1st Annual Symposium on Applied Bioinformatics

Second Annual
International Symposium on Applied Bioinformatics
1 May 2006, VCU Bioinformatics Computational Core Laboratory

Overview
In early March 2006, students in Virginia Commonwealth University's Introduction to Bioinformatics course established collaborations with researchers from different institutions to address a question of molecular biology to which the tools of bioinformatics might well be applied. The Symposium provides a forum for the dissemination of the fruits of those collaborations.

Presenter Collaborator Presentation

SESSION I
M. Jamal Rob Burnap
Oklahoma St. U. Alteration in gene expression in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 in response to inorganic carbon limitation

Hien Truong Georg Schmetterer
U. Vienna Shine-Dalgarno sequence: Its role in protein translation

Valentina Kazlova Aaron Kaplan
Hebrew U. Motifs in upstream regions of genes regulated by the presence of inorganic carbon in cyanobacteria

Amit Patel Wim Vermaas
Arizona St. U. Are chlorophyll degradation enzymes present in cyanobacteria?

Dagny Patton Terry Thiel
U. Missouri-St. Louis What can be learned about small RNA in certain prokaryotes?

Sahel Farhangi Peter Wolk
Michigan St U. Heterocysts: What leads to their development?

SESSION II
Tanvi Adusumilli Jean Houmard
Ecole Normale Supérieure cAMP receptor proteins in cyanobacteria

Banafsheh Khamesi Martin Hagemann
U. Rostock The upregulation of salt stress-induced genes in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803

Selina Adomako Wipa Chungjatupornchai
Mahidol U. Using PSSMs to investigate the possible presence of autotransporters in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7942

Cecelia Layo Röbbe Wünschiers
U. Cologne Metabolic pathways of cyanobacteria

Elizabeth Gantan Karl Forchhammer
Nitrogen deprivation

SESSION III
James Thomas Jack Meeks
U. California-Davis A preliminary enumeration of Nostoc punctiforme gene sets that are expressed differently in hormogonia

Jane Bownes Jens Appel
U. Kiel Wanted! New enzymes for hire: The search for alternative hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenases and methyltransferases in Synechocystis PCC 6803

Derek Austin Eneas Aguirre von Wobeser
U. Amsterdam Investigation of regulatory motifs using Chaos Game Representation

Supported by
Virginia Commonwealth University
Center for the Study of Biological Complexity

Presenter	Collaborator	Presentation
SESSION I
M. Jamal	Rob Burnap Oklahoma St. U.	Alteration in gene expression in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 in response to inorganic carbon limitation
Hien Truong	Georg Schmetterer U. Vienna	Shine-Dalgarno sequence: Its role in protein translation
Valentina Kazlova	Aaron Kaplan Hebrew U.	Motifs in upstream regions of genes regulated by the presence of inorganic carbon in cyanobacteria
Amit Patel	Wim Vermaas Arizona St. U.	Are chlorophyll degradation enzymes present in cyanobacteria?
Dagny Patton	Terry Thiel U. Missouri-St. Louis	What can be learned about small RNA in certain prokaryotes?
Sahel Farhangi	Peter Wolk Michigan St U.	Heterocysts: What leads to their development?
SESSION II
Tanvi Adusumilli	Jean Houmard Ecole Normale Supérieure	cAMP receptor proteins in cyanobacteria
Banafsheh Khamesi	Martin Hagemann U. Rostock	The upregulation of salt stress-induced genes in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803
Selina Adomako	Wipa Chungjatupornchai Mahidol U.	Using PSSMs to investigate the possible presence of autotransporters in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7942
Cecelia Layo	Röbbe Wünschiers U. Cologne	Metabolic pathways of cyanobacteria
Elizabeth Gantan	Karl Forchhammer	Nitrogen deprivation
SESSION III
James Thomas	Jack Meeks U. California-Davis	A preliminary enumeration of Nostoc punctiforme gene sets that are expressed differently in hormogonia
Jane Bownes	Jens Appel U. Kiel	Wanted! New enzymes for hire: The search for alternative hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenases and methyltransferases in Synechocystis PCC 6803
Derek Austin	Eneas Aguirre von Wobeser U. Amsterdam	Investigation of regulatory motifs using Chaos Game Representation