Friday, May 9, 2003
East Lecture Hall, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, New Jersey

9:00-9:10 AM

Introductory Remarks, Harold Paz, MD, Dean, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

9:10-9:30 AM

Computational Tools for Accelerating Drug Discovery. William J. Welsh, PhD

Director, UMDNJ Informatics Institute, Co-Principal Investigator, IAIMS Operational Phase Grant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ

9:30-9:50 AM

Bioinformatics Training for Biomedical Scientists. Bruce Byrne, PhD

Associate Director for Education, UMDNJ Informatics Institute, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UMDNJ

9:50-10:10 AM

Development of a Model for the Topoisomerase I/DNA/Drug Ternary Cleavable Complex. John Kerrigan, PhD

Computational Biologist, Department of Information Services & Technology/Academic Computing Services, UMDNJ

10:10-10:30 AM

Use of Proteomics to Investigate Heart Disease. Hong Li, PhD

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ

10:50-11:10 AM

Applying Genetic Variation to Drug Development and Understanding Disease Etiology. Scott R. Diehl, PhD

Director, Center for Pharmacogenomics & Complex Disease Research, New Jersey Dental School, UMDNJ

11:10-11:30 AM

A Hypertext Guideline Markup Language System for Encoding Clinical Guidelines. Frank Sonnenberg, MD

Associate Director for Clinical Informatics, UMDNJ Informatics Institute Professor, Department of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ

11:30-11:50 AM

Novel Approaches for Analysis of Microarray Data. Ming Ouyang, PhD

Senior Applications Specialist, UMDNJ Informatics Institute

11:50 AM-12:10 PM

Toward Establishing a High-throughput Genotyping System for Genome-Scale Analysis. Honghua Li, PhD

UMDNJ Cancer Institute of New Jersey Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ

This symposium is sponsored by the UMDNJ Informatics Institute and the Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) Project funded through a grant from the NIH National Library of Medicine