Program

Keynote

Speaker: Jenn-Kang Hwang, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Biological Science and Technology
National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
On the protein structure-dynamics-function relationship

Session 1: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (I)

Session Organizer: Cathy Wu, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology
Director of Protein Information Resource
Georgetown University (Washington, DC, USA)

Hai Hu, Ph.D.
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Director of Biomedical Informatics
Windber Research Institute (Windber, PA, USA)
Application of Biomedical Informatics to Translational Research

Guang Yao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University (Durham, NC, USA)
Biological Networks: A bistable Rb–E2F switch underlies the restriction point

Zhang-Zhi Hu, M.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Team Lead
Protein Information Resource, Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, DC, USA)
Biological Pathway and Network Analysis for Functional Interpretation of Large-Scale Omics Data

Session 2: Cancer Biology (I)

Session Organizer: Shridar Ganesan, M.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, NJ, USA)

Carlo Maley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Wistar Institute (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Solving the Puzzle of Metastasis with an Agent-Based Model

Shridar Ganesan, M.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, NJ, USA)
Biology of Basal-like breast cancer

Kim Hirshfield, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Polymorphisms in P53 Pathway Genes and Clinical Associations in Breast Cancer

Session 3:Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (II)

Session Organizer: Ouhyoung Ming, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Deputy Dean, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan)

Jason T.L. Wang, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Director, Data and Knowledge  Engineering Lab and Bioinformatics Center
New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ, USA)
Detecting RNA Motifs with RADAR

Jung-Hsien Chiang, Ph.D.
Professor, Institute of Medical Informatics
National Cheng-Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan)
Data-Driven Computational Function Association Networks in Cancer Study

Spencer Chiang-Ching Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA)
Identification of Robust Genomic Signatures via Multiple Cross Validation

Session 4: Cancer Biology (II)

Session Organizer: Yibin Kang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA)

Guohong Hu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA)
Genomic Gain of 8q22 Activates Metadherin and Promotes Chemoresistant Metastasis of Poor-Prognosis Breast Cancer

Anant Madabhushi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey (Piscataway, NJ, USA)
Computer-aided Diagnosis of Breast, Prostate Cancer from Digitized Histopathology

Session 5: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (III)

Session Organizer: Frank Hsu, Ph.D.
Clavius Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science
Associate Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Fordham University (Bronx, NY, USA)

Henry Horng-shing Lu, Ph.D.
Professor, Institute of Statistics
National Chiao-Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
Multidimensional scaling for large genomic data sets

Nickolas Kintos, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
Fordham University (New York, NY, USA)
Comparing Projection Neuron- and Neuromodulator-Elicited Network Oscillations: A Modeling Study

Mingyao Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Modeling Genetic Inheritance of Copy Number Variations

Panel Discussion

"Synergy of Informatics and Biomedical Research in Academia and Industry"
Moderators: Yibin Kang (Princeton University), Li-San Wang (University of Pennsylvania)
Panelists:
Shridar Ganesan (UMDNJ)
Hai Hu (Windber Institute)
Jenn-Kang Hwang (Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
Cathy Wu (Georgetown University)