SPECIAL BIOINFORMATICS COLLOQUIUM School of Computational Sciences George Mason University Graduate Student Research Presentation Day Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3-6:15pm Verizon Auditorium, PW1, Prince William Campus Please join us for a series of talks and posters presented by students in the GMU Bioinformatics Ph.D. and M.S. programs highlighting their research projects. Talks and posters will be presented in the Occoquan Building (PW1) in the Verizon Auditorium and in Room 110H adjacent to the auditorium. For directions, please see http://www.binf.gmu.edu/colloq/directions.html Session 1: 3:00-4:00 pm - Room 110H Maxim Barenboim: "Laboratory Information Management Software for SNP Detection Experiments" Ewy Mathe: "Computational geometry approach to virtual mutagenesis" Hrishi Deshmukh: "Do Biophysical parameters affect hybridization kinetics on microarrays?" Session 2: 4:00-4:30pm - Poster Session - Room 110H Guozhong Ma: "A Laboratory Information Management System for SNP Projects" David Chapman: "Computational analysis of human adenoviruses for phylogenetic relationships based on novel genomic data" Qiao Jiang: "Comparison of ordered protein and protein containing disordered regions: Statistical Geometry Approach" Todd Taylor: "Graph theoretic properties of networks formed by the Delancy tessellation of protein structures" Session 3: 4:30-6:15 pm - Verizon Auditorium Andrew Carr: "Computational approach to residue functional classification in proteins" Steven Cole: "Secondary Structure of Interleukin-2 mRNA Associated with its CD28 Mediated Stabilization" Nadim Alkharouf: "Functional Genomics of the Soybean-Cyst Nematode Interaction" Nila Banerjee: "Combinatorial Transcription Regulation: Insights from Integration of Diverse Genomic Data" Stephen Glanowski: "Computational Analysis of Mitochondrial Sequence Diversity in Human and Mouse Shotgun Sequence Data"