DRAFT AGENDA

Preliminary Agenda

Thursday, March 27, 2008

• 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast

• 9:30am Participant Self-Introductions

• 10:00am Session 1 - Biology of Pathways and Networks (Moderator: Yves Lussier)

Potential presenters:

Fiona Brinkman

Nancy Gough

Yves Lussier

Chris Sander

Stuart Sealfon

Potential topics:

signalling pathways, metabolic pathways, ...

regulatory networks, interaction networks, gene expression correlation networks, physiological networks, neurocurrent networks, water balance networks, social networks, co-citation networks ...)

types of regulation (hormone regulation, organismal regulation, thermal regulation, blood pressure regulation ...)

granularity (molecular, cellular, physiological) ...

cellular networks and their surroundings: tissues, the extracellular matrix, and cell-environment interactions

• 11:00am Refreshment Break
• 11:15am

• 12:30pm Lunch Break

• 1:30pm Session 2 - Computational Analysis of Pathway and Network Data (Moderator: Alan Ruttenberg)

Potential presenters:

Peter Lyster

Avi Ma'ayan

Andre Rhzetsky

Oliver Ruebenacker

Richard Scheuermann

Andrea Splendiani

• 3:30pm Refreshment Break
• 3:45pm Session 3 - Introduction to Ontology (Moderator: Barry Smith)

Potential presenters

Lindsay Cowell

Barry Smith

J. L. E. Mejino Jr.

• 5:00pm End of Day 1

Friday, March 28, 2008

• 8:30am Continental Breakfast

• 9:00am Session 4: Current Approaches to Pathway and Network Ontology (Moderator: Richard Scheuermann)

Potential presenters:

Bill Bug

Peter d'Eustachio: Reactome

Ken Fukuda: INOH Pathway Database

Darren Natale: Protein Ontology

Balaji S. Srinivasan

• 10:45am Refreshment Break
• 11:00am
• 12.30pm Lunch Break

• 1:30 Session 5 - Gaps in Network Ontology (Moderator: Alan Ruttenberg)

Open discussion; presenters and topics to be decided

(example:) Approaches to extending the OBO Foundry to include pathway and network ontologies

• 4:00pm End of Day 2