Scientific Program (pdf)

9:00-9:15	Opening: Greetings Haim Garty, Vice President, Doron Lancet, Molecular Genetics, WIS, Israel
9:15-10:00	KEYNOTE: What Do We Do with All this Data? David Landsman, Chief, Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NIH, USA
10:00-10:35	Epigenomics of Human Promoters Michael Rebhan, Head of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
10:35-10:55	Coffee
10:55-11:30	Proteopedia - a Tool to Make 3D Structural Data More Comprehensible Joel Sussman, Structural Biology, WIS, Israel
11:30-12:05	Integration and Analysis of Complex, Heterogeneous and Interrelated Biological Data - Towards a New Generation of Biological Databases Golan Yona, Cornell University, USA, and Technion, Israel
12:05-12:40	GeneCards: Past, Present, and Future Marilyn Safran, Biological Services, WIS, Israel
12:40-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:35	Quantitative Models for Transcriptional Regulation: From Genomes to Genomica Eran Segal, Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, WIS, Israel
14:35-14:50	INDUSTRY SESSION: Opening Mudi Sheves, VP Technology Transfer; Amir Naiberg CEO, Yeda Res & Dev Co, WIS, Israel
14:50-15:10	A Case Study of a Successful Collaboration Between Innovative Academic Research and Entrepreneurial Business David Warshawsky, CEO, Xennex Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
15:10-15:45	MicroRNA from the Bedside to the Bench Dalia Cohen, Exec VP, Head R&D, Rosetta Genomics, No. Brunswick, NJ, USA, & Rehovot, Israel
15:45-16:05	Coffee
16:05-16:40	A Causal Framework for Modeling Biological Systems, and its Application to Defining the Molecular Mechanisms in a Prostate Cancer Androgen Indepence in vitro Model. Christian Reich, Vice President Scientific Research, GenStruct, Cambridge, MA, USA
16:40-17:25	KEYNOTE: Annotating all Human Proteins: Toward Completion of the First Survey of the Human Proteome Amos Bairoch, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland
17:25-17:30	Conclusion