Location: Room 200
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Registration
8:45 am - 9:30 am
Scientific speed dating and Opening remarks
9:30 am - 10:15 am
Keynote
Predicting protein-protein interaction networks from the genome
Gary Bader, University of Toronto
10:15 am – 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 12:00 am
Session 1: Proteins
- Modeling protein-peptide interactions using protein fragments: fitting the pieces?
Peter Vanhee, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium - Bridging the Gaps: Atomic Simulation of Macromolecular Environment Brings Together Protein Docking, Interaction Kinetics and the Crowding Effects
Xiaofan Li, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK - Exploiting physical properties in protein structure alignment
Shweta Shah, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA - Structure-based kernels for the prediction of catalytic residues and their involvement in inherited disease
Fuxiao Xin, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Research and Industry Partners Session
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Keynote
Thinking Big: How Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology can transform each other
Larry Hunter, University of Colorado
2:15 pm - 3:30pm
Session 2: (Epi)Genomics
- A hidden Markov model for detecting multi-gene chromatin domains
Jessica Larson, Harvard University, Boston, USA - Genome wide association study of nonsynonymous Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms for seven common diseases
Praveen Surendran, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - is-rSNP: A novel technique for in silico regulatory SNP detection
Geoff Macintyre, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Next Generation Genome Annotation with mGene.ngs
Jonas Behr, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session 3: Bioinformatics of Health and Disease
- Analysis of the functional properties of the creatine kinase system using a multiscale “sloppy” modeling approach
Hannes Hettling, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Designing and implementing chemoinformatic approaches in TDR Targets Database: linking genes to chemical compounds in tropical disease causing pathogens
María Paula Magariños, Universidad de San Martín, San Martín, Argentina - A computational pipeline for diagnostic biomarker discovery in the human pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi
Santiago Carmona, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, San Martín, Argentina - A bioengineering approach for rational vaccine design towards the Ebola Virus
Sophia Banton, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Keynote
Genomic Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease
David Altshuler, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
5:45 pm - 6:00 pm
Closing Remarks
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Poster Session
