BIOmics Hands-On Workshop & Conference

August 30 to September 4, 2009
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

Program
(See WIS campus map for building number in parentheses)

Sunday, August 30, 2009
Arrival, transfer from airport,
Orientation 		International Science Youth Village (52)
19.00 - 21.00   Registration, Mixer & refreshments,
Poster hanging		 Perlman lobby (6)

Monday, August 31, 2009
07.45 - 08.30   Breakfast at Charlie's (15) or Jubilee (31)
Opening Schmidt Lecture Hall (7)
Chair M Edelman, WIS
08.50 - 09.00   Welcoming remarks H Garty, WIS
Lectures Schmidt Lecture Hall (7)
Chair A Zilberstein, TAU
09.00 - 09.30   Transcriptome rewiring in hybrids and polyploids A Levy, WIS
09.30 - 10.00   Rice transgenics leading to broad-spectrum disease resistance BB Chattoo, MSU
10.00 - 10.30   Domain pairs underlying protein interaction networks H Margalit, HUJ
10.30 - 11.00   Coffee break
Workshop 1
11.15 - 12.15   Molecules in 3D - at the 3D theatre (4) J Sussman, WIS
H Greenblatt, WIS
A Horowitz, WIS
A Paz, WIS
12.15 - 13.30   Lunch & Posters Perlman lobby (6)
Workshop 2Wolfson Lecture Hall (21)
13.30 - 15.30   Introduction to high throughput technologies (microarrays & next-generation sequencing) S Horn-Saban, WIS
D Leshkowitz, WIS
15.30 - 16.00   coffee break
Workshop 3 Levine Building (30)
16.00 - 17.15   Group I: High-throughput genomics (room 203) S Horn-Saban, WIS
Group II: Tools for analysis of next-generation sequencing (room 101) E Feldmesser, WIS
D Leshkowitz, WIS
17.15 - 18.30   Group II: High-throughput genomics (room 203) S Horn-Saban, WIS
Group I: Tools for analysis of next-generation sequencing (room 101) E Feldmesser, WIS
D Leshkowitz, WIS
19.30   Dinner - Tel Aviv
Minibus leaves from Schmidt Hall (7)

Tuesday, September 1, 2009
07.45 - 08.45   Breakfast at Charlie's (15) or Jubilee (31)
Lectures Schmidt Lecture Hall (7)
Chair R Pinter, TIIT
09.00 - 09.30   Protein-protein interactions: biophysics and design G Schreiber, WIS
9.30 - 10.00   Defining the fold space of the membrane proteome I Samish, UP
10.00 - 10.30   Coffee break
10.30 - 11.00   From structure to systems-based drug design LH Lai, PKU
11.00 - 11.30   Atomic resolution modeling of large macromolecular complexes HJ Wolfson, TAU
11.30 - 13.00   Posters & Lunch Perlman lobby (6)
Workshop 4 Weizmann Science Park (see map on page 11)
13.00 - 14.30   Group I: Rosetta genomics Ltd. (Molecular diagnostics) S Rosenwald
E Sitbon
Group II: TransAlgae israel Ltd. (Biofuels) J Gressel
14.30 - 15.00   Coffee break in Levine building hall (30)
Workshops 5 & 6
15.00 - 17.30   Group I: Levine Building, room 101 (30)
Analysis and prediction of contacts in proteins E Eyal, SMC
V Potapov, WIS
R Levy, WIS
V Sobolev, WIS
M Edelman, WIS
Group II: Computing Center, room 220 (34)
Proteopedia - Life in 3D J Sussman, WIS
J Prilusky, WIS
E Hodis, WIS
A Sagar, IIT
18.00   Dinner Vertical Accelerator, Observation deck (35)
Short explanation

M Hass, WIS
Workshops 5 & 6 (continued)
19.30 - 22.00   Group II: Levine Building, room 101 (30)
Analysis and prediction of contacts in proteins E Eyal, SMC
V Potapov, WIS
R Levy, WIS
V Sobolev, WIS
M Edelman, WIS
Group I: Computing Center, room 220 (34)
Proteopedia - Life in 3D J Sussman, WIS
J Prilusky, WIS
E Hodis, WIS
A Sagar, IIT

Wedensday, September 2, 2009
07.45 - 08.15   Breakfast at Charlie's (15) or Jubilee (31)
08.30   Dead sea & Jerusalem tour
  Minibus leaves from Schmidt Hall (7)
11.00   Dead sea region, including: mud baths, Swim in Dead Sea, Lunch
16.00   A taste of Jerusalem, including: Jaffa gate, Merchant's market, Western Wall, Dinner
22.00   Arrival back at WIS campus

Thursday, September 3, 2009
07.45 - 08.45   Breakfast at Charlie's (15) or Jubilee (31)
Lectures Schmidt Lecture Hall (7)
  ChairM Yousef, AQC
09.00 - 09.30   Optimality in carbon metabolism R Milo, WIS
09.30 - 10.00   Optimal translation Y Pilpel, WIS
10.00 - 10.30   System biology: integrating metabolomics & transcriptomics A Aharoni, WIS
10.30 - 11.00   Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30   Protein-protein interaction inhibitors: application to cystic fibrosis P Zilenkiewicz, IBB
11.30 - 12.00   Molecular recognition and biological evolution D Lancet, WIS
12.00 - 13.15   Lunch & Posters Perlman lobby (6)
13.15 - 13.30   Poster removal
Workshops 7 & 8
13.30 - 16.00   Group I: Levine Building, room 101 (30)
  Gene ontology S Ben-Dor, WIS
  Group II: Computing Center, room 220 (34)
  Whole genome studies of genetic variation V Chalifa-Caspi, BGU
E Rubin, BGU
O Birk, BGU
16.00 - 16.30   cofee break in Levine building hall (30)
Workshops 7 & 8 (continued)
16.30 - 19.00   Group II: Levine Building, room 101 (30)
  Gene ontology S Ben-Dor, WIS
  Group I: Computing Center, room 220 (34)
  Whole genome studies of genetic variation V Chalifa-Caspi, BGU
E Rubin, BGU
O Birk, BGU
19.30   Israeli barbeque
  Minibus leaves from Schmidt Hall (7)

Friday, September 4, 2009
07.30   Check out from rooms
08.00 - 08.30   Breakfast in Levine building hall (30)
Wrap-up discussion
08.30 - 10.00   Levine Building, room 101 (30)
10.00 -   Transfer to airport

Abbreviations
AQCAl Qasemi College, Israel
BGUBen-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
BIUBar-Ilan University, Israel
HUJHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
IBBInstitute Biophysics & Biochemistry, Poland
IITIndian Institute of Technology, Israel
MSUMS University,Baroda, India
PKUPeiking University, China
SMCSheba Medical Center, Israel
SUSabanci University, Turkey
TAUTel-Aviv University, Israel
TIITTechnion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
UPUniversity of Pennsylvania, USA
WISWeizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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