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 NetworkUniversity 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