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Workshop - Heflin Center for Analytic and Epidemiologic Genomics (CAEG) components

Date:  Mon 3/10/2008
 
Time:  8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
 
Goal for the meeting: 
 
Introduce the CAEG to the UAB research community and lay foundations for collaboration.
 
Goal for the CAEG:  To bring basic and clinical investigators in contact with enabling scientists and resources facilitating successful research utilizing and/or developing analytical and epidemiological genomics.
 
Registration:  The workshop is open to the UAB community. In order to have appropriate materials and refreshments on hand, please indicate your interest in attending by emailing the following information to Richard Sarver, rsarver@uab.edu, prior to Fri 3/7/2008:
  1. Name
  2. Title
  3. Brief description of your expectations of what the CAEG may do for you and/or what you wish to learn about.

 
Location:  Finley Conference Center
Hugh Kaul Human Genetics Building
720 20th Street South
 
Schedule of Events: Agenda

Time Topic Speaker
8:15-8:30 Breakfast and meet and greet All
8:30-8:40 Introduction to workshop Grier P. Page PhD
8:40-8:55 Vision for the CAEG David B Allison PhD
8:55-9:30 Value and Power of GWA and support for the design of GWA studies Donna K. Arnett MSPH PhD
9:30-9:45 Tools for Planning studies
  • PowerAtlas
  • GWA test driver
Grier P. Page PhD
Hemant K Tiwari, PhD
9:45-10:00 Dataset Repository Nianjun Liu PhD   
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-10:30 Pilot Partnerships and Enrichment Program David B Allison PhD
10:30-10:50 HDB analysis Tool
  • HDBStat!
  • LDDAC
Grier P. Page PhD
Hemant K Tiwari, PhD
10:50-11:10 High Performance Computing Resources Bharat K. Soni PhD
Alan Shih, PhD
11:10-11:25 Using HPC resources – videos, courses, workshops Jelai Wang
11:25-11:45 Genomic technologies – SNPs; CGH, etc. Jan Dumanski PhD
11:45-12:00 Bioinformatic Training Needs Elliot Lefkowitz PhD
12:00-12:20 Q&A. All – Moderated by Grier P. Page PhD  
12:20 Closing Grier P. Page PhD

Speaker:

Sponsors:  TBD
 
Contact Information:   Richard Sarver
Department of Biostatistics
1665 University Blvd, RPHB 414
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35294-0022
Phone: (205) 975-9169
Fax: 205.975.2541
Email: rsarver@uab.edu