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BMI Retreat 2006
November 16, 2006
Bay Conference Center, Tiburon

The slides from Tom Ferrin’s “State of the Program” talk given at the 2006 BMI retreat are available for download (PDF).

November 16, 2006
Bay Conference Center
Tiburon

8:30 - 9:00	Breakfast and Poster Setup
9:00 - 9:30	Welcome and BMI Program Update - Tom Ferrin
9:30 - 11:00	Research Talks I - Moderator: Dale Webster Marco Sorani: “Modeling and Predicting SNP Effects in Aquaporins” Mark Peterson: “Using Multiple Templates for Comparative Protein Structure Modeling” Debbie Lin: “Tenofovir-associated renal insufficiency: an epidemiological to candidate gene study”
11:00 - 12:00	Poster Session I (Last names A – Lee)
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 2:15	Research Talks II - Moderator: Michael Keiser Ranyee Chiang: “Enzyme Evolution: Interplay Between Conservation in Binding and Conservation in Chemistry” Neil Risch, Ph.D.: “Genetic Epidemiology in Admixed Populations”
2:15 - 3:15	Poster Session II (Last names Lin – Z)
3:15 - 5:00	Research Talks III - Moderator: Kai-Yeung Lau David Williamson: “Delta-Match: Prioritizing Which Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Modulate Transcription Factor Binding and Gene Transcriptional Regulation” Chris West: “Community Health Center use of Clinical Information Systems for Quality Improvement” Michael McManus, Ph.D.: “Mammalian RNA interference pathways”
5:00	Reception

Alex Adai
Predicting miRNA expression and targets

Leonard Apeltsin
Threshold selection for optimal clustering of blast based protein similarity networks

Holly Atkinson
Unification of the glutathione transferases and computational prediction of new functions

David Barkan
Predicting host-pathogen protein interactions by sequence similarity

Michael Cary
Meta-analysis of gene expression in long-lived variants of caenorhabditis elegans

Christina Chaivorapol
Systematic identification of regulatory sequences in mouse and human stem cells

Michelle Dimon
Regulation in trans: exploring a novel model for allelic exclusion in the P. falciparum var gene family

Michael Keiser
Relating proteins by ligand similarity

Libusha Kelly
Exploring the functional consequences of point mutations in human ABC transporter proteins

Michael Kim
Simplified models of binary docking reveal synergistic regimes for multiple docking

Kai-Yeung Lau
Modeling yeast cell cycle START

Lawrence Lee
Analysis of disease related mutations by text mining

David Lomelin
Identifying functionally important non coding sequence through the use of SNPs

Dan Mandell
Flexible backbone protein design

Tuan Pham
Informing a desolvation penalty using negative data

Ben Polacco
GASPSdb: A resource of 3D protein motifs for annotation of protein structures

Colin Smith
The Backrub Motion: Momentary strain can massage protein backbones

Brian Tuch
More than one means to an end: Evolution yields alternative transcriptional circuits with identical logic

Dale Webster
Exploring the evolution of small RNA viruses