Preliminary Conference Agenda

Thursday, September 30

4:00 pm Registration

6:00 pm Opening reception

Friday, October 1

7:00 am – 8:00 am Breakfast

8:00 am - 8:10 am Welcome and introduction Kornelia Polyak/Eric Suh

8:10 am - 9:00 am Keynote Talk George Church, Harvard Medical School "New technologies and models for integrative systems biology.”

Session 1 Sequencing the "OMES"
Chair: Kornelia Polyak, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

9:00 am– 9:25 am Victor Velculescu, Johns Hopkins University (kinome project in colon cancer)

9:25 am- 9:50 am open

9:50 am- 10:15 am William Sellers, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (kinome project in other cancer types)

10:15 am -10:40 am Break

10:40 am -11:05 am Human-mouse comparative sequencing

11:05 am -11:30 am Digital karyotyping-Agencourt

11:30 am -11:55 am 2 short talks to be selected from abstracts

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

Session 2 Technical developments in SAGE and Sequencing
Chair: Kevin McKernan, Agencourt Bioscience

1:30 pm – 1:25 pm Matthew Meyerson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (modification of long-SAGE for infectious agent discovery)

1:25 pm - 1:50 pm John Dunn, Brookhaven National Laboratory (using long-SAGE for microbe genotyping)

1:50 pm - 2:15 pm MPSS-Lynx

2:15 pm - 2:40 pm SJ Evans, University of Michigan (comparison of SAGE with arrays)

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm Break

3:10 pm - 3:35 pm Chris McLeod (new sequencing technology)

3:35 pm - 4:00 pm SM Wang University of Chicago (tags to gene matching, transcript identification etc.)

4:00 pm - 4:50 pm 2-3 Short talks to be selected from abstracts

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Poster session

Saturday, October 2

7:00 am - 8:00 am Breakfast

Session 3 Bioinformatics, integration of RNA and DNA level
Chair: Greg Riggins, Johns Hopkins University

8:00 am - 8:25 am Robert Gentleman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (the use of R for SAGE, SAGELyzer)

8:25 am - 8:50 am Sandro de Souza, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Res. (Brazilian CGAP project)

8:50 am - 9:15 am Frank Baas, University of Amsterdam

9:15 am - 9:40 am Michael Hauser, Duke University (SAGE data and genetic linkage for disease gene identification)

9:40 am - 10:00 am Break

10:00 am - 10:25 am Robert Vertseeg, University of Amsterdam (linking SAGE to chromosome location)

10:25 am - 10:50 am Michael Stern, National Institute of Aging

10:50 am - 11:40 am 2-3 Short talks to be selected from abstracts

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

Session 4 Model Organism and Development
Chair: Frank Baas, University of Amsterdam

1:30 pm – 1:55 pm Dirk Bohmann, University of Rochester (drosophila)

1:55 pm - 2:20 pm Marco Marra, British Columbia Cancer Res. Center (C.elegans)

2:20 pm - 2:45 pm Jean-Marc Elalouf, CEA Saclay, France (mouse kidney development)

2:45 pm - 3:10 pm S. Tan, University of Melbourne (brain development)

3:10 pm - 3:30 pm Break

3:30 pm - 3:55 pm Ramesh Shivdasani Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (colon development and it's implications for colon cancer)

3:55 pm - 4:20 pm Seth Blackshaw, Johns Hopkins

4:20 pm - 5:10 pm 2-3 short talks to be selected from abstracts

6:00 PM Closing dinner

Saturday, October 3

7:00 am - 8:00 am Breakfast

Session 5 Cancer Transcriptomes
Chair: Jean-Marc Elalouf, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique

8:00 am - 8:50 am Keynote talk- Mariana Nacht, Genzyme-SAGE based gene discovery for therapeutic targets

8:50 am - 9:15 am Robert Strausberg (overview of CGAP)

9:15 am - 9:40 am Sara Sukumar, Johns Hopkins University (breast cancer, metastasis, endothelium SAGE)

9:40 am - 10:00 am Break

10:00 am - 10:25 am Pat Morin, NIA, (ovarian)

10:25 am - 10:40 am Greg Riggins, Johns Hopkins University (brain SAGE)

10:40 am - 11:05 am Karin Oien, Cancer Research UK (gastric cc., markers for adenocarcinomas)

11:05 am - 11:55 am 2-3 short talks to be selected from abstracts

12:00 pm - 12:10 pm Closing Remarks