Program

We welcome Prof. Elana J Fertig and Prof. Hamed S. Najafabadi as Keynote speakers!

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Friday July 10
Start	End	Event	Title	Presenter
9:00	9:15	Opening Remarks		Wim Cuypers
9:15	9:30	Oral Presentations session I	Boosting the accuracy of protein secondary structure prediction through nearest neighbor search and method hybridization	Spencer Krieger, University of Arizona, United States John Kececioglu, University of Arizona, United States
9:30	9:45	Oral Presentations session I	Local frustration footprints in the globins protein superfamily	Diego M. Luna, Facultad de Ingeniería - Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Argentina Maria Freiberger, FCEN, UBA-CONICET-IQUIBICEN, Argentina Rodrigo Gonzalo Parra, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
9:45	10:00	Oral Presentations session I	Learning the regulatory grammar of DNA for protein expression engineering	Jan Zrimec, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Aleksej Zelezniak, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
10:00	10:15	3 rapid poster (flashtalks)	3 rapid poster (flashtalks)
10:15	10:30	Break
10:30	11:15	Keynote 1	Decoding the post-transcriptional programs of cancer	Dr. Hamed S. Najafabadi, McGill University
11:15	11:30	Oral Presentations session II	Protocol for amino acid refinement of bound peptides and proteins through computational evolution	Rodrigo Ochoa, Max Planck Tandem Group, Biophysics of Tropical Diseases, University of Antioquia, Colombia Miguel Soler, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy Alessandro Laio, International School for Advanced Studies, SISSA, Italy Pilar Cossio, Max Planck Tandem Group, Biophysics of Tropical Diseases, University of Antioquia, Colombia
11:30	11:45	Oral Presentations session II	Diversity of soil microorganisms in maize push-pull farming	Aneth Mwakilili, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden Kilaza Mwaikono, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), Tanzania Charles Midega, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kenya Francis Magingo, University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania Beatrix Alsanius, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden Teun Dekker, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden Sylvester Lyantagaye, University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania
11:45	12:00	Break
12:00	01:00	Career Panel		Anne Mullin Anthony Fejes Rita Strack Bruce Seet
01:00	02:00	Social event (icebreaker-style)

Saturday July 11
8:00	9:00	Poster viewing + Q&A	Poster viewing + Q&A
9:05	9:15	Opening Remarks
9:15	9:30	Oral Presentations session III	Characterisation of CYP2D6 Pharmacogenomic Variation in African Populations: An Integrative Bioinformatics Approach	David Twesigomwe, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Zané Lombard, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Scott Hazelhurst, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
9:30	9:45	Oral Presentations session III	Exploring conformational space with thermal fluctuations obtained by normal mode analysis	Tadeo Enrique Saldaño, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina Victor Manuel Freixas, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina Silvio Tosatto, University of Padova, Italy Gustavo Parisi, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina Sebastián Fernández Alberti, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina
9:45	10:00	Oral Presentations session III	Gene de-fragmentation in long read assemblies using reference-based error correction	Janet Lorv, University of Waterloo, Canada Brendan McConkey, University of Waterloo, Canada
10:00	10:15	3 rapid poster (flashtalks)	3 rapid poster (flashtalks)
10:15	10:30	Break
10:30	11:15	Keynote 2	Transfer Learning for Cross-species, Cross-tissue, and Spatial Single Cell Analysis	Prof. Elana J Fertig, Johns Hopkins University
11:15	11:30	Oral Presentations session IV	Towards CNN Representations for Small Mass Spectrometry Data Classification : From Transfer Learning to Cumulative Learning	Khawla Seddiki, Laval university, Canada Frederic Precioso, Nice university, France Philippe Saudemont, Lille university, France Nina Ogrinc, Lille university, France Maxence Wisztorski, Lille university, France Michel Salzet, Lille university, France Isabelle Fournier, Lille university, France Arnaud Droit, Laval university, Canada
11:30	11:45	Oral Presentations session IV	The Black Women in Computational Biology Network	Jenea I. Adams, Founder, The Black Women in Computational Biology Network, University of Pennsylvania, USA
11:45	12:00	Break
12:00	12:30	closing ceremony (prizes, announcements)		Melike Dönertaş
12:30	1:30	social event kickoff