SCHEDULE

Saturday August 24

Schedule

Session

Speaker

Title

8h50-9h

Opening Remarks

Nadia El-Mabrouk

9h-9h15

David Celebration

Anne Bergeron

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9h20-10h

Retrospective and Prospective views on Computational Biology

Gene Myers

What's behind Blast
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10h-10h30

Coffee Break

10h30-10h55

Evolutionary Genomics

David Bryant

Forty years of model-based phylogeography

11h-11h25

Laxmi Parida

Genetic history of populations: limits to inference

11h30-11h55

Louxin Zhang

Non-binary tree reconciliation
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12h-12h25

Miklos Csuros

How to infer ancestral genome features by parsimony?

12h30-14h

Lunch

14h-14h40

RP Computational Biology

Tandy Warnow

Large-scale multiple sequence alignment and phylogeny estimation
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14h45-14h55

David Celebration

Joe Felsenstein

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15h-15h25

Evolutionary Genomics

Bernard Moret

Rearrangements in phylogenetic inference: Compare, model, or encode?

15h30-15h55

Jens Lagergren

Modelling somatic evolution in cancer

16h-16h25

John Kececioglu

Parameter Advising for Multiple Sequence Alignment

16h30-19h

Poster session

19h30

Evening meal

Sunday August 25

Schedule

Session

Speaker

Title

9h-9h30

David Celebration

David Sankoff

Fractionation, rearrangement, consolidation, reconstruction
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9h30-10h20

RP Computational Biology

Joseph H. Nadeau

Remembrance of things past: Epigenetic inheritance of phenotypic variation and disease risk
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10h20-10h50

Coffee break

10h50-11h15

Evolutionary Genomics

Aoife McLysaght

Gene dosage sensitivity and copy number evolution

11h20-11h45

Eric Lyons and Victor A. Albert

Comparative analysis of the minute genome of the humped bladderwort, Utricularia gibba
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11h50-12h15

Tao Jiang

Separating Metagenomic Reads into Genomes via Clustering
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12h20-14h

Lunch

14h-14h40

RP Computational Biology

Pavel Pevzner

What is the difference between breakpoint graphs and de Bruijn graphs?

14h45-14h55

David Celebration

Jotun Hein

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15h-15h30

Coffee Break

15h30-15h55

Evolutionary Genomics

Dannie Durand

The Trouble with Triples

16h-16h25

J. Meidanis/S. Yancopoulos

The emperor has no caps! A comparison of DCJ and Algebraic distances

16h30-16h55

Binhai Zhu

A Restrospective on Genomic Preprocessing for Comparative Genomics.
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17h-19h

Poster session

19h

Banquet

Monday August 26

Schedule

Session

Speaker

Title

8h45-9h25

RP Computational Biology

Ron Shamir

Vodka Ad: "Sniff" and other rearrangements

9h30-9h55

Evolutionary Genomics

Olga Troyanskaya

Understanding gene function across organisms with functional networks

9h55-10h25

Coffee break

10h25-10h50

Evolutionary Genomics

Jens Stoye

The potential of family-free genome comparison
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10h55-11h20

Liqing Zhang

Status of research on insertion and deletion variations in the human population

11h25-11h50

Mathieu Blanchette

Chromatin organization and genome rearrangements

11h50-12h

Closing remarks

Cédric Chauve

12h-13h

Lunch

13h30

Departure