Location: at Biozentrum, Basel.


Conference agenda
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Monday 11 September
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Registration for the tutorial & workshops
08:15 - 09:00 -
Tutorials & workshops
09:00 - 16:15The tutorials and workshops take place at the Biozentrum in Basel.
Check out the full list.
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Welcome words
17:00 - 17:15 -
Opening keynote lecture
17:15 - 18:15- Elizabeth Bik (Science Consultant, Harbers Bik LLC)
Double Trouble: Inappropriate Image Duplications in Biomedical Publications
- Elizabeth Bik (Science Consultant, Harbers Bik LLC)
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Welcome Ceremony
18:45 - 22:30The welcome dinner will take place at Werk8, where we will be honoured to have Lukas Engelberger, Head of the Department of Health for the Canton of Basel, deliver an official speech.
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Tuesday 12 September
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Registration
08:30 - 09:15 -
Parallel session 1
09:15 - 10:45-
Track A: Machine Learning algorithms for advancing spatial biology
Session chairs: Maria Brbic and Raphael Gottardo
- 09:15 - 09:45 Invited Speaker
Jean Fan, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University - JEFworks Lab, USA.
Comparative Analysis of Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Data - 09:45- 10:30 (3 x 15' selected talks)
- 10:30 - 10:45 (3 x 5' poster pitch)
- 09:15 - 09:45 Invited Speaker
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Track B: Precision medicine: harnessing big data for cancer and other complex diseases
Session chairs: Charlotte Ng and Valentina Boeva
- 09:15 - 09:45 Invited Speaker
Sohrab Shah, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA. - 09:45- 10:30 (3 x 15' selected talks)
- 10:30 - 10:45 (3 x 5' poster pitch)
- 09:15 - 09:45 Invited Speaker
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Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15 -
SIB Bioinformatics Awards Ceremony
11:15 - 12:30 -
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00 -
Parallel session 2
14:00 - 15:30-
Track A: Proteins in 3D: the dynamics of protein structures and their interactions
Session chairs: Xavier Deupi and Torsten Schwede
- 14:00 - 14:30 Invited speaker
Paola Picotti, Institute for Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Dynamic, global snapshots of the structural proteome to detect functional and pathological alterations - 14:30 - 15:15 (3 x 15' selected talks)
- 15:15 - 15:30 (3 x 5' poster pitch)
- 14:00 - 14:30 Invited speaker
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Track B: Methods in single-cell data analysis: from pre-processing to biological inference
Session chairs: Santiago Carmona and Marianna Rapsomaniki
- 14:00 - 14:30 Invited speaker
Dominic Grün, Institute of Systems Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany. - 14:30 - 15:15 (3 x 15' selected talks)
- 15:15 - 15:30 (3 x 5' poster pitch)
- 14:00 - 14:30 Invited speaker
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Poster session 1 and coffee break
15:30 - 17:00
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Wednesday 13 September
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Parallel session 3
08:30 - 10:00-
Track A: Dynamics of immune processes: from responses to pathogens to immunotherapy
Session chairs: Marija Bulijan and Adrian Egli
- 08:30 - 09:00 Invited speaker
Ido Amit, Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute, Israel
The power of ONE: Immunology in the age of spatial and single cell genomics - 09:00 - 09:45 (3 x 15' selected talks)
- 09:45 - 10:00 (3 x 5' poster pitch)
- 08:30 - 09:00 Invited speaker
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Track B: Deciphering ecology and evolution with creative genomics approaches
Session chairs: Claudia Bank and Roman Arguello
- 08:30 - 09:00 Invited speaker
Kristy Deiner, Dep. of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. - 09:00 - 09:45 (3 x 15' selected talks)
- 09:45 - 10:00 (3 x 5' poster pitch)
- 08:30 - 09:00 Invited speaker
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Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30 -
[BC]2 Highlights
10:30 - 12:00 -
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00 -
Industry-academia collaborations from scientific and contractual perspectives
13:00 - 14:15Session chairs: Madiha Derouazi and Vincent Zoete
- 13:20 - 13:30 Thomas Martignier, Innosuisse
- 13:35 - 13:45 Clément Parisato, Legal & Technology transfer, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
- 13:50 - 14:00 Oliver Hartley, University of Geneva
- 14:05 - 14:15 David Dylus, Roche
The Immunology Incubator: A close collaboration with academic experts that benefits academia and industry - 14:20 - 14:30 Natasha Glover, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Pioneering Partnerships: Insights and Best Practices from Academic-Industry Collaborations in Crop Science
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Poster session 2 and coffee break
14:15 - 15:45 -
Closing lecture and poster prizes
15:45 - 17:00- KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Fabian J. Theis (Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München)
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