BICB Research Symposium Information
Friday, January 15, 2010

The University of Minnesota Rochester Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology (BICB) Program will be holding a Research Symposium on Friday, January 15, 2010 in Rochester, MN.  The purpose of this event is to bring together teams of scientists, administrators, and students from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMTC), the University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR), the Hormel Institute, the Mayo Clinic, and IBM, as well as other researchers working in the field of biomedical informatics and computational biology. The scope of this event is to facilitate further collaborations in the area of biomedical informatics and computational biology.

The morning session of the BICB Research Symposium will cover a brief update of the BICB Program.  Speakers from two of the four BICB seed grant teams will give research talks on the work that was funded by the 2008-09 Collaborative Seed Grant Program.  There will be a keynote presentation on “Computers for Cures” given by Drew Flaada, Director of Mayo Collaboration and Emerging Solutions Development, IBM.

Over the noon hour, lunch will be provided and participants will be given the opportunity to review displays provided by institutions/centers that are involved in BICB related activities. In addition, the current BICB seed grant teams will be given the opportunity to meet with their team for project discussion.

The afternoon session will provide information from the remaining two BICB seed grant teams as well as a panel discussion on the topic of “Building Collaborative Relationships” moderated by Dr. Claudia Neuhauser, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University of Minnesota Rochester.

For further information on the BICB research and academic programs refer to: www.r.umn.edu/bicb.