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| Monday - Day 1 - April 9, 2018 | ||
| Go directly to: Tuesday, April 10 | Wednesday, Apr 11 | ||
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| 08:30 | 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 | 09:15 | Welcome by Alfonso Valencia, BSC, Barcelona, ES and ISCB past president |
| 09:15 | 09:20 | Opening Address by Núria López-Bigas, IRB, Barcelona, ES |
| 09:20 | 10:05 | Keynote 1:Francesca D. Ciccarelli, King's College London, UK "Systems biology to rebuild cancer evolution and identify new cancer genes" |
| Session 1: 10:05 - 12:350: Cancer Genomics (chair: Núria López-Bigas) |
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| OP1 - A 10.000 sample overview of cancer driver events” Eduard Porta, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Barcelona, ES |
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| OP2 - “Systematic pan-cancer analysis of somatic allele frequency” Anelia Horvath, George Washington University, USA |
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| 10:45 | 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| OP3 – “Sweepstake evolution revealed by population-genetic analysis of copy-number alterations in single genomes of breast cancer” Daniel A Vasco, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, LU |
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| OP4 – “Mutated Tumor Suppressors Follow Oncogenes Profile by the Gene Hypermethylation of Partners in the Protein Interaction Networks” Somnath Tagore, Bar-Ilan University, IL |
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| OP5 – “Network-based smoothing of somatic mutations improves patient classification from sparse genetic data” Rosalba Giugno, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, IT |
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| OP6 – “Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cancer Research: a Never-ending Battle” Santiago Guerrero, Centro de Investigación Genética y Genómica, EC |
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| 12:35 | 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Viewing |
| 14:00 | 14:05 | Introduction by Cedric Notredame, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, ES |
| 14:05 | 14:450 | Keynote 2: Nicholas Luscombe, The Francis Crick Institute, UK |
| Session 2: 14:50 - 18:40: Genetics and Transcriptomics (chair: Cedric Notredame) |
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| OP07 – “Predicting disease-causing variant combinations accurately” Tom Lenaerts, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BE |
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| OP08 – “Comprehensive sequencing of the myocilin gene in a selected cohort of primary open-angle glaucoma patients” Luke O'Gorman, University of Southampton, UK |
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| OP09 – “GenePy: a gene score for next generation sequencing data modelling” Enrico Mossotto, University of Southampton, UK |
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| OP10 – “Phenotype-driven variant prioritization significantly improves over impact and prevalence scores in a large-scale analysis of 1,963 cases of Mendelian disease diagnostics by whole-genome sequencing” Francisco De La Vega, Stanford University, USA |
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| OP11 – “Dumpster diving in RNA-sequencing to find the source of 1 trillion reads across diverse adult human tissues” Serghei Mangul, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
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| 16:30 | 17:00 | Coffee break |
| OP12 – “Identification and validation of novel and annotated LncRNAs in canine B-cell lymphoma by RNA-Seq” Rosalba Giugno, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, IT |
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| OP13 – “Towards novel signalling functions of mobile mRNAs” Federico Apelt, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, DE |
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| OP14 – “Understanding regulation of alternative splicing through RNA binding proteins” Dmitri Pervouchine, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, RU |
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| OP15 – “Stratified co-morbidity networks: Inferring patient-specific comorbidities from transcriptomic data” Vera Pancaldi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Barcelona, ES |
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| OP16 – “bigSCale: An Analytical Framework for Big-Scale Single-Cell Data” Giovanni Icano, CRG-CNAG, Barcelona, ES |
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| 18:40 | Networking and Poster Presentations | |
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner. Xiroi Ca la Nuri. Address: Passeig Marítim de la Nova Icària, 38. | |
| Tuesday - Day 2 - April 10, 2018 | ||
| Go directly to: Monday, April 9 | Wednesday, Apr 11 | ||
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Event |
| 08:45 | 09:00 | Morning Welcome and Introduction |
| 9:00 | 9:05 | Introduction by Alfonso Valencia, BSC, Barcelona, ES |
| 09:05 | 09:50 | Keynote 3: Nick Loman, University of Birmingham, UK "A sequencing singularity of infection disease?" |
| Session 3: 09:50 - 13:00: Transcriptomics (II) and Model Organisms (chair: Alfonso Valencia) |
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| OP17 – “Reference-free reconstruction and error correction of transcriptomes from Nanopore long-read sequencing” Eduardo Eyras, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, ES |
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| OP18 – “3D determinants of gene expression variability” Vera Pancaldi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| OP19 – “Study of genome evolution among traditional bakery yeasts in relation to domestication” Colin Tinsley, Inra, France |
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| OP20 – “Weighted correlation network analysis and transcriptome dynamics during early gonadal differentiation of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)” Núria Sánchez-Baizán, Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, ES |
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| OP21 – “NGS-based resequencing and reannotation of the Trypanosoma congolense genome and trancriptome” Marcin Jąkalski, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, University of Gdańsk, PL |
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| OP22 – “High quality genome of a Norwegian reindeer using 10X Genomics” Montserrat Torres-Oliva, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, DE |
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| OP23 – “Genomic characterisation and vulnerabilities of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils” Maximilian Stammnitz, University of Cambridge, UK |
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| OP24 – “Genome diversity and evolution in a transmissible cancer” Adrian Baez-Ortega, Transmissible Cancer Group, University of Cambridge, UK |
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| 13:00 | 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Viewing |
| Session 4: 14:00 - 16:40: Multi-Omics & Metagenomics (chair: Francisco De La Vega) |
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| OP25 – “Single cell systems immunology of viral specific B cells and CD8+ T cells” Simone Rizzetto, School of Medical Science, UNSW, AU |
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| OP26 – “Toward decoding complete human immunome. Assemble recombined T and B cell receptor sequences across 50,000 individuals” Serghei Mangul, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
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| OP27 – “Detection of radiation-Induced alterations in the transcriptome and Exome of human gingiva fibroblasts” Neetika Nath, University Medicine Greifswald, DE |
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| OP28 – “Corrections for asymmetry in high-throughput sequencing datasets applied to a meta-transcriptome dataset” Greg Gloor, U. Western Ontario, CA |
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| OP29 – “Fast and sensitive protein sequence search, clustering and assembly tools for the analysis of massive metagenomics datasets” Martin Steinegger, Max-Planck-Institute, DE |
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| 15:40 | 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| OP30 – “Characterizing the microbiome in factory ingredient samples using metatranscriptome deep sequencing data” Kristen Beck, IBM, USA |
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| OP31 – “The challenges of designing a benchmark strategy for bioinformatics pipelines in the identification of Antimicrobial Resistance determinants using next generation sequencing technologies” Alexandre Angers, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, IT |
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| 16:40 | 16:45 | Introduction by Francisco De La Vega, Stanford University, USA |
| 16:45 | 17:25 | Keynote 3: Ami Bhatt, Stanfod University, USA "Translating metagenomics" |
| 17:25 | Awards and closing remarks | |
| Wednesday - Day 3 - April 11, 2018 | ||
| Go directly to: Monday, April 9 | Tuesday, April 10 | ||
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| Workshop: 09:00 - 16:00 Compositionally Appropriate Analysis of Transcriptome, Metagenome, and Microbiome Datasets Instructors: Greg Gloor, Jean Macklaim, and Ionas Erb |
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| 12:00 | 13:00 | Lunch |