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: