa Karlic | Post-translational histone modifications as a predictor of transcription patterns |
| 16:50 - 17:25 | Swati Prasad | Evaluating the Sanger and TIGR annotations for Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and comparative genomics of completely sequenced Mycobacterial genomes |
| 17:25 - 18:00 | Prof. Dr. Bernd Weisshaar (invited speaker) | |
| 19:00 - open end | Dinner | Conference Dinner at Brauhaus |
Tuesday April 29
| 9:00 - 9:25 | Crispin Mutshinda | A bayesian methodology for identifying and quantifying relevant mechanisms in community dynamics |
| 9:25 - 9:50 | Pekka Parviainen | A bayesian decision tree method for locating disease genes |
| 9:50 - 10:15 | Nils Hoffmann | On dynamic time warping for time series alignment in gas-chromatography mass-spectrometry |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Wolfgang Gerlach | Taxonomical and Functional Characterization of Ultra-Short Reads from
Microbial Metagenomes using the q-Gram Index |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | Markus Heinonen | FiD: new software for de novo identification of metabolite fragments from tandem mass spectrometry data |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Ilkka Huopaniemi | Exploring disease-related dependencies between metabolic profiles of several tissues |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Prof. Dr. Jens Stoye (invited speaker) | Computational aspects in gene order studies |
| Lunch break | |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Paz Polak | Substitution patterns associated with transcription vary across taxa |
| 14:25 - 14:50 | Akdes Serin | Probabilistic approach for inferring regulatory networks |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | Animesh Sharma | Comparing the performance of various assemblers on a genome partially sequenced with 454 pyrosequencing |
| Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | Matti Pirinen | Incorporating biological prior information into the haplotyping problem: the PHASE algorithm |
| 15:55 - 16:20 | Xuan Hung Ta | Synchronization phenomena in scale-free networks with the Kuramoto model |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Discussion |
| 17:00 - 19:30 | Social activity | Sparrenexpress |
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