Biomedical Computation at Stanford (BCATS)

Detailed Schedule for the BCATS 2008 Symposium

8.00

On-Site Registration & Breakfast

Outside Hewlett

9.00

Opening Remarks

Hewlett 200

9.15

Keynote Address: Andrew McCammon, PhD

Nasty Beasties: Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases

10.00

Eduardo Abeliuk

Transcriptional pattern analysis of a microbial cell-cycle

10.15

Mitul Saha

Identifying conserved domains in cyro-EM maps of biological nanomachines

10.30

Relly Brandman

70S bacterial ribosome dynamics explored by mutual information in all-atom molecular dynamics simulation

10.45

Spotlight Presentations

11.00

Poster Session I (odd-numbered posters)

Packard Lobby

12.00

Lunch

Outside Hewlett

12.45

Keynote Address: Rowan Chapman, PhD

Hewlett 200

Investing in Personalized Medicine

1.30

Johnathan Laserson

Bayesian population sequencing via the dirichlet process

1.45

Su-In Lee

Learning a priori on regulatory potential from eQTL data

2.00

Sarah J. Aerni

Analysis of gene regulation and cell fate from single-cell gene expression profiles in 

C. elegans

2.15

Spotlight Presentations

2.30

Poster Session II (even-numbered posters)

Packard Lobby

3.30

Aaron S. Wang

Hewlett 200

Development of a bleed detection algorithm for vascular ultrasound

3.45

Shahab Sheikh-Bahaei

Modeling the collective behavior of liver cells in clearing toxins

4.00

Jennifer L. Hicks

Predicting the outcome of musculoskeletal surgery in patients with cerebral palsy

4.15

Debashis Sahoo

MiDReG: Mining developmentally regulated genes using boolean implications

4.30

Keynote Address: Ron Kikinis, MD

Medical Image Computing: From Data to Understanding

5.15

Awards & Closing Remarks

5.30

Reception

Clark Plaza

Directions to the BCATS 2008 Symposium

This year BCATS will be held at the William R. Hewlett Teaching Center located at 370 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

For general directions to the Stanford campus, see the Stanford/Palo Alto area map or Google Maps on getting to and getting around on Stanford's campus.

Parking is free on Saturdays and parking structures are indicated on the map below.

For a downloadable PDF of the directions, please click here (800kb).