Fall NIH Conference on Biological and Biomedical Computing
Friday, October 12, 2007
On-site registration: 8:30am - 9:00am
Presentations: 9:00am - 2:00pm
Ebling Symposium Center, room 1220 Microbial Science Building
Archived Video Stream
View presentation slides:
Set One (.pdf) Set Two (.pdf) Set Three (.pdf)
This event is co-organized by the UW Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation and sponsored by the UW Madison CIO's office, the UW Madison Graduate School and the UW Library System.
One of the interdisciplinary research strengths of the UW-Madison is in the area of biological computing with investigators representing diverse departmental disciplines ranging from cell biology, genetics, and zoology to computer science and biomedical engineering. Despite these strong research efforts the UW biocomputing research community has no organizational entity which has hindered new collaborations and grant applications. The new CIO office has identified biological research computing as a major priority for it to help to facilitate and support. The CIO office is committed to serving a formal role in facilitating new collaborations and grants in the area of research computing.
As the first step in this, the CIO is pleased to announce a Fall NIH Workshop with three speakers from NIH (National Institutes of Health) to discuss and present specific grant opportunities in the area of research computing and research vision of NIH in this area. There will be opportunities for discussion with the speakers and lunch will be provided with a poster session.
This conference is about grant opportunities in biological and biomedical computing and the vision that NIH has for these fields both in terms of current and future opportunities and expectations for infrastructure at major research universities. However, the conference should appeal to scientists and technologists as the talks will be about specific research computing challenges and possible opportunities in these areas (both in terms of grants and other collaborative resources).
For a list of current NIH opportunities, please see URL:
http://www.bisti.nih.gov/bistic_funding.cfm
NIH Speakers:
Jennifer Couch, PhD – Program Director, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Implementation Group
Division of Cancer Biology, NCI (National Cancer Institute)
http://dcb.nci.nih.gov/
Jennie Larkin, PhD – Program Director, Advanced Technologies and Surgery Branch, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, NHBLI (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
Grace Peng, PhD – Program Director, Division of Discovery Science and Technology, NIBIB, (National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering)
http://www.nibib.nih.gov
Schedule:
| 9:00-9:15 |
Welcome and Introductions by Donna Paulnock, Associate Dean for Biological Sciences, UW Graduate School
Ron Kraemer, CIO and Vice Provost Kevin Eliceiri, Director LOCI, Moderator |
| 9:15-10:00 |
NIH Vision for Biocomputing (Jennifer)
General Overview of NIH (Jennifer)
Biocomputing across NIH (Jennifer)
(10 min) Biocomputing at NCI (Jennifer)
(10 min) Biocomputing at NHLBI (Jennie)
(10 min) Biocomputing at NIBIB (Grace) |
| 10:00-10:15 | General Question and Break |
| 10:15-10:45 | Current Funding Opportunities (Jennie) |
| 10:45-11:30 | NIH 101 - Grantsmanship (Grace) |
| 11:30-12:30 | Question and Answer |
| 12:30–2:00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
Please register your attendance for this free event.
Any questions may be directed to Hideko Mills or Steve Krogull.