This special focus is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Interfaces Institute for Quantitative Biology (BioMaPS), and the Rutgers Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry (MB Center).
Monday, April 27, 2009
8:15 - 8:50 Breakfast and Registration
8:50 - 9:00 Welcoming Remarks
Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director
9:00 - 10:00 Genome shrinkage by elimination of duplicates
David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada
10:00 - 11:00 Forensic DNA analysis and multi-locus match probability
in finite populations: A fundamental difference between
the Moran and Wright-Fisher models (talk)
Yun S Song, UC Berkeley, USA
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Efficient algorithms for ascertaining markers for
controlling for population substructure (talk)
Oscar Lao, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 Statistical Alignment, Footprinting and Transfer of Knowledge (talk)
Jotun Hein, Oxford, UK
3:00 - 3:30 Tea/Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 Two (population genetics and phylogenetics) Solutions
in Search of Killer Apps. (talk)
Dan Gusfield, UC Davis, USA
4:30 - 5:00 A fatgraph model of protein structure (talk)
Carsten Wiuf, Aarhus University, Denmark
5:00 - 5:30 Exact Computation of Coalescent Likelihood under the Infinite Sites Model (talk)
Yufeng Wu, University of Connecticut, USA
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:00 Estimating human demographic parameters from DNA sequence data (talk)
Jeff Wall, UC San Francisco, USA
10:00 - 11:00 High-dimensional data-sets and the problems they cause (talk)
Paul Marjoram, Keck School of Medicine, USC, USA
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Human Population Genomics: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity,
Plus Altruism, Cheap Talks, Bad Behavior, Money, God and
Diversity on Steroids (talk)
Bud Mishra, NYU, USA
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 Population genetic analyses of next-generation sequencing data (talk)
Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley, USA
3:00 - 3:30 Tea/Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 RECOMBINOMICS: Myth or Reality? (talk) (papers 1 2)
Laxmi Parida, IBM T J Watson Research, USA
4:30 - 5:00 Methods for sampling genealogies in complex models of divergence (talk)
Jody Hey, Rutgers University, USA
5:00 - 5:30 mStruct: Structure under Mutations (talk)
Suyash Shringarpure, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
5:30 Banquet
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:00 Dimensionality reduction in the analysis of human genetics data (talk)
Petros Drineas, RPI, USA
10:00 - 11:00 Recombinations-based Population Genomics
Jaume Bertranpetit, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Asif Javed, IBM T J Watson Research, USA
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Haplotype clusters and imputed genotypes in diverse human populations (talk)
Noah Rosenberg, University of Michigan, USA
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 More powerful genome-wide association methods for case-control data (talk)
Robert Elston, Case Western Reserve University, USA
3:00 - 3:30 Imputation-based local ancestry inference in admixed populations (talk) (paper)
Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut, USA
3:30 - 4:00 Half-Sibling Reconstruction: A Theoretical Analysis (talk)
Saad Sheikh, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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