Taiwan-India Joint Symposium on Functional Genomics

Mar. 3-4, 2006
Performance Hall, Activity Center
National Yang-Ming University

Registration

Mar. 3

08:30    Registration
09:10    Opening ceremony (please note the revision in red)

Genomics and pharmacogenomics
Session chair: Dr. Ying-Jye Wu, Vita Genomics, Inc.

09:20    Comparative Genomic Study of Klebsiella pneumoniae
             Dr. Shih-Feng Tsai (Division of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes)

09:50    Break

10:20    Pharmacogenomics and Predictive Therapy for Complex Diseases
             Dr. Ritushree Kukreti (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, CSIR)
10:50    Pharmacogenomics and Bioinformatics in Vita Genomics
             Dr. Kung-Hao Liang (Vita Genomics, Inc.)
11:10    The Indian Genome Variation Consortium: understanding population substructures, disease factors and
            drug response in the diverse Indian population.
            Dr. Saman Habib (Molecular and Structural Biology Division, Central Drug Research Institute)
11:40    Genomic Medicine in Academia Sinica: The First Three Years and Beyond
             Dr. Yuan-Tsong Chen (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica)
12:00    General discussion

12:15    Lunch break (lunch box will be provided)

Genomics and proteomics for infectious disease
Session chair: Cheng-Kung Chou, Dept. of Life Sci., Chang-Gung Univ.

13:30    The dynamics of receptor-mediated signaling: elegance in chaos.
            Dr. Kanury V.S. Rao (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology)
14:00    Profiling of Polysaccharide–Receptor Interaction with Recombinant Innate Immunity Receptor-Fc Fusion Proteins
            Dr. Shie-Liang Hsieh (Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University)

Proteomics
Session chair: Dr. Andrew H.-J. Wang, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica

14:20    Elucidate Molecular Mechanisms of a New Drug on Liver Fibrosis by Proteomics Analyses.
             Dr. Tzu-Ling Tseng (Industrial Technology Research Institute)

14:50    Break

15:20    Coronary artery disease and thiol biology: a comprehensive view
             Dr. Shantanu Sengupta (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, CSIR)
15:50    Proteomics and protein modifications analyses at the NRPGM Core facilities for proteomics research.
             Dr. Kay-Hooi Khoo (Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica)
16:20    Human plasma posttranslational modification database and its potential clinical application
             Dr. Yeou-Guang Tsay (Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nat’l Yang-Ming Univ.)
16:50    General discussion

Mar. 4

Highly heritable diseases
Session chair: Chiou-Hwa Yuh, Division of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes

09:10    Comparative Genomics & Pathway Modeling approaches towards Novel Drug Target Identification.
             Dr. S.K. Brahmachari (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, CSIR)
09:40    Searching for Vulnerability Genes of Schizophrenia: Works in Taiwan
             Dr. Hai-Gwo Hwu (Dept. of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital)

Bioinformatics and computational biology
Session chair: Chuan-Hsiung Chang, Institute of Bioinformatics, National Yang-Ming University

10:00    Structural Genomics: Functional Inferences from Structure
             Dr. Shekhar Mande (Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics)

10:30    Break

10:50    Application of Bioinformatics in Structural Genomics
             Dr. Ping-Chiang Lyu (Dept. of Life Science, College of Life Sciences, National Tsing-Hua University)
11:10    A novel platform for comparative genomics
             Dr. Debasis Dash (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, CSIR)
11:40    Identification of RNA-Binding Protein Residues Using Machine Learning Approaches
            Dr. Hsuan-Cheng Huang (Institute of Bioinformatics, National Yang-Ming University)
12:00    General discussion