CSB2: Council for Systems Biology in Boston
Cells, Circuits, and Computation 2011: Computational Biology in Boston
Friday, January 21, 2011
8am – 6pm
CCC2011 is a day-long conference on computational biology research in the Boston area. There are two sessions with faculty speakers, a keynote and one session with graduate student speakers selected from submitted abstracts. The conference ends with a poster session. (Graduate students who submit their poster abstract should indicate whether they are prepared to speak in the graduate student session if selected). The keynote speaker is Aviv Regev from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
Location
Harvard University
Northwest Science Building, B1 level, lecture hall B103
52 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA
Speakers
Keynote: Aviv Regev (Broad Institute)
Curtis Huttenhower (Harvard School of Public Health)
Nick Patterson (Broad Institute)
Marian Walhout (UMass Worcester)
Daniel Segre (Boston University)
Steve McCarroll (Harvard Medical School)
Eric Alm (MIT)
Information for students and postdocs
Four graduate student speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts. A prize for best poster will be awarded.
Schedule
| Coffee and Registration | 8:15 – 8:50 |
| Andrew Murray
Welcome and opening remarks |
8:50 – 9:00 |
| Session 1 | |
| Eric Alm, MIT
title TBA |
9:00 – 9:30 |
| Daniel Segrè, Boston University
Predicting metabolic interactions in natural and synthetic microbial ecosystems |
9:30 – 10:00 |
| Marian Walhout, UMass Worcester Medical School
Gene regulatory networks |
10:00 – 10:30 |
| Coffee Break | 10:30 – 11:00 |
| Session 2: keynote | |
| Aviv Regev, MIT and Broad Institute
Function and evolution of regulatory circuits: from yeast to mammals |
11:00 – 11:45 |
| Lunch: Box lunch available outside the lecture hall | 11:45 – 1:30 |
| Session 3 | |
| 4 graduate student speakers (20 minutes each) | 1:30 – 2:50 |
| Coffee Break | 2:50 – 3:30 |
| Session 4 | |
| Nick Patterson, Broad Institute
Analysis of ancient genomes |
3:30 – 4:00 |
| Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard School of Public Health
Computational metagenomics and the human microbiome |
4:00 – 4:30 |
| Steven McCarroll, Harvard Medical School
Structural variation in the human genome |
4:30 – 5:00 |
| Poster Session + appetizers/drinks | 5:00 – 7:00 |
Registration
| Online registration discount rate until Jan 14 |
On-site registration | |
|---|---|---|
| Undergraduates and graduate students | $25 (first-year grad students free) | $40 |
| Non-students (postdocs, fellows, PIs etc) | $50 | $60 |
Poster
Download the 8.5″ × 11″ poster here:
