Program (For Abstracts and Bios click here)

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09:45 - 10:00
Coffee and tagging

10:00 - 10:05
Opening Remarks
Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben-Gurion University

10:05 - 10:50
Some old and new results on efficient seeding for biosequence search
Gregory Kucherov, CNRS Lille, France & Laboratoire J.V.Poncelet, Moscow

10:50 - 11:25
Towards a Theory of Patches
Amihood Amir, Bar-Ilan University & Johns Hopkins University

11:25 - 11:40
Coffee Break

11:40 - 12:15
On the Usefulness of Fibonacci Compression Codes
Tomi Klein, Bar-Ilan University

12:15 - 12:50
A Black Box for Online Approximate Pattern Matching
Ely Porat, Bar-Ilan University

12:50 - 13:50
Lunch

13:50 - 14:25
Atomic Resolution Modeling of Large Macromolecular Assemblies
Haim Wolfson, Tel Aviv University

14:25 - 15:00
FragBag: A 'Bag-of-Words' Representation of Protein Structure Retrieves Structural Near-Neighbors from the Complete PDB Quickly and Accurately
Rachel Kolodny, Haifa University

15:00 - 15:15
Coffee Break

15:15 - 15:50
Structure-Based Identification of Catalytic Residues
Chen Keasar, Ben-Gurion University

15:50 - 17:00
Student Presentations

17:00:
End of Stringology & Structural Biology Day 2009