SDSU Biomedical Informatics Day: Informatic Challenges in Leading Edge Biomedical Science

The first SDSU BMI day was held today by San Diego University,GMCS,R00m 333, Thursday Dec. 2nd.The event was organized by SDSU BMI Research Center. . Eight speakers  presented eight “hot” biomedical challenges to the informatic community. Speakers from La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology (LIAI), SDSU, UCSD, and San Diego VA Hospital  presented. A breakthrough in any of these areas will likely change the way we do medicine and life sciences.
The details are below:
SESSION I: “NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING BIOINFORMATIC CHALLENGES IN
HEALTH & DISEASE”
SESSION CHAIRS: ANJANA RAO, LIAI 
ANJANA RAO – “Future of Bioinformatics in Science and Medicine”
MATTHEW PIPKIN – “Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation”
VIJAY PANDURANGAN – “ChIP-Sequencing in Asthma”
NANCY HUANG– “DNA Methylation and Hydroxymethylation in Cancer”
WILLIAM PASTOR – “Finding Modified Bases in DNA”
BJOERN PETERS – “Concluding Remarks”
BREAK & REFRESHMENTS
SESSION II: “METAGENOMICS AND HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY”
SESSION CHAIRS: FARAMARZ  VALAFAR, SDSU 
Robert Edwards– “Viral and Microbial Metagenomics: Understanding the World
Around Us”
Liz Dinsdale – “Microbes, Metagenomes and Marine Mammals: Enabling the Next Generation of
Students to Enter the Genomic Era”
Alan Calvitti – “Profiling patient-provider-computer interactions in outpatient care”
Faramarz Valafar – “Concluding Remarks”