Friday - Program Overview

Venue: Congress Center Basel
Room: Montreal Singapore Sydney
Friday 15 September 2017
8:00 - 16:00 Registration & Info desk open
8:00 - 8:45 Welcome coffee
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and announcements
9:00 - 9:55 Keynote Lecture: Leonid Mirny (MIT, Cambridge (MA), US), "Genome in 3D: models of chromosome folding" - (Room: Montreal)
10:00 - 10:40
 Stochasticity, Heterogeneity, and Single Cells (II)
Chair: E. van Nimwegen		 From Genotype to Phenotype and back, in Health and Disease (III)
Chair: I. Xenarios
10:00 - 11:00

Swiss ISCB Student council: Entrepreneurs' stories: opportunities and challenges of starting your own company
(10:00) P45: Nacho Molina, "Chromatin structure shapes the diffusion dynamics of transcription factors" (10:00) P47: Fran Supek, "The rules and impact of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in human cancers" (10:00-10:30) H4 Henning Schmidt and Anne Kümmel,  "The story of IntiQuan"
(10:20) P46: Andrei Zinovyev, "Time-resolved single-cell transcriptome deconvolution unravels specific and cell cycle independent dynamics of EWS-FLI1-mediated transcriptional regulation" (10:20) P48: Kaur Alasoo, "Genetic effects on chromatin accessibility foreshadow gene
expression changes in macrophage immune response"		 (10:30-11:00) H5 Elke Schaper,  "The story of Carbon Delta"
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee & Posters 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee

11:10 - 12:30

 Computational Biology driving Experimental Design
Chair: tba		 Biocuration, Databases, Ontologies, and Text Mining (II)
Chair: C. von Mering

11:30 - 12:30

 Swiss ISCB Student council: Entrepreneurs' stories: opportunities and challenges of starting your own company
(11:10) P49: Yael Korem, "A bacterial growth law for nutritional upshift" (11:10) P53: Felipe Albrecht, "Analysing large-scale epigenomic data with DeepBlue" (11:30-12:00) H6 Steve Pascolo (spRNA GmbH, Zurich), "The funding and development of biotechnology companies with different structures"
(11:30) P50: Andrea Riba, "Exploring the predictability of protein synthesis rates in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae" (11:30) P54: Robin Liechti, "SourceData: a semantic platform to make data and figures discoverable"
(11:50) P51: Benjamin Towbin, "Rules of thumb in gene control: optimality and sub-optimality in bacterial gene expression" (11:50) P55: Douglas Teodoro, "A pipeline to improve ranking in user searches for biomedical research datasets" (12:00-12:30) H7 Dragan Grabulovski (ETH & Covagen AG), "Get started with your own company!"
(12:10) P52: Sebastian Salentin, "Targeting cancer with structural bioinformatics: New HSP27 inhibitors efficiently suppress drug resistance development" (12:10) P56: Davide Alocci, "Glycomics goes visual and interactive"
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch, Exhibition & Poster Viewing
13:30 - 14:30

SIB Best Swiss Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Award 2017
Dr José Aguilar-Rodriguez, University of Zurich (CH), “A thousand empirical adaptive landscapes and their navigability”

SIB International Young Bioinformatician Award 2017
Dr Sebastian Waszak, EMBL (Germany)

SIB International Bioinformatics Resource Award 2017
Dr Khader Shameer, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (USA), "RepurposeDB - Reference Database of Drug Repositioning Investigations"
14:30 - 14:45 [BC]2 Best Posters Awards
14:50 - 15:45 Keynote Lecture: Robert Gentleman (23andMe, San Francisco, US) "Using Genetic Data for Drug Discovery" (Room: Montreal)
15:50 - 16:00 Closing remarks, end of conference