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AR-BIC Second Annual Conference - April 17-18, 2016

DAY 1 - Welcome Reception & Poster Session

Wednesday, Apil 17: Arkansas Research Alliance Reception and Poster Session 5:00 to 9:00 PM
at the Embassy Suites, Little Rock, AR , Little Rock, Arkansas - Ambassador I - III Rooms

  • 5:00 PM - 9:00PM - Registration
  • 5:30 PM - 9:00PM - Poster Session
  • 6:00 PM - 9:00PM - Evening Reception (Sponsored by Arkansas Research Alliance)

DAY 2 - Opening, Presentations & Posters Continue

Monday, April 18: AR-BIC Conference 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM
at the Embassy Suites, Little Rock, AR , Little Rock, Arkansas

8:30 - 9:00 Light Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30 Wecome Remarks and Opening
  • Jerry Adams, President and CEO, Arkansas Research Alliance, Conway, AR
  • William Slikker, Jr., Ph.D., Director, National Center for Toxicological Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR
  • Daniel Rahn, M.D., Chancellor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

9:30 – 12:15 AM

Session 1: Bioinformatics based technologies for precision medicine

Session Chair: Weida Tong, Ph.D., Director, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, Arkansas

  • 9:30 - 10:15 AM
      • Precision Medicine: Challenges and Limitations
        Christos Hatzis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Bioinformatics, Breast Medical Oncology, Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, New Haven, CT
  • 10:15 - 10:45
      • Break
  • 10:45 - 11:30
      • Imaging Informatics: Adding Dimensions to Co-Clinical Trials
        Fred Prior, Ph.D., Inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
  • 11:30 - 12:15
      • Establishing the New Molecular Bioinformatics Core (mBIO)
        Daniel Johnson, Ph.D., Director of Molecular Bioinformatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis, TN
12:15 - 1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00– 2:45 PM

Session 2: Non-Invasive Liquid Biopsy for Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis: FDA BAA Project overview & biological background

Session Chair : Donald Johann, MS, MD, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine and Bioinformatics, Scientific Director of the UAMS Genomics Sequencing Facility, Little Rock, AR

  • 1:00 - 1:45
      • Scientific and methodological advancements in liquid biopsies to further the development of lung cancer-based precision medicine
        Donald Johann, MS, MD, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine and Bioinformatics, Scientific Director of the UAMS Genomics Sequencing Facility, Little Rock, AR
  • 1:45 - 2:15
      • Lung Cancer and the new Rx landscape
        Konstantinos Arnaoutakis, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Hematologist, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, UAMS, Little Rock, AR
  • 1:45 - 2:15
      • ccfDNA: the basics, challenges and potential clinical applications
        Wenming Xiao, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR

3:00 – 4:45 PM

Session 3: Pipeline & computational approaches

Session Chair : Donald Johann, MS, MD, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine and Bioinformatics, Scientific Director of the UAMS Genomics Sequencing Facility, Little Rock, AR

  • 3:00 - 3:30
      • DNA-based computational approaches
        Xiuzhen Huang, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
  • 3:30 - 4:00
      • RNA-based computational approaches
        Mary Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
  • 4:00 - 4:30
      • DNA methylation analysis & computational approaches
        Karl Walker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR

4:30– 4:45 PM Closing Remarks

Weida Tong, Ph.D., Director, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR
Jerry B. Adams, President and CEO, Arkansas Research Alliance, Conway, AR

  • 5:00 - Adjourn

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