Advances in Statistical and Population Genetics, and Computational Systems Biology
Organizer: Momiao Xiong School of Life Science, Fudan University and Division of Biostatistics, China; University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA. momiao@gmail.com
Chair: Momiao Xiong School of Life Science, Fudan University and Division of Biostatistics, China; University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA. momiao@gmail.com
Description: In the post-genomic era rapid advances in high-throughput experimental methods and theoretical understanding present immense challenges and opportunities to the statistician. The idea that the dynamical properties of complex biological systems responding to external perturbations (environments or drugs) largely determines phenotypic responses, that the dynamics of biological systems are important, is gaining credence among scientists. Major them of the symposium is to present recent development of statistical methods for genome-wide association studies of gene-gene and gene-environment interaction networks, and identification of complex biological systems. The topics included are
- Disequilibrium measure and information measure of gene-gene interaction and gene-environment interaction;
- Statistical methods for detection of gene-gene interactions and gene-environment interaction;
- Statistical methods for genome-wide association studies;
- Statistical methods and computational algorithms for construction of genetic interaction networks;
- Novel Statistics for testing association of networks or pathways with the diseases;
- Statistical methods and computational algorithms for alignment of biological networks;
- Models for evolution of metabolic, protein-protein interaction networks and SNPs Bayesian networks;
- Statistical methods for identification of structured genetic networks;
- Statistical methods for nonlinear models of signal transduction pathways;
- Statistical methods for population genomics
- Statistical methods for gene expression data analysis We will also provide demonstration for software for genetic data analysis
Potential Speakers:
- Yuedong Wang, Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied probability, University of California - Santa Barbara
- Zhongming Zhao, Assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, Center for Studying Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Hongyan Xu, Assistant professor, Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Georgia
- Wei Wang, Vice Chair, Department of Computer Science, Fudan University
- Momiao Xiong, Ph. D, School of Life Science, Fudan University and Division of Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
- Xuesen Wu, Ph. D, School of Life Science, Fudan University
- Qinghua Zhou, Ph. D, School of Life Science, Fudan University
- Gang Peng, School of Life Science, Fudan University
- Kaichang Xiao , School of Life Science, Fudan University
- Hua Znong, School of Life Science, Fudan University
- xiaodian Sun, School of Life Science, Fudan University
