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BIT Life Sciences' 3rd Annual World Congress of Biosoft-2011
Theme: Rising of Bio-IT
March 23-25, 2011
Venue: China National Convention Center, Beijing, China

Joined Opening Ceremony
with
BIT Life Sciences' 4 th Annual Protein and Peptide Conference
PepCon-2011

Note:
Experts from both academia and industry are invited to present on many topics from your current research to commercial implementation of new technologies. The time allotted for each oral presentation is from 25-40 minutes. English is the language spoken at the conference.
LANGUAGE NOTE: This meeting will be conducted in English

Keynote Forum
09:00-11:15, March 23, 2011 (Wednesday)

Moderator

Dr. Albert Yu, CEO, Hai Kang Life Corporation; Professor, Peking University, China

09:00-09:15
Chair's introduction

09:15-09:45

Title: Using Systems Modeling to Analyze Transport Mechanisms in the Microcirculation
Dr. Dov Jaron,
Calhoun Distinguished Professor, Drexel University, USA

09:45-10:15

Title: Lab-on-a-Chip Devices for Point-of-Care Applications and Single Cell Analysis
Dr. Yuhwa Lo
, Professor, University of California,USA

10:15-10:45

Title: Partnering With China: Leveraging US data to Bring Medical Products to the World’s Largest Market
Dr.
John L Higgins.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, USA

10:45-11:15

Title: EFADchip® – Revolutionary Multifaceted Applications of LOAC
Dr. Albert Yu
, CEO, Hai Kang Life Corporation; Professor, Peking University, China


Symposium 1: Robust Hardware and Software for Bio-industry

Symposium 1-1: Robust Hardware and Software for Bio-industry
Time: 13:30-16:20, March 23, 2011 (Wednesday); Place: Room 208A, 2nd Floor, CNCC

Chair

Dr. MingChu Li,Professor and Vice Dean, Dalian University of Technology, China

Co-Chair

Dr. Chinh Dang, Director,The Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA 

13:30-13:55

Title: Business Development "weet Spots" In Biotechnology Using Partnership Models Between China and the U.S.
Dr. Stuart Charles Trusty, Chief Technology Officer, Mobile and Supercomputing, Tweek Technologies, LLC, USA

13:55-14:20

Title: From Mouse to Human: The Application of Large Scale Data Storage and Management for Imaging Data in Neuroscience
Dr. Chinh Dang,
Director,The Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA         

14:20-14:45

Title: Redefining Storage in the Era of Big Data
Dr. Chris Blessington,Senior Director, Marketing & Communications, Isilon Division, EMC, USA

14:45-15:10

Title: Collaboration and Information Governance in the Cloud
Dr. Andreas Dangl, Managing Director, Fabasoft, Austria

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: QIACO: An Algorithm for Grid Task Scheduling of Multiple QoS Dimensions
Dr. Ming-Chu Li,
Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China

15:55-16:20

Title: Introduction and Application of DBTSS Database of Transcription Start Sites) for Transcriptional Regulation Analysis
Dr. Riu Yamashita,
Project Assistant Professor, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

Symposium 2: Bioinformatics and Predictive Biology

Session 2-1: Genome, Sequence Analysis and Evolutionary Biology
Time: 13:30-15:30, March 23, 2011 (Wednesday); Place: Room 208B, 2nd Floor, CNCC

Chair

Dr. Susan Ruth Wilson, Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

13:30-13:55

Keynote:
Title: Prediction of Subcellular Localization of Proteins: From the Past to the Future
Dr. Kenta Nakai, Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan

13:55-14:20

Title: Computational Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits
Dr. Susan Ruth Wilson, Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

14:20-14:45

Title: Searching the Origin of a Pandemic Virus
Dr.
Raul Rabadan, Assistant Professor, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, USA

14:45-15:10

Title: Clustering-based Approach for Ranking Differentially-expressed Genes
Dr. Shu-Kay (Angus) Ng, Senior Lecturer, Biostatistics Griffith University, Australia

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

Session 2-2: Structural and Comparative Genomics
Time: 15:30-17:10, March 23, 2011 (Wednesday); Place: Room 208B, 2nd Floor, CNCC

Chair

Dr. Susan Ruth Wilson, Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

15:30-15:55

Keynote:
Title: Genetic Variation Associated with Nucleosome Structure and DNA Methylation
Dr. Shinichi Morishita, Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan

15:55-16:20

Title: Use of Bioinformatics to Identify Genetic Susceptibility of Male Genital Abnormalities
Dr. Xianyang Qin,
University of Tokyo,Japan

16:20-16:45

Title: A Novel Bayesian Learning and Optimization Model for Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks
Dr. Chaoyang (Joe) Zhang, Director / Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of Southern Mississippi, USA

16:45-17:10

Title: Seeking Overlooked Functions within the Haystack of Genome Sequences
Dr. Michal Linial, Professor, Life Science Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

Session 2-3: Systems Biology and Interactomics
Time: 08:30-09:45, March 24, 2011 (Thursday); Place: Room 207, 2nd Floor, CNCC

Chair

Dr. Yuri Nikolsky, Vice President (R&D), Thomson Reuters, Inc. USA   

Co-chair

Dr. David Milward, CTO and co-founder, Linguamatics Ltd, UK

08:30-08:55

Title: Interactive Querying of Unstructured Text: Extracting Quantitative Data and Linking Biomedical Entities
Dr. David Milward,
CTO and Co-founder, Linguamatics Ltd, UK

08:55-09:20

Title: Functional Analysis of OMICs Data in Cancer
Dr. Yuri Nikolsky, Vice President (R&D), ThomsonReuters, Inc. USA

09:20-09:45

Title: MetaDrug: Understanding Systems Pharmacology and Toxicology at Molecular Level
Dr. Xiao Liu, Technical Support Engineer, Tri-I Biotech(Shanghai) Inc.,China

 

Session 2-4: Bioinformatics Software
Time: 13:30-15:30, March 25, 2011 (Friday); Place: Room 208B, 2nd Floor, CNCC              

Chair

Dr. Ming Ouyang, Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, USA

13:30-13:55

Title: Random Walk Behavior of Biomolecule in a Confined Space: Studied with Newly-developed Software RWS ver. 1.0
Dr. Jianwei Zhao, Professor, Nanjing University, China

13:55-14:20

Title: Accelerating Bioinformatics Applications with Graphics Processing Units
Dr. Ming Ouyang,
Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, USA

14:20-14:45

Title: Prediction of Protein Functional Sites and Understanding the Disease Associated Amino Acid Mutations
Dr. Bairong Shen, Professor, Soochow University, China

14:45-15:10

Title: Web3D based education in biology and medicine – results of our work and experience in Europe and China
Dr. Tomaz Amon, Director, Center For Scientific Visualization, slovenia

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

 

Session 2-5: Bioinformatics in Analysis of Major Disease
Time: 16:20-17:35, March 25, 2011 (Friday); Place: Room 208B, 2nd Floor, CNCC 

Chair

Dr. Attila Berces, CEO, Omixon Inc., Hungary

Co-chair

Dr. YongYong Shi. Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

16:20-16:45

Title: A Distributed Supercomputer for Hunting Disease Mutations
Dr. Assaf Schuster,
Professor, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

16:45-17:10

Title: Cloud Computing Based Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data
Dr. Attila Berces, Chief Executive Officer, Omixon Inc., Hungary

17:10-17:35

Title: GPU Based Algorithms of Genetic Study
Dr.
YongYong Shi. Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Symposium 3: IT in Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering

Symposium 3-1: IT in Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering
Time: 13:30-14:45, March 24, 2011 (Thursday); Place: Room 208A, 2nd Floor, CNCC

Chair

Dr. Klaus Stefan Drese, professor and Director, Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH, Germany

13:30-13:55

Title: New Lab-on-a-Chip System for Infectious Disease Analysis
Dr. Klaus Stefan Drese,
Professor and Director, Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH, Germany

13:55-14:20

Title: Hardware-software Codesign of High Throughput Screening Platforms for Ion Channels
Dr. Marco Tartagni,
Professor, University of Bologna, Italy

14:20-14:45

Title: Modeling of Hybrid Biosystems by means of Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Dr. Susanna Monti, Researcher, National Research Council of Italy, Italy

Symposium 4: e-Solutions for Pharmaceutical Sciences

Session 4-1: Computational Chemistry, Molecular Dynamics and Bioinformatics in Drug Discovery
Time: 09:45-11:20, March 24, 2011 (Thursday); Place: Room 207, 2nd Floor, CNCC 

Chair

Dr. Yanli Wang, Associate Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

09:45-10:10

Title: PubChem: A Public Information Resource for Drug Discovery
Dr. Yanli Wang, Associate Investigator, National Institutes of Health, USA

10:10-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: Probing the Conformational Transition of Pathogens Adenyl Cyclases: Cooperation Between Molecular Modeling and Experimental Ligand Screening
Dr. Thérèse E Malliavin, Professor,CNRS/Institut Pasteur, France

10:55-11:20

Title: Quantum Dynamical Study on Intramolecular Proton Transfer in 1,2,4-Triazole 
Dr. Wensheng Bian, Professor/Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China  

 

Session 4-2: IT for Structure and Function Analysis of Targets
Time: 11:20-12:10, March 24, 2011 (Thursday); Place: Room 207, 2nd Floor, CNCC 

Chair

Dr. Yanli Wang, Associate Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

11:20-11:45

Title: Bioinformatic Characterisation and Prioritisation of Drug Targets for Neglected Infectious Diseases
Dr. Stuart A. Ralph,
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne, Australia

11:45-12:10

Title: Computational Investigations of Structure and Reactivity of Bioinorganic Molecules
Dr. Hajime Hirao,
Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

Session 4-3: Computer Aided Drug Designs-From Docking, Fragment-Based Pharmacophore Analysis to QSAR
Time: 08:30-11:20, March 25, 2011 (Friday); Place: Room 208A, 2nd Floor, CNCC

Chair

Dr. Holger Gohlke, Professor, University of Dusseldorf, Germany

08:30-08:55

Keynote:
Title: Recent Advances in Computational Drug design
Dr.
Jung-Hsin Lin, Associate Professor,National Taiwan University, Taiwan

08:55-09:20

Title: Targeting protein-protein interfaces with small molecules
Dr. Holger Gohlke, Professor, University of Dusseldorf, Germany

09:20-09:45

Title: In silico Structure-Based Drug Design of novel Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor agonists and antagonists: Recent successful applications and future challenges
Dr. William Bisson, Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer, University of Geneva, Switzerland

09:45-10:10

Title: An Easy-to-use Tool for Grid-enabled Large-scale in-silico Screening for Drug Discovery
Dr. Soonwook Hwang, Team Leader, Principal Researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Republic of Korea

10:10-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: Computer-aided Diagnosis in Autoantibodies Tests
Dr. Paolo Soda,
Medical Informatics & Computer Science Laboratory, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma Italy, Italy

10:55-11:20

Title: Integrated-FAMS Consisting of Modeling of Complex Proteins and Ligand Based Drug Design in the Receptor
Dr. Hideaki Umeyama, Honorary [Emeritus] Professor, Kitasato University, Japan

 

Session 4-4: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in Biopharmaceutical Research
Time: 11:20-12:35, March 25, 2011 (Friday); Place: Room 208A, 2nd Floor, CNCC

Chair

Dr. Hinnerk Boriss, CEO, Sovicell, Germany

11:20-11:45

Title: Predictive DMPK and ADMET from Leads to Drug Products
Dr. Dongzhou (Jeffery) Liu, Medical Lead/Principal Clinical Investigator, Clinical R&D, GlaxoSmithKline, USA

11:45-12:10

Title:Brain Tissue Binding of Drugs: Evaluation and Validation of Solid Supported Porcine Brain Membrane Vesicles (TRANSIL) as A Novel High -Throughput Method
Dr. Hinnerk Boriss, CEO, Sovicell, Germany

12:10-12:35

Title: Development of Statistical Methods for Analyzing Genome-Scale RNAi Screens
Dr.
Xiaohua Douglas Zhang, Associate Director, Merck Research Laboratories, USA

Symposium 5: e-Clnical Trials, e-Medicine and e-Health (e-CMH)

Symposium 5-1: e-Clnical Trials, e-Medicine and e-Health (e-CMH)
Time: 15:30-16:20, March 24, 2011 (Thursday); Place: Room 208A, 2nd Floor, CNCC

Chair

Dr. Klaus Stefan Drese, Professor and Director, Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH, Germany

15:30-15:55

Title: GenomeMap – A General Purpose Genome Browser
Dr. Kong Lei,
Professor, Peking University, China

15:55-16:20

Title: Use of Computers in Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr.
Kamal Deep, Consultant, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, UK


 


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