Program

Program Format

	Track 1: Breaking Genomics Research and Technology
These sessions will highlight cutting-edge research in areas such as human genomic Variation, Structural Biology and evolutionary genomics, and practical implications of genomics research. Experimental and computational approaches for effectively utilizing the latest DNA sequencing technologies will be presented during concurrent sessions.

	Track 2: System Biology
The section will focus on the symbiotic interplay between biology, technology, and computation of systems biology, hot topics include " proteomics", " genomics", "metabolomics" and "Signaling Networks" etc. Also speakers will provide the new ways in applying systems biology and systems theory to medicine.

	Track 3: RNA Biology
This section is design to cover covering the latest findings about RNA science, methodology, technology, and applications. Hot topics include Chemical Biology of RNA, Emerging Methodologies for RNA Science, RNA Structure and Folding, RNAs in Diseases, Therapeutic RNAs, Small RNAs etc.

	Track 4: Genome-based Drug Discovery and Gene Therapy
This section aims to bring together both industry and academia thought about emerging genome technical progress and its application in the development of new therapeutic understanding and novel compounds. Beside the concurrent sessions will highlights cutting edge research in the fields of gene and cell therapy.

	Track 5: Human Genetics, Genome and Diseases
This section will present a significant contribution to the advancement of human genetics of common disease, also devoted to the challenges of human genome variation studies and genetic Analysis.

	Track 6: Human Genomics and Personalized Medicine
This section will explore the fundamental, translational, and clinical sciences driving the progress of human genomics and personalized medicine movement.

	Track 7: Other Omics and Applications
This section aims to provide a comprehensive view of omics, such as the Emerging Proteomics, Metagenomics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics, and Interactomics etc. It will present the studies from bench to data analysis together with early-stage experimental researchers and its latest development.

	Track 8: Non-Human Functional Genomics and Beyond
This session included comparative and functional genomics studies of several, diverse, animal and plant, hot area covers transgenic animal, forest functional genomics, fish and insect functional genomics.


Young Scientist Forum

Day one April 25th, 2012
09:00 – 09:40 am	Opening Ceremony and Welcome Remarks
10:00 – 12:30 am	Keynote Forum Ⅰ
01:30 – 05:30 pm	Keynote Forum Ⅱ
06:00 – 08:30 pm	Welcome Banquet and Performance

Session 1-1: Human Genomic Variation Time: April 26, 2012, Thursday, 08:30- 12:10 Place: Xi‘ an, China
Chair	Dr.Serafim Batzoglou, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
08:30-08:55	Speech Opportunity Available
08:55-09:20	Title: Algorithms for Population Genomics Dr.Serafim Batzoglou, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA
09:20-09:45	Title:TBD Dr. Pengbo Zhou, Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, USA
09:45-10:10	Speech Opportunity Available
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-10:55	Speech Opportunity Available
10:55-11:20	Title: TBD Dr. Patricia Murphy, Imperial College London, UK
11:20-11:45	Title: Single-Cell Comparative Genomic Hybridisation and Single-Cell Genome Sequencing: Powerful Tools to Investigate DNA Mutation Dr. Thierry Voet, Assistant ProfessorLaboratory of Reproductive Genomics, Center for Human Genetics, Belgium
11:45-12:10	Title:TBD Dr. Brendan J. Keating, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA

Session 1-2: Genome Sequencing and Disease Gene Identification Time: April 26, 2012, Thursday, 08:30- 12:10 Place: Xi‘ an, China
Chair	Dr. Ian Campbell, Professor, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
08:30-08:55	Speech Opportunity Available
08:55-09:20	Title: A Large-Scale Public Reference Set of Complete Human Genome Sequences for Biological Interpretation of Human Genomes Dr. Shan Yang, Senior Applications Scientist, Complete Genomics, USA
09:20-09:45	Title: Principles of Dynamic Gene Regulation in Mammals Dr. Ido Amit, Senior Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
09:45-10:10	Title: TBD Dr. Alistair Pagnamenta, Researcher, University of Oxford, UK
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-10:55	Title: TBD Dr. Ian Campbell, Professor, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
10:55-11:20	Speech Opportunity Available
11:20-11:45	Title: Haplotype-Resolving Human Genomes: Towards Diploid Genomics Dr. Margret Hoehe, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
11:45-12:10	Title: The Quantitative Nature of Reference Sequence in Clinical Genetics Dr. Lili Li, Genetics Researcher, McGill University, Canada

Session 1-3: Structural Biology and Functional Genomics Time: April 26, 2012, Thursday, 13:30-17:10 Place: Xi’ an, China
Chair	Dr. Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Professor, La Trobe University, Australia
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
13:30-13:55	Speech Opportunity Available
13:55-14:20	*Title:* Interval-based Distance Function for Identifying RNA Structure Candidates Dr. Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Professor, La Trobe University, Australia
14:20-14:45	Title: Role of Heme Oxygenase -1 in Endothelial and Muscle Cells: Lesson from Promoter Allelic Variants Dr. Alicja Jozkowicz, Professor, Jagiellonian University, Poland
14:45-15:10	Title: Prediction of Novel Microrna Genes in Cancer-Associated Genomic Regions and Prediction of Their Gene Targets—a Combined Computational and Experimental Approach Dr. Kriton Kalantidis, Associate Professor, University of Crete, Greece
15:10-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-15:55	Title: TBD Dr. Anis Rahman, Founder, Applied Research & Photonics, Inc., USA
15:55-16:20	Title: TBD Dr. Yuguang Zhao, Oxford University, UK
16:20-16:45	Speech Opportunity Available
16:45-17:10	Title: In Silico Analysis of Structural Properties of Genomic DNA Sequences and Promoter Prediction Dr.Manju Bansal, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India

Session 1-4: Comparative Functional Genomics Time: April 26, 2012, Thursday, 13:30-17:10 Place: Xi’ an, China
Chair	Call for Host
13:30-13:55	Speech Opportunity Available
13:55-14:20	Title: Y Chromosome Genomics: a Comparison Between the Human, Mouse and Bovine Y Chromosome Dr. Wansheng Liu, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA
14:20-14:45	Title: Towards a Flagella Interactome: Comparative Genomics of Tryponosome Trafficking Proteins Dr. Alan Christoffels, Director, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
14:45-15:10	Title: TBD Dr. Priya panjabi, Assistant Professor, Dept of Botany, Delhi University, India
15:10-15:30	Coffee Break

Session 1-5: Evolutionary Genomics of Indigenous Populations
Time: April 27, 2012, Friday, 08:30- 12:10
Place: Xi‘ an, China

Session 1-6: Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics Time: April 27, 2012, Friday, 08:30- 12:10 Place: Xi‘ an, China
Chair	Call for Host
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
08:30-08:55	Speech Opportunity Available
08:55-09:20	*Title:* Supervised and Unsupervised Models for the Analysis of Human Epigenetics Data *Dr. Duygu Ucar*, Researcher, University of Iowa, USA
09:20-09:45	Title: TBD Dr. Wu-chun Feng, Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA
09:45-10:10	Title: TBD Dr. Mario Cannataro, Professor, University of Catanzaro, Italy
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-10:55	Title: TBD Dr. Gabriel Valiente, Associate Professor, Technical University of Catalonia, USA
10:55-11:20	Speech Opportunity Available
11:20-11:45	Title: TBD Dr.Sweta Sneha, Assistant Professor,Kennesaw State University, USA
11:45-12:10	Title: Identiﬁcation of Epitopes in Indian Human Papilloma Virus 16 E6: a Bioinformatics Approach Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Lecturer, Centre for Biomedical Magnetic Research, India

Session 1-7: Data Analysis and Visualization in Genomics and Proteomics Time: April 27, 2012, Friday, 13:30-17:10 Place: Xi’ an, China
Chair	Call for Host
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
13:30-13:55	Speech Opportunity Available
13:55-14:20	Title: TBD Dr. Yuehua Cui, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, USA
14:20-14:45	Title: Development in DNA Sequencing by Recognition Tunneling Technology Dr. Peiming Zhang, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, USA
14:45-15:10	Title: Prediction of Thermostability from Amino Acid Attributes by Combination of Clustering with Attribute Weighting: A New Vista in Engineering Enzymes Dr. Esmaeil Ebrahimie, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, Australia
15:10-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-15:55	Title: An Integrative Method for Identifying the Over-Annotated Protein-Coding Genes in Microbial Genomes Dr. Jia-Feng Yu, Lecturer, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Biophysics for Functional macromolecules, Dezhou University, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, China
15:55-16:20	Title: Multiplex PCR: The Principle and Applications Dr. Michio Oishi, Executive Director, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Japan
16:20-16:45	Title:Combinatorics in RNA Secondary Structures Representations Dr. Athanasios Alexiou, Researcher, Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Plateia, Greece
16:45-17:10	Title: A Comparative Kinetic Study of Two Novel Nanosized Radiolabeled Analogues of Methionine for SPECT Tumor Imaging Dr. Mehdi Shafiee Ardestani, Assistant Professor, Nano-Pharmaceutical and Radiopharmacological Sciences,Pasteur Institute of Iran, Iran

Session 1-8: Developmental Genomics
Time: April 27, 2012, Friday, 13:30-17:10
Place: Xi’ an, China

Session 1-9: SNP, Gene Expression Microarrays and Novel Amplification Technologies Time: April 27, 2012, Friday, 13:30-17:10 Place: Xi’ an, China
Chair	Call for Host
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
13:30-13:55	Speech Opportunity Available
13:55-14:20	Speech Opportunity Available
14:20-14:45	Title: Padlock-Based Improved SNP Detection and Signal Amplification on DNA Microarrays Dr.Dietmar Blohm, Professor, Center for Enviromental Research and Technology, Germany
14:45-15:10	Title: TBD Dr. Yuliaxis Ramayo-Caldas, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
15:10-15:30	Coffee Break

Session 1-10: LC-MS in Functional Genomics Research Time: April 28, 2012, Saturday, 08:30- 12:10 Place: Xi‘ an, China
Chair	Call for Host
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
08:30-08:55	Speech Opportunity Available
08:55-09:20	Title: TBD Dr. Opher Gileadi, Principal Investigator, University of Oxford, UK
09:20-09:45	Title: Identification Avian Influenza Resistant Using 3 Primers Mx Gene at Merawang Chicken from South Sumatera Island, Indonesia. Dr. Tike Sartika, Researcher, IRIAP/Indonesian Research Institute for Animal Production, Indonesia
09:45-10:10	Title: TBD Dr. H. S. Aparna, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Mysore University, Manasagangotri, India
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break

Session 1-11: Clinical Genomics, Functional Genes and Biomarker Discovery Time: April 28, 2012, Saturday, 08:30- 12:10 Place: Xi‘ an, China
Chair	Call for Host
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
08:30-08:55	Speech Opportunity Available
08:55-09:20	Speech Opportunity Available
09:20-09:45	Title:TBD Dr. Rena Conti, Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago, USA
09:45-10:10	Title: TBD Dr. Rong Chen, Bioinformatics Specialist, Stanford University, USA
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-10:55	Title: Andem Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics, Protein Characterization and Biomarker Discovery in Human Pathogens Dr. Haroun N. Shah, Professor, Health Protection Agency, UK
10:55-11:20	*Title:* TBD Dr. Per Kogner, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
11:20-11:45	Title: Exploration of Biomarkers and Molecular Targets for Cancer Treatment Dr. Yoshimasa Maniwa, Associate Professor, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
11:45-12:10	Title:TBD Dr. Jin Jen, Director, Gene Expression Core, Advanced Genomics Technology Center, Senior Associate Consultant, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, USA

Session 1-12: Human Genome and Molecular Diagnosis Time: April 28, 2012, Saturday, 08:30- 12:10 Place: Xi‘ an, China
Chair	*Dr. Dwight E. Stambolian,* Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
08:30-08:55	Speech Opportunity Available
08:55-09:20	*Title:* The Genetics of Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Glaucoma *Dr. Dwight E. Stambolian,* Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA
09:20-09:45	Title: TBD Dr. Wong LJ, Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
09:45-10:10	Title: Recurrence Risk due to Germline Mosaicism: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Dr. Egbert Bakker, Professor, Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, The Netherlands
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-10:55	*Title:* TBD *Dr. M. Fernanda Sabato,* Operations Manager, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
10:55-11:20	Title: Genomic Response to Inflammation in Patients and Animal Models Dr. Wenzhong Xiao, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford Genome Technology Center, USA
11:20-11:45	Title: A Combined Gap PCR and MLPA Assay for Detection of Large Deletions Leading to Alpha-Thalassemia Dr. Brian Dawson, Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic, USA
11:45-12:10	Title: Molecular Phylogeny of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Dr. Saeed Zakerbostanabad, Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University, parand branch, Iran

Hosting Organizations

Information Research
Center of International Talent, SAFEA

China Council for the Promotion of
International Trade
Xi'an Sub-Council

China Medical Biotech Associatio

Operating Organization

BIT Congress Inc.
Foreign Experts Databank
of SAFEA-Dalian Biotechnological
and Medical Experts Subdivision

Official Travel Agent

BIT World Travel Service, Inc.