NMBIS 2010 Schedule

NMBIS 2010 - New Mexico Bioinformatics Symposium

March 25-26, 2010

Inn & Spa at Loretto, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Post Genomic Technologies for Biologic Discovery

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On behalf of the IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (NM-NBRE), we invite you to the 2010 New Mexico Bioinformatics Symposium (NMBIS).

Registration Fees: Students not presenting posters $150, Non-students $225. Continental breakfast, lunch, and break refreshments will be provided.

Now in its sixth year, NMBIS is a premier educational event for the Southwest region featuring internationally renowned speakers. We look forward to seeing you!

Speakers

Keynote Speaker on Thursday, March 25:

Michael Milburn, Ph.D., Metabolon, Inc. "Integrated, Nontargeted Ultrahigh Performance Liquid Chromatography/Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry Platform for the Identification and Relative Quantification of the Metabolome"

Keynote Speaker on Friday, March 26:

Stephen Kingsmore, M.B., Ch.B., B.A.O., National Center for Genome Resources, "Relevance of Next Generation Sequencing of Multiple Genomes for Medicine"

Other Speakers include:

Lawrence B. Schook, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Tentative title, "From Genome to Phenome - Animal Models of Human Disease."
Toni Kutchan, PhD, The Danforth Plant Science Center.
Lloyd Sumner, PhD, The Noble Foundation.
Inanc Birol, PhD, BC Cancer Agency, Tentative title "ABySS and de novo Assembly".
Thomas Wu, MD, PhD, Genentech Inc., Title: "Detecting alternate splice forms and gene structures in RNA-Seq data".

Call for poster abstracts

NOTE: Closing date for abstracts is midnight February 24, 2010.

The NMBIS Organizing Committee invites you to submit a poster abstract of your scientific research for presentation at the poster session. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend and present their work from any area of bioinformatics.

Students submitting posters attend NMBIS-2010 free!
Poster Size 3' wide x 4' high

Student speaking slots

One or two student speakers will be selected from the poster abstract submissions to give a presentation of their work during Friday's speaker presentations. If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, be sure to check the student presentation check box on the registration form.

Scholarships

Symposium scholarships are available to students attending Dine College Shiprock, University of New Mexico Gallup, San Juan College Farmington, and Northern New Mexico College. For more information, contact Faye Schilkey at fds@ncgr.org. Please apply by February 24, 2010.

Agenda Schedule is available at this link: NMBIS 2010 Schedule

After Conference NCGR Seq Ctr Tour

We will depart the Inn at Loretto hotel sometime
between 4:30 and 5:00pm. The tour will take 1 - 1.5
hours including travel time. Please RSVP Doreen Landau
dkl@ncgr.org by COB February 24, 2010.

Venue and accommodations

A block of rooms at the Inn & Spa at Loretto have been reserved at the special rate of $110.00 per night. Reservations must be made by February 24, 2010 to receive the special rate.

Additional daily service fee of $12.00 will be added. This fee includes: housekeeping gratuities, high-speed wireless internet access, access to fitness center and pool, and local and toll free telephone calls.

Valet Parking at the hotel is $9.00 per day for overnight guests and $6.00 per day for day parking only.

Specify Code NMBIS when registering.

Specify rate code NMBIS when registering.

Online registration directions

Students may share double rooms.

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