2nd Annual Retreat May 11-12, 2007
Oglebay Resort & Conference Center
Friday, May 11
Overview of Past Academic Year
Dr. Ivet Bahar
Keynote address
Dr. Naftali Kaminski , Genes, Proteins, MicroRNAs – When It Comes to Lung Disease, Everything Goes
Saturday, May 12
Awards
Outstanding Student Researcher Award
Bin Zhang
Basak Isin
Best Poster
David Corcoran
Innovator in Computational Biology Contest
1st place – Dr. Shaun Mahony – Chromosome Territories and Self-Organized Transcription Factories: New Concepts for Predicting Tissue-Specific Gene Regulation
2nd place – Dr. Chakra Chennubhotla, Basak Isin & Syam Prasad Anand (Bahar lab & Saleem Khan/Sanford Leuba’s group) - De Novo in Silico Helicase Design: Computational and Biochemical Challenges
3rd place – Lidio Meireles - A New Strategy for Drug Design
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