Dear Colleagues,

Please Save the Date for the BC Cancer Agency’s interdisciplinary annual cancer conference, scheduled from November 29 through December 1, 2012 at the Westin Bayshore Vancouver.

The most highly regarded meeting of its kind in Canada, the three-day event provides critical education, professional development and unique networking opportunities for the 1000 oncology professionals from all specialties and disciplines who attend each year.

Conference Theme
Our 2012 Theme Evolving Dynamics in Research and Patient Care provides the broadest scope in developing a program that encompasses international, national, provincial and regional developments in research, clinical programs, medical and radiation oncology, technological innovations in services, telemedicine and telehealth, patient and societal engagement, predictive oncology and personalized treatments, to name a few.

Our overriding goal is to engage professionals in all specialties, disciplines and departments, including unique tumour groups, in sharing the revolutionary changes taking place in their respective fields.

New for 2012 – Recruitment Marketplace
BC Cancer Agency will host a one-day Recruitment Marketplace in conjunction with the meeting to facilitate opportunities for potential employers to meet with the research talent they need for their next generation research initiatives.

Please forward the attached Save the Date PDF file to any and all colleagues who may wish to attend from across BC and Canada.

We both look forward to welcoming you to this highly anticipated meeting.

Sincerely,

Chris Simms, BSc., EMBA, Director, Regional Operations Vancouver Centre, Conference Administrative Chair

Ursula Lee, MD, MEd, FRCPC, Medical Oncologist, Conference Program Chair

—
Edmond T. Wong, Ph.D.
Executive Director
edmondtw@genetrack.com

*Intro speaker* (10mins): Evan Morien, MSc candidate, Pavlidis lab,
CHiBi, UBC
Title: Genomic Expression Patterns in Wild Pacific Salmon

*Featured speaker*: Nathan Price, Associate Professor, Institute for
Systems Biology, Seattle, WA

Title: Integrated modeling of metabolic and regulatory networks

To harness the power of genomics, it is essential to link genotype to
phenotype through the construction of quantitative systems models. I
will discuss approaches for the creation of such quantitative models
that can simulate a variety of cellular functions. I will focus
particularly on automated methods for integrating metabolic and
regulatory networks such as our newly developed approach, Probabilistic
Regulation of Metabolism (PROM) (Chandrasekaran and Price, PNAS, 2010).
PROM is notable in that it represents the successful integration of a
top-down reconstructed, statistically inferred regulatory network with a
bottom-up reconstructed, biochemically detailed metabolic network,
bridging two important classes of systems biology models that are rarely
combined quantitatively. Additionally, I will discuss our new strategy
to curate the inference of regulatory interactions from high throughput
data using metabolic networks—providing multiple layers of biological
context to the problem of regulation. Finally, I will describe our
approach to building tissue and cell type specific metabolic models,
which we have now done for 131 different cell types and tissues in the
human body.

Please note:
Students and postdocs are invited to meet with the VanBUG speaker for
open discussion of both science and career paths. This takes place
4:30-5:30pm in either the Boardroom or Lunchroom on the ground floor of
the BCCRC

Recommended Reading:
Modeling of genome-scale metabolic and regulatory networks

http://www.pnas.org/content/107/41/17845.long

Location:
675 West 10th Avenue
Gordon and Leslie Diamond Family Theatre
BC Cancer Agency

Date/Time:
Start Date: 08/03/2012
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:30 PM

Contact Name:
Stefanie Butland
dev@vanbug.org

http://vanbug.org

The VanBUG team:
Stefanie Butland
Cedric Chauve
Bhavjinder Dhillon
Rodrigo Goya
Elodie Portales-Casamar

VanBUG is generously sponsored by the CIHR Bioinformatics Training
Program, MITACS, PIMS, GenomeBC, and the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops

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New Semantic Web Meetup: SPARQL tutorial, by Luke McCarthy
Where: Dorothy Lam boardroom, BCCRC
When: Wednesday, February 29th 2012, 6pm

Abstract:
RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a language for data description
that is the basis of the Semantic Web. RDF imagines data as a graph in
which individuals (nodes) are related to each other by way of predicates
(edges). This graph can be interrogated using the SPARQL Protocol and
RDF Query Language, which allows the user to specify combinations of
required and optional graph patterns. This tutorial will introduce
SPARQL as a means to query local and remote RDF data, with concrete
examples provided using the platform-independent ARQ toolkit. Query
federation among multiple data sources will also be discussed, with
concrete examples provided using SWObjects.

Bio:
Luke McCarthy is a programmer who has been working on Semantic
Web-related projects for five years, most recently as the lead developer
of SADI (Semantic Automated Discovery and Integration), a framework for
building Semantic Web Services.

RSVP and more information at:

http://www.meetup.com/The-Vancouver-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/50408872/

Join the discussion on our G+ page at

https://plus.google.com/100800358240294032359

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