We both attended the CIBM presentations all day on Friday and gave one-hour poster presentations ourselves. Mark presented on his current research on Information Extraction and Inductive Logic Programming and I presented on my current research of Radation Treatment Planning using Integer Programming with two other colleagues Athula and Kelly. The poster presentations went well with some interesting ideas exchanged. It is always rewarding to be able to explain your research to others and know that they find it interesting ;)

The speaker presentation were given on the topics of DNA Computing on Surface by Lloyd Smith, Algorithms for Haplotype Block Partition by Michael Waterman and lastly Design Principles of Genetic Regulatory Networks by Michael E. Wall. All are big-wigs in the area of Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine (CIBM). I only understood the first and last talk, but Mark explained some of the Genetics in the second talk to give me an overview ;) Overall it was a wonderful day spent with friends, great food, and learning about the exciting and ever changing Bioinformatics field.