NZ BioConf - Speakers/Tutorials

Te Papa, Wellington, February 13-14, 2003
Te Papa, Wellington, February 13-14, 2003


	Plenary Speakers Use of Protein Structural Analysis and Prediction as a Tool for Functional Genomics Professor Ted Baker Protein Structure and Function Research Group University of Auckland Biological Information and Knowledge: Ancient DNA and Ancient Ecology Professor David Lambert Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution Institute of Molecular BioSciences Massey University Speakers Gene mapping: A paradigm for aligning two sequences Matthew Bellgard Murdoch University The Prion Paradox: Infection or Polymerization? Jan C. Biro Karolinska Institute & Homulus Informatics Stockholm, Sweden Detection of signals in mRNAs that influence translation Chris M. Brown Biochemistry Department University of Otago Using ancestral sequences to uncover potential gene homologs L. J. Collins Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution Institute of Molecular BioSciences Massey University Visualization and navigation methods for typed protein-protein interaction networks Carsten Friedrich University of Sydney Prediction of clinical behaviour and treatment for cancers Matthias E. Futschik Departments of Information Science and Biochemistry University of Otago Data-panning to discover novel genes David Green Otago School of Medical Sciences University of Otago Complementary techniques of clustering and composite pattern analysis to Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene expression Andreas Magusin Genesis Research and Development Corporation Limited Text Mining of DNA sequence homology searches John McCallum Crop & Food Research Using serum albumin to infer phylogenies Victoria Metcalf University of Canterbury A bioinformatics approach to designing an AIDS vaccine Allen Rodrigo University of Auckland Computer Simulation of Protein and Peptide Function Jeremy Smith Lehrstuhl für Biocomputing Universität Heidelberg A Glimpse of the space of short protein fragments Aleksandar Stojmirovic School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, and School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University Are combined machine learning approaches better than the single method in learning biological data? Aik Choon TAN Bioinformatics Research Centre University of Glasgow Other Presenters Maxine Bryant - Bioinformatics as a tool for gene identification S. A. Chouakri - Smoothing ECG signal process via the wavelet denoising David C.Y. Fung - eMelanoBase: a web-accessible mutation database built on a component-based framework Kyoko Koishi - Gene expression profiling of the Neuromuscular junction using microarrays M.G. Lopez-Benavides - Identification of healthy, subclinical and clinical cases of mastitis using Self Organising Feature Maps, SCS, TMC and EC of milk characteristics Markus Neuhäuser - Exact tests for the analysis of case-control studies of genetic markers Amit Pande - Stem Cells Michael Quinn - Gene Expression in Granulosa Cells K. Sundaram - A tool for the ab-initio prediction of protein tertiary structure Warin Wattanapornprom - Sequence alignment algorithms A. Zadissa - Use of comparative genomics to identify putative regulatory elements in promoters of co-regulated genes