Programme
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Conference Programme
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
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| 09:00 - 17:30 | Tutorial on Grid Computing | |
| 09:00 - 18:00 | EMBnet Annual General Meeting | |
| The tutorial is intended for students/conference attendants and will be held in parallel with the EMBnet AGM at the conference site. | ||
Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
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10:00-18:00 |
Registration |
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10.00-11.30 |
Opening Cerimony EMBnet 20th Anniversary Celebration Opening remarks: EMBnet yesterday, today, tomorrow |
Domenica D'Elia Erik Bongcam-Rudloff Chris Sander Cecilia Saccone |
| 11:30-12.00 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION 1: BIOINFORMATICS FOR BIODIVERSITY Chairperson: |
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| 12:30-13:00 |
Keynote lecture Biodiversity Informatics: Enabling a Macroscopic View of Biology |
Indra Neil Sarkar MBL, Massachusetts (USA) |
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13:00-14:30 |
Lunch |
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Keynote lecture The Barcode of Life: Bringing Genomics to Biodiversity |
Mehrdad Hajibabaei Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding University of Guelph (CA) |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Towards barcode markers in Fungi: an intron map of Ascomycota mitochondria |
Monica Santamaria, ITB - CNR (IT) |
| 15:20-15:40 | Gains and losses of lineage-specific group II intron in mitochondria of Gymnosperms: Molecular Evolutionary And Phylogenetic Implications | Regina Teresa M.R. Università della Calabria (IT) |
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15:40- 16:10 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION 2: TRAINING AND E-LEARNING Chairperson: |
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| 16:10-16:40 |
Keynote lecture Policies, Network, Resources, Materials and Curricula for advancing bioinformatics education: 10 years of APBioNet |
Tin WeeTan
YLL School of Medicine
National University of Singapore (SG) |
| 16:40-17:00 | Metagenome annotation: an opportunity for undergraduate bioinformatics teaching | Hingamp Pascal Mediterranean University (FR) |
| 17:00–17:20 | Grid-based business-to-academia collaborations | Kamuzinzi Richard Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE) |
| 17:20-17:40 | Sprints at genesilico - software engineering techniques in a bioinformatics lab | Rother Kristian Int. Inst. of Mol.Cell Biol. (PL) |
| 17:40-18:10 | Towards semantic interoperability of bioinformatics tools and biological databases | Pettifer Steve Manchester University(UK) |
| 18:10-18:30 |
Sponsor talk IMGT®, an ontology and a system that bridge the gap between sequences and 3D structures |
Patrice Duroux IMGT®, Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS (FR) |
| 18:30-20:30 | POSTER SESSION | |
| 20:30 | Welcome Party | |
Friday, September 19, 2008 |
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SESSION 3: 'OMICS', COMPARATIVE STUDIES AND EVOLUTION Chairperson: |
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09:30-10:10 |
Keynote lecture Evolution of gene regulatory code |
Alexander E. Kel 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 |
Ana Conesa Centro de Investigación Principe Felipe (ES) |
| 11:40-12:00 | CHIPSTER – user friendly analysis software for dna microarray data | Kallio Aleksi, 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 | Ugarte Jorge E. 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 | Borro Luiz Embrapa Informatica Agropecuaria (BR) |
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Lunch |
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Keynote lecture Systems biology of cancer pathways |
Chris Sander Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York (USA) |
| 15:10-15:30 | Deciphering the connectivity structure of biological networks using MIXNET | Miele Vincent, CNRS, Lyon (FR) |
| 15:30-15:50 | Automatic inferring drug gene regulatory networks using computational intelligences tools | Floares Alexandru, SAIA (RO) |
| 15:50-16:10 | Possible role for proximity of genes in their expression in rice and arabidopsis | Shahmuradov Ilham A., COMSATS (PK) Institute of Botany(AZ) |
| 16:10-16:40 | Coffee break /POSTER SESSION | |
| 16:40-17:00 | A chemogenomics view of protein-ligand spaces |
Helena Strömbergsson Uppsala University (SE) |
| 17:00-17:20 | In silico prediction of escape mutants of the HIV-1 protease | Agramonte Alina University of Informatic Sciences (CU) |
| 17:20-17:40 | The RHNUMTS compilation | Attimonelli Marcella University of Bari (IT) |
| 17:40-18:00 | Homologous gene families databases for comparative genomics | Perriere Guy, University of Lyon (FR) |
| 18:00-18:10 | The EMBRACE project | Gisel Andreas, ITB-CNR (IT) |
| 18:10-18:40 |
Sponsor talk (SGI) |
Sergio Re Silicon Graphics S.p.A. |
| 18:40 – 20.00 | POSTER SESSION | |
| 21:00 | Gala Dinner | |
Saturday, September 20, 2008 |
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SESSION 4: ADVANCED BIOINFORMATICS TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS Chairperson: |
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| 09:00- 09:30 |
Keynote lecture Grids for Life Sciences: status and perspectives |
Vincent Breton CNRS-IN2P3 Université Blaise Pascal (FR) |
| 09:30- 09:50 | Massive non natural proteins structure prediction using Grid technologies | Polticelli Fabio University Roma Tre (IT) |
| 09:50-10:10 | GPU accelerated RNA-RNA interaction algorithm | Rizk Guillaume IRISA-Symbiose (FR) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break /POSTER SESSION | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Data Challenges in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) |
Jamie Shiers |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | The interpretation of protein structures based on graph theory |
Habibi Mahnaz |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | ENGINEDB: A repository of functional analogues |
De Sario Giulia |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | GOMIR: A stand alone application for human microrna target analysis and gene ontology clustering |
Roubelakis Maria |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | When data integration leads to a new concept: The orphan enzymes |
Lespinet Olivier |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Integrating ERV sequence and structural features with DAS and EBIOX |
Martínez Barrio Álvaro |
| 13:10 - 13:20 | Computational annotation of UTR cis-regulatory modules through frequent pattern mining |
Turi Antonio |
| 13:20 - 13:30 | Concluding remarks | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch | |
| 15:30 | Sightseeing tour | |