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

• 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

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