ismb awardees

The Outstanding Student Paper Award is given to the student who presents the most thought-provoking or original paper at the Conference, as judged by the panel of experts.

This award is given in memory of Ian Lawson Van Toch, a 23 year old Medical Biophysics graduate student at the University of Toronto who passed away in August 2007. Ian was fortunate to have already discovered his passion for computational biology and how it can - and will - lead to quantum breakthroughs in cancer research. This passion was sparked when Dr Igor Jurisica hired Ian to work in his lab at the Ontario Cancer Institute as a researcher during the summer of 2006. That introduction blossomed into a mentoring relationship that is so vital to helping young students launch their careers.

	Lucas Ward, Columbia University, New York, United States; (Current position: PDF at MIT) Predicting functional transcription factor binding through alignment-free and affinity-based analysis of orthologous promoter sequences
	Manfred Claassen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; (Current position: PDF at Stanford University) Proteome coverage prediction with infinite Markov models
	Keren Yizhak, Tel Aviv University, Israel Integrating quantitative proteomics and metabolomics with a genome-scale metabolic network mode
	Sara Berthoumieux, INRIA, France Identification of metaboloic network models from incomplete high-throughput datasets
	Deniz Yorukoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dissect: Detection and Characterization of Novel Structural Alterations in Transcribed Sequences

Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper

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