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The First Canadian Workshop on Statistical Genomics
to be held at The Fields Institute, September 3-5, 2003

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Wednesday, September 3, 2003
8:00 - 9:00

Registration (with Continental Breakfast)

9:00 - 10:00

Keynote Speaker
Rob Tibshirani (Stanford)

10:00-10:30

Hallway Discussions and Coffee

10:30-12:30

Session on New Developments in clustering microarray data with applications
Hugh Chipman
(Waterloo), Chair and Discussant
Debasis Ghosh (Michigan) Clustering microarray data in cancer studies
David Tritchler (Toronto) A Spectral Clustering Method for Microarray Data

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00 - 3:30

Session on Phylogenetics and Modern Genomics
Ed Susko
(Dalhousie) Chair and Discussant
Chris Field
(Dalhousie) Robustness Issues in Phylogeny
David Sankoff (Ottawa) Far-reaching effects of missing map data and local shuffling on the inference of genome rearrangement history

3:30 - 4:00

Afternoon Tea

4:00 - 4:45

Session on Phylogenetics and Modern Genomics (continued)
Elisabeth Tillier (Toronto) TBA


Thursday, September 4, 2003
8:00-8:30

Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30

Keynote Speaker
Brent Zanke
(VP, Cancer Care Ontario, Ontario Cancer Research Network)

9:30 - 10:00

Hallway Discussions and Coffee

10:00-12:30

Session on Statistical Design of Microarray Experiments
Derek Bingham
(SFU), Chair and Discussant
Kenny Q Ye and Anil Dhundale, (SUNY at Stony Brook) Pooling or not pooling in microarray experiments - an experimental design point of view
Jean Yee Hwa Yang (California) Statistical Issues in the Design of Microarray Experiments

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00 - 3:00

Session on Applied Statistical Genomics
Rafal Kustra (Toronto), Chair and Discussant
Robert Nadon (McGill) From Algorithms to Scientific Application: An Age-Old Issue Updated for the Genomics Era

3:00-3:30

Afternoon Tea

3:30 - 4:30

Session on Applied Statistical Genomics (continued)
Shelley Bull (Toronto) Lessons in Tumour Classification using Gene Expression Microarrays

5:00 - 7:00

Reception


Friday, September 5 , 2003
8:30 - 9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:00

Tim Hughes (Toronto)
Inferring gene function and regulatory mechanisms in yeast and mouse using compendia of microarray gene expression data

10:00-10:30

Hallway Discussions and Coffee

10:30-12:30

Session on Challenges in Computation and Visualization in Bioinformatics
Duncan Murdoch (UWO) Chair and Discussant
Gregory Gloor (UWO) Co-evolution and mutual information of amino acid positions in protein families
Vincent Carey (Harvard) Genomic Exploratory Data Analysis and Modelling with R/Bioconductor

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