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Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (3rd edition)
13-14 February 2020, Leuven, Belgium
Early bird deadline is 20 December 2019
Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (3rd edition)
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Bioinformatics has quickly become an integral part of life sciences research by enabling innovative computational approaches in an increasingly data-dense environment.
Inspired by the sold-out editions in 2016 and 2018, VIB (a non-profit life sciences research institute) is organizing this third edition to highlight recent developments in bioinformatics research, and to showcase its impact in medical, agricultural, and biotechnological research.
Nationally and internationally renowned speakers will present recent scientific findings in applied bioinformatics. They will shed light on the future perspectives of their research in the following plenary sessions:
- Microbial & plant genomics: from simple to complex
- Structural bioinformatics and proteomics
- Data integration, machine learning and networks
- Single cell bioinformatics
Besides an inspiring scientific program, conference participants will have ample networking opportunities during poster sessions and the conference dinner.
Information for poster submissions:
The format for your poster should be: A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 in), portrait orientation. The deadline for the abstracts is 2 December 2019. The best four abstracts were given a short talk slot in the plenary program. The best 2 posters will win the #usegalaxy Poster Prizes.
Confirmed speakers
Aedin Culhane
Aedin Culhane
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, US
Sushmita Roy
Sushmita Roy
Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin, US
Sofia Forslund
Sofia Forslund
Experimental and Clinical Research Centre (ECRC, a joint venture of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the Charité University Hospital), DE
Program
Preconference reception - Wednesday, 12 February, 2020
19:00
20:00
Reception at City Hall
Grote Markt 9, 3000 Leuven
We proudly welcome those of you arriving a day in advance of the conference for a reception in the beautiful Leuven City Hall. The Mayor of Leuven will tell you a bit about the city and you will get to taste some of those famous Belgian beers.
The town hall is Leuven's pride and joy. Moreover, it's one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the façade after 1850.
Day 1 - Thursday, 13 February, 2020
08:45
09:10
Registration & welcome coffee
09:10
09:15
Welcome
Session 1 - Microbial & plant genomics: from simple to complex
09:15
09:20
Introduction by session chair
09:20
09:55
Strain tracking with metagenomics to understand pathogen transmission
Nick Loman
Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, UK
09:55
10:30
The origin of complex cells
Thijs Ettema
Wageningen University, NL
10:30
11:00
Coffee break
11:00
11:35
Confounder-aware systems medical approaches
Sofia Forslund
Experimental and Clinical Research Centre (ECRC, a joint venture of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the Charité University Hospital), DE
11:35
12:10
Charting the genome landscape of western civilisation
Klaus Mayer
Plant Genome and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, DE
12:10
12:45
Linking sequence and variation in large graphical pangenomes
Erik Garrison
University of California, Santa Cruz, US
12:45
13:30
Lunch
13:30
14:30
Poster session
Session 2 - Structural bioinformatics and proteomics
14:30
14:35
introduction by session chair
14:35
14:10
Charge regulation of and functional regulation by disordered proteins
Rohit Pappu
Washington University in St. Louis, US
15:10
15:45
Dissecting context dependent cancer signalling processes using CRISPR-based approaches
Evangelia Petsalaki
EMBL-EBI, UK
15:45
16:00
Presenter to be announced
Selected from abstracts
16:00
16:30
Coffee break
16:30
17:05
Statistical methods for mass spectrometry and proteomics
Olga Vitek
Northeastern University, US
17:05
17:40
Probabilistic mapping of the sub-cellular proteome
Laurent Gatto
De Duve Institute – UC Louvain, BE
17:40
18:15
Extending the small molecule similarity principle to all levels of biology
Patrick Aloy
Structural Bioinformatics Lab, IRB Barcelona, ES
18:15
19:00
Reception
20:00
22:30
Conference dinner
Day 2 - Friday, 14 February, 2020
08:45
09:15
Welcome coffee
Session 3 - Data integration, machine learning and networks
09:15
09:20
introduction by session chair
09:20
09:55
Ontologies in the wild
Helen Parkinson
EMBL-EBI, UK
09:55
10:30
Regulatory network dynamics in developmental and evolutionary lineages
Sushmita Roy
Dept. of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin, US
10:30
11:00
Coffee break
11:00
11:35
Matrix Factorization approaches for data integration. Towards better gene set and pathway analysis
Aedin Culhane
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, US
11:35
12:10
Interpretable machine learning approaches for understanding functional genomics in the human brain
Daifeng Wang
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, US
12:10
12:25
Presenter to be announced
Selected from abstracts
12:25
13:15
Lunch
13:15
14:15
Poster session
Session 4 - Single cell analysis bioinformatics
14:15
14:20
introduction by session chair
14:20
14:55
The female reproductive atlas: one cell at a time
Roser Vento
Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
14:55
15:30
Spatial and temporal transcriptomics reveal microglia-astroglia crosstalk in the amyloid--β plaque cell niche of Alzheimer’s disease
Ashley Lu
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, BE
15:30
15:45
Presenter to be announced
Selected from abstracts
15:45
16:15
Coffee break
16:15
16:30
Presenter to be announced
Selected from abstracts
16:30
17:05
High-throughput single-cell proteomics quantifies the emergence of macrophage heterogeneity
Nikolai Slavov
Northeastern University, US
17:05
17:15
Closing remarks & announcement #usegalaxy Poster Prizes
Organizing committee
Alex Botzki
VIB Bioinformatics Core, BE
Klaas Vandepoele
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, BE
Peter Tompa
VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, BE
Vera van Noort
Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, BE
Laurent Gatto
de Duve Institute – UC Louvain, BE
Evy Vierstraete
Science Events Manager VIB, BE
Abstracts
Submit your abstract for this event
The deadline for the short talks has passed. You can still submit an abstract for a poster presentation. The selection of short talks will be announced in the week of 9-16 December.
Abstract submission closing date:
Friday, 20 December, 2019
Submit an abstract
The full list of abstracts will be available on 06-02-2020 until 21-02-2020
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
Attendees
The full list of attendees will be available on 06-02-2020 until 21-02-2020
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
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