Third Annual NCIBI Research Meeting

The National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics held its Third Annual Research Conference on April 29 and 30, 2008 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The meeting was attended in person by 80 participants, including members of our scientific advisory board and science and program officers from NIH. Our use of interactive remote transmission of the live presentations of slides, talks and audio was a successful addition this year and was appreciated by 20 participants who were not able to attend the meeting in person.

On the first day, demonstrations of the integration and applications of the NCIBI suite of tools provided a backbone for presentations of the accomplishments this year of our four Driving Biological Projects (DBPs)  We had 36 posters on tool development and applications.  Our keynote address titled, "Information-Integration-Based Approaches for Discovery in Biomedical Research" was given by Dr. John Quackenbush from Harvard School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. 

On the second day we presented our evaluation of the usability of tools, outreach and dissemination progress with our "Tools and Technologies seminars", and collaborative work on 'bioinformationists' with the Health Sciences Library.  Then we presented and discussed plans for newly-structured DBPs on Diabetes and Metabolic Pathways; Molecular Pathophysiology of Cancers; and Bipolar Spectrum Disorders and Comorbidities, including Additive Behaviors.  The slides and posters are available.  Finally, we discussed the collaborative projects and publications across the seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing, the national influence of the NCIBI in relation to Clinical and Translational Science Award institutions, the prospects for a summer institute in Ann Arbor in 2009 on Translational Biomedical Informatics, and the preparations for the NCBC All-Hands Meeting 13-14 August 2008 in Bethesda. If you have any questions or comments, please email cavalcol@umich.edu.  We look forward to an exciting summer and year to come.

 

Meeting Posters

3rd Annual Research Meeting Poster Abstracts.

 

Meeting Presentations

 

Tuesday

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Kickoff Presentation

“NCIBI Successes and the Challenges Ahead” (Brian Athey) View PDF - Watch Flash Video

 

Presentation and Demonstrations of the NCIBI Suite of Tools

Overview and Demonstration of the NCIBI Suite of Tools for Integrative Studies (HV Jagadish, David States and NCIBI Developers) View PDF - Watch Flash Video

The Diabetes Complications Driving Biological Project (DBP)

Systems Biology of Diabetic Complications (Matthias Kretzler) View PDF - Watch Flash Video

The Bipolar Disorder DBP

Molecular and Phenotypic Discovery (Melvin McInnis, Rich McEachin) View PDF - Watch Flash Video

The Prostate Cancer DBP

Transcription Factor Families under Androgen Control (Biaoyang Lin) View PDF - Watch Flash Video
Gene Fusion Discoveries (Gil Omenn, Xiaosong Wang) View PDF

The Type 2 Diabetes DBP

Gene Annotation and Prioritization (Laura Scott) View PDF

Presentation and Demonstrations of the NCIBI Suite of Tools

Molecular Level Analysis and Interpretation of High Throughput Data (Fan Meng) View PDF - Watch Flash Video

Bayesian Networks and Biomedical Data (Peter Woolf) View PDF - Watch Flash Video

Keynote Speaker

John Quackenbush, Ph.D. Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Harvard School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute

“Information-Integration-Based Approaches to Discovery in Biomedical Research” View PDF - Watch Flash Video

Wednesday

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Evaluation of Usability and Application of Tools (Barbara Mirel) View PDF

Training, Outreach and Dissemination: Progress and Plans (Brian Athey)

HSL Partnership, Bioinformationist (Jane Blumenthal, Jean Song) View PDF

Transformation of the Diabetes Complications DBP

Systems biology of nephropathy and neuropathy (Matthias Kretzler, Eva Feldman) View PDF - Watch Flash Video

Phenotyping Obesity and Diabetes from Weight to Omics (Charles Burant) View PDF

Metabolomic toolsets in support of disease definition (Chris Beecher) View PDF

Cancer Pathways

Pathophysiology of cancer fusion genes (Arul Chinnaiyan) View PDF - Watch Flash Video

Systems biology of apoptosis: next generation drug development (Chao-Yie Yang) View PDF

Bipolar DBP Transformation and Extension Moderator: Brian Athey

Addictions as co-morbidities of depression (Melvin McInnis) View PDF

Sub-Contractor Relationships

GenePattern (Joshua Gould – Broad) View PDF - Watch Flash Video

NCIBI Planning for Year 4 and beyond

Year 4 and Renewal Planning (Brian Athey, Jim Cavalcoli & Group Discussion) View PDF