ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2013
Keynote Speakers
Pr. Doumbia Seydou Pr. Alice Carolyn McHardy
Dr. Debora Marks Pr. Muntaser Ibrahim
Dr. Alfonso Valencia Dr. Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
Biographies:
Pr Doumbia Seydou, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Seydou is deputy scientific director of the Malaria Research and Training Center, and professor of epidemiology at the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, and University of Bamako, Mali.
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Professor Doumbia Seydou is a professor of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali, and Responsible for MsPH training program in Epidemiology, he is also the Deputy Director of NIH/NIAID-University of Bamako Intramural Research Programs, Malaria Research and Training, Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali. For more than 15 years he has been involved in several aspects of malaria and other infectious diseases research including leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, and HIV/AIDS.
Pr Alice Carolyn McHardy
Head of Independent Research Group (W2: eq. Associate Professor)Member of the Computational Genomics & Epidemiology Group, Max-Planck Institute Informatics, Saarbrucken, Germany; Center for Bioinformatics (CBI),Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany; The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and Faculty member, Computer Science Department, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany.
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Doctor Alice Carolyn McHardy is head of Independent Research Group and is a member of Computational Genomics & Epidemiology Group, in Max-Planck Institut for Informatic, in Saarbrucken Germany. She starts a postdoc in 2004 in Bioinformatics Resource Facility, in the Center for Biotechnology in Bielefeld University, Germany. In 2007 she ends her postdoc and become permanent Research Staff Member in Bioinformatics & Pattern Discovery Group, in IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY in USA. 6 times awarded: in 2001 she obtained the PhD Scholarship ’Graduiertenkolleg Bioinformatics’, in Bielefeld University, Germany; she get the ISMB Best Poster Award; in 2006 she obtained the IBM Invention Achievement Award and the IBM Research Division Technical Achievement Group Award; in 2008 she obtained a sponsorship ’Fast Track Program’ (Robert Bosch Foundation) and finally in 2010 she was selected as participant for 60th Nobel Laureate Meeting in Landau. Dr Alice McHardy, has also 2 grants: Since 2006, she was invited talks many times in several institutes and different workshops held in Germany and USA. She is co-author of more than 27 (10 first authorships) publications in scientific journals and books, including Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, PLOS Pathogens, PNAS, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics. She also has 1 patent with DEGUSSA AG, IBM and Max-Planck Society.
Dr. Debora Marks
Instructor in Systems Biology on the institution of Harvard Medical School department of Systems Biology.
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Debbie Marks is a
computational biologist interested in non-coding RNA genes called microRNAs. To
see more about her work go to [http://connects.catalyst.
Pr. Muntaser Inrahim
Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Institute for Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum.
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Muntaser has had a major interest in the immuno-epidemiology of malaria in the low-transmission setting, and is expanding this to include epidemiological studies in a region where malaria is more endemic.
A specific focus of his research is to define ethnic differences in susceptibility to malaria, at both the immunological and genetic levels, and to establish the epidemiological infrastructure to dissect the molecular basis of these differences by genomic association analysis.
Dr. Alfonso Valencia
Biologist with formal training in population genetics and biophysics
which he received from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He was
awarded his PhD in 1988 at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
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He was a Visiting Scientist at the American Red Cross Laboratory in 1987 and from 1989-1994 was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the laboratory of C. Sander at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
In 1994 Alfonso Valencia set up the Protein Design Group at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid where he was appointed as Research Professor in 2005.
He is a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), Founder and former Vice President of the International Society for Computational Biology where he has been Chair of the Systems Biology and/or Text Mining Tracks of the main Computational Biology Annual Conference (ISMB) since 2003. He was honoured as ISCB-Fellow in 2010.
Alfonso Valencia serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory; the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, Biozentrum, Basel; the INTERPRO database; the Spanish Grant Evaluation Agency (ANEP); as well as the Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation Programme on Functional Genomics (2006-2011).
Alfonso Valencia is Co-Executive Editor of Bionformatics, serves on the
Editorial Board of EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports, among others. He is
the Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB).
Dr. Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
Associate Professor, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
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Ph thesis: 1995 Doctor in Medical Sciences (Dr. Med. Sci). Department of
Pathology, Uppsala University, Title of thesis: "Studies on glial
fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in human glioma cells in vitro and in
vivo". Post-doc: Post-Doctoral position at the Wenner-Green Institute,
Stockholm University. 1996-1997 Docent (associate professor): 2004
Employment: Associate Professor, Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics,
SLU, Uppsala, Sweden and at the Department of Genetics and Pathology,
Uppsala university, Uppsala, Sweden.