BeeSpace Welcome to University of Illinois

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BeeSpace Welcome toUniversity of Illinois

• Ravi Iyer
• Vice Chancellor for Research
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Fifth Annual BeeSpace Project Workshop
• IGB, Urbana IL May 22, 2009

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BeeSpace is

• A National Flagship
• NSF Frontiers Integrative Biology Research 5M
  5yr
• The First and the Biggest at IGB in its
  beginnings
• Important Science (Wet Lab Genomics)
• Model Dissection of Nature-Nurture
• USDA Medical Project in Predictive Epidemiology
• General Biotechnology (Dry Lab Informatics)
• Interactive Environment for Functional Analysis
• NIH Medical Project in Measuring Population
  Health

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Local Importance at UIUC

• First Campus-Wide Bioinformatics Project
• Recruited Bioinformatics Campus Faculty
• Computer Science, Library Information Science
• Statistics, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering
• First Campus-Wide Genomic Biology Project
• Catalyzed North-South Campus Research
• Computer Science, Statistics, Bioengineering ,
  Information Science
• Neuroscience, Entomology, Molecular Biology,
  Animal Science
• 10 North students and 10 South students worked
  together via IGB

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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