October 2011 GMOD Meeting

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October 2011 GMOD Meeting

12-13 October 2011
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Toronto, Canada

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Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

The next GMOD meeting will be held in October 12-13, 2011 at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) in Toronto, Canada. OICR is the home of GBrowse and BioMart.

If you're curious to see what happens at a GMOD meeting, see the writeup of the September 2010 GMOD Meeting, or the March 2011 GMOD Meeting page.

Watch this page for details as the meeting gets closer.

Registration

Please go to the registration page at Eventbrite: gmod.eventbrite.com.

Note due to meeting space requirements, attendance is limited to 40 people.

Keynote speakers

Gary D. Bader

Gary D. Bader
Gary works on biological network analysis and pathway information resources as an Associate Professor at The Donnelly Centre at the University of Toronto. He completed post-doctoral work in the group of Chris Sander in the Computational Biology Center (cBio) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Gary developed the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND) during his Ph.D. in the lab of Christopher Hogue in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He completed a B.Sc. in Biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal. See http://baderlab.org for more information on Gary.

Michael Brudno

Michael Brudno http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~brudno/
Mike's main research interest is the development of computational methods for the analysis of High throughput, a.k.a. Next-Generation sequencing data. His group is working on algorithms for assembly, mapping, visualization, and variation discovery with short reads. In addition, they also work on cloud computing, whole-genome alignment, as well as on detection and analysis of genome variation in the sea squirt C. savignyi.

After receiving a BA in Computer Science and History from UC Berkeley, Mike worked on his PhD at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, developing several approaches for comparison of genomic sequences, including the LAGAN Alignment Toolkit. He then completed a postdoc at the Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley and was a Visiting Scientist at CSAIL (MIT) before starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in January 2006. He is the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Ontario Early Researcher Award, and a Canada Research Chair in Computational Biology. See http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~brudno/ for more information on Mike.

Suggested agenda items

Please feel free to add suggested talks or topics for the meeting.

  • The Mycoplasma Genome Database: marrying microscopy and genomics (Andrew Oberlin & Iddo Friedberg)
  • Improving MOD interoperability (Scott Cain, Josh Goodman will lead the discussion)

Suggested satellite meetings

Logistics

Hotel

We don't have a block of rooms reserved due to unfavorable contracts offered. We're suggesting staying at Delta Chelsea hotel, as it is convenient to OICR.

Meeting Location

At this time, we are waiting to see how many people will be attending before we settle on an exact location. It will be somewhere within a short walk of OICR.

Next Meeting

April 2012 GMOD Meeting