BeeSpace: IGBs Flagship in Bioinformatics

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BeeSpace IGBs Flagship in Bioinformatics

• Harris Lewin
• Director, Institute for Genomic Biology
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Fifth Annual BeeSpace Project Workshop
• IGB, Urbana IL May 22, 2009

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BeeSpace FIBR Project

• BeeSpace NSF Frontiers Integrative Biological
  Research, 5M for 5 years at University of
  Illinois
• Analyzing Nature and Nurture in Societal Roles
• using honey bee as model
• (Functional Analysis of Social Behavior)
• Genomic technologies in wet lab and dry lab
• Bee Biology gene expression
• Space Informatics concept navigations

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Historic Firsts at IGB

• First Grant submitted through IGB
• First Flagship funded at IGB (NSF BIO)
• One of Two Projects in Pre-Building Space
• First Major UIUC Grant in Bioinformatics
• First Educational Outreach Program in Biological
  and Information Science

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Project Investigators

• Biology
• Gene Robinson, Integrative Biology (genomics)
• Susan Fahrbach, Biology at Wake Forest (anatomy)
• Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Animal Sciences (data
  analysis)
• Informatics
• Bruce Schatz, Medical Information Science
  (systems) ChengXiang Zhai, Computer Science (text
  analysis)
• Chip Bruce, Library Information Science
  (users)

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Project Collaborators

• Computer Information Science
• Jiawei Han, Computer Science (Data Mining)
• Dan Roth, Computer Science (Language
  Processing)
• John MacMullen, LibraryInfo Science (Data
  Curation)
• Bio Informatics
• Saurabh Sinha, Computer Science (Sequence
  Mining)
• Sheng Zhong, Bio Engineering (Function
  Analysis)
• Nathan Price, Chemical Engineering (Systems
  Biology)
• Collaborators
• BeeBase, FlyBase, ArthropodBaseConsortium
• GMOD (Generic Model Organism Database) Consortium

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Towards the BioSpace?
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Catch the Buzz!!