Registration (with Continental Breakfast)

Keynote Speaker
Rob Tibshirani (Stanford)

Hallway Discussions and Coffee

Session on New Developments in clustering microarray data with applications
Hugh Chipman (Waterloo), Chair and Discussant
Debasis Ghosh (Michigan) Clustering microarray data in cancer studies
David Tritchler (Toronto) A Spectral Clustering Method for Microarray Data

Lunch

Session on Phylogenetics and Modern Genomics
Ed Susko (Dalhousie) Chair and Discussant
Chris Field (Dalhousie) Robustness Issues in Phylogeny
David Sankoff (Ottawa) Far-reaching effects of missing map data and local shuffling on the inference of genome rearrangement history

Afternoon Tea

Session on Phylogenetics and Modern Genomics (continued)
Elisabeth Tillier (Toronto) TBA

Continental Breakfast

Keynote Speaker
Brent Zanke (VP, Cancer Care Ontario, Ontario Cancer Research Network)

Hallway Discussions and Coffee

Session on Statistical Design of Microarray Experiments
Derek Bingham (SFU), Chair and Discussant
Kenny Q Ye and Anil Dhundale, (SUNY at Stony Brook) Pooling or not pooling in microarray experiments - an experimental design point of view
Jean Yee Hwa Yang (California) Statistical Issues in the Design of Microarray Experiments

Lunch

Session on Applied Statistical Genomics
Rafal Kustra (Toronto), Chair and Discussant
Robert Nadon (McGill) From Algorithms to Scientific Application: An Age-Old Issue Updated for the Genomics Era

Afternoon Tea

Session on Applied Statistical Genomics (continued)
Shelley Bull (Toronto) Lessons in Tumour Classification using Gene Expression Microarrays

Reception

Continental Breakfast

Tim Hughes (Toronto)
Inferring gene function and regulatory mechanisms in yeast and mouse using compendia of microarray gene expression data

Hallway Discussions and Coffee

Session on Challenges in Computation and Visualization in Bioinformatics
Duncan Murdoch (UWO) Chair and Discussant
Gregory Gloor (UWO) Co-evolution and mutual information of amino acid positions in protein families
Vincent Carey (Harvard) Genomic Exploratory Data Analysis and Modelling with R/Bioconductor