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

Session2-1: Systems Cell Biology and Metabolism Time: April 26, 2012, Thursday, 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. Vytas A. Bankaitis, Professor, The University of North Carolina, USA
09:20-09:45	Title: High Trough Put Screen for Characterization of Proteoglycan Structures on Different Tumor and Primary Cell Lines Dr. Larissa Kaufmann, Dipl. Biol. Karlsruher Institute of Technology, Germany
09:45-10:10	Title: TBD Dr. Martín Montoya, Laboratory Manager, The Wyss Institute at Harvard, Center for Life Sciences, USA
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-10:55	Title: IRR as an Alkali Sensor and Regulator of the Acid-Base Balance Dr. Alexander Petrenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
10:55-11:20	Speech Opportunity Available
11:20-11:45	Title:TBD Dr. Daniel Gaffney, Group Leader, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
11:20-11:45	Title: TBD Dr. Yanzhong Hu, Research Associate, Georgia Health Sciences University, USA
11:45-12:10	Title: An Environment-Dependent Structural Switch Underlies the Regulation of Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase 1A Dr. Nageswara Rao Jampani, PostDoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA

Session 2-2: Signaling Networks and Dynamics Time: April 26, 2012, Thursday, 08:30- 12:10 Place: Xi‘ an, China
Chair	*Dr. Bin Zhang,* Professor, Merck Research Laboratories, USA
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
08:30-08:55	Speech Opportunity Available
08:55-09:20	Title: O-Glcnac Modification: Why So Intimately Associated with Phosphorylation Dr.Suresh Mishra, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada
09:20-09:45	*Title:* An Inflammation-Triggered Interactome Of Coding And Non-Coding Genes *Dr. Argyris Papantonis,* Kemp Junior Research Fellow, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK
09:45-10:10	Title: Inferring Cancer Driver Genes Dr. Bin Zhang, Professor, Merck Research Laboratories, USA
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break

Session 2-3: Macromolecular Organization and Cell Mechanics Time: April 26, 2012, Thursday, 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. Dahong Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology/CGRB, Oregon State University, USA
14:20-14:45	Title:Exploring Cellular Mechano transduction, From Focal Adhesions to Nuclear Pores Dr. Mohammad Mofrad, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, USA
14:45-15:10	Title: Probing Cell Division with Small Chemical Molecules Dr. Benjamin Kwok, Assistant Professor, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Department of Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada

Session 2-4: Cell Growth, Division, and Cell Fate Decisions Time: April 26, 2012, Thursday, 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: Tissue-specific Regulation of the Number of Cell Division Rounds by Inductive Cell Interaction and Transcription Factors during Ascidian Embryogenes is Dr. Hiroki Nishida, Professor, Osaka University, Japan
14:20-14:45	*Title:* Resveratrol Rescues Adult Stem Cell Decline and Extends Lifespan in Laminopathy-Based Premature Aging *Dr. Baohua Liu,* Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, LKS Faculty of Medicine,The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
14:45-15:10	Speech Opportunity Available
15:10-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-15:55	Speech Opportunity Available
15:55-16:20	Title: Construction of a Computable Cell Proliferation Network Focused on Non-Diseased Lung Cells Dr. Stephan Gebel, Manager Biological Network Science, PHILIP MORRIS Research Laboratories GmbH Cologne, Germany
16:20-16:45	Title: TBD Dr. Woo-Yang Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
16:45-17:10	Title: TBD Dr. Ormond A. MacDougald, Professor, University of Michigan Medical School, Brehm Center, USA

Session 2-5: Systems Biology of Microorganism
Time: April 27, 2012, Friday, 08:30- 12:10
Place: Xi‘ an, China

Session2-6: Imaging and Spatially-resolved Cell Modeling 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:* TBD *Dr.Gerard Marriott*, Professor, UC Berkeley, USA
09:20-09:45	Title: Automated Localization and Boundary Identification of Carotid and Femoral Artery on MR Image Sequences Dr. Da-Chuan Cheng, Assistant Professor, China Medical University, Taiwan
09:45-10:10	Title: TBD Dr. Shail K Sharma, Senior Scientist, National Institutes of Health, USA
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break

Session 2-7: Computational Methods and Algorithms in System Biology Time: April 27, 2012, Friday, 13:30-17:10 Place: Xi’ an, China
Chair	*Dr. Mark LeBlanc,* Professor, Wheaton College, USA
Co-Chair	Call for Co-Host
13:30-13:55	Speech Opportunity Available
13:55-14:20	*Title:*Classifying Stages of Retention and Loss of DNA Acquired by Horizontal Transfer between Bacteria and Archaea *Dr. Mark LeBlanc*, Professor, Wheaton College, USA
14:20-14:45	Title: The New Bioinformatics Analysis Framework with Web Services at EMBL-EBI Dr. Weizhong LI, Software Engineer, EMBL Outstation - Hinxton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, UK
14:45-15:10	Speech Opportunity Available
15:10-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-15:55	*Title:* GMIAL an annotation platform for microbial genomes *Dr. Jean-Francois Gibrat,* Director, the Math′ematique, Informatique et G′enome laboratory, France
15:55-16:20	*Title:* A Tool-Chain Approach to Predictive Design of Biological Circuits *Dr. Jacob Bea*l, Scientist, BBN Technologies, USA
16:20-16:’45	Speech Opportunity Available
16:45-17:10	*Title:* Stochastic dynamics in biochemical systems: from single-molecule kinetics to Chemical Master Equation and beyond *Dr. Hao Ge,* Associate Professor , Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University, China

Session 2-8: Model Identification and Discrimination
Time: April 27, 2012, Friday, 13:30-17:10
Place: Xi’ an, China

Session 2-9: Systems Neuroscience 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. Pietro Paolo Sanna, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences, California Campus, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
09:45-10:10	Title: TBD Dr. Tsvi Achler, Researcher, Computer Science/Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break

Session 2-10: System Synthetic Biology 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. Robert Krams, Professor, Imperial College London, UK
09:20-09:45	*Title:* Advanced RNA synthesis as a key tool in RNA biology research *Dr. Andrei Laikhter*, Chief Scientific Officer, ChemGenes Corporation, USA
09:45-10:10	Title: A Cost-Effective Genome Synthesis Approach Dr. Ping Yang, Vice President for Gene Synthesis & Molecular Biology BusinessGeneral Manager of GENEWIZ ChinaGENEWIZ Inc., USA
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-10:55	Title: TBD Dr. Pernette J. Verschure, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10:55-11:20	Title: TBD Dr. Jian Yin, Free University Berlin, Germany
11:20-11:45	Speech Opportunity Available
11:45-12:10	*Title:* Synthetic Gene Circuit for Cellular Decision Making *Dr.Zhen Xie***, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, USA

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.