Agenda

Keynote Address

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

BC Research Institute for Children's & Women's Health
Chan Centre for Family Health Education
950 West 28th Avenue
Vancouver, BC

Time Title Speaker
18:00 - 18:45 Symposium Registration
Refreshment
 
18:45 - 19:00 Opening Remarks Neil Reiner and Bob Brunham, University of British Columbia
19:00 Contact Networks and the Spread of Disease Mark Newman, University of Michigan
 

Workshop

Thursday, January 20, 2005 - Saturday, January 22, 2005

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
University Centre
University of British Columbia
6331 Crescent Road
Vancouver, BC

Thursday, January 20, 2005
Time Title Speaker
7:30 - 8:20 Breakfast  
8:20 - 8:30 Introduction  
8:30 - 9:15 Modeling of Contact Networks: Implications for Public Health Policies Babak Pourbohloul, University of British Columbia
9:15 - 10:00 Epidemic Modeling: Dealing with Complex Networks Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University
10:00 - 10:45 Design of Protein Interaction Mapping Projects Gregg Morin, BC Cancer Agency
10:45 - 11:15 Break  
11:15 - 12:00 The Role of Regulatory T Cells in Chronic Leishmania Infections David Sacks, NIH
12:00 - 12:45 Triggering Interferon Antiviral Immunity John Hiscott, McGill University
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch  
14:15 - 15:00 Social Network Structure and Disease Propagation Stephen Eubank, Los Alamos National Laboratory
15:00 - 15:45 Contact Network Epidemiology: New Methods for Predicting and Controlling Infectious Diseases Lauren Meyers, University of Texas, Austin
15:45 - 16:15 Break  
16:15 - 17:00 Protein-Protein Interactions, the Phosphoproteome, and New Instrumentation and Methodology for Characterization of Proteins Involved in Cell Migration Donald Hunt, University of Virginia
17:00 - 17:45 Mapping Protein-Protein Interaction Networks using Proteomics Leonard Foster, University of British Columbia
 
Friday, January 21, 2005
Time Title Speaker
7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast  
9:00 - 9:45 Reliability Analysis in Genomics Art Cherkasov, University of British Columbia
9:45 - 10:30 Atlas: a Platform for Integrating Interaction Data Francis Ouellette, University of British Columbia
10:30 - 11:00 Break  
11:00 - 11:45 The Influence of Network Heterogeneity on Epidemic Spread Michael Wolfson, Statistics Canada
11:45 - 12:30 An Integrative Genomics Platform Joel Bellenson, Upstream Biosciences Inc.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Workshop A – Population Discussion Co-Chairs: Babak Pourbohloul and Lauren Meyers
  Workshop B - Molecular/Proteomics Discussion Co-Chairs: Neil Reiner and Artem Cherkasov
16:00 - 16:30 Refreshment  
 
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Time Title Speaker
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast  
9:00 - 9:45 Workshop A – Population Discussion - Conclusion Co-Chairs: Babak Pourbohloul and Lauren Meyers
9:45 - 10:30 Workshop B - Molecular/Proteomics Discussion - Conclusion Co-Chairs: Artem Cherkasov and Neil Reiner
10:30 - 11:00 Break  
11:00 - 11:45 Open Discussion of Workshops Co-Chairs: Babak Pourbohloul and Artem Cherkasov
11:45 - 12:00 Symposium Closing and Summary Neil Reiner and Bob Brunham
12:00 Lunch and Closing Reception