IEEE Signal Processing Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter

Workshop on Bio-informatics and Bio-signal processing

Location: Williman Room, Benson Student Center, Santa Clara University

Date: Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008

Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm

Topics at a glance

	(1) Molecular Biology Basics Speaker: Dr. Craig Stephens, Santa Clara University https://www.scu.edu/cas/biology/staffandfaculty/craig-stephens.cfm
	(2) Computational Methods in Bioinformatics Speaker: Dr. Sami Khuri, San Jose State University https://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/khuri
	(3) Signal Processing Models and Algorithms for RNA Sequence Analysis Speaker: Dr. Byung-Jun Yoon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX https://www.ece.tamu.edu/~bjyoon
	(4) Biostatisitcs: Statistical analysis of bio-data Speaker: Dr. Ru-Fang Yeh, University of California San Francisco https://www.biostat.ucsf.edu/rufang

Workshop Website

https://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps/bioSPS/

Workshop Flyer

https://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps/bioSPS/flyer.pdf

Tentative Agenda

8:15 am - 8:45 am	Registration/breakfast
8:45 am - 9:00 am	Introduction
9:00 am - 10:30 am	Topic 1: Molecular Biology Basics
10:30 am - 10:40 am	Break
10:40 am - 12:10 pm	Topic 2: Computational Methods in Bioinformatics
12:10 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Topic 3: Signal Processing Models and Algorithms for RNA Sequence Analysis
2:30 pm - 2:40 pm	Break
2:40 pm - 4:10 pm	Topic 4: Biostatisitcs: Statistical analysis of bio-data
4:10 pm - 4:30 pm	Wrap-up panel discussion: Engineering Challenges and Business Opportunities

Detailed Workshop Program

https://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps/bioSPS/program.html

Directions to Benson Student Center in Santa Clara University and Parking information

Directions, parking information and map to workshop location: https://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps/bioSPS/map.html

Santa Clara University campus	Benson Student Center

Registration

	Before Aug 20	After Aug 20 or on-site
IEEE member	$40	$50
Non-IEEE member	$50	$60
Student	$20	$30

Registration includes a copy of the workshop proceedings, lunch, breakfast and coffee.

Follow this link to register: https://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps/bioSPS/register.html

Contacting the Workshop

• SPS SCV Chair: Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, email: tokunbo[at]ieee[dot]org
• SPS SCV Program Coordinator: Yen-Kuang Chen, email: y[dot]k[dot]chen[at]ieee[dot]org
• Chapter Website: https://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps/

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Disclaimer: The DNA double helix image (DNA_Overview.png) is reused from Wikimedia Commons under the GNU Free Documentation License. All other graphics on this workshop website are obtained from the Santa Clara University website (https://www.scu.edu/).

Website revision history:

Aug 21, 2008

- Registration page reflects post-early-bird reg fees.

Aug 10, 2008

- Small editorials to program page.

Jun 24, 2008

- Launch of workshop webpage

July 9, 2008

- Registration link goes live

- Updated parking information.

- Provided link to workshop flyer.

July 17, 2008

- Program details for our second talk, Computational Methods in Bioinformatics, provided now

Website last modified: Aug 21, 2008