The challenge and promise presented by bioinformatics has rightly captured attention and hope as a basis for the emerging science of digital biology. This science comprises a spectrum from genomics, proteomics, through computable models of metabolism and the virtual cell. The ultimate challenge is to link genomic findings with clinical outcomes, forging the marriage of bioinformatics with medical informatics. These trends, and their potential impact at Mayo, will be overviewed to frame the series of presentations to follow.
The Informatics Grand Rounds lecture series began in 2004. Lectures will be presented once a month on blue Fridays from 12:30 - 1:30 in the Christensen Lecture Hall (10-101), located in the Gonda Building. This series will also be webcast.
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| 1/14/2005 | Harold Solbrig
Technical Specialist
Department of Health Sciences Research
Division of Biomedical Informatics
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine | "LexGrid: A basis for interlocking biomedical concepts across vocabularies and ontologies" |
| 2/11/2005 | Johnny Wong
Johnny Wong, PhD
Professor & Associate Chair, Computer Science Department
Professor, Information Systems Security Laboratory
Iowa State University
WallapakTavanapong, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Iowa State University | "Endoscopic Multimedia Information Systems" |
| 2/22/2005 11:00 - 12:00 p.m. | Roger L. Vallejo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Genomics & Bioinformatics
Pennsylvania State University | "Genetic Basis of Variation for Vulnerability to Alcoholism and Mammary Inflammatory Diseases" |
| 3/14/2005 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Jonas S. Almeida, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Medical University of South Carolina | "Models of data for hypothesis generation - proteomic biomarker tales" |
| 3/24/2005 11:00 - 12:00 p.m. | Steve Ladunga, PhD
Consultant
AGY Therapeutics, Inc.
South San Francisco, California | "Automated Analysis/Annotation Pipelines, Optimized Classification and Systems Biology of Gene Expression Networks" |
| 4/21/2005 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Jean-Pierre Kocher, PhD
CEO, Molecular Networks GmbH
Erlangen, Germany | "Modeling Enzyme Catalytic Activity: A case study for cytochrome P450 enzymes" |
| 4/25/2005 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | David Wild, D.Phil
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics
Director of Computing
Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
Claremont, California | "Graphical Models and Bayesian Methods in Systems Biology and Clinical Bioinformatics" |
| 6/03/2005 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. | Peter Wei-Der Li, PhD
Director, Content Bioinformatics
Applied Biosystems
Rockville, Maryland | "Relationships: 4 steps to bioinformatics enlightenment" |
| 6/10/2005 | Robert J. Robbins, PhD
Vice President, Information Technology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington | "Data Management in the Research Laboratory: The Sine Qua Non of 21st-Century Science" |
| 6/30/2005 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Thomas L. Casavant
Professor and Director,
The University of Iowa Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | "TrAPSS: Automated Knowledge Discovery for High-Throughput Disease Gene Mutation Screening" |
| 7/13/2005 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Stacey S. Cherny, PhD
Head of Statistical Genetics Applications
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
University of Oxford
United Kingdom | "Variance components methods in quantitative genetic research" |
7/20/2005 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Leighton Auditorium | Bill Inmon
"Father of the Data Warehouse" | "Data Warehousing at Large Organizations" |
| 10/19/2005 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. | David Du, PhD
Digital Technology Center Intelligent Storage Consortium and Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota | "Storage for Medical Information Retrieval and Integration" |
11/16/2005 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Mann Hall | David Marco
President, EWSolutions
Hinsdale, Illinois | "Fundamentals of the Managed Meta Data Environment" |
