[Basel Computational Biology Conference 2006]

Biozentrum   Program
 

 

Preliminary Conference Schedule:  

 
 

Thursday, March 16 , 2006

9:00   Registration
9:20  

Conference Opening & Organizer's Welcome
Torsten Schwede
(Biozentrum University Basel & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
Manuel Peitsch (Novartis)


9:30  

Session I: Comparative Approaches to Gene Regulation

Opening Keynote lecture:
Martin Vingron
(MPI Berlin)
"Computational Methods in Regulatory Genomics."

 

10:30

 

  

Coffee Break

 

11:00  

Erik van Nimwegen (Biozentrum Basel & SIB)
"Genome-wide annotation of regulatory motifs using comparative genomics"

11:30  

Martin Ebeling (Roche)
"The Roche Comparative Genomics Database"

 

12:00

 

  

Lunch Break

 

14:00  

Session II: Protein function and evolution
Joerg Schultz (University Würzburg)
"From functional sites to domain architectures"

14:30  

Marc Robinson-Rechavi (University Lausanne) "Structural genomics and protein evolution"

15:00  

Markus Wyss (DSM Nutritional Products)
"How comparative genomics transforms industrial biotechnology"

 

15:30

 

  

Coffee Break

 

16:00  

Session III: Comparative Genomics
Gaston Gonnet (ETH Zürich)
"The Orthologous Matrix (OMA) Project: Massive Cross-Comparison of Complete Genomes"

16:30  

Arndt von Haeseler (Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna)
"The complex genetic ancestry of Humans."

17:00  

Henrik Kaessmann (University of Lausanne) "Evolutionary fate of retroposed gene copies in the human genome"

 

17:30

 

  

Conference Apero at the Life Sciences Village

 

21:00 - late  

Basel@Night

   
 

Friday, March 17, 2006

   

Session IV: Biomarker Discovery

9:30  

Hai Zhang and Pierre Saint-Mezard (Novartis)
"Defining diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for kidney allograft rejection by gene expression profiling analysis"

10:00  

Andre Elisseeff (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory )

"Medical laboratory data analysis: An application of machine learning techniques to analyze the trends of biomarkers over time."

 

10:30 

 

  

Coffee Break 

 

    Session V: Comparative Genomics of Insects and Plants
11:00  

Nicolas Salamin (University Lausanne)
"Phyloinformatics in the genomic era: examples from the plant family Poaceae"

11:30  

Claire Arnold (University Neuchatel)
"The Swiss Vitis Microsatellite Database"

12:00  

Evgeny Zdobnov (EMBL / University Geneva) "Comparative insect genomics"

 

12:30 

 

  

Lunch Break 

 

14:00  

Session VI: Genomes to Systems
Hans-Peter Fischer (Genedata Basel)
"Beyond comparative genomics: Using cross-species comparisons to elucidate pathways and functional networks"

14:30  

Mischa Reinhardt (Novartis)
"Pathway-centric approaches for gene-expression analysis"

15:00  

Closing Keynote Lecture:

Minoru Kanehisa
(Kyoto University, Japan)
"KEGG BRITE for linking genomes to biological systems"

 

16:00  

Conference Closing Remarks

ca. 16:30  

End of conference