Student Symposium

1st Annual Bioinformatics Program Student-Organized Symposium

Theme: Transcriptional Regulation

When: June 9, 2006

Where: LSEB (24 Cummington St.) Room B01

Registration: Free. E-mail name and school affiliation to gustafad@bu.edu to register!

Schedule of Events:
8:30 - 8:40	Introduction by Melissa Landon, President of Bioinformatics Program Student Group
8:40 - 9:40	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tom Misteli "Cell Biology of Genomes"	Head of the Cell Biology of Genomes Group at National Cancer Institute Website Publications
9:40 - 9:55	Graduate Student Talk: Michael Schaffer Title: "Elucidation of Signal-Responsive Transcriptional Programs in Mammalian Cells"
9:55 - 10:55	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bing Ren “Mapping the Genome's Second Code” Abstract	Assistant Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine Cancer Biology Program University of California, San Diego Website Publications
10:55 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	Graduate Student Talk: Yutao Fu "Study of Transcriptional Regulation Using the ENCODE Datasets"
11:30 - 12:30	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Eisen	Ph.D. Scientist, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Univerisity of California at Berkeley. Website Publications
12:30 - 2:30	Lunch Break and Poster Session
2:30 - 3:30	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mark Gerstein	Albert L Williams Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Computer Science, Yale University Website Publications
3:30 - 3:45	Graduate Student Talk: Joseph Mellor "Transcription Factor Expression and Modeled Preferences for /cis/ Regulatory Sites"
3:45 - 4:45	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gary Stormo "Computational Approaches to Identifying Regulatory Sites in Genomic DNA" Abstract	Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine Website Publications
4:45 - 5:00	Break
5:00 - 5:45	Panel Discussion with Keynote Speakers

For more information please contact:

Adam Gustafson at gustafad@bu.edu



Directions / Public Transportation
Take a Green Line B train (Boston College) to the Blandford Street stop. From this stop, cross Commonwealth Avenue (towards the Metcalf Center - a large brick building with a plaza in front of it) and walk down Blandford Street. Turn Right onto Cummington Street when Blandford Street dead ends. Continue down the street to 24 Cummington Street.


Directions / Driving
West or Southwest. Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) East to Exit 18, Brighton/Cambridge. Exit left. Follow signs to Cambridge to the second set of lights. Turn right at the lights onto Soldiers Field Road/Storrow Drive. Exit Storrow Drive at the Kenmore exit. See below for directions from Kenmore Square.

North. Take I-93 or Route 1 South to Boston. Exit onto Storrow Drive (Exit 26). Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Square exit. See below for directions from Kenmore Square.

South. Take I-93 North to Boston. Exit onto Massachusetts Avenue Exit. Continue on Mass Ave. for a few miles. Turn left onto Beacon Street. Drive to Kenmore Square. See below for directions from Kenmore Square.

Kenmore Square exit. At the first set of traffic lights, turn right onto Beacon Street. At this point, the road forks. Take the left fork into Kenmore Square (the large building on the right is the Myles Standish Residence Hall). Bear right at the far end of Kenmore Square onto Commonwealth Avenue. Continue down Commonwealth Avenue until the first intersection. Make a left turn onto Blandford Street and then a right turn onto Cummington Street. In the opposite direction: You will pass the Warren Towers Residence Hall on your right. Take your second right onto Blandford Street and then make a right turn onto Cummington Street.

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