Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics 2009

The fourth annual Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics was hosted by Case Western Reserve University on June 15-17, 2009.

The conference provided an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of methods, research findings, and experiences.

An important goal for the conference was to foster long-term collaborative relationships and networking opportunities within the domain of computational approaches to biology that benefit Ohio.

Keynote Speakers

Igor Jurisica, Canada Research Chair in Integrative Computational Biology, University of Toronto
Title: Integrative network analysis of prognostic markers in lung cancer. (in collaboration with M. S. Tsao, F. Shepherd, D. Strumpf, C.Q. Zhang)

Tao Jiang, Presidential Chair Professor, University of California - Riverside
Title: Searching and Predicting Active Chemical Compounds Using Maximum Common Substructure

Daniel R. Schoenberg, Center for RNA Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
Title: Cytoplasmic capping: A new post-transcriptional step that may expand the transcriptome and the proteome

International Society for Computational Biology
International Society for Computational Biology grants affiliate status to the Ohio Bioinformatics Consortium
Ohio Regional Student Group

Paper and Poster Awards

Click on the links below for the winners of the poster and paper awards at the Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics 2009.
Paper awards.
Poster awards.

Previous Conferences

OCCBIO 2006
OCCBIO 2007
OCCBIO 2008
OCCBIO 2009
OCCBIO 2010

Current Conference

GLBIO2011