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| Monday – Day 1 – November 5, 2018 | ||
| Go directly to: Tuesday, Nov 6 - Wednesday, Nov 7 - Thursday, Nov 8 - Friday, Nov 9 | ||
| STARTTIME | ENDTIME | Pre-Conference Workshops, Tutorials, and Mini-courses Ticket required |
| 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | Human genomic analysis for precision medicine with GATK4 Best Practices and FireCloud |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | Analyzing large datasets with Apache Spark |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | Designing, delivering and evaluating bioinformatics training |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | Introduction to python with application on genomic data |
| 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm | Lunch, provided with registration, separate ticket for tutorials |
| Tuesday – Day 2 – November 6, 2018 | ||
| Go directly to: Monday, Nov 5 - Wednesday, Nov 7 - Thursday, Nov 8 - Friday, Nov 9 | ||
| STARTTIME | ENDTIME | Pre-Conference Workshops, Tutorials, and Mini-courses Ticket required |
| 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | ISCB Student Council Latin America Symposium - view program |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | Human genomic analysis for precision medicine with GATK4 Best Practices and FireCloud |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | Analyzing large datasets with Apache Spark |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | Open data and tools for bioinformatics research |
| 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm | Lunch, provided with registration, separate ticket for tutorials |
| Wednesday – Day 3 – November 7, 2018 | ||
| Go directly to: Monday, Nov 5 - Tuesday, Nov 6 - Thursday, Nov 8 - Friday, Nov 9 | ||
| STARTTIME | ENDTIME | Main Conference Programme |
| 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | REGISTRATION |
| 8:45 am | 9:00 am | Welcome |
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Keynote - David Holmes - Are We Alone in the Universe? |
| 10:00 am | 10:30 am | Presentation of organisations: ISCB-LA, SoIBio, EMBnet: Celebrating the 30° Anniversary (1988-2018) |
| 10:30 am | 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am | 12:00 pm | Scientific Sessions I |
| 11:00 am | 11:15 am | Structural aspects of antibody recognition: a moments-based approach to shape and electrostatics - Lorenzo Di Rienzo - Sapienza University of Rome |
| 11:15 am | 11:30 am | Computational prediction of disease-causing variants from the molecular to the interactome scale - Marianne Rooman, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| 11:30 am | 11:45 am | Pharmacophore-based virtual screening of Peroxizome (Pex)14 inhibitors to combat Trypanosomiasis - Christian Zevallos Delgado, Centro de Investigación en Ingeniería Molecular - Universidad Católica de Santa Maria |
| 11:45 am | 12:00 pm | New robust Bayesian methods detecting Allelic Specific Expression (ASE) and associating it with external phenotypes - Inti Pedroso, Universidad Mayor |
| 12:00 pm | 12:15 pm | Ubiome Technology Talk |
| 12:15 pm | 12:30 pm | Genoma Mayor Technology Talk |
| 12:30 pm | 2:30 pm | Lunch on own, vendors available onsite |
| 12:30 pm | 2:30 pm | Poster Presentations, Group A - Odd Numbers |
| 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm | Scientific Sessions II |
| 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | Genome-scale analysis of Wolbachia metabolism - Natalia Jimenez, CeBiB, CMM, University of Chile |
| 3:00 pm | 3:15 pm | The site-specific amino acid preferences of homologous proteins depend on sequence divergence - Evandro Ferrada, Universidad Mayor |
| 3:15 pm | 3:30 pm | Implications of the Recent Explosion In Police Use Of Genealogy Databases To Open Cold Cases By Identifying Suspects From DNA Voluntarily Contributed By Their Distant Relatives - Howard Cash, Gene Codes Forensics |
| 3:30 pm | 3:45 pm | Analysis of variations among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with the MinHash algorithm - Leonardo Lucianna, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Maestría en Explotación de Datos y Descubrimiento de Conocimiento |
| 3:45 pm | 4:00 pm | Insights on protein thermal stability: a graph representation of molecular interactions - Eduardo Milanetti, Sapienza University of Rome |
| 4:00 pm | 4:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:30 pm | 5:30 pm | Keynote ->Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos - From Virus to Human Genome Through Bioinformatics |
| 5:30 pm | 7:00 pm | Welcome Reception |
| Thursday – Day 4 – November 8, 2018 | ||
| Go directly to: Monday, Nov 5 - Tuesday, Nov 6 - Wednesday, Nov 7 - Friday, Nov 9 | ||
| STARTTIME | ENDTIME | Main Conference Programme |
| 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | REGISTRATION |
| 8:45 am | 9:00 am | Welcome |
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Keynote - Nikos C Krypdides - Microbiome Research: from Products to Data |
| 10:00 am | 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am | 12:30 pm | Scientific Sessions III |
| 10:45 am | 11:00 am | Distinct Microbes, Metabolites, and Ecologies Define the Microbiome in Deficient and Proficient Mismatch Repair Colorectal Cancers - Patricio Jeraldo, Mayo Clinic |
| 11:00 am | 11:15 am | Using large-scale shotgun proteomics and R Bioconductor packages to understand host-parasite interactions - Miguel De Jesús Cosenza Contreras, Federal University of Ouro Preto |
| 11:15 am | 11:30 am | Copaifera langsdorffi novel putative lncRNA conservational analysis in adaptive response to different ecosystems - Monica Danilevicz, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeir |
| 11:30 am | 11:45 am | Systems immunology to predict regulation factors on skin cutaneous melanoma - Mindy Muñoz, USP |
| 11:45 am | 12:00 pm | Host-microbe interaction analysis of the Crohn’s disease metaproteome reveals potential differences in the microbiome-mediated autophagy modulation - Tahila Andrighetti, UNESP / Earlham Institute |
| 12:00 pm | 12:30 pm | Mathematical Modeling of the Relocation of the Divalent Metal Transporter DMT1 in the Intestinal Iron Absorption Process - Layimar Cegarra, University of Chile |
| 12:30 pm | 2:30 pm | Lunch on own, vendors will be available |
| 12:30 pm | 2:30 pm | Poster Presentation Group B - Even Numbers |
| 2:30 pm | 4:00 pm | Scientific Sessions IV |
| 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | A Radiogenomic Approach for Decoding Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Tumor Progression in Prostate Cancer - Sarah Fischer, Rostock university medical Center |
| 3:00 pm | 3:15 pm | Modelling the regulatory network controlling dendritic cell differentiation from human monocytes - Karen J. Nuñez-Reza, International Laboratory for Human Genome Research |
| 3:15 pm | 3:30 pm | Generalizing experimental evidence through Hidden Markovian Models for a transcriptome de novo assembly selection criteria - Patricia Carvajal-Lopez, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C. |
| 3:30 pm | 3:45 pm | The structure of a giant. Bioinformatics meets experimental techniques - Marta Bunster, Universidad de Concepción |
| 3:45 pm | 4:00 pm | The use of metagenomics for environmental monitoring of altitude savannas in the Amazon - Guilherme Oliveira, Instituto Tecnológico Vale |
| 4:00 pm | 4:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:30 pm | 5:30 pm | Keynote - Wendy Gonzales |
| 7:30 pm | Conference Dinner (ticketed event) | |
| Friday – Day 5 – November 9, 2018 | ||
| Go directly to: Monday, Nov 5 - Tuesday, Nov 6 - Wednesday, Nov 7 - Thursday, Nov 8 | ||
| STARTTIME | ENDTIME | Main Conference Programme |
| 8:00 am | 4:00 pm | REGISTRATION |
| 8:45 am | 9:00 am | Welcome |
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Keynote - Morten Sogaard |
| 10:00 am | 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am | 12:30 pm | Scientific Sessions V |
| 10:30 am | 10:45 am | Tumor phenotype precedes metabolic reprograming in chemically induced hepatocellular carcinoma - Noé García-Chávez, LANGEBIO Advanced Genomic Unit, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional |
| 10:45 am | 11:00 am | Knowledge networks reveal novel drug candidates and genetic mechanisms for Psychiatric Diseases - Thomaz Luscher Dias, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| 11:00am | 11:15 am | Defining non-coding genetic variants contributing to Autism Spectrum Disorder severity using Elastic-Net regression - Leandro Roser, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University |
| 11:15 am | 11:30 am | Automatic Reconstruction of Rule-Based Gene Regulatory Network Models and its Calibration - Rodrigo Santibáñez, NetBioLab, Centro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor |
| 11:30 am | 11:45 am | Defining a Core Genome for the Herpesvirales and Exploring their Evolutionary Relationship with the Caudovirales - Juan Sebastián Andrade Martínez, Universidad de los Andes |
| 11:45 am | 12:00 pm | Active Site Flexibility as a Hallmark for Efficient PET Degradation by I. sakaiensis PETase - Pablo Galaz-Davison, Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile |
| 12:00 pm | 12:15 pm | Insights into the genome and variability of Phytophthora palmivora, the causal agent of the bud rot disease in oil palm - Juanita Gil, Cenipalma & Universidad de Los Andes |
| 12:15 pm | 12:50 pm | Special Session: Research Highlights from Universidad Andrés Bello |
| 12:15 pm | 12:20 pm | Conducting Research at Universidad Andrés Bello - Fernando Danilo Gonzalez Nilo |
| 12:20 pm | 12:35 pm | Deciphering the lifestyle of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae under various nutrient-limiting conditions via genome-scale flux and proteomic analysis - Ignacio Poblete-Castr, Biosystems Engineering Lab, Center for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology (CBIB), Universidad Andres Bello, Chile |
| 12:35 pm | 12:50 pm | Fighting antimicrobial resistance with computational and experimental biophysics - Daniel Aguayo V., Center for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile |
| 12:50 pm | 2:30 pm | Lunch and Open Networking - Lunch on own; vendors available |
| 2:30 pm | 4:15pm | Scientific Sessions VI |
| 2:30 pm | 2:45 pm | The COST Action CHARME: a European initiative for the harmonisation of standards for life-science research - Domenica D'Elia, Institute for Biomedical Technologies -CNR |
| 2:45 pm | 3:15 pm | MassComp, a Lossless Compressor for Mass Spectrometry Data - Ruochen Yang, University of Southern California |
| 3:15 am | 3:30 pm | Stretch/Bio Break |
| 3:30 pm | 4:30 pm | Special Session on Bioinformatics Research and Education in Latin America |
| 4:35 pm | 5:35 pm | Keynote - Janet Thornton |
| 5:35 pm | 6:00 pm | Closing Ceremonies |