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Keynote and Plenary Speakers

  • Ewan Birney, EMBL, EBI
    Ewan Birney is one of the co-founders of the Ensembl Project, has worked on many large scale genomic s project and recently lead the ENCODE pilot analysis. He is head of Nucleotide data at European Bioinformatics Institute.
  • Barbara Wold, Caltech
    Barbara Wold is the Bren Professor of Molecular Biology at Caltech and Director of its Beckman Institute. She will talk about obtaining, analyzing, and interpreting ChIP-Seq, RNA-Seq and other sequence census data.
  • Shirley Liu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Shirley Liu is Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health. She will discuss the interesting observations and insights from ChIP-seq data analyses, and how to use the analyses in transcription and epigenetic regulation studies.
  • Claudio Moser, Edmund Mach Foundation
    Claudio Moser is Head of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit at the IASMA-FEM Research Center (San Michele all’Adige, Italy). His talk will include recent findings on the molecular mechanisms behind grapevine berry ripening as discovered by genome-wide expression profiling and functional assays.
  • Duccio Cavalieri, University of Florence
  • Joe Gray, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • Michael Bittner, TGen
    Michael Bittner is co-director of the Computational Biology Division of TGen. His talk will discuss the utility of analyses based on expectations derived from biological models of regulation.
  • Nigel Carter, Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust
    Nigel Carter is Head of Molecular Cytogenetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. His talk will describe the use of DNA microarrays and the DECIPHER database to diagnose developmental disorders caused by structural rearrangements of chromosomes.
  • Chris Stoeckert, PCBI, University of Pennsylvania
    Chris Stoeckert is Research Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania and the current president of the MGED Society. Included in his talk will be an update on standards for High Throughput Sequencing experiments.
  • Helen Parkinson, EMBL, EBI
  • Susanna-Assunta Sansone, EMBL, EBI
    Susanna-Assunta Sansone is Project Coordinator at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI, UK) and the MGED RSBI working group chair. Included in her talk will be an update on the synergistics development of reporting standards for studies employing multiple technologies in combination.
  • Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons
  • Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science
    Naama Barkai is from the department of Molecular Genetics and Physics of Complex Systems at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
  • Rainer Spang, University of Regensburg
    Rainer Spang is Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Regensburg, Germany and head of the Computational Diagnostics Group. His talk will address the modelling and reconstruction of non-transcriptional signalling pathways using transcriptional profiles of RNAi assays.
  • Stephen Oliver, University of Cambridge
  • Atul Butte, Stanford
    Atul Butte is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Informatics), Pediatrics, and by courtesy, Computer Science at Stanford, and is a pediatric endocrinologist and on the board of the American Medical Informatics Association. Included in his talk will be examples of how publicly-available gene expression measurements can be joined with clinical measurements on patients to enable new thinking about the nature of disease itself.
  • John Quackenbush, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    John Quackenbush is Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology and Professor of Cancer Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He will present an introductory hands-on workshop on the analysis of DNA microarray data, with applications using the free, open source MeV software tool available at (http://www.tm4.org ).
  • Roger Bumgarner, University of Washington
    Roger Bumgarner is Associate Professor of Microbiology and the Director of the Center for Array Technologies at the University of Washington. His workshop will cover statistical methods for data analysis using the open source JAVA program MEV.
  • Wolfgang Huber, EMBL, EBI
    Wolfgang Huber is Researcher at EMBL-EBI where he develops mathematical and statistical methods for the understanding of functional genomics data. The tutorial will include an overview over tools for the computation of microarray quality metrics, the workshop will cover the current state of their automated interpretation.
  • Gabriella Rustici, EMBL, EBI
    Gabriella Rustici is Research Scientist in the Microarray Informatics Team at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Her tutorial will focus on how to query, retrieve and interpret data from the ArrayExpress database. Data submission to the database will also be covered.
  • Ted Liefeld, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Cambridge