Award Winners

Awards and acknowledgments video of Closing Ceremonies

 

ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award
Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
From sequences to ontologies - adventures in informatics


ISCB Overton Prize Lecture
Olga Troyanskaya
Princeton University , New Jersey, United States
Integrating computation and experiments for a molecular-level understanding of human disease


Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award – Outstanding Student Paper
Sara Berthoumieux
INRIA, France
Identification of metaboloic network models from incomplete high-throughput datasets


JBI Award for the Best Paper in Translational Bioinformatics
Ankur Parikh, Carnegie Mellon University, United States,
Wei Wu, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, United States
Both authors contributed equally to this paper
TREEGL: Reverse Engineering Tree-evolving Gene Networks Underlying Developing Biological Lineages


Outstanding Poster
Adam Sardar, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
The Darwinian Tree of Life in Light of Horizontal Gene Transfer (Is Still Sound)


RCSB PDB Poster Award
Tammy Cheng, Cancer Research UK
Structural Biology Meets Systems Biology: A Structural Systems Biology Approach for Gauging the Systemic Effect of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms


Killer App Winner
Syed Asad Rahman, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
ECBlast: a novel tool for searching similar enzymes based on chemical knowledge


Art and Science Award
Anna Dehof, Saarland University, Germany
Reflections on Protein Structures

Honorable Mention:
MajaKlevanski, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Protein Art


Orienteering Winners
Winning Team: Wang, Stelman, Murray &Meintjes
Runner Up: Khan, Seemann, Warsow, Barber

Birds of a Feather (BoF) Schedule

Topic: Computational Biology in Wikipedia

Leader: Alex Bateman
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Affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Time: Sunday, July 16, 5:30 - 6:30
Room: Hall F1

Description:
Wikipedia is a a widely used resource to learn about Computational Biology. However, the content is of variable quality.  This session aims to develop a task force to improve Wikipedia content in Computational Biology.


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Keynote Presentations


Bonnie Bergeralt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, United States

Presentation Title: Computational biology in the 21st century: making sense out of massive data

Sunday, July 17 – 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

 

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ISCB Overton Prize Lecture

Due to a last minute inability to travel, this talk will be a presented as a pre-recorded video followed by an interactive live feed to Dr. Troyanskaya for Q&A after the presentation.


Olga Troyanskaya alt
Princeton University
New Jersey, United States

Presentation Title: Integrating computation and experiments for a molecular-level understanding of human disease

Sunday, July 17 – 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

 

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ECCB 10th Anniversary Keynote

Janet Thornton Janet Thornton
European Bioinformatics Institute
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Presentation Title: The Evolution of Enzyme Mechanisms and Functional Diversity

Monday, July 18 – 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

 

 

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ISCB Fellow Keynote

Alfonso Valencia
Alfonso Valencia
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
Madrid, Spain

Presentation Title: Challenges for Bioinformatics in Personalized Cancer Medicine

Monday, July 18 – 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

 

 

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Sponsored by the University of Vienna

Luis Serrano Luis Serrano
Centre for Genomic Regulation
Barcelona, Spain

Presentation Title: M pneumoniae
(Towards a full quantitive understanding of a free-living system)

Tuesday, July 19 – 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

 

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ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award

Michael Ashburner alt
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom

Presentation Title: From sequences to ontologies - adventures in informatics

Tuesday, July 19 – 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

 

 

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