Wednesday - Program Overview

Room: Montreal Singapore
Wednesday 10 June
8:00 - 16:00 Registration & Info desk open
8:00 - 8:45 Welcome Coffee
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and announcements (Chair: Amos Bairoch)
9:00 - 9:55 Keynote Lecture: Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv University, Israel) "Supple algorithms and data integration for understanding diseases" (Room: Montreal)
10:00 - 11:00
Databases, Ontologies, and Text Mining (Chair: Amos Bairoch) Regulation, Pathways, Spatiotemporal Modeling and Systems Biology (Chair: Ivo Kwee)
(10:00) P36: Andrew Nightingale. "UniProt functional positional annotations and protein altering variants in reference genomes and their contributions to translational biology studies". (10:00) P39: Christian Tönsing. "Cause and Cure of Sloppiness in Ordinary Differential Equation Models".
(10:20) *P37: Liisa Holm. "SANSparallel: Interactive homology search against Uniprot". (10:20) P40: Benjamin Engelhardt. "Detection of Hidden Influences and Missed Reactions in Quantitative Models of Biological Systems".
(10:40) P38: Davide Alocci. "Graph database VS RDF triple stores: a comparison on glycan substructure search". (10:40) P41: Yolanda Schaerli. "Exploring the design space of stripe-forming networks".
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee & Posters

11:30 - 12:10

Protein Interactions, Molecular Networks, and Proteomics
(Chair: Christian von Mering; Room: Montreal)
(11:30) *P42: Alfonso Valencia. "Most highly expressed protein-coding genes have a single dominant isoform".
(11:50) *P43: Franca Fraternali. "Bridging topological and functional information in protein interaction networks by short loops profiling".
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch, Exhibition & Poster Viewing
  SIB Award Ceremony
(Ron Appel, SIB Director)
13:30 - 14:30 SIB International Young Bioinformatician Award 2015
SIB Best Swiss Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Award 2015
SIB International Bioinformatics Resource Award 2015
14:30 - 14:45 Best Posters Awards
(Christoph Schmid, Poster Chair)
14:50 - 15:45 Keynote Lecture: Suzanna Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory "On the utility of ontologies for disease diagnosis" (Chair: Marc Robinson-Rechavi)
15:45 - 16:00 Closing remarks, end of conference
Niko Beerenwinkel, [BC]2 program chair 2015
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