Network Biology

Apr 11, 2016 to Apr 15, 2016

Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

Please note that this schedule is subject to change. All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

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Monday, April 11th, 2016
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:20 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:30 am		Using Molecular Networks to Seed Predictive Hierarchies of Cell Systems Trey Ideker, UC San Diego
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:30 am		Uncertainty in Biological Networks; Challenges and Opportunities Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Diffusion-Based Metrics for Biological Network Analysis Lenore Cowen, Tufts University
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		Systematic Functional Annotation of the 2016 Yeast Genetic Interaction Network Anastasia Baryshnikova, Princeton University
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Sampling the Low End of Affinity Marcus Noyes, New York University
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Pathways, Centrality, and Regulation in Developmental Disorders Donna Slonim, Tufts University
4:00 pm–5:30 pm		Reception

Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am–10:00 am		On Beyond Genome: Opportunities and Challenges Using the Other Omics for Precision Medicine Ernest Fraenkel, MIT
10:00 am–10:30 am		Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems Arising in the Analysis of Cancer Mutation Networks Fabio Vandin, University of Padova
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:30 am		HIT’nDRIVE: Patient-Specific Multi-Driver Gene Prioritization to Guide Precision Cancer Medicine Raunak Shrestha, Vancouver Prostate Centre / University of British Columbia
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Network Analysis of Cancer Mutations Ben Raphael, Brown University
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		Fathoming Cancer by Interrogating Integrated Interactomes Igor Jurisica, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Network Data Integration Enables Precision Medicine Natasa Przulj, University College London
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Moderated Discussion

Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am–10:00 am		Transcriptional Enhancers - Looking out for the Genes and Each Other Sridhar Hannenhalli, University of Maryland
10:00 am–10:30 am		Dynamics of 3D Enhancer-Gene Associations Across Diverse Human Cell Types and Tissues Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:30 am		Profiling Cell/Tissue Specific Gene Regulatory Networks Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Variation of Regulatory Networks Across Organisms Mona Singh, Princeton University
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		Spatial Gene Expression Patterns in Drosophila Bin Yu, UC Berkeley
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Network Perspective on Expression Changes and Expression Noise in D. melanogaster Chromosomal Deletions Teresa Przytycka, NCBI
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Cross-Species Interactome Mapping Reveals Network Evolution Principles from Yeasts to Human Haiyuan Yu, Cornell University
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		Moving Beyond Local Patterns: New Ways to Reason about Biological Network Comparisons Ben Hescott, Tufts University

Thursday, April 14th, 2016
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am–10:00 am		A Network Approach to Human Kinase Specificity Ulrich Stelzl, University of Graz, Austria
10:00 am–10:30 am		Data Driven "Pathway" Analysis with ADAGE Casey Greene, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:30 am		Synthesis, Simplification and Analysis of Biological Networks Using Higher Order Topological Connectivities Bhaskar DasGupta, University of Illinois at Chicago
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Network Propagation as a Tool for Deciphering Disease Mechanisms Roded Sharan, Tel Aviv University
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		Dynamic and Integrative Biological Network Research of Aging Tijana Milenkovic, Notre Dame
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Efficiently Enumerating All Connected Induced Subgraphs of a Large Molecular Network Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Network-Based Approaches to Decipher the Molecular Basis of Hereditary Diseases Esti Yeger-Lotem, Ben Gurion University
4:00 pm–5:00 pm		Moderated Discussion

Friday, April 15th, 2016
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am–10:00 am		Identifying Disease Mechanisms Using Gene Networks as Priors Anna Goldenberg, University of Toronto
10:00 am–10:30 am		Simple Models and Exact Algorithms for Computing Network Modules Gunnar Klau, CWI Amsterdam
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:30 am		Local Similarity Analysis (LSA) of Time Series Data and Applications to Metagenomics Fengzhu Sun, USC
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Module Discovery in 3-way Data Ron Shamir, Tel Aviv University
12:00 pm–12:15 pm		Summary & Closing Remarks