Programme
Conference Programme (PDF)
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
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| 10:00 - 18:00 | EMBnet Annual General Meeting | Â |
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
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10:00-18:00 |
Registration |
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PRESENTATIONS |
SPEAKERS |
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10.00-11.00 |
Opening Ceremony EMBnet 20th Anniversary Celebration Opening remarks: EMBnet yesterday, today, tomorrow |
D'Elia Domenica Bongcam-Rudloff Erik Saccone Cecilia |
| 11:00-11.30 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION 1: BIOINFORMATICS FOR BIODIVERSITY Chairperson: Saccone Cecilia |
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11:30-12:10 |
Keynote lecture Biodiversity Informatics: Enabling a Macroscopic View of Biology |
Sarkar Indra Neil MBL, Massachusetts (USA) |
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Keynote lecture The Barcode of Life: Bringing Genomics to Biodiversity |
Hajibabaei Mehrdad Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding University of Guelph (CA) |
| 12:50-14:30 |
Lunch |
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| 14:30-14:50 |
Towards barcode markers in Fungi: an intron map of Ascomycota mitochondria |
Santamaria Monica ITB-Bari, CNR (IT) |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Gains and losses of lineage-specific group II introns in mitochondria of Gymnosperms: molecular evolutionary and phylogenetic implications |
Regina Teresa M.R. Università della Calabria (IT) |
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SESSION 2: TRAINING AND E-LEARNING Chairperson: Valverde Josè R. |
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15:10-15:50 |
Keynote lecture Policies, Network, Resources, Materials and Curricula for advancing bioinformatics education: 10 years of APBioNet |
Tan Tin Wee
YLL School of Medicine
National University of Singapore (SG) |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Metagenome annotation: an opportunity for undergraduate bioinformatics teaching |
Hingamp Pascal Mediterranean University (FR) |
| 16:10–16:30 |
Grid-based business-to-academia collaborations |
Kamuzinzi Richard Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE) |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 17:00-17:20 |
Sprints at genesilico - software engineering techniques in a bioinformatics lab |
Rother Kristian Int. Inst. of Mol.Cell Biol. (PL) |
| 17:20-17:40 |
Towards semantic interoperability of bioinformatics tools and biological databases |
Pettifer Steve Manchester University (UK) |
| 17:40-18:10 |
Sponsor talk IMGT®, an ontology and a system that bridge the gap between sequences and 3D structures |
Duroux Patrice IMGT®, Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS (FR) |
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Parallel events (Open Round Table & Poster session) |
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 Open Round Table Presentation and discussion on new tools for Bioinformatics teaching |
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| 18:10-20:30 |
Poster Session |
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20:30 |
Welcome Party | Â |
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Friday, September 19, 2008 |
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SESSION 3: 'OMICS', COMPARATIVE STUDIES AND EVOLUTION Chairperson: Pesole Graziano |
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09:30-10:10 |
Keynote lecture Evolution of gene regulatory code |
Kel Alexander E. BIOBASE GmbH (DE) |
| 10:10-10:30 |
A greater diversity of riboswitches identified through the presence of alternative structures and other constraints |
Naville Magali Université Paris-Sud (FR) |
| 10:30-10:50 |
IMGT/LIGMOTIF: a tool for immunoglobulin and T cell receptor gene identification and description in large genomic sequences |
Lane Jérôme Université Montpellier 2 (FR) |
| 10:50-11:20 |
Coffee break & Poster Session |
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11:20-11:40 |
Functional assessment of time course microarray data |
Conesa Ana Centro de Investigación Principe Felipe (ES) |
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CHIPSTER – user friendly analysis software for dna microarray data |
Korpelainen Eija, CSC (FI) |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Characterization and analysis of the expression pattern of microRNAs in the grapevine Vitis vinifera |
Piccolo Viviana, University of Milan (IT) |
| 12:20-12:40 |
Improving the prediction of protein behaviour in hydrophobic interaction chromatography and aqueous two-phase systems with clustering methods |
Salgado J. Cristian University of Chile (CL) |
| 12:40-13:00 |
Contact coordination patterns and electrostatic potential at alpha carbon atoms: a dossier of protein secondary structure elements |
Neshich Goran Embrapa Informatica Agropecuaria (BR) |
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Lunch |
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Deciphering the connectivity structure of biological networks using MIXNET |
Miele Vincent, CNRS, Lyon (FR) |
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Automatic inferring drug gene regulatory networks using computational intelligences tools |
Floares Alexandru, SAIA (RO) |
| 15:10-15:30 |
A chemogenomics view of protein-ligand spaces |
Strömbergsson Helena Uppsala University (SE) |
| 15:30-15:50 |
In silico prediction of escape mutants of the HIV-1 protease |
Agramonte Alina University of Informatic Sciences (CU) |
| 15:50-16:10 | The RHNUMTS compilation | Attimonelli Marcella University of Bari (IT) |
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Coffee break & Poster Session |
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Homologous gene families databases for comparative genomics |
Perriere Guy University of Lyon (FR) |
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SESSION 4: ADVANCED BIOINFORMATICS TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS Chairperson: Andreas Gisel |
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17:00-17:40 |
Keynote lecture Grids for Life Sciences: status and perspectives |
Breton Vincent CNRS-IN2P3 Université Blaise Pascal (FR) |
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17:40-18:20 |
Keynote lecture Data Challenges in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) |
Shiers Jamie CERN Grid Deployment Group, IT Department(CH) |
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Poster Session |
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21:00 |
Gala Dinner | Â |
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Saturday, September 20, 2008 |
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SESSION 4: ADVANCED BIOINFORMATICS TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS Chairperson: George Magklaras |
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09:00- 09:20 |
Massive non natural proteins structure prediction using Grid technologies | Polticelli Fabio University Roma Tre (IT) |
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The Genius Grid portal and the robot certificates: a new tool for e-science |
La Rocca Giuseppe INFN, Catania (IT) |
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GPU accelerated RNA-RNA interaction algorithm |
Rizk Guillaume IRISA-Symbiose (FR) |
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The EMBRACE Project |
Gisel Andreas ITB-Bari, CNR (IT) |
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10:10 - 10:40 |
Coffee break & Poster Session |
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| 10:40 – 11:00 | HTC for ASPIC: a distributed web resource for alternative splicing prediction and transcript isoform characterization | Picardi Ernesto Dep. of Biochem. and Mol. Biol., University of Bari (IT) |
| 11:00 – 11:20 |
ENGINEDB: A repository of functional analogues |
Gisel Andreas ITB-Bari, CNR (IT) |
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GOMIR: A stand alone application for human microRNA target analysis and gene ontology clustering |
Roubelakis Maria Academy of Athens, BRF(GR) |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | When data integration leads to a new concept: the orphan enzymes |
Lespinet Olivier Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud 11 (FR) |
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Integrating ERV sequence and structural features with DAS and EBIOX |
Martinez Barrio Alvaro and Lagercrantz Erik The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University (SE) |
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Computational annotation of UTR cis-regulatory modules through frequent pattern mining |
D'Elia Domenica ITB-Bari, CNR (IT) |
| 12:40-13:00 |
A bioinformatics knowledge discovery application for Grid computing |
Castellano Marcello Politecnico di Bari (IT) |
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Concluding remarks |
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