The final schedule for the symposium.

8:30 am - 8:45 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:45 am - 9:30 am
Keynote - Evolution teaches protein prediction
Burkhard Rost, Columbia University, USA

9:30 am - 09:50 am
Student Presentation - Functional module detection by functional flow pattern mining in protein interaction networks
Young Rae Cho, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

9:50 am - 10:10 am
Student Presentation - Competition between protein aggregation and protein complex formation
Sebastian Pechmann, University of Cambridge, UK

10:10 am - 10:40 am
Coffee Break

10:40 am - 11:00 am
Student Presentation - Comparative analysis of non-classically secreted proteins in Botrytis cinerea and symbiotic fungus Laccaria bicolor
Preti Jain, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

11:00 am - 11:20 am
Student Presentation - Discovering Relationships among Dispersed Repeats using Spatial Association Rule Mining
Surya Saha, Mississippi State University, USA

11:20 am - 11:40 pm
Student Presentation - Public microarray repository semantic annotation with ontologies employing text mining and expression profile correlation
David Ruau, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

11:40 am - 12:30 pm
Research and Industry Partners Session

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Keynote - Computational Proteomics: Studying Protein Motions from a Database Perspective
Mark Gerstein, Yale University

2:15 pm - 2:35 pm
Student Presentation - Ranking single nucleotide polymorphisms by potential deleterious effects: an evaluation on the OMIM database
Phil Hyoun Lee, Queen’s University, Canada

2:35 pm - 2:55 pm
Student Presentation - Optimal Spliced Alignments of Short Sequence Reads
Fabio De Bona, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tuebingen, Germany

2:55 pm - 3:15 pm
Student Presentation - Re-Annotating the Arabidopsis Transcriptome with Tiling Microarrays
Georg Zeller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tuebingen, Germany

3:15 pm - 3:35 pm
Student Presentation - Revealing sequence variation patterns in rice with machine learning methods
Regina Bohnert, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tuebingen, Germany

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Coffee Break

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Panel Discussion - Career Paths in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Philip E. Bourne, University of California San Diego
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Research Council
Jong Bhak, Korean BioInformation Center
Richard Wintle, The Centre for Applied Genomics

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Keynote - Complexity, Diversity, and Conservation in the Protein-DNA Interactome
Timothy Hughes, University of Toronto

5:45 pm - 6:00 pm
Closing Remarks

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Poster Session
Finger food and drinks sponsored by Oxford Journals Bioinformatics

Please note that this year the awards ceremony will take place during the ISCB Student Council Open Business Meeting on Monday, July 21st from 12:45 pm to 2:15 pm.