What:
Third Annual Computational Biology Symposium at Carnegie Mellon University Human Genetics and Genomics: Computational Challenges
When:
12:30 to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 12
Where:
3305 Newell-Simon Hall
Who:
Dannie Durand, Department of Biological Sciences and Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon, 12:30 to 12:45 p.m., Introduction
Martin Farach-Colton, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University,
12:45 to 1:45 p.m., Genome Assemblies and Interval Graphs
Sarah Tishkoff, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, 2:15 to 3:15 p.m.,
Patterns of Human Genetic Diversity: Implications for Human Evolution and Disease
Russell Schwartz, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, 3:15 to 4:15 p.m., Algorithms for Extracting Information from Human Genetic Variation
Reception, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Why:
Now that we have the human genome sequence, what can we do with it? Deciphering the human genetic code so that we better understand gene function in sickness and health, gene interaction in living cells and our own evolutionary history is an extraordinary challenge facing 21st-century biologists. Computational tools to analyze the human genome sequence are crucial to this endeavor. This year's Computational Biology Symposium reviews and critiques methods used to assemble the human genome sequence for analysis, as well as algorithms to capture variation in that sequence from one individual to another. These discussions will be placed in the context of our understanding of human genetic diversity, current ways to address questions about human evolution and research on the ability of genetic variation both to protect against disease and to increase our susceptibility to illness.
Web:
For registration/more information: www.cs.cmu.edu/~durand/symposium03.html
