[Legacy Report] 2nd Committee Meeting: IEEE CS Symposium on Bioinformatics
Meeting was held on 20th April to see the progress on the proposed IEEE CS Symposium on Bioinformatics
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IEEE CS Symposium on Bioinformatics
2nd Committee Meeting, 20th April 2010, IIIT, Hyderabad
Attendees: Dr. Amit Kumar, Dr. Nita, Dr. Abhijit Mitra, Niranjan Hanasoge, Aditya Rao
1) It was decided that the dates of the symposium would be 15th – 17th July 2010 (Thu – Sat).
a. Spoke to Outreach division, IIIT Dr. Bagga & Mr. Vijay and confirmed the room.
b. Need to follow up with Dr. Abhijith Mitra to ensure that given that this is a joint event, IIIT sponsors the venue for the 3 days.
c. Other logistics will be taken care by the Organizing committee from the event.
2) The following institutes were identified for potential resources as speakers for the workshop
a. CCMB
i. Dr. Shankar Narayana
ii. Dr. Guruprasad
iii. Dr. Pandit
iv. Dr. Bhargava
b. LVPI
i. Dr. D Balasubramanian
c. CDFD
i.
d. TCS, Hyderabad
i. Dr. Rajagopal Srinivasan
ii. Dr. Gopalakrishna
iii. Ms. Sharmila Mande
e. HCU
i. Dr. Lalitha Guruprasad
ii. Dr. A Kondapi
iii. Dr. Bapi Raju
f. IIIT
i. Dr. Abhijit Mitra
ii. Dr. Nita
iii. Dr. Kamal K
iv. Dr. Devapriya
g. ICRISAT
i. Dr. Varshney
ii. Dr. Srivasathava
h. Ocimum Biosolutions
i. Dr. Anuradha Acharya
i. Others
i. < TODO >
3) Potential Sponsors
a. Ocimum Biosolutions
b. ICICI Knowledge Park [Deeponitha Chattopadyaya]
c. AIBA (All India Biotechnology Association)
i. Dr. Reddanna
d. GVK Bio
e. CDFD (Govt Org)
f. Reddy Labs
g. TCS Bioinformatics Group
h. Infosys & Infotech
i. IEEE Headquarters.
4) Topics and Program Layout
a. It was decided that the overall format for the 3 days is fine, but we are open to rescheduling the topics based on speaker preference.
b. Day 1: 15th July 2010
i. Morning Session: Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering
1. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology-Research Areas (10.00 AM-10.40 AM)
a. Potential Speaker:
2. Bioinformatics on High Throughput Sequencing Data Analysis (10.45 AM-11.30 PM)
a. Potential Speaker:
3. Omes and Omics-The past present and future (12.15 PM-1.00 PM)
a. Potential Speaker:
ii. Afternoon Session:COMPARATIVE GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS-RATIONAL DRUG DISCOVERY
1. Comparative Genomics and Research applications, structural variation and Mesh associations, rational drug discovery, modeling protein structures (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)
a. Potential Speaker:
2. Poster Session (3:30 PM - 4:30 PM)
c. Day 2: 16th July 2010
i. Morning Session: Computational Intelligence in Biology and Forensic Bioinformatics.
1. Computational intelligence in Bioinformatics (10.00 AM-10.40 AM)
a. Potential Speaker:
2. Pattern recognition in Bioinformatics-HNN, HMMs and evolutionary computation (10.45-11.30 PM)
a. Potential Speaker:
3. Forensic Bioinformatics- Inferring number of contributors to mixed DNA Samples (12.15PM-1.00 PM)
a. Potential Speaker:
ii. Afternoon Session: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
1. Interaction networks and pathways - Modeling with ordinary differential Equations (2.15 PM-3.00 PM)
a. Potential Speaker:
2. Bioinformatics and Personalized medicine - Do we meet the challenge? (3.10-4.00P.M)
a. Potential Speaker:
d. Day 3: Tutorial Day, 17th July 2010
i. Tutorial 1: Tutorial on Sequential Analysis, Dr. Nita (10 AM - 12:30 PM)
ii. Tutorial 2: Tutorial on Structural Analysis, DNARES (2:00 PM - 4:30 PM)
5) Committees
a. Symposium Chairs
i. It was decided that one of the following should be made the Symposium Chair as it would add value to the program in general
1. Dr. D Balasubhramian
2. Dr. Lalji
3. Dr. Sayed Hasnain, VC, UoH
b. Advisory Committee
i. Chair: Dr. Abhijith Mitra
ii. Dr. Nita
iii. Dr. Amit Kumar
iv. Mr. MGPL Narayana
v. More to be indentified.
c. Technical Committee
i. Chair: Dr. Nita
ii. Members to be identified
d. Organizing & Program Committee
i. Chair: Dr. Amit Kumar
ii. Aditya Rao
iii. Niranjan Hanasoge
iv. Dr. Nita
v. Dr. Abhijit Mitra
vi. Vinit Kumar, BDRC
vii. Anukul Mishra, BDRC
viii. Jayant Mishra, BDRC
ix. Manas Ranjan, BDRC
e. Web Master
i. S Venkataranamanan
f. Symposium Secretary
i.
Action Items
1) Draft poster to be prepared for sending & seeking speakers. (Dr. Amit)
2) Need to check on the poster competition (Aditya)
3) Budget Analysis to be performed, keeping in mind a decent lunch and potential (Dr. Amit)
4) A list of additional speakers & potential resource persons to be listed out (Dr. Nita & Dr. Amit)
5) Need to follow up with IEEE HQ for funding. (Aditya)