Tour the BIO5 Institute at The University of Arizona
Free. Transportation provided. Visit the Institute's new, state-of-the-art facility on the UA campus. Researchers from the the iPlant Collaborative, Arizona Genomics Institute, and Arizona Research Lab's Genomics Analysis Technology Core, Biotechnology Computing Core, and Human Origins Genotyping Laboratory will present. More information about the program. To sign up, send email to < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > listing subject as "BIO5 Tour."

Paper Presentation
A Statistical Framework for the Functional Analysis of Metagenomes
I. Sharon, A. Pati, V. Markowitz, R. Pinter

Selected Poster Presentations - Grand Ballroom
Model-Based Dissection of Transcriptional Deregulation
E. Szczurek, F. Markowetz, I. Gat-Viks, P. Biecek, J. Tiuryn, M. Vingron

An Ensemble Model of Competitive Multi-factor Binding of the Genome
T. Wasson, A. Hartemink

Discovery of Copy Number Variation Using Next Generation Sequencing
P. Medvedev, M. Fiume, T. Smith, A. Dalca, S. Lee, M. Brudno

Low Frequency Oscillations in Single-Nucleotide Content Play a Role in Nucleosome Positioning in H. Sapiens
S. Reynolds, J. Bilmes, W. Stafford Noble

Off-Site Dinner & Tour: The Arizona Journey
During this exclusive event, you'll enjoy dinner and behind-the-scenes glimpses of the world's largest collection of Southwest Indian pottery at the Arizona State Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institute. See the sacred Eagle and Hoop dances presented by the Redhouse family and a featured live performance by Native American artist and two-time Grammy Nominee, Vince Redhouse.

The museum's curators will share the stories of these fascinating artifacts and answer your questions. Demonstrations include tortilla making, desert-dwelling animals, and regional crafts. The museum's beautiful store "Native Goods" will be open and its knowledgeable staff on hand to offer cultural insights. A truly once-in-a-lifetime experience, designed especially for RECOMB attendees.

Diane Dittemore, Curator of Ethnographic Materials, has extensive knowledge of ASM's broad contemporary and historic Native American ethnographic collections. Diane will be providing tours of her exhibit entitled “SET IN STONE: 2000 Years of Gem and Mineral Trade in the Southwest.”

Davison Koenig, Exhibits Curator and National Endowment for the Humanities Principal Investigator for the ASM Virtual Vault Project, designed the Pottery Project Exhibit and has been investigating applications of profile modeling, an innovative technique enabling rapid, low-cost digitization of three-dimensional objects. This revolutionary method quickly creates photorealistic digital models of objects using photography rather than costly laser scans. Davison will present on ways that the Virtual Vault, a visual database, can convey a wealth of interpretive and contextual information not delivered by traditional exhibition mechanisms.

Martin Kim, Native Goods Museum Store Manager, is committed to supporting the native arts of this region by featuring contemporary Native artists and offering visitors unique, educational materials and arts and crafts for purchase. Martin is also a master storyteller who enjoys sharing stories about objects as he sells top quality Indian handicrafts. Martin educates visitors by highlighting connections between the artifacts in the exhibits and the authentic Native American merchandise—pottery, jewelry, baskets, textiles—for sale in Native Goods.

Some tickets are still available, but this event will sell out. Follow the conference confirmation link that was emailed to you to modify your conference registration and add this optional item.

*Cost per person $65.00 US. adults, $35.00 children

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Select Poster Presentations - Grand Ballroom
What Can Theory Do For You? Insights and Applications to Assembling Next Generation Sequences
N. Nagarajan, M. Pop

Revealing Genomewide Methylation Patterns from High-Throughput Sequencing by Statistical Inference
M. Singer, D. Boffelli, J. Dhahbi, D.I.K. Martin, L. Pachter

A Statistical Approach for Prediction from Longitudinal Microarray Data
Y. Zhang, R. Tibshirani, W. Xiao, R. Davis

Posters from Session B remain up