GIW2008 Program

Monday 1 December
8:00 - 8:30	*Registration*
	SESSION CHAIR - Mark Ragan
8:30 - 8:50	Conference opening - Peter Andrews - Queensland Government
8:50 - 9:50	Keynote 1 - Sean Grimmond - Sequencing the transcriptome in toto
9:50 - 10:20	*Morning Tea*
10:20 - 10:45	Contributed paper 1 - Lesley Collins - An approach to transcriptome analysis of non-model organisms using short-read sequences
10:45 - 11:10	Contributed paper 2 - Patrick Ng - Factoring local sequence composition in motif significance analysis
11:10 - 11:35	WINNER - BEST PAPER AWARD Contributed paper 3 - Wei-Bung Wang - A new model of multi-marker correlation for genome-wide tag SNP selection
11:35 - 12:00	Contributed paper 4 - Yukako Tohsato - Phenotype profiling of single gene deletion mutants of E. coli using Biolog technology
12:00 - 13:00	*Lunch / poster viewing*
	SESSION CHAIR - Matthew Bellgard
13:00 - 14:00	Keynote 2 - Ming Li - Modern homology search
14:00 - 14:15	Poster oral 1 - Shivashankar Nagaraj - Promoter sequence analysis of differentially expressed genes in sheep following a nematode parasite challenge - Poster 69
14:15 - 14:30	Poster oral 2 - Ikuo Uchiyama - CoreAligner: Multiple genome alignment for identifying the genomic core - Poster 100
14:30 - 15:00	*Afternoon Tea*
15:00 - 15:25	Contributed paper 5 - Yusuke Ishida - Improved algorithms for enumerating tree-like chemical graphs with given path frequency
15:25 - 15:50	Contributed paper 6 - Aung and Tong - BSAlign: a rapid graph-based algorithm for detecting ligand-binding sites in protein structures
15.50 - 17:00	Round table 1: Innovation models in bioinformatics
17:00 - 19.30	Poster session 1
19:30	*AASBi Executive dinner*
19:30	*PC dinner*

Tuesday 2 December
8:00 - 8:30	*Registration*
	SESSION CHAIR - Limsoon Wong
8:30 - 9:30	Keynote 5 - Julio Collado-Vides - Modeling and Computational Biology of Gene Regulation in Bacteria
9:30 - 9:55	Contributed paper 7 - Suk Hoon Jung - Protein complex prediction based on mutally exclusive interactions in protein interaction network
9.55 - 10:30	*Morning Tea*
10:30 - 10:55	Contributed paper 8 - Quek Lars Nielsen - On the reconstruction of the Mus musculus genome-scale metabolic network model
10:55 - 11:20	FINALIST - BEST PAPER AWARD Contributed paper 9 - Rui Yamaguchi - Predicting differences in gene regulatory systems by state space models
11:20 - 11.45	Contributed paper 11 - Joshua Ho - Inferring differential leukocyte activity from antibody microarrays using a latent variable model
11.45 - 13:00	*Lunch / poster viewing*
	SESSION CHAIR - Satoru Miyano
13:00 - 14:00	Keynote 4 - Cliona Molony - Reconstructing the circuits of disease: from molecular states to physiological states
14:00 - 14:15	Poster oral 3 - Akira Ninagawa and Koji Eguchi - Link Prediction in Metabolic Networks using Topology-based Mixture Models - Poster 45
14:15 - 14:30	Poster oral 4 - Gabriel Fung and Xiaofang Zhou. - Biolism -- A System for Searching and Mining - Poster 111
14:30 - 15:00	*Afternoon Tea*
15:00 - 15:25	Contributed paper 12 - Limsoon Wong - Assessing and predicting protein interactions using both local and global network topological metrics
15:25 - 15:50	Contributed paper 15 - Li et al - Cis-Regulatory Element Based Gene Finding: An Application in Arabidopsis thaliana - Paper 5
15:50 - 17:00	Round table 2: Genome-scale informatics in China and India
17:00	Poster session 2
18:15	Depart to conference banquet Australian Outback Spectacular

Wednesday 3 December
8:00 - 8:30	*Registration*
	SESSION CHAIR - Allen Rodrigo
8:30 - 9:30	Keynote 3 - Yi-xue Li - Modeling human genome-wide combinatorial regulatory netwoeks initiated by transcription factors and microRNAs using forward and reverse engineering
9:30 - 9:55	Contributed paper 13 - Allen Rodrigo - Modelling the evolution of protein coding sequence sampled from measurably evoloving populations
9:55 -10:30	*Morning Tea*
10:30 - 10:55	Contributed paper 14 - Cheong Xin Chan - A phylogenomic approach for studying plastid endosymbiosis
10:55 - 11:20	Contributed paper 16 - Alexis Vandenbon - Using simple rules on presence and positioning of motifs for promoter structure modeling and tissue specific expression prediction
11:20 - 11:45	Contributed paper 10 - Hassam Soueidan - Exploratory simulation of cell ageing using hierarchical models
11:45 - 13:00	Lunch / poster viewing
	SESSION CHAIR - Sang Yup Lee
13:00 - 14:00	Keynote 6 - Mattick - A new understanding of the human genome
14:00 - 14:15	Poster oral 5 - Murlidharan Nair - Extracting biological knowledge from SVM models capable of distinguishing alternative and constitutive splicing - Poster 53
14:15 - 14:30	Poster oral 6 - Fan Shi - A Bi-ordering Approach to Linking Gene Expressions with Clinical Annotations in Cancer - Poster 37
14:30 - 15:00	FINALIST - BEST PAPER AWARD Contributed paper 18 - Yuto Ikegami - Simulation analysis for the effect of light-dark cycle on the entrainment in circadian rhythm
15:00 - 15:25	*Conference close*
15:25 - 15:50	*Afternoon Tea*