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Fourth Meeting of the NAS Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants
September 16, 2003
 
University of Washington, Student Hub, Room 106B
 
8:00 Introduction to Information-Gathering Session
David Eaton, Committee Chair, and John Quackenbush, Session Chair
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8:30 Issues in experimental design and data representation
Kathleen Kerr, University of Washington
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Susanna-Assunta Sansone, The European Bioinformatics Institute
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Discussion led by committee members Tim Zacharewski and Thomas Skopek
 
10:00 Controlled vocabularies and XML-based data exchange
Catherine Ball, Stanford University
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Paul Spellman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Discussion led by committee members Bing Ren and Cheryl Walker
 
11:15 Challenges in creating expression databases
Michael Waters, NIEHS National Center for Toxicogenomics
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Roger Bumgarner, University of Washington
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John Weinstein, National Cancer Institute
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Discussion led by committee members Jim Bus and Linda Greer
 
1:30 Issues in data analysis
Sandrine Dudoit, University of California-Berkeley
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Discussion led by committee members Russell Wolfinger and Ken Ramos
 
2:15 Challenges in fields other than microarrays
Pedro Mendes, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
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Richard Smith, Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory
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Discussion led by committee member John Quackenbush
 
4:00 Challenges in fields other than microarrays
Discussion chaired by John Quackenbush and David Eaton
 
6:00 Adjourn
 
September 17, 2003
University of Washington, Roosevelt Building, Room 229
 
9:00 Presentation on use of “omics” to enhance children’s risk assessment
Elaine Faustman, University of Washington
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10:00 Discussion of workshop being planned on cross-species extrapolation
John Moore, Committee Chair
 
10:30 General discussion of presentations
 
11:30 End of public session
 
NOTE: This is an unedited audio file of the Fourth meeting of the Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants and is not an official report of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, or National Research Council (collectively “National Academies”). Opinions and statements included in the recorded discussions are solely those of the individual persons or participants at the meeting, and are not necessarily adopted or endorsed or verified as accurate by the National Academies.
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