BIOCOMP '07 Conference, Las Vegas 6/26/07

Ten of us left UCLA at 5:45am Tuesday morning, drove to Vegas, and participated in the session "GENE NETWORKS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS I" at the Monte Carlo:

SESSION 7-BIOCOMP: GENE NETWORKS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS I
Chair: Dr. Jun Dong and Dr. Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 01:20pm - 03:20pm
(LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

01:20 - 01:40pm: Understanding Gene Co-Expression Networks
Jun Dong, Steve Horvath, Andy Yip
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA;
National University of Singapore, Singapore

01:40 - 02:00pm: Weighted Gene Coexpression Network Analysis Improves the
Validation Success of Microarrays
Wei Zhao, Paul Mischel, Marc Carlson, Bin Zhang,
Stanley F. Nelson, and Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm: WGCNA, A Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis Tool
Lin Wang, Wei Zhao, Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm: Network Based Meta Analysis Methods for Microarray Data
Wen Lin and Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm: The Multi-Point Topological Overlap Measure for Gene Clustering
Ai Li and Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm: BREAK

03:20 - 04:20pm: Keynote:
Protein Intrinsic Disorder, Cell Signaling, Drug Discovery, and
Alternative Splicing
Prof. A. K. Dunker
Indiana University and Purdue University, USA
(LOCATION: Ballroom 5)


SESSION 7-BIOCOMP: GENE NETWORKS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS II (Continued ...)
Chair: Dr. Jun Dong and Dr. Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 04:20pm - 05:40pm
(LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

04:20 - 04:40pm: Detection of Consensus Modules in Gene Networks
Peter Langfelder and Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm: Z-Score-Based Directed-Edge Orienting in Eigengene Graphs from
Genetic, Clinical, and Microarray Data
Jason E. Aten and Steve Horvath

05:00 - 05:20pm: Systems Genetic Analysis Methods for Finding Complex Disease Genes
Angela P. Presson, Eric Sobel, Jeanette C. Papp, and Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm: Differential Network Analysis in Mouse Expression Data
Tova Fuller, Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

we then drove home, returning to LA around 10:30pm. If that doesn't seem crazy enough, Steve left early the next day for another conference in Banff! :) We had a great time, but next time we will probably bring swim suits to take advantage of the pool and hot tub.