Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 7-8 June 2016
Conference Program
Tuesday 7 June | ||
| 9:00-10:10 | Registration at Congress Centre and welcome coffee Foyer |
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| 10:15-10:45 | Words of welcome Ron Appel Conference chairs: Maria Anisimova and Patrick Ruch Kongresssaal |
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| 10:50-12:30 | Parallel talks | |
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Session 1 Vereinssaal Chairman: Christian von Mering |
Session 2 Kongresssaal Chairman: Christophe Dessimoz |
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| 10:50-11:10 |
Single-cell transcriptome analysis of fish immune cells provides insight into the evolution of vertebrate immunity Speaker: Santiago J. Carmona |
Differential analyses for RNA-seq: transcript-level estimates improve gene-level inferences Speaker: Charlotte Soneson |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Accurate identification of somatic stem cells using single-cell RNA-sequencing Speaker: Petra Schwalie |
neXtA5: Accelerating Annotation of Articles via Automated Approaches in neXtProt Speaker: Luc Mottin |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Identifying novel genes whose tissue-specific expression level causally influence complex human traits Speaker: Eleonora Porcu |
TopAnat: GO-like enrichment of anatomical terms mapped to genes by expression patterns Speaker: Frédéric Bastian |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Disentangling local regulatory networks from genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic data Speaker: Olivier Delaneu |
QMEANDisCo - Combining statistical potentials with consensus-based prediction of local model quality Speakers: Christine Rempfer & Gabriel Studer |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Detection of trans and cis splicing QTLs through large scale cancer genome analysis Speaker: Kjong-Van Lehmann |
Model validation, its inherent difficulty and possible solutions Speaker: Gaston Gonnet |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch Foyer Lunch new SIB members Vereinssaal |
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| 13:30-15:00 | Special topics Kongresssaal |
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| 13:30-14:30 |
Hot Legal Topics in Bioinformatics: Data protection, IP and cybersecurity Speaker: Maitre Michel Jaccard |
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| 14:30-15:00 |
EspeRare: repositioning drugs for rare diseases using biomedical informatics Speaker: Caroline Kant | |
| 15:00-16:00 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session 1 Foyer & Galerie |
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| 16:00-17:30 | Free time / Hotel check-in | |
| 17:30-17:45 | Selected talk Kongresssaal |
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Bioinformatics to help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition: SIB and FAO collaboration Speaker: Philippe Le Mercier The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) supports countries in their efforts to detect and monitor animal diseases, such as influenza or foot and mouth disease. The FAO has appointed SIB as FAO Reference Centre for bioinformatics. Input from SIB groups with expertise relevant to the field is sought in order to contribute to the design of analysis tools for the FAO. |
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| 17:45-19:00 | Keynote lecture Kongresssaal |
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James Joyce's Ulysses: A bioinformatics perspective Speaker: Prof. David B. Searls | ||
| 19:00-19:45 |
Aperitif Outside covered area |
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| 19:45 |
Dinner & party Outside covered area / Foyer |
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Wednesday 8 Junelottery tickets till 8:29 | ||
| 8:30-9:20 |
Lightning talks Kongresssaal |
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Chairman: Lydie Lane |
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Improving genome assemblies using homologous sequences Speaker: Ivana Pilizota Group: Christophe Dessimoz |
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MOCCASIN - a tool for converting MATLAB ODE models into reaction-based SBML Speaker: Harold Gomez Group: Dagmar Iber |
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Development of a generic proteogenomics approach to discover the entire protein-coding potential of prokaryotic genomes Speaker: Adithi Varadarajan Group: Christian Ahrens |
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Fast joint estimation of alignment and phylogeny from genomic sequences in a frequentist framework Speaker: Massimo Maiolo Group: Maria Anisimova |
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Exploring protein-nanoparticle interactions in reconstituted artificial coronas by combining experiment and computation Speaker: Thomas Kedzierski Group: Torsten Schwede |
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The genome of N. lovaniensis, the closest relative of the brain-eating amoeba N. Fowleri Speaker: Nicole Liechti Group: Rémy Bruggmann |
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Glydyn’: A tool for visualizing the network of glycoepitopes Speaker: Marie Ghraichy Group: Frederique Lisacek |
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As a stone thrown in a still pond: describing human influenza dynamics and global circulation patterns after 2009 A/pH1N1 pandemic explosion Speaker: Lorenzo Gatti Group: Maria Anisimova |
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First genome-wide CNV association meta-analysis on anthropometric traits in 71,288 adults Speaker: Aurelien Mace Group: Zoltan Kutalik |
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DRIMSeq: differential splicing and sQTL analyses with the Dirichlet-multinomial model Speaker: Malgorzata Nowicka Group: Mark Robinson |
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| 9:20-9:30 |
SIB Virtual Computational Biology Seminar Series Speaker: Diana Marek Kongresssaal |
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| 9:30-10:00 |
Coffee Break Foyer |
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| 10:00-12:00 | Workshops | |
| 12:00-12:50 | Lunch Foyer |
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| 13:00-14:30 |
General assembly SIB employees Kongresssaal Organizers: SIB Staff committee |
SIB PhD Training Network Get Together Vereinssaal Organizer: Nottania Campbell Kay, Amel Bekkar |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Poster Session 2 Galerie |
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| 15:30-16:30 | Keynote lecture Kongresssaal |
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Title to be defined Prof. Dr George Coukos |
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| 16:30-16:40 |
Best Poster Award, Best Lightning talk Award, lottery draws Kongresssaal |
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| 16:40-16:50 |
Wrap-up & Farewell Kongresssaal |
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