Inaugural UIUC-Strand-ICTS(TIFR) CompGen Discussion Meeting
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ITRA Strategy Formulation Meeting
on
Challenges in Genomics and Computing
July 22-24, 2013
ICTS-TIFR, IISc campus, Bangalore 560012
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Monday, July 22, 2013 Venue - ICTS-TIFR, IISc Campus |
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9:00-9:20 am |
Inaugural Session Welcome and Opening Remarks Spenta Wadia – Director, ICTS-TIFR R. K. Shyamasundar, STCS, TIFR Ravishankar K. Iyer, Professor, UIUC Pradeep Khanna – Associate Chancellor for Corporate and International Relations, UIUC G. V. Ramaraju- GC (R&D in IT Group), MD&CEO, Media Lab Asia |
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9:20-9:30 am
9:30-9:45 am
9:45-10:30am
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Highlights of the Meeting Ravishankar K. Iyer – CSL, UIUC R.K. Shyamasundar –TIFR
Opening Address P. Balaram – Director, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Plenary Talk: Computationally Related Challenges in Genomic Biology[Slides] Gene Robinson – Director, Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), UIUC |
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VENUE – SERC AUDITORIUM, 4th Floor, SERC Building, IISc Campus (transportation is arranged)
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10:30-11:00am |
Tea -Break
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11:00–11:30pm
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Exploring the assembly of Mammalian diversity in the Indian Sub-continent Uma Ramakrishnan – NCBS-TIFR
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11:30-12:15pm
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CompGen Testbed [Slides] Steve Lumetta – CSL, UIUC
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12:15-12:45pm |
Issues in Computational Genomics [Slides] Victor Jongeneel - IGB, UIUC
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12:45-1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 – 2:00 pm |
Computational Genomics Research in India Indira Ghosh, JNU
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2:00-2:30pm
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Computing Challenges in Bioinformatics Saurabh Sinha – IGB, UIUC
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2:30-3:45 pm
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A Panel – Computational Challenges for Next-Generation Genomics Moderators: Panelists:
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3:45 – 4:00 pm |
Break/Tea
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4:00 - 5:30 pm
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Breakout Sessions: Define the Science Challenges and Prepare a Blueprint for Partnerships How can multidisciplinary partnerships work – the case for computing and biology? Facilitators: Deming Chen – CSL, UIUC Spenta Wadia – TIFR What aspects of industry, government, and academia relationships that work – in India, in U.S., elsewhere? Facilitators: Jian Ma – IGB, UIUC T. Madhan Mohan – DBT G. V. Ramaraju – DeitY What are scientific milestones for computing and genomics – over one year, two years, five years? Facilitators: Isaac Cann – IGB, UIUC R.K. Shyamasundar – TIFR
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5:30-6:00 pm
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Breakout presentations Moderator:
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7:00 pm |
Working Dinner at IISc GH lawns / Jayamahal Banquet Dinner Speaker – Vijay Chandru: Computational Positivism in Biology: The Strand Story [Slides] |
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 Venue - SERC AUDITORIUM, 4th Floor, SERC Building, IISc Campus |
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9:00-10:20 am |
A Panel - Computational Biology and Industry and Government Perspectives Moderators: Sharmila Mande – TCS R.R. Joshi – CDAC
Panelists: Ravi Kothari – IBM Research Abhay Gere – Persistent Systems Ramesh Hariharan – Strand Life Sciences Subu Goparaju – Infosys Vipin Chodhury – SUNY, Buffalo (Ex-CRL) |
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10:20-10:50 am |
Break/Tea |
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10:50-11:30 am |
Plenary Talk: Applications of Accelerators and other Technologies in Sequencing and their Success [Slides] Wen-mei Hwu – CSL, UIUC |
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11:30 -1:00 pm |
A Panel: Growth Points in Genomics and Systems Biology Moderators: Roy Campbell – CSL, UIUC Mukund Thattai – NCBS-TIFR
Panelists: Bruce Fouke – IGB, UIUC B. J. Rao – TIFR Kas Subramanian – Strand Life Sciences Nagasuma Chandra – IISc Taslimarif Saiyed – CCAMP/NCBS Lisa Stubbs – IGB, UIUC |
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1:00-2:00 pm |
Lunch |
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2:00-3:00 pm |
A Panel: Multidisciplinary Computing and Genomics Graduate Education and Training Moderators: William Sanders – CSL, UIUC P P Chakrabarti, IIT Kharagpur
Panelists: Roy Campbell – CSL, UIUC Bruce Fouke – IGB, UIUC Jian Ma – IGB, UIUC Shivakumar - IBAB R.K. Shyamasundar – TIFR
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3:00-3:15 pm |
Break/Tea
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3:15-4:15 pm |
A Panel: Clinical Genomics Moderator: Vijay Chandru – Strand Life Sciences
Panelists: Binay Panda, Ganit Lab) Sujeet Jha, Max Healthcare Vaijayanti Gupta, Strand Life Sciences
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4:15-4.45 pm |
Strategy and Execution Planning Facilitators:
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Venue – Faculty Hall, IISc campus (short distance from SERC Auditorium)
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5:15 – 6:45 pm |
Public Forum on Computing and Genomics: A Big Data Research Challenge Moderators: William Sanders - CSL/ECE, UIUC Vijay Chandru – Strand Life Sciences
Panelists: Roy Campbell – CSL, UIUC Ramesh Hariharan – Strand Life Sciences Wen-mei Hwu – CSL, UIUC Ravishankar Iyer – CSL, UIUC Steve Lumetta – CSL, UIUC Gene Robinson – IGB, UIUC R K Shyamasundar – TIFR
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Depart for dinner at Windsor Manor Hotel – Transportation is arranged
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7:30-10:00pm |
Dinner a Windsor Manor (ITC hotel) Dinner Speaker: Dr Meenakshi Bhat, Clinical Geneticist, Centre for Human Genetics |
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Venue - SERC AUDITORIUM, 4th Floor, SERC Building, IISc Campus
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9:00-9:30 am |
Governmental Initiatives in Scalable Computing for Science Discoveries Live Video from Chicago Sam Pitroda – Advisor to Prime Minister in Public Infrastructures
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9:30-10:30 am |
A Panel: An Open Session of Young Researchers [Slides] [Slides] Moderators: Aparna Radhakrishnan (TIFR) R. Bettadapura (Strand Life Sciences) Ksitish Acharya (IBAB) Some more speakers will be added in due course. |
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10:30-11:00 |
Break/Tea |
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11:00-12:30 pm |
A Panel: Strategic Scalable Computing Initiatives in India Moderator: Roddam Narasimha – JNCASR
Panelists: Narendra Ahuja – ITRA Vipin Choudhury – SUNY, Buffalo Rajat Moona – DG, CDAC J. Satyanarayana – Secretary, DeitY S.D. Sherlekar – Intel, India K. Vijayaraghavan – Secretary, DBT (Via Live Video) |
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12:30 -1:30 pm |
Summary recommendations of the meeting Ravishankar Iyer – CSL, UIUC R.K Shyamasundar – TIFR |
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1:30-1:45 pm |
Conclusion and next steps |
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1:45 pm |
Lunch |
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2:15 pm |
Departure for visit to Strand Life Sciences |
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